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15* ''Manga/SevenSeeds'':
16** Yanagi's HeroicSacrifice. His body was injected with parasite eggs that have hatched, and begun to [[PuppeteerParasite move him]], but he managed to gain enough control over himself to set himself on fire and burn down the entire nest of those things, just so the rest of his team can escape.
17** Takashi Sugurono, during the Ryugu Shelter arc. One of the executives has left with his lackey, both infected with the parasitoids that are currently killing off the population in the titular shelter. Takashi, himself also infected, heads after them and turns on the giant fan that was previously used to cull people. He grabs the executive and lackey, intent on making sure this infection doesn't spread to anyone else, and his final thoughts go to the members of the 7 Seeds project, including his daughter, and throws himself into the fan.
18* In ''Anime/AngelBeats'' there are both humorous and dramatic examples.
19** In Episode 2, TK holds off the DescendingCeiling so everyone can go through.
20** Masami Iwasawa plays her last song, the summation of everything she ever wanted to say and do, and passes on in peace.
21** And then there's how Otanashi died in real life. [[spoiler: A rather horrible train wreck leaves him and multiple other passengers trapped in a tunnel, and many are injured pretty badly. Despite having some serious internal injuries himself and severely limited resources, Otanashi, on his way to entrance exams for med school, uses what he studied to keep the rest of the passengers alive for a week. Then, once he's reached his limit, he, as his final act, fills out a card to become an organ donor, in hopes that, should he not make it, he'd still be able to save someone's life, which inspires the others to do the same. When help finally arrives, he succumbs to his injuries and dies.]] To recap, [[spoiler: an aspiring med student with no training beyond independent study saves the lives of all but two people and gives them all hope that their lives can save someone else's]]. Dying Moment of Awesome indeed.
22*** The Reveal at the end of the series turns this into one of the most powerful series-encompassing Dying Moment of Awesome. [[spoiler: "You gave me your heart."]] Which means that [[spoiler: after Otonashi's death, his harvested heart is what allowed Kanade aka "Angel" to live a little longer, then setting ''almost everything in the series'' since her Ghostly Goal was to find whoever did such a kind act for her...]] Also one of the biggest tearjerkers of all time.
23* In ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'', Kato gets '''two''' of these. ([[BackFromTheDead He got better after the first one.]])
24* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
25** Ian Dietrich's last act is to dive into a Titan's open mouth to pull another soldier from it.
26** Erwin Smith and the Survey Corps recruits, who mount a suicide charge against the Beast Titan to distract him from Captain Levi's effort to kill him from behind. The Beast Titan fires fistfuls of small stones at the recruits to shred them to pieces. Erwin is killed by the first stone volley, but the remaining soldiers -- who are not experienced soldiers but fresh, terrified new recruits -- continue the charge until they are all dead anyway.
27*** Special mention to Marlowe Freudenberg, who despite being a naive new recruit, briefly assumes charge of the charging soldiers for a matter of seconds after Erwin is killed, during which he rallies the remaining troops and commands them to continue the attack. He is killed by the next volley of stones.
28*** After the second volley only three (visibly terrified) soldiers are left. They continue the charge anyway, and are all killed by a third volley.
29** Mobilt Berner. When the equivalent of a minor nuclear bomb is fired on the battlefield, Berner's last act is to save his comrade Hange Zoe from the blast by pushing her into a well.
30** Later on, Hange's own demise would be equally as awesome and heartwrenching after taking on an ''army of Wall Titans'' all alone in order to make time for the Survey Corps seaplane to take off. With Hange successfully killing 7 of the Colossal Titans before getting incinerated by the exhaust heat.
31* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Several of the Espada die in awesome ways. Barragan's death in particular would make [[TheStarscream Starscream]] himself shed a tear. In short, he throws his axe at his BigBad boss Aizen, while slowly disintegrating as a result of his own powers. He even manages to get Aizen to turn around and notice the attempted assassination, which is saying quite a bit. Ulquiorra probably counts as well, and Stark had a nice send off.
