History Main / SentimentalSacrifice

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Robustus forces everyone who falls victim to his {{Brainwashing}} virus to surrender whatever they cherish most in the world to him. His reasoning is that any of the Miraculous holders will naturally cherish their {{Transformation Trinket}}s the most, meaning that if they fall under his control, they'll automatically surrender them to him.

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->'''Kirk:''' ''[after self-destructing the ''Enterprise'']'' My God, Bones, what have I done?\\

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* ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' had Kirk getting caught in a battle with a Klingon ship with an already-crippled Enterprise. Instead of simply surrendering, he lured a boarding party onto the ship and self-destructed it. He was clearly distressed, but their mission (recovering Spock) was the greater priority, as was preventing Starfleet technology from falling into the hands of an enemy state.

%%* In a film version of ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', when a noble family was tearfully leaving their mansion in Moscow and the daughter says, "They're just things. We can always get more things."
* At the end of ''Film/Super8'', the alien activates its super-magnet that sucks metal objects toward so they can be assembled into a starship for him to go home. One of the objects is Joe's locket from his deceased mother, which he reluctantly lets fly away.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Grandma Wu breaks her jade bracelet in the climax [[spoiler: since it is her talisman and contains her red panda spirit]] in order to save her daughter.

* In the Dutch book ''Koning Van Katoren'' there's a wizard collects and sacrifices things of sentimental value. Of course people hate him for it, but if they don't submit to him they get turned into a clock and he takes sentimental things anyway. He never tells people he does this in order to prevent an entire city from falling to death into an abyss. In the end, he sacrifices himself to safe the city from himself to give the city centuries to safely balance above the abyss.

* ''Series/BurnNotice''
** The show has a track record of doing this with their cars. The end of the second season had Sam acquire a cherry red Buick, which ended up destroyed in the mid-season three finale. [[spoiler: Then there is Michael's black Charger, which he got early on in the series. He ended up strapping C-4 to it as a decoy against the bad guys when the car was already dying.]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho''

* In ''Series/{{Agents of Shield}}'' this is something of a RunningGag for Coulson's collection. Aside from his baseball cards in the first Avengers movie (which Nick Fury ruined as part of a deception to motivate the Avengers), he has to use one of his vintage radio watches to set off a trap.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' Huey, Louie and Dewey like to play with marbles, and are very good at throwing them by hand or using them as slingshot ammo. On one episode, they manage to use a One In A Million Chance throw to detonate a torpedo heading towards a ship they're on, and immediately afterwards they pay their respects to the marble as if it had been a person doing a Heroic Sacrifice.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' establishes how much Marceline loves her stuffed teddy Hambo, a toy that Simon gave to help cheer her up when he discovered her in the rubble After the End. One episode is dedicated to her and Princess Bubblegum trying to recover Hambo from a witch. Later on, when the Ice King reverted back into Simon, Marceline had to say goodbye to Hambo for good, and use him as a catalyst to open up a portal into the past so Simon could say goodbye to the woman who ran away from him.

'''[=McCoy=]:''' What you've always done -- turned death into a fighting chance to live.