History YouShallNotPass / LiveACtionTV

* An episode of ''GomerPyleUSMC'' entitled, ''They Shall Not Pass'' has Gomer paired with Sergeant Carter. When Carter is injured, only Gomer is left to protect a bridge, which he does successfully.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "Tomb of the Cybermen". The Doctor and Jamie attempt to close the electrified doors to the tombs, sealing the Cyber Controller inside. When they realize that doing so would kill them as well, even if they could overcome the Controller's attempts to force is way out, the enormous Toberman pushes them aside, declares, "You shall not pass Toberman: The door is closed," and forces the doors shut, killing himself and ([[BackFromTheDead apparently]]) the Cyber Controller.

** Kor was a legendary but disgraced Klingon, managing to survive so long as a warrior he was going senile. Taking command of a damaged vessel with no living crew left, he singlehandedly destroyed/delayed a Jem'Hadar squadron from overtaking the Klingon task force they were chasing. This was deemed so impressive by the Klingons on the ship he'd been serving on (even Martok, who'd hated the man) that they all broke out in song. Truly a warrior's death.

* Subverted in the ''PersonOfInterest'' episode "Firewall". Reese stays behind to battle a hit team while the POI escapes. [[spoiler:Of course that's exactly what she wants, leaving her free to kidnap Finch (who's waiting with the escape car) without his interference. Turns out she's the sociopathic hacker Root.]]

* Green Arrow attempts this in a "bad alternate future" in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', grimly notching a Kryptonite arrow and facing down an incoming platoon of superpowered soldiers. The outcome isn't shown, but it's a fairly safe bet it was a DyingMomentOfAwesome.

* Green Arrow attempts this in a "bad alternate future" in Series/{{Smallville}}, grimly notching a Kryptonite arrow and facing down an incoming platoon of superpowered soldiers. The outcome isn't shown, but it's a fairly safe bet it was a DyingMomentOfAwesome.

* [[Series/{{Prmeval}} Captain Becker]] tends to do this. Quite a lot, actually. He survives each time, and each time he does so with a BigDamnHeroes moment. In case you haven't heard, Captain Becker's kinda awesome.

* An episode of ''GomerPyleUSMC'' entitled, ''They Shall Not Pass'' has Gomer paired with Sergeant Carter. When Carter is injured, only Gomer is left to protect bridge, which he does successfully.

** Made ever more awesome because of the circumstances. ''The Enemy Within'' is the second episode of Stargate, and at this point Teal'c's fate is yet to be decided (One option was to remove the infant Goa'uld within him for study, which would ''kill Teal'c''). The Goa'uld inside Kowalski takes him over, opens the Gate to Chulak, and enters the gate room to find Teal'c blocking his way. Keep in mind that the Goa'uld are Gods to Jaffa. The Goa'uld orders Teal'c to stand aside. Teal'c: "You cannot pass."

** Does no one remember Jack Harkness? In The Parting of the Ways he stopped at the entrance to the main part of Floor 500, holding off several [[ImmuneToBullets Daleks with a 19th century handgun]] to give the Doctor an extra twenty seconds. YouShallNotPass, indeed.
** In ''The Wedding of River Song,'' we get Rory versus The Silence. The device that lets him remember them is booby trapped and causing him ''agonizing pain,'' but he keeps it on so he can remember them and cover the escape of Amy, the Doctor, and River Song once the Silence broke in. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it gets too bad for even him once the juice gets cranked up. The Silence ''still'' don't get to pass, because Amy, who'd been told to run, came back with a machine gun.]]
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':

* The Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}} is being pummelled to oblivion by Cylon Basestars....when suddenly the far more badass Battlestar Pegasus shows up starts stomping on the Cylons. The ship [[HeroicSacrifice is destroyed]] taking out the last Cylon ships so that Galactica can escape. Possibly the most Awesome Moment of Awesome on that show.

* [[Series/{{Prmeval}} Captain Becker]] tends to do this. Quite a lot, actually. He survives each time, and each time he does so with a BigDamnHeroes moment. In case you haven't heard, Captain Becker's kinda awesome.

* As in its [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire source material]], ''[[LiveActionTV A Game Of Thrones]]'' features [[MasterSwordsman Syrio Forel]] holding off a Kingsguard knight and several Lannister mooks with a wooden sword while his student Arya escapes. However, we never directly see a killing stroke inflicted on him, and his head is not amongst the ones adorning spikes on the wall (like Ned's or Septa Mordane's), so whether he's dead or not is [[EpilepticTrees left ambiguous]].