32* ''Manga/CityHunter'': Hideyuki. Attacked by a man dosed with a drug called Angel Dust and surprised at arms length by what was by now a killing machine almost Immune to Bullets and capable to tear down a car bare-handed, he somehow succeeded in killing the zombified man, and, while mortally wounded, managed to walk to Ryo's home, warn his friend about the danger, and give him a ring for Kaori before finally succumbing. Becomes even more awesome when later appearances of people dosed with Angel Dust make clear that anyone else but Ryo will die in terror when attacked by those people.
33* ''Anime/CodeGeass R2'':
34** Kosetsu Urabe of the Four Holy Swords sacrifices himself to save Lelouch from an extremely powerful prototype Knightmare, inspiring him to keep fighting as he stabs his own Gekka to take out said Knightmare, the Vincent, behind him. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is protecting Lelouch from Rolo "Lamperouge", who up until that point had been posing as Lelouch's brother.]]
35** Rolo overexerts his Geass ''knowing'' it'll kill him, all to save Lelouch, whom he has come to truly love as a brother. [[AlasPoorScrappy It certainly worked to redeem himself in the eyes of at least a part of the audience.]]
36** In the final episode, Lelouch himself [[ThanatosGambit arranges his own assassination]] and is killed by "Zero" (actually his friend Suzaku wearing the Zero costume), [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled by a massive sword]] during what was supposed to be a public execution of the Black Knights. After being stabbed, he slides down the front of his parade vehicle next to his little sister Nunnally, [[ZeroApprovalGambit as his subjects cheer over the death of Emperor Lelouch]]. Combined with bittersweet yet triumphant music, and Nunnally's cries of realization and grief, Lelouch's sacrifice is pretty [[TearJerker touching]].
37* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Spike Spiegel's one-man assault on the Red Dragon building and his final duel with Vicious in "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession26TheRealFolkBluesPart2 The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)]]", all the way to the end. "Bang." See you, space cowboy...
38* ''Literature/CrestOfTheStars'' has the Gosroth go down with all hands fighting against ten enemy spaceships of approximately the same class. They destroy [[HopeSpot nine of them]].
39* In ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', David Martinez lays waste to most of Arasaka and Militech's forces [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl and rescues Lucy from Faraday]]. After he helps her and Falco escape, he mocks [[FinalBoss Adam Smasher]] and provokes him into ignoring Falco's car while engaging in a HopelessBossFight. Finally, just as he's about to die, he refuses Smasher's offer to have the Soulkiller used on him and embraces his fate knowing Lucy is safe.
40* [[spoiler:Juzo Sakakura's]] death in ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool''. [[spoiler:He dies after shutting off all the power in the facility, thereby destroying the videos that made the previous victims commit suicide, and removing the character's bracelets, essentially ending the game in its entirety.]] Not to mention that they did all of the above after [[spoiler:being impaled by a HotBlade and cutting off his own arm in order to remove his bracelet without activating its poison countermeasure]].
41* Most of the [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome crowning moments]] in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' are these. For example, November 11 taking down a room full of heavily-armed guards with ''a bottle of brandy'' before succumbing to a bullet wound, Huang luring TheSyndicate enforcers chasing him into a car chase so he could blow them all up once he'd gotten the pursuit away from Hei, and Amber RetGone-ing herself to let Hei TakeAThirdOption and stop the genocide the villains were planning without erasing Japan from the map.
42* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'''s [[spoiler: Falin dies making a HeroicSacrifice to save her team from a TotalPartyKill by a dragon. She gets resurrected later.]]
43* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'':
44** Wizardmon's HeroicSacrifice.
45** Upon returning to the Digital World, the Digidestined found themselves up against all ''four'' Dark Masters at once. After a HeroicSacrifice by Chuumon buys them ''one'' free pass, there is seemingly no hope...until Piximon shows up, puts the Digidestined in a bubble and sends them flying as far away as possible, and performs a YouShallNotPass to prevent the Dark Masters from pursuing them. That's ''one'' Ultimate trying to hold off ''four'' Megas.
