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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'':

* Captain Roy Montgomery from ''Series/{{Castle}}'', who was easy-going enough to allow Castle to shadow Beckett, mainly because he knew Castle could make her more at ease. He kept him on even as he helped her piece together her mother's murder, even with his own place in it. He ultimately died taking one of the bad guys in that conspiracy with him, atoning for his own part in it.

* Sakura Oogami from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. The Super High-school Level Martial Artist with the buffest body among all of the students trapped at Hope's Peak Academy; though strong and intimidating, she was also level-headed and polite. It also happened that she was TheMole for Monobear, who outed her to the rest of her classmates, which led to them growing distrustful of her. As such, [[HeroicSacrifice she poisoned herself]] with the intent of uniting the students against their common enemy after her death, and also [[DyingMomentOfAwesome broke the lock of the headmaster's office]]; proving instrumental in providing the group vital information.

* Raze from ''Film/{{Underworld}}''.

* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog: Shadow the Hedgehog debuted in VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 as an EvilCounterpart to Sonic, and very quickly establishes himself as his superior, something previous antagonists, even [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]] cannot boast. Shadow possessed ''all'' of Sonic's abilities in addition to his own unique ones, but was a NoNonsenseNemesis compared to [[SmugSuper Sonic.]] And despite that aforementioned statement, [[SnarkToSnarkCombat he could match Sonic's wit too.]] Naturally because RedemptionEqualsDeath, he performs a HeroicSacrifice at the end of the game. It becomes a SubvertedTrope however where he was SavedByFans and is brought back in the [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes next game]] and has become a series staple since.

* E-102 Gamma from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''... and then his parts are used to create [[VideoGame/SonicBattle E-102r, a.k.a Chaos Gamma]]... and then he gets an extremely badass "younger brother" E-123 Omega (who was first voiced by [[VideoGame/DukeNukem Jon]] [[VideoGame/TheConduit St. John]], of course.)

* [[spoiler:The [[InfinityPlusOneSword Super Emeralds]] which made the normally [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity +1 Swords]] Chaos Emeralds the [[InfinityMinusOneSword Infinity -1 Swords]] of the [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles game]].]] After that game, they never appeared at all in the Genesis and Modern [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog games]], making the fans wonder where they were and [[spoiler: leaving the Chaos Emeralds as the sole [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity +1 Swords]] of the series.]] After many years, ''VideoGame/SonicMania'' finally gave the fans an answer of where they were all this time :[[spoiler: all gray, cracked and drained of their power after the events of ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''. Making the whole thing an item example of this trope.]]