* ''{{Supernatural}}'': [[spoiler:Castiel]] does this in the Season 4 finale to hold off [[spoiler:the prophet Chuck's archangel]] so that Dean can reach Sam.

* Marcus Cole does this to Neroon in the ''{{Babylon 5}}'' episode "Grey 17 is Missing". Clips over part of the episode show Marcus getting his ass kicked. While he is prepared to meet his death to make this delay as long as possible, Neroon spares his life. Neroon then immediately concedes that Delenn is the proper leader of the Rangers by saying "They would die for you; I don't think I could make them die for me."
** In fact, in a WordOfGod ShoutOut to ''The Lord of the Rings'', this is actually built into the Rangers' CatchPhrase:
--->"We are Rangers.\\
We walk in the dark places no others will enter.\\
'''We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass.'''\\
We live for the One, we die for the One."

* As in its [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire source material]], ''[[LiveActionTV A Game Of Thrones]]'' features [[MasterSwordsman Syrio Forel]] holding off a Kingsguard knight and several Lannister mooks with a wooden sword while his student Arya escapes. We never directly see a killing stroke inflicted on him, and his head is not amongst the ones adorning spikes on the wall (like Ned's or Septa Mordane's)

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'', in "Habeus Corpses", Gunn makes the others go on while he holds back the zombie horde inside Wolfram and Hart. He survives, though.

* Subverted in the first season two episode of ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' in which Daniel is badly wounded. Thinking that this will likely kill him anyway, he tells Jack to take the others and go on without him while he plans to stay behind and cover them. However he ends up meeting no resistance and instead hauls himself to a Goa'uld sarcophagus to get healed.

* The BattlestarGalactica is being pummelled to oblivion by Cylon Basestars....when suddenly the far more badass Battlestar Pegasus shows up starts stomping on the Cylons. The ship [[HeroicSacrifice is destroyed]] taking out the last Cylon ships so that Galactica can escape. Possibly the most Awesome Moment of Awesome on that show.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "Tomb of the Cybermen". The Doctor and Jamie attempt to close the electrified doors to the tombs, sealing the Cyber Controller inside. When they realize that doing so would kill them as well, even if they could overcome the Controller's attempts to force is way out, the enormous {{Toberman}} pushes them aside, declares, "You shall not pass Toberman: The door is closed," and forces the doors shut, killing himself and ([[BackFromTheDead apparently]]) the Cyber Controller.

* Both Kor and Eddington died like this on ''[[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Star Trek: Deep Space 9]]''.

* In an alternate timeline in ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the ''Enterprise'' is being attacked by three Klingon warbirds; Riker states that they can outrun them, but Picard orders the ship to stand fast and fight the Klingons so as to allow the past ''Enterprise'' to escape. Prompts the famous line, "Let us make sure history never forgets. The name. ''ENTERPRISE''!"

** Yet another ''Series/DoctorWho'' example: In the new series episode "Doomsday", a Cyberman, who formerly was the director of the Torchwood Facility, turns on its cybernetic fellows at the last possible moment before they break in on Our Heroes and stop them saving the day; this rebellious Cyberman even ''says'' "You shall not pass" twice, and then mows down the other Cybers with an electric rifle. It's actually a very touching moment. Then comes the [[TearsFromAStone single black tear]]; borders on Narm but we'll let it pass.

** In the episode "The Stolen Earth" in the recent series, the American UNIT general and random [[RedShirt Red Shirt]] single-handedly stand against an oncoming Dalek force to give Martha Jones time to teleport away. [[spoiler: ... and of course, get lasered rather quickly. I mean, come on, these are Daleks.]]
** Does no one remember Jack Harkness? In The Parting of the Ways he stopped at the entrance to the main part of Floor 500, holding off several [[ImmuneToBullets Daleks with a 19th century handgun]] to give the Doctor an extra twenty seconds. [[YouShallNotPass You Shall Not Pass]], indeed.

* An episode of ''GomerPyleUSMC'' entitled, ''They Shall Not Pass'' has Gomer paired with Sergeant Carter. When Carter is injured, only Gomer is left to protect bridge, which he does successfully.
* ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'' Season 8, Episode 14: A Secret Service [[RedShirt red shirt]] stays behind to fight off the attacking military squad while Jack & Co. attempt to evacuate President Hassan.

* An episode of ''Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.'' entitled, ''They Shall Not Pass'' has Gomer paired with Sergeant Carter. When Carter is injured, only Gomer is left to protect bridge, which he does successfully.

* {{Angel}} Habeus Corpses: Gunn makes the others go on while he holds back the zombie horde inside Wolfram and Hart. He survives, though.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: [[IGotBetter He got better]].

-->''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Fire!!"]]''