46* Grani in ''Anime/DigimonTamers''. Originally a simple program made to transport the kids and their Digimon in the Digital World, he gained a new appearance and served as Gallantmon's steed when the conflict with the D-Reaper crossed over into the real world. When too badly damaged by the D-Reaper to continue, Grani reminds the protagonists that they're his friends, and deconstructs himself to enable Gallantmon to enter [[SuperMode Crimson Mode]].
47-->'''Grani''': Do you want to fly? I will give you my wings.
48* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
49** Goku's [[DeathIsCheap deaths]]. His first death consists of him holding Raditz in order to make sure he doesn't dodge Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon. His second death is even better: With [[TakingYouWithMe Cell threatening to explode]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom and destroy the entire Earth]], Goku merely smiles to his friends hinting on what he plans to do, teleports to Cell, and says his last words to his son Gohan before disappearing to King Kai's planet where Cell explodes, killing him, King Kai [[AndZoidberg and his pets Bubbles and Gregory]]. YMMV on that one since, as many have pointed out, Cell didn't ''immediately'' explode and there should have been no reason Goku couldn't teleport back.
50** Vegeta's spectacular death scene during the Buu Saga, arguably the best part of the entire saga. Nearly completely breaking down from his back-to-back catastrophic losses, he reflects soberly on his life and, for the first time, hugs his son. He asks Piccolo if he'll meet Goku in the afterlife, and Piccolo candidly tells Vegeta that he will very likely not go to the same afterlife as the heroic and selfless Goku. Vegeta shrugs and sends his son away with Piccolo, gives a Big Scream, and consumes himself in an apocalyptic inferno (that can be seen from space) that reduces Buu to vapor.
51*** Vegeta almost gets another one near the end. Kid Buu has just finished [[CurbStompBattle pounding Vegeta into the dirt]], Goku can barely hold his own, and no one else is powerful enough to even scratch Buu. Goku, the rival who Vegeta has been trying to prove is inferior for 200+ episodes, says he can win but he'll need an undistracted minute to gather power. "I've got it covered." "What?" "Your minute. I've got it covered." Vegeta steps back into the fight, knowing quite well he'll get his ass handed to him, just to buy time for the man he has finally admitted is the better fighter.
52** Even in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Goku's death is awesome. Once his power runs out COMPLETELY, meaning he no longer has the ability to maintain his [=SSJ4=] form, let alone fuse back into Gogeta, Omega Shenron kills him. Goku stands up (still dead) and contacts King Kai to make the biggest [[CombinedEnergyAttack Spirit Bomb]] of all, one powered by the entire '''freaking''' '''''UNIVERSE'''''. Then Shenron carries him to Heaven. Even GT had it's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome as a series.
53** Android 16. [[DeathIsCheap Unlike]] the other characters in this series, this ginger had no soul, and almost certainly knew it. Yet his reassuring smile to Gohan never leaves his face even as Cell crushes him. His last words to Gohan are what inspire him to go all out against Cell and save the world:
54---> ''"Gohan, let it go. It is not a sin to fight for the right cause. There are those who words alone will not reach; [[EnemyToAllLivingThings Cell]] is such a being. I know how you feel, Gohan; [[NiceGuy you are gentle, you do not like to hurt]]. I know because I too have learned these feelings. But it is because you cherish life that you must protect it. Please, drop your restraints. Protect the life I loved. [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You have the strength, my scanners sensed it]]. Just... Let it go."''
55** Piccolo spent the last two arcs of Dragon Ball as the main villain, slaughtering thousands, including quite a few main characters. But his first death in Dragon Ball Z has him [[TakingTheBullet throw himself in front of Gohan to block a blast from Nappa.]] Extra points for surviving the blast in one piece and remaining on his feet for a few seconds just to stick it to Nappa, and then spending his last minutes telling [[MoralityPet Gohan]] [[LickedByTheDog how he changed his (Piccolo's) life for the best]].
