History HeroicSacrifice / AnimeAndManga

* Subverted memorably in ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}''. In Episode 18, [[spoiler: Himari is kidnapped by the maddened Tabuki and put in a construction cradle that is about to fall off ''several stores'' and Kanba is about to get himself killed to save her. When Himari sees Kanba gravely injured and about to pass out from pain and blood loss, she decides to throw herself off the cradle not just so Kanba will survive, but to wash all the SinsOfOurFathers off her siblings and finish the vicious cycle of hatred. However, her FinalSpeech actually makes Tabuki have a change of heart, so he rescues Himari and returns her unharmed to Shouma and Kanba.]]

** And later? [[spoiler: ''Tabuki'' is the one that attempts this, as in Episode 22 [[TakingTheBullet he shields Yuri with his own body]] from someone attacking both of them [[KnifeNut with a knife]] and gets stabbed in the stomach. He bleeds to almost death, but ultimately survives.]]

* ''Manga/{{Ooku}}:The Inner Chambers'':

** Not to mention [[spoiler: Armin]], who sacrifices himself when fighting [[spoiler: the Colossal Titan]] so that Eren can win. [[spoiler: [[CallBack Call backs]] are made to earlier in the series when he expresses his dream to see the ocean, and when he says that those who cannot throw anything away cannot change anything themselves. Bertolt expresses shock that Armin's final act with his brilliant mind was a self-sacrificial one, and Eren says that Armin was braver than any of them, after having cut Bertolt out of the Colossal Titan's nape.]] His death was not in vain.

* ''Manga/{{Touch}}'': Early on in the story, Kazuya Uesugi dies saving a kid from being hit by a truck.

*** Eri herself makes a sacrifice of her own in more than one instance. As much as the heroes are trying to save her, she's willing to remain under Overhaul's thumb just to ensure that the heroes don't die for her sake. As Mirio lampshades, she's kinder than everyone else in the complex, ''including the heroes themselves.''

** Subverted in the first live-action movie. Shiori throws herself in front of Light and takes a bullet for him, literally. It seems like she was an unfortunate victim in a LoveTriangle, but it's a lie. [[spoiler:While Light planned for Naomi's death, he also planned for [[BastardBoyfriend Shiori's]]. He intentionally made Naomi kill Shiori in order to draw the attention away from him and look innocent.]]

** The Impel Down arc ends with [[spoiler: Mr. 2 Bon Kurei]] staying behind to ensure the prison breakers gets past its final obstacle.
*** The guy has a special talent for this trope. You may recall that [[spoiler: at the end of the Arabasta arc, Mr. 2 saves the Straw Hats by having himself and his crew act as decoys, then taking on the pursuing Marine fleet in a clearly hopeless battle in order to buy said Straw Hats time to escape. All we know is that he survived, only to do it again in Impel Down against even worse odds... and ''[[NeverSayDie he still somehow survives]]''. I don't care how he acts or dresses, I can't possibly imagine how anyone cannot admire the guy.]]
*** He was jailed into Impel Down: Saving some former Baroque Works fellows from Hina's execution.
** [[spoiler:Portgas D. Ace]] pulls one of these off in order [[spoiler:to save the life of his adopted younger brother, Luffy from an attack by [[MagmaMan Akainu]] which ultimately breaks Luffy down completely. Unlike most other examples from One Piece, Ace actually dies.]] This whole situation finally gives Luffy the heroic sacrifice of a family member that had been lacking from his previous history in relation to the other characters.

** Stroheim deserves a mention as well, for [[spoiler:saving Joseph from crashing into a volcano, by jumping from a plane, while holding him and using his own cyborg body to soften the impact, breaking both legs in the process.]]
** Stroheim attempts to do that several times, when Santana escapes the lab -- [[spoiler: first he attempts to blow up entire lab along with himself, then asks Joseph to cut off his leg, so he would be able to reach the door to open it and burn Santana with sunlight, and after Santana hides in his body, blows himself up with a grenade in order to destroy both of them. Even though [[SenselessSacrifice Santana survives that]], it gives Joseph a chance to expose him to sunlight, which turns him into stone.]]

