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* ''{{ComicBook/Preacher}}'': During the Saint of Killers' RoaringRampageOfRevenge, one of the townspeople puts his own daughter between him and the Saint, telling him to take her but spare him. The Saint shoots them both anyway, since he's past caring about not killing innocents.

* ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': Han Solo throws a mook into the mouth of one of the Rathars pursuing him.

* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' series ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'', Ben Skywalker's [[DefectingForLove Sith girlfriend]] Vestara Khai pulls this on another Jedi by the name of Natua Wan. When the three are attacked by a giant mutated insect, Vestara wounds Natua and runs off with an unconscious Ben, leaving her to die in their place. It's this action that makes Vestara believe [[IveComeTooFar she's not cut out to be a Jedi]].

* ''Literature/YoungJediKnights'': Brought up in one of [[PungeonMaster Jacen's]] jokes:
-->"Two Gamorrean guards are walking down a narrow, deserted canyon, when suddenly a rancor comes out and starts chasing them. One of the Gamorreans stops to put on his best running shoes. 'Don't waste time,' shouts the other, 'you can't outrun a rancor with those!!' 'I don't have to outrun a rancor,' says the first one as he finishes lacing his shoes, 'I just have to outrun you!'"

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': In "Hook, Line, and Screamer" when Izzy and Owen encounter the killer, Owen screams, "Owen's too young to die! Here, take Izzy!" and pushes Izzy towards the killer. It turns out to have just been Chef in a costume, so she's fine, but still mad at Owen in the next episode.

Essentially a deadly on-the-fly version of GotVolunteered meets TheBait and the go-to move of the DirtyCoward and {{Jerkass}} in these type of situations. Their only concern is for their own safety after all, so they would have no problem sacrificing someone else to keep their own skin alive. DevouredByTheHorde or EatenAlive usually follows in a lot of these situations. Very prevalent in monster stories, especially ones that involve a ZombieApocalypse, though a KarmicDeath for the pusher will usually shortly follow. In some cases, though, the one getting pushed had shown themselves as so unsympathetic as to deserve it (and the pusher may have justifiably been trying to kill them anyway). Keep in mind, this is when someone ''deliberately'' sacrifices and pushes another in harm's way to save themselves.

* In ''Film/LakePlacidVsAnaconda'', a group of sunbathing college girls are getting picked off and eaten by some of the giant crocodiles that are loose at the lake. When trying to figure out what to do, one girl, Tiffani, exclaims "I have an idea!" and shoves the girl next to her into an crocodile's mouth and runs away as her friend [[EatenAlive gets eaten.]]

* ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'': When the outbreak starts up at the high school, we see two girls, apparently friends, running away from some of the zombies while holding hands. One of them gets grabbed and begs for help...and her friend callously tells her to let go and forcibly pries her hand off by kicking her in the head to let the zombies take her. Unfortunately for her, she backs right into a zombie behind her a minute later and suffers a KarmicDeath.

'''Worker 2:''' Hey!... [[{{Touche}} Actually, I was... I was gonna do that to you, too.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama:'' In "Hook, Line, and Screamer" when Izzy and Owen encounter the killer, Owen screams, "Owen's too young to die! Here, take Izzy!" and pushes Izzy towards the killer. It turns out to have just been Chef in a costume, so she's fine, but still mad at Owen in the next episode.

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In the HalloweenEpisode two-parter, "Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect", Will and Carlton are competing for the attention of a girl to bring to Hillary's Halloween party due to [[TheBet a bet]] they made to be the first to get a date for it. To convince the girl to pick him, Carlton makes up a story that has Will look like total scumbag while out on a date with another girl and Will happily pushing her into a pair of mugger when one of them threatens the two. [[MilesGloriosus Carlton shortly after swooping in to save her]].
--> '''Mugger''': Alright punk, your money or your girlfriend.
--> '''Will''': My brother, you're making this too easy. ''(Instantly pushes the girl into the two)''
* In the first ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' [[HalloweenEpisode Zombies special]], Tory, Kari and Grant tried this, though [[CaptainObvious since zombies aren't real]] they hired dozens of extras to dress up and act like zombies. When trying test ways to distract a zombie horde, Kari pushed Tory into a wheel chair, duct-taped him into it, and pushed him onto the horde. As Tory was "eaten" by the "zombies", Kari went around the large group that surrounded Tory, zig-zagged around a few stragglers attracted to the commotion, and made it to the finish line.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "Polymorph", the crew lose various aspects of their personality because of an EmotionEater shapeshifting alien stowaway. Kryten [[LackOfEmpathy loses all empathy]], and consequently mutters behind their backs that he will sacrifice his teammates when they find the polymorph.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': In "Save the Last One," Shane and another survivor, Otis, are trying to limp away from a horde of Walkers right on them. Knowing they'll be caught if they keep going, Shane shoots Otis in the leg and leaves him at the mercy of the horde while he gets away.

