History HeroicSacrifice / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': Jack allows Rose all the room on the floating door leaving most of Jack's body dangling in the freezing water which leads to his death.

** ''Film/NoTimeToDie''. [[spoiler:During the fight with the BigBad, Bond is infected by nanobots that are programmed to kill his LoveInterest and daughter. He checks with Q to make sure there's no way to remove the nanobots except by blowing them up and knowing missiles are on the way to take out the island facility, Bond elects to stay behind and calls the love interest and tells her he loves her, just before the missiles arrive and blow everything to hell.]]

** Really, Mothra ought to be the poster child for this trope within the franchise. She bites the dust in almost all of her appearances. It's confirmed in some continuities and implied in others that she Doesn'tFearDeath due to her BornAgainImmortality, therefore she has no problem sticking her life on the line.

* ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' is a disaster film where anything that can possibly go wrong does. At the end of the movie, in order to detonate a nuke that will destroy a meteor headed for Earth, one person has to stay back and manually detonate it because the remote detonator was broken. They draw straws and AJ drew the shortest stick. However, as he leaves the ship to fulfill his duty, Stamper cuts off AJ's oxygen supply and locks him inside the ship, taking his place and sacrificing himself to save all of humanity and the Earth.

* ''Film/[[Casper]]'': In hopes of achieving his father's dream by using his machine: the Lazarus to return back to life, Casper decided to sacrifice that one and only chance by giving it to Dr. James Harvey, so his friend: Kat wouldn't live her life as an orphan.

* ''Film/NoEscape1994'': Robbins is saved due to these [[UpToEleven three times]] in the film.

*** Another happens during the final battle with King Ghidorah. [[spoiler:As Ghidorah prepares to finish off an injured Godzilla, Mothra puts herself between them despite being heavily wounded from her prior fight with Rodan. After seemingly healing Godzilla and stopping his meltdown, she launches a last-ditch attack on Ghidorah, and while she dies in the attempt, Godzilla absorbs her energy and transforms into his Burning form]], which definitively turns the tides in his favor.]]

*** Another happens during the final battle with King Ghidorah. As Ghidorah prepares to finish off an injured Godzilla, Mothra puts herself between them despite being heavily wounded from her prior fight with Rodan. After seemingly healing Godzilla and stopping his meltdown, she launches a last-ditch attack on Ghidorah, and while she dies in the attempt, Godzilla absorbs her energy and transforms into his Burning form, which definitively turns the tides in his favor.

** Roger chooses to remain in East Timor to cover the Indonesian invasion, knowing he risk being killed by the TNI. When they invade Dili, he is captured by Indonesian soldiers and executed in cold blood.

*** [[spoiler: While he ultimately survives Tony orders Pepper to overload the Arc Reactor to overload the Iron Monger Armor while Tony was hanging from the remains of the roof, very nearly costing his life in the process.]]
** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', [[spoiler: Tony]] sacrifices himself by catching the nuke headed for Manhattan and flying it out into space through the wormhole, fully expecting to be trapped there and die, after Steve warned him it was a [[SuicideMission "one-way trip"]]. He survives, but only due to luck — he loses consciousness and plummets back through the wormhole just before it closes. Also a CallBack to his argument with Steve earlier in the film, when the latter accused him of being incapable of sacrificing himself for someone else.

*** [[spoiler: Captain America stays aboard the [[CoolPlane Valkyrie]] to intentionally crash it rather than risk the lives of a thousands of people, setting the stage for him to become a FishOutOfTemporalWater.]]
*** Earlier in the movie, Steve, prior to being turned into Captain America, [[spoiler:jumped on what he thought was a live grenade while the rest of his unit scrambled for cover. That's right. The little asthmatic weakling almost no one thought should have been there was willing to die to save others. It was this event that finally swayed Phillips to choose Steve to be the first Super Soldier.]]
** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'',

** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', when Ronan's ship goes into freefall, Groot creates a shield around his comrades, knowing full well that he could die in the process. When the ship crashes, all Rocket can find of him was a single twig. [[spoiler:Groot ultimately subverts this trope, though, as he can recover FromASingleCell: the twig that Rocket finds is placed in a flower pot and grows into a little Grootling, which will mature into another Groot in due time. [[DoubleSubverted However]], WordOfGod has stated that the original Groot did die, and Baby Groot is his son.]]

** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', [[spoiler: Quicksilver [[TakingTheBullet takes a bunch of bullets]] from an Ultron-commandeered quinjet to save Hawkeye and a little boy.]]
** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', [[spoiler: the titular character [[GroundhogDayLoop pulls multiple in rapid succession]] by [[TheManyDeathsOfYou being killed repeatedly]] by [[EldritchAbomination Dormammu]] until the invading abomination begged the doctor to free him.]]
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''

*** Subverted with [[spoiler:Gamora and The Vision. Gamora tries to commit one, first by having Quill shoot her if Thanos would capture her (he tries but the Reality Stone neutralizes his weapon) and then trying to kill herself so Thanos cannot use her as a sacrifice for the Soul Stone (Thanos neutralizes her knife with the Reality Stone and kills her himself to complete the sacrifice). The Vision, on the other hand, is fine with sacrificing himself for the greater good but Wanda Maximoff and Steve Rogers don't agree that has to be the first option and try to find other ways. Sadly, he is proven right at the end of the film when all other options fail and Wanda does kill him by shattering the Mind Stone in his head, only for Thanos to undo the sacrifice with the Time Stone then rips it out of his head himself]].
** In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler:Black Widow and Hawkeye actually fight over who sacrifices themself so the other can get the Soul Stone. Black Widow "wins". Later, Tony Stark uses the infinity gauntlet to finger snap Thanos and his army out of existence, because Tony is human, his body can't handle the stones' powers, as a result he dies, on his deathbed were his beloved wife, his surrogate son, and his friends.]]

* ''Film/{{Constantine}}'': Damned to go back to hell after he attempted suicide to stop the psychic visions he kept having in his youth, John Constantine has spent much of his life trying to earn forgiveness by kicking the minions of Hell's asses. However, the BigBad is in a league far higher than he is at the moment. Unable to stop [[spoiler: Gabriel]] from [[spoiler: unleashing Hell on Earth]], John brings the plan to Satan's attention by committing suicide. As Satan believes that only he will be the one to conquer Earth and win his wager against God, Satan begrudgingly intervenes and stops these interlopers who aren't going by ''his'' plan. Feeling in debt to John, Satan offers John a life extension as a reward for his assistance. Already dying from lung cancer, John declines, instead asking that the soul of [[spoiler: Isabel Dodson]] be allowed to return to Heaven instead. Satan honors this request after a second to think on it, not realizing the deeper ramifications to John's action. In giving his life for the sake of another without premeditation of some future reward, he earns his way into God's good graces, who prevents Satan from taking John to Hell. As his body rises to the heavens -- while [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu giving the Devil the finger]] no less -- the now angered Satan rips the cancer from Constantine's body, restoring him to full health. He does so in order to give John another chance to prove that his soul belongs in Hell, not Heaven.
* In the climax of ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', [[spoiler: Ella]] went into the core of the aliens' spaceship and activated the bracelet's self-destruct bomb, knowing there's only a couple of seconds for the bomb to go off.

** A tree shields Knotgrass, Thistlewit and Flittle from the iron gas when [[spoiler: the fairies were trapped in the chapel by Ingrith.]]
** In the same scene, [[spoiler: Flittle sacrifices herself by flying into the organ that releases the gas, blocking it and saving the fairies.]]

** Subverted in the climax when [[spoiler: Maleficent takes an iron dust arrow from Ingrith to save Aurora, but then [[BackFromTheDead rises from her ashes]] [[OneWingedAngel as a Phoenix thanks to her powers.]]