** Joseph sacrifices himself again (and once again, [[SubvertedTrope non-lethally]]) in Part 4. [[spoiler: This time, in order to save a drowning infant with the power to turn herself and her surroundings invisible, he cuts his own wrists and paints the water with his blood, finding her by seeking a spot, where water is invisible. Joseph himself suggests that he might die after doing this.]]

** Near the climax of the Part, the fight with [[spoiler: [[HeroKiller Vanilla Ice]] requires two sacrifices in the row -- first, Avdol pushed Polnareff out of the way of [[TakingtheBullet Vanilla's first attack and got most of his body disintegrated]], and then [[TeamPet Iggy]], while already being heavily injured, used his powers, to move Polnareff out of the attacks way, which led to him [[HeroicRROD dying from physical strain.]]]]

** End of part 6 have [[spoiler: three attempted sacrifices in the row]] -- first, [[spoiler: Annasui sends his stand into Jotaro and absorbs a cut to the neck]], that would've killed him otherwise, and then attempts to use the same trick [[spoiler: to protect everyone, [[SubvertedTrope but gets killed, before he manages to do so]]]]. Then,[[spoiler: Jotaro decides to protect Jolyne from [[FlechetteStorm knives, thrown by Pucci]] instead of attacking him, and loses the chance to kill him ([[BatmanGambit just as he anticipated]])]]. And after that, [[spoiler:Jolyne uses her string to tie Emporio to the dolphin, in order to give him a chance to escape, refuses to go with him, knowing that Pucci will be able to track her down through his connection with the Joestar bloodline and resorts to a last desperate attempt to kill him]]. At first it looks like a string of [[SenselessSacrifice senseless sacrifices]], but later[[spoiler: Emporio manages to defeat Pucci]].
** In fact, most of part 6 happened due to Jolyne sacrificing her freedom and deciding to stay in prison, in order to save her father’s s life.

---->'''[[spoiler:Bon Clay]]:''' If we are to fall, let it be at sea. The flower of friendship is rejoicing.

* [[FanNickname Cloney/Syaoran Sr.]] from ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' does this. [[DeathIsCheap Twice]].
** Kurogane slices off his own arm to save a certain angst muffin... (His initials are Fai Fluorite)
*** There's a special irony to this, as Fai's been playing fast and loose with his own life through the series up to this point (in particular trying to put himself between Cloney and Syaoran Jr. in Acid Tokyo), preferring a Heroic Sacrifice -- or at least a death with honor -- to the betrayal he knows he will eventually have to commit against his traveling companions.

** Ikaros does it again in the GrandFinale, when she [[spoiler: she sacrifices herself to cover for Tomoki entering Synapse. However, she is revived thanks to Tomoki hitting the ResetButton.]]

* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Kimihito takes the hit when a purse snatcher tries to slash Centorea with her sword. Fortunately for him, it's subverted when the sword turns out to be just a (very sharp) fake.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' loves this trope, and uses it in almost every one of their [[TheMovie movies]].

** [[spoiler: The Team Rocket trio]] is willing to do this to help Ash in ''Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}}'', but they survive [[spoiler:jumping off of Lugia into the sea]].

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Erza Scarlett and Master Makarov try to go through this several times throughout the story but haven't quite managed to pull it off. Erza actually stops doing this after the Tower of Heaven arc. Makarov will try this any time the guild as a whole is at stake, [[spoiler: even against Acnologia.]]

--> '''[[spoiler:Buccaneer]]:''' "Alright old man, maybe you are going to hell, but you're not going alone. I'll keep you company on the ride down."
--> '''[[spoiler:Fu]]:''' "Thank... you."

** Joseph sacrifices himself again (and once again, [[SubvertedTrope non-lethally]]) in Part 4. [[spoiler: This time, in order to save a drowning infant with the power to turn herself and her surroundings invisible, he cuts his own wrists and paints the water with his blood, finding her by seeking a spot, where water is invisible. Joseph himself suggests, that he might die after doing this.]]