56* Captain Falcon in ''Anime/FZeroGPLegend'' goes out in one of the most awesome ways possible, destroying Black Shadow with a FALCON PUNCH at the cost of his own life.
57* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'':
58** Raoh's death. He sends his fist towards the heavens, says, "Of this life... [[IRegretNothing I HAVE NOT A SINGLE REGRET!]]" and projects all his energy into the sky, bringing light to the desolate waste lands and becoming a statue in the process. He commits a HeroicSacrifice for the whole world. The death is so awesome that every case of DiedStandingUp in manga since the 80's is likely a reference to this scene.
59** Kaioh's death is nothing to scoff at either. He kills himself by standing in the middle of a volcano with his brother Hyo's corpse in his arms, says "Farewell" to Kenshiro and is engulfed by lava, turning them both into fossilised statues.
60** And then there's Rei's death. While it is the most CruelAndUnusualDeath any of the heroes suffers in the series, inflicted as it was by Raoh and his Hokuto Shinken, his final three days on the planet were just enough for him to finally take down his longtime rival and nemesis Juda and pull one of the most awesome ScrewDestiny moments in the entire series on behalf of Mamiya, the only woman he's ever loved, giving his life so that the Star of Death (which is normally an inexorable PortentOfDoom for anyone who sees it in the ''Fist of the North Star'' universe) no longer appears for her.
61* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'':
62** Al's death. He sacrifices his own life and body (which is now a living Philosopher's Stone) to resurrect his brother.
63** Ed possibly tops this when, just after being brought back, he makes the exact same sacrifice, reviving Al (and giving his brother his body back, no less)... ''without the use of a Philosopher's Stone.''
64** Even [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Kimbley's]] death counts. Shortly after Scar ''blasts a fatal hole through his chest'', he grabs onto Al and turns him into a bomb. When an outraged Scar demands to know what he has done, Kimbley smiles maliciously and says "I want him to think about how useless his efforts have been," before dying.
65** [[DeathByAdaptation The death of Scar.]] At this point in the series, Scar's grand plan was to realize his revenge against the Amestrian military by turning the town of Liore into a Philosopher Stone transmutation circle, intending to use the soldiers as sacrifices for the stone. Before he is able to do so, Kimbley engages him, and blows off Scar's right arm. Scar still kills him, but as mentioned above, he turns Al's body into a bomb. Scar decides that the only way to save him is to transfer the tattoo on his arm to Al's body, not only making Al the recipient for the Philosopher Stone he intends to create, but destroying his OTHER ARM in the process. Shortly thereafter, he lures the military into the town by dropping Kimbley's body from the top of a building. Stop and think about that one for a second. Scar has NO ARMS, and managed to somehow bring Kimbley's body onto the ROOF OF A BUILDING and DROP HIM OFF IT. After sustaining gunshot wounds (which he received while protecting Lust), he finally collapses on the gap between the lines of the transmutation circle he's carved, completing and activating the circle using his OWN BODY. In the end, Al becomes a Philosopher Stone, setting the rest of the plot into motion. Scar originally intended to use the Stone he created. But he still goes through with the plan even when it's clear he's not going to make it OUT OF PURE SPITE. And also to save Al, which is also pretty badass.
66* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood'':
67** Buccaneer and Fu's deaths, since they did wound Wrath for the first time.
68** Lust also deserves a special mention here. She gets the most badass death out of the homunculi by sheer aesthetics, and her finger lance wasn't even an inch away from Roy's head. As she goes down, she just taunts him that there's going to be hell later.
69** The Promised Day Arc was one for King Bradley. He manages to cause serious issues for the heroes, gets Father his last sacrifice by working with Pride (Utterly Curbstomping Mustang in the progress), and almost indirectly stopped Hohenhiem's SpannerInTheWorks (If he killed Scar, he wouldn't have been able to activate the reverse transmutation circle). All while taking increasingly savage injuries. By the time he fights Scar, he's half dead. ''And he manages to almost kill him despite Scar being at his best''. It culminates with him giving a near fatal wound to Scar after his arms were blown off (Using a sword held in his teeth no less!), before contemplating his life, getting one last laugh against Lan Fan.
