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-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival}} "Survival"]]

-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival}} "Survival"]]

SisterTrope to OfferingAnotherInYourStead, which involves striking a bargain like this with a thinking entity. If the person is selfless, though, they could proclaim for the monsters to TakeMeInstead and perform a HeroicSacrifice. Not related to FedToTheBeast, which is when a villain uses this to make an example out of a hero or employer by feeding them to some monster they have. Compare to BulletproofHumanShield which is using another person to take a projectile.

* In the textbook ''Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind'' by Gazzaniga, Ivry, and Mangun, illustrates theories of how emotions are formed with a diagram that involves the scientists who made the theory seeing a bear and their physiological and cognitive reactions. The diagram for David Anderson and Ralph Adolphs' theory has the cognitive section of the diagram [[TextbookHumor saying]] that Anderson hopes he can run faster than Adolphs, and Adolphs hopes he can run faster than Anderson.

* ''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 pries her hand off her to let the zombies take her. Unfortunately for her, she backs right into a zombie behind her a minute later and suffers a KarmicDeath.

* ''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. Once of them gets grabbed and begs for help...and her friend callously tells her to let go and pries her hand off her to let the zombies take her. Unfortunately for her, she backs right into a zombie behind her a minute later and suffers a KarmicDeath.

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. 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.

SisterTrope of DevouredByTheHorde, which usually follows in a lot of these situations. If the person is selfless, though, they could proclaim for the monsters to TakeMeInstead and perform a HeroicSacrifice. Not related to FedToTheBeast, which is when a villain uses this to make an example out of a hero or employer by feeding them to some monster they have. Compare to BulletproofHumanShield which is using another person to take a projectile.

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. Very prevalent in monster stories, especially ones that involve a ZombieApocalypse, though a KarmicDeath 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.

* ''Machinima/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]].

* ''Anime/BloodC'': Nene does this to her own sister, Nono, during the final episode when a Elder Bairn gets loose and gives chase after them. Nene elbows Nono in the face so the monster can catch up and kill her. It does little good as Nene still gets caught herself and suffers an [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe even more]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome death]].

* ''Anime/BloodC'': Nono does this to her own sister, Nene, during the final episode when a Elder Bairn gets loose and gives chase after them. Nono elbows Nene in the face so the monster can catch up and kill her. It does little good as Nono still gets caught herself and suffers an [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe even more]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome death]].

* 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 faster then him, just faster then ''you''."

* One Red Bull 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 faster then him, just faster then ''you''."

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

* In ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'', when Sarah Harding and Dodgson are hiding under an abandoned jeep, a few yards away from a ''T. rex'' nest, Dodgson is whispering, trying to formulate an escape, Sarah, [[spoiler: still furious that he pushed her overboard on the boat ride over]], comes up with her own plan. She [[spoiler: pushes him out of their hiding spot]], the adult ''T. rex'' notices and grabs [[spoiler: Dodgeson, and drops him in the middle of the nest.]] While Dodgeson screams [[spoiler: while being eaten by the ''rex's'' brood]], Sarah makes a break for it.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Advanced D&D ''Player's Handbook'', ''Charm Person Or Mammal'' druid spell. The spell description gives an example of a druid casting the spell on a character and asking them to hold back an attacking red dragon for just a minute or two to protect the druid from being killed.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Advanced D&D ''Player's Handbook'', ''charm person or mammal'' druid spell. The spell description gives an example of a druid casting the spell on a character and asking them to hold back an attacking red dragon for just a minute or two to protect the druid from being killed.

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* In ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'', when Sarah Harding and Dodgson are hiding under an abandoned jeep, a few yards away from a T-rex nest, Dodgson is whispering, trying to formulate an escape, Sarah, [[spoiler: still furious that he pushed her overboard on the boat ride over]], comes up with her own plan. She [[spoiler: pushes him out of their hiding spot]], the adult T-rex notices and grabs [[spoiler: Dodgeson, and drops him in the middle of the nest.]] While Dodgeson screams [[spoiler: while being eaten by the rex's brood]], Sarah makes a break for it.