** Chiyo [[spoiler: sacrificed her remaining LifeEnergy to resurrect Gaara, redeeming her part in the sealing of the Ichibi]].\\

** [[spoiler: Hinata]] pulls this off when she [[spoiler: attempts to protect Naruto]] from Pain by buying him time, via an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, only for Pain to respond by brutally trying to [[StuffedIntoTheFridge fridge her]]. [[spoiler:Fortunately, she gets better.]]
** [[spoiler: Jiraiya]] had the chance to escape from [[spoiler: Pain]] but sacrificed himself in order to get and relay crucial intel on the enemy that could not be obtained by anyone else.
** During Pain's attack on Konoha, [[spoiler: PapaWolf Chouza Akimichi and Kakashi Hatake]] ''both'' do this to save Chouji. The former [[TakingTheBullet takes a hit]] from Pain in order to protect[[spoiler: his son]], while the latter sacrifices himself by [[spoiler:using the last of his chakra on his Mangekyo Sharingan]] to prevent a missile from hitting him, so that Chouji could deliver vital information to Tsunade. [[spoiler:Like Hinata, Chouza survives. Kakashi isn't so lucky... until he gets better.]]

** Itachi Uchiha,[[spoiler: purposely lost the battle with his younger brother Sasuke to die as a villain, thus preserving the honor of the Uchiha name and making Sasuke a hero in the eyes of the village simultaneously. He also granted Sasuke a new ocular Jutsu named Amaterasu.]]

** Subverted after [[spoiler: Obito's defeat. He attempted to use the same jutsu Pain used to revive his victims in Konoha in order to revive his own victims from the war, in exchange for his life. However, Madara hijacked the jutsu in order to revive himself instead, effectively giving Obito a death sentence.]]

---> '''Mr.9:''' Bye bye, baby.

** [[spoiler: Portgas D. Ace]] pulls one of these off in order [[spoiler: to save the life of his adopted younger brother, Luffy from an attack by [[MagmaMan Akainu]] which ultimately breaks Luffy down completely. Unlike most other examples from One Piece, Ace actually dies.]] This whole situation finally gives Luffy the heroic sacrifice of a family member that had been lacking from his previous history in relation to the other characters.
** [[spoiler: In the Wano Arc FlashBack we get a truly epic and tragic example from Kozuki Oden, as during his execution where he and his Retainers are to be StewedAlive, Oden literally [[LoadBearingHero holds his men above his head]] to prevent them being boiled for a full goddamn hour while he himself is in agony but believes it’s is WorthIt for his friends and country. Oden is considered a LongDeadBadass to present day in the series]].

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries}'' loves this trope, and uses it in almost every one of their [[TheMovie movies]].

* In ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventuerInAnotherWorld'', Tougo seemingly dies in the opening of the story while finishing up the Ender King, only to land in Idola's world instead. He attempts this again after running out of [[ThePowerOfFriendship kizuna energy]] to keep fighting, telling Idola to run while he holds the monster off. She scolds him for this, [[SenselessSacrifice pointing out what a stupid idea that is]] considering she has [[HealingHands healing magic]].

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' loves this trope, and uses it in almost every one of their [[TheMovie movies]].

* This rarely works in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', instead ending up as a SenselessSacrifice.

** Vegeta blew himself up to try and take out Buu, who regenerated. Krillin also tried to fight Buu knowing he was hopelessly outclassed so 18 could lead everyone else to safety. Krillin was turned into candy within seconds, followed by 18 and their own child Maron. Everyone else save Dende met the same fate.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', during the [[DeadlyGame Tournament]] [[DuelToTheDeath of]] [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath Power]] where the losing teams have [[DeaderThanDead everyone -- including the Gods and the participants themselves -- in their universe, except for the Angels, erased from existence]] by [[TopGod Zen’ō]] [[JerkassGods Sama]], [[spoiler:only Goku, Vegeta, Frieza, and Android No.17 remained to fight against Jiren during the final round between Universes 7 and 11. Jiren, who is [[GodMode absurdly powerful]], tosses around Goku and Vegeta [[CurbstompBattle like they are nothing]]. Even Frieza couldn't do anything. In order to ensure Goku and Vegeta could regain more energy for even a second, No.17 erected barriers around them and held off the blast as long as he could before [[SuicideAttack self-destructing]] to neutralize it. To say Universe 7 took it well would be a ''massive'' understatement.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted in that in Episode 130, it is revealed that 17 actually survived. [[GambitRoulette It was still a gamble though]].]]