70** Solf J. Kimblee, who had previously had his throat ripped out and the rest of him devoured by [[EldritchAbomination Pride]], calmly emerges from Pride's internal torrent of lost souls to interrupt the homunculus's GrandTheftMe on Ed, tells it off, and then strolls off into oblivion as Ed takes the opportunity to crush Pride's head. The man's got ''[[EvilIsCool class]].''
71--->'''Pride''': No... There is no way anyone could maintain his sense of self in this typhoon of souls.\
72'''Kimblee''': Typhoon? Surely you jest. [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming Howls of anguish are like lullabies to my ears]]!
73** The Second Greed's death; [[BigBad Father]], undergoing a SuperpowerMeltdown due to using up too much of his Philosopher Stone, decides to recall Greed and use his Stone as a replacement. Greed goes willingly (as doing otherwise would kill his host, Ling), and then reverses his Ultimate Shield to turn Father's body into frail carbon. Father destroys Greed for this, but his sacrifice weakens Father enough for Edward to punch a hole through Father's torso and release the souls he still has control over.
74* ''Manga/FutureDiary'': There's no doubt about Akise's badass status when in chapter 51 despite having just been stabbed by Yuno and sliced across the throat, he gets back up out of sheer determination and texts an important message to Yukiteru even though Yuno ends up cutting off his head completely.
75* Musashi Tomoe in ''Manga/GetterRobo'' gets one in every single alternate version he is. In the manga and in the beginning of Shin Getter VS Neo Getter, he pilots the Getter Robo in its three forms alone and fights the entire Dinosaur Army, and when the titular robot can no longer take it, he makes it pull out its reactor and make it blow up, pulverizing him and the rest of his enemies. In the 70's animated series, he pilots one of the aircrafts with a bomb strapped to it, and crash it in the core of the Dinosaur Army base. While sustaining heavy fire and piloting through narrower and narrower corridors.
76* Almost all the deaths in ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' and ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin'' -- the dogs almost always DiedStandingUp in a way, at least the good ones, a few of them fulfilling the aforementioned trope very literally. Most of them die in some kind of kamikaze attack, flat out saying that they don't mind dying at all, so long as their enemies go down with them.
77* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
78** [[MauveShirt Otto]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' does this on his final sortie [[spoiler:aboard Zechs' Tallgeese]]. Complete with declaration of UndyingLoyalty
79-->'''Otto''':[[spoiler:LONG LIVE KING ZECHS!]]
80** Walker too gets one, despite being just the RedShirt of the day, he shows himself repeatedly to be an extremely honorable soldier. He even goes on fighting against Heavyarms without any chance of winning: "COME GET ME, YOU MONSTERRRRRRRR!!!!!"
81** Amuro Ray at the end of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'', where he overloads his and Char's Psycoframes to stop the mother of all [[ColonyDrop Colony Drops]], a massive sattelite base filled with nuclear arms. The sight is this is so inspiring to ''both sides'', finally realizing that the Earth and all it's citizens are at stake, that RedShirt suits pile in by the hundreds to help Amuro Atlas Lift the Axis Base out of Earth's gravitation field. Amuro ends up [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence abandoning his physical form]] in the process and Amuro's psychics-breaking feat of willpower was so inspiring that it more or less brought world peace.
82*** And in the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' the episode "Big Zam's Last Stand" serves as one for AntiVillain [[TheBrute Dozle]] [[GeniusBruiser Zabi]]. With TheFederation closing in, and his troops cornered, Dozle sorties in the Big Zam, goes OneManArmy on The Federation and buys his men time to escape. Then as the Gundam tears the Big Zam apart, he climbs out, pulls out an assault rifle and continues shooting at it until he's killed. DefiantToTheEnd indeed.