-->'''Worker 1''': So, do we have a plan for what to do if the raptor gets loose?\\
'''Worker 2''': Yes, [[GreatWhiteHunter Muldoon]] says to get up someplace high where it can't reach you.\\
'''Worker 1''': Oh, so there's an actual plan? Great! I was just gonna push you forwards to distract it and then run.\\
'''Worker 2''': Hey!... [[{{Touche}} Actually, I was... I was gonna do that to you, too.]]

* One Creator/RedBull commercial features two gazelle noticing a lion creeping up on them. One of them pulls out a Red Bull which his companion states the drink won't make them faster than the lion. To which other states "Oh I don't have to be quicker than the lion, just faster than ''you''."

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* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama:'' In "Hook, Line, and Screamer" when Izzy and Owen encounter the killer, Owen screams, "I don't want to die! Here, take Izzy!" and pushes Izzy towards the killer. It turns out to have just been Chef in a costume, so she's fine, but still mad at Owen in the next episode.

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': Up until her death in Season 6, this had basically been South Dakota's escape tactic when running from the Meta, with two of her victims being Washington and even ''her own twin brother'', North Dakota. She eventually tried to do it to Delta too, until Wash, Church, and Caboose caught up with her while she was in the middle of transferring him to a storage unit to leave behind for the Meta while she escapes. To say Wash and Delta were ''not'' happy about South Dakota trying to use them as human shields to save her own skin is a huge [[{{Understatement}} understatement]].

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* In ''Total Undead Drama'', when Courtney, Gwen, Cody, Jo, [[WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}} Brock]], Duncan and Sugar try to go back into the woods to try and eliminate the vampires there (with the hope of likewise saving Beth who was captured in an earlier outing), they end up splitting up with Cody and Sugar together who encounter a newly vamped Ella. Sugar pushes Cody at her after he tries and fails a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight and attempts to flee. Ella, [[AffablyEvil still polite despite her undead status]], just helps him up and leaves him be before flying after Sugar to talk to her about "proper manners". [[spoiler:Plus wanting to turn Sugar personally, which she succeeds in after capturing her and bringing her back to her master's manor.]]
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* In ''Total Undead Drama'', when Courtney, Gwen, Cody, Jo, [[WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}} Brock]], Duncan and Sugar try to go back into the woods to try and eliminate the vampires there (with the hope of likewise saving Beth who was captured in an earlier outing), they end up splitting up with Cody and Sugar together who encounter a newly vamped Ella. Sugar pushes Cody at her after he tries and fails a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight and attempts to flee. Ella, [[AffablyEvil still polite despite her undead status]], just helps him up and leaves him be before flying after Sugar to talk to her about "proper manners". [[spoiler: Plus wanting to turn Sugar personally, which she succeeds in after capturing her and bringing her back to her master's manor.]]

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* In the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'', this is the reason Clan Nosferatu participates in the Camarilla and Sabbat despite their interests not aligning with either organization. They believe that [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination Nictuku]]]] are on the way to devour all Kindred. The more Kindred the Nosferatu surround themselves with, the more chance they have to escape while the monsters chow down on their less subtle sect-mates.

* ''Manga/TheIslandOfGiantInsects'': A lot of the survivors do this to hapless victims just to save themselves. Long story short, if a character is disliked, their chances of survival has dramatically dropped.

So you're in a monster or horror flick, surrounded by the nasties with one or more members. Hey there's an exit in sight, but you're sure to attract the beasts or killer soon as you make a dash for it. You may have some weapons on hand, but it's likely they won't be enough. Well, the monsters or killers do just want something to slaughter, they say live bait is always effective, and you have these wonderful pawns right next to you unawares. Hint, hint.