83*** Not just Dozle Zabi, but a lot of characters in the original ''Gundam'' went out in blazes of glory. Dozle's little brother Garma was first, piloting a crashing Gaw in an attempt to destroy the White Base despite being drawn into a trap by Char. Denied resupply due to political rivalries among his superiors yet still obligated to continue his attack on White Base, Ramba Ral resorts to an under-manned ''infantry attack'' on the CoolStarship...and almost succeeds against all odds, then blows himself up in a final act of defiance when defeated. A wounded Ryu Jose slammed a Core Fighter into the Dopp of Crowley Hamon when she went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for Ramba Ral's death, Matilda Ajan knocking a Dom away to save Amuro and the rest of the White Base from the Black Tri-Stars, Sleggar Law damaging the Big Zam enough for Amuro to break through... there's plenty there.
84** Mu La Flaga's HeroicSacrifice in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', blocking a ''[[WaveMotionGun positron cannon]]'' with his mobile suit in order to save the ''Archangel,'' and laughing while he does it: "I knew I could [[CatchPhrase make the impossible possible]]..." (At least until the sequel spoiled it by bringing him back.)
85*** Natarle smiled to her terrified BridgeBunnies as she sent them away from Azrael's madness, was shot ''4 times'' by him, and when then she wasn't able to stop Flaga's HeroicSacrifice, she still got Azrael trapped in the ''Dominion'' as Murrue finished both of them off.
86*** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', the one who gets an awesome and heartwrenching send off is Lacus's BodyDouble Meer Campbell, who takes the bullet for her of and dies begging her to not forget her song.
87** (The first) Lockon Stratos in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', you gotta love the way how with his dying breath, he looked at Earth and pointed his hand towards it like a gun, and declared that he hated it.
88*** Graham Aker's Heroic Sacrifice, blowing open a way for Setsuna to end the conflict as well as his attitude about it.
89-->'''Graham''': "Young man! The pilot to the future! I, Graham Aker, will gladly take on this task! This... is not death! It's for humankind to live on!"
90*** Similarly, what got Andrei Smirnov RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap was pulling one of these in TheMovie.
91-->'''Andrei''': "I'm a soldier! It's my mission to protect civilians!"
92** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7uCP9Fa0X8 Anavel Gato.]]
93** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'', Commander Bruzar gets one in Episode 3. Already badly injured and with the colony falling apart around him, Bruzar makes it to the emergency controls and turns the colony core loose. Unfortunately, it's jammed by wreckage. So Bruzar climbs into a spaceship and crashes himself into the wreckage, freeing the colony, and preventing protagonist Flit from having to risk his own life to do so. All this, despite dealing with a sucking chest wound from about five minutes it.
94*** The next one is Don Boyage's in Episode 10. He ends up doing a SelfDestructiveCharge right into the UE's battleship. Subverted in that it didn't even scratch the paint...then ''double subverted'' when it turns out his RousingSpeech galvanized the rest of the pilots fighting to the point where they won the battle.
95*** Yurin L'Ciel has one in Episode 14. After finally freeing her mobile suit from Desil's mind control, she sees Desil preparing the final blow against Flit. In what is quite possibly the most heroic [[TearJerker (and heartbreaking)]] scene in the series thus far, [[TakingTheBullet she takes the hit]] and saves Flit's life at the cost of her own.
96*** Then there's BadassNormal Woolf Enneacle. Desil had just taken control of two Zedas Ms to hold the Gundam AGE-2 in place for a killing blow...when Woolf flies in, destroys both mobile suits, and knocks the AGE-2 out of the way. What results is one of the most [[TearJerker tear-jerking moments in the series]]...followed by [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome one of the most awesome]].
97*** Even a minor villain gets one! Daz Roden, who had previously embarrassed himself in the eyes of the fans for [[EpicFail losing to three old men, a sprinkler, and a rocket launcher while in a Dorado]], proves that he wasn't harmless after all by overloading his mu-szell and ramming what was left of his Dorado L into the Gundam AGE-1. The Gundam survived, but it was severely crippled, and so Flit was taken out of the fight.
98*** Two words: Obright Lorain. He kills Leil and then engages Fram, well aware that he's within the Digmazenon Cannon's line of fire, and that it'll be able to fire soon. He's doing this to buy time for the Gundams to escape. And as if that weren't awesome enough, he manages to ''defeat'' Fram ''after being mortally wounded'', by being quick on the uptake with a reverse-gripped beam saber. And finally, he [[GoOutWithASmile goes out with a smile]] as the Digmazenon Cannon envelops the two mobile suits.
99** The crew of the Reinforce Jr. in ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'', all of them old men who know they are going to die anyway and, with their ship badly damaged, they decide to go out in a blaze of glory: armed with a damaged battleship and a damaged Gunblaster, they fight their way towards the Motorad Squad, telling the young ones to get out and live.
100** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': In the second season, Naze Turbine is framed for possession of illegal weapons (armor-penetrating railcannons) and it becomes clear that Gjallarhorn is going to come down on him full force. What does he do? After ensuring that they'll be taken care of, he sends his crew-slash-family off and prepares to face the fleet by himself...at which point his wife Amida Arca makes it clear she's not leaving him behind. What follows is a truly epic battle sequence where Amida [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] Gjallarhorn's MS, even smacking Julieta's SuperPrototype and delivering a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, only getting taken down because Iok, the commander, orders his men to attack while she's grappling with Julieta -- and even as she's dying, she manages to fire off a shot that nearly destroys the bridge of Iok's ship. As for Naze, he single-handedly pilots his battleship ''Hammerhead'', running interference to protect the escaping shuttles, and finally [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming and destroying one of the enemy ships]].
101*** And in the final episode Mikazuki and Akihiro choose to [[YouShallNotPass stay fighting to ensure the rest of Tekkadan can escape safely]]. When their Mobile Suits are almost torn to pieces by a barrage of Dainsleif rail cannons, they stand up and continue to ''slaughter'' Gjallarhorn's mobile suits. Akihiro succeeds in killing [[KnowNothingKnowItAll Iok Kujan]] (who had escaped death all season) by crushing his cockpit, avenging Naze, Amida and Lafter (who got killed indirectly thanks to Iok), before dying. While Mikazuki continues fighting, and would have killed [[ActionGirl Julieta]] had he not bled out seconds before finishing her.
102* In the last episode of ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'' when the dying Brandon Heat and Harry Macdowell went into an all out fight with Millennion's forces. Even with the odds against them, they still put up a massive fight only for them to kill each other in the end.
103* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':
104** [[CowardlyLion Sir Penwood]] was already pretty cool for the line [[CowardlyLion "While I may be incompetent...I am no sneak, Integra."]] (Meaning he had remained loyal in spite of the offer of immortality.) Then, as the Nazi vampires kick down the door, he [[TakingYouWithMe blows them all to pieces with planted explosives]].
105** Pip Bernadotte, [[EyepatchOfPower One-eyed]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Frenchman]] and BadassNormal, enabling your FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires to TakeALevelInBadass since 2006!!!
106* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
107** Jonathan Joestar from Part I is ultimately slain by Dio Brando, but he doesn't go down easily. After Dio pierces his throat, Jonathan uses the last faint Ripple in his body to cause the ship they are on to explode. Then he uses his own body to shield Erina from incoming shrapnel. Finally, when Dio desperately tries to claim Jonathan's body, Jonathan ''rips out shrapnel from his back'' and stabs Dio with it, giving Erina the opportunity to escape. He dies PeacefulInDeath, secure in the knowledge that Erina will survive while hugging Dio, whom he always considered a brother. While he doesn't kill Dio, he does manage to drag him to the bottom of the sea for 100 years.
108** Narrowly avoided with Joseph Joestar in Part II. When Kars gets his hands on the Red Stone of Aja and becomes the UltimateLifeForm, gaining a nigh-unstoppable AdaptiveAbility, he prepares to [[DeathByIrony finish off Joseph with Ripple]]. Joseph -- exhausted and [[AnArmAndALeg missing his left hand]] -- manages to use the stone to amplify and redirect the attack into the volcano they'd been fighting on, causing it to erupt and sending them flying on a chunk of rock. The blast sends Kars flying out into space while Joseph remains behind, fully expecting to die as he plummets back to earth. Luckily, he survives.
109** A more straightforward example from Part II is Stroheim. The manga establishes that he dies after the part ends during the Battle of Stalingrad. The anime shows how - he holds off a Soviet counterattack ''by himself''; his death allows the rest of the German forces in the area to successfully retreat.
110** Noriaki Kakyoin from Part III also dies at Dio's hands, but as he's bleeding to death, he manages to piece together [[TimeStandsStill the secret]] of Dio's stand, The World. He then uses the last of his strength to send a message to Joseph, which, while he doesn't live to see it, proves instrumental in defeating Dio.
111** Bruno Bucciarati in Part V manages to pull off ''two'' of these. First is when he learns the Boss of Passione, Diavolo, is planning on killing his daughter Trish. Bucciarati tries to take him on and, even after he gets impaled and almost cut in half, he manages to gather enough strength to outsmart Diavolo, save Trish and get to Giorno. The second is after Giorno heals his body, not knowing he's already dead. Bucciarati proceeds to will his soul back into his body and spends the next few days leading his team on a mission to bring down Diavolo, all while his body is slowly failing. During their final fight with Diavolo, when everyone's souls are swapped thanks to Chariot Requiem, Diavolo very nearly gets his hands on the Stand Arrow before Bucciarati destroys Chariot, sending everyone back into their bodies aside from him. With his body too far gone, Bucciarati ascends to heaven, but his sacrifice allows Giorno to take the Arrow uncontested.
112* ''Anime/{{Macross}}'':
113** Guld Goa-Bowman in ''Anime/MacrossPlus''. After realizing that he was the one who assaulted Myung, Guld sacrifices himself to stop the Ghost unmanned fighter, by cutting out the limiter on the YF-21 and ramming it at such speed that in the movie version, we see his ''head explode'' from the G-force.
114** ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}'': "What is Diamond Force if I can't bring down one battleship?!... Here's your love heart!"
115** Mikhail Blanc of ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' went out like a man. In order to save the woman he loves from being killed while she was vulnerable, he charged into the enemy Vajira and got impaled, then proceeded to open up a Can of MoreDakka on the enemy while choking on his own blood and was ''finally'' able to admit his feelings to the woman he loved before succumbing to his wounds and being sucked out into open space.
116** ''Anime/MacrossDelta'' has two in the series: Messer in episode 10, flying and matching [[TheAce Keith]] in combat to protect [[BodyguardCrush Kaname]] and the rest of Walkure (and even managing to dodge all of Keith's shots in ''Passionate Walkure''), and Keith in the final episode, pulling a TakingYouWithMe by stabbing Roid to death in his exploding ship.
117** In the second ''Delta'' movie ''Absolute Live'', Freyja's final performance; while she succumbs to crystallisation as a result, her final song boosts Hayate and the others enough to defeat Heimdall's drones and stop their plan to blow up the Megaroad-01.
118* After Shizuru takes out Yukino's Child in ''Anime/MyHime'', condemning Haruka to destruction, Haruka takes one last chance to headbutt her in the face for everything she's done.
119** Natsuki goes to fight Shizuru, gives her a CooldownHug, a kiss and a little speech that calms her down...and then commands her Child to destroy Shizuru's, fully knowing that since they're each other's Most Valuable Persons, they will go down together. [[TogetherInDeath They do.]]
120* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
121** Zabuza Momochi. His arms are useless, he's exhausted, and there's an army of mercenaries between him and his goal. What does he do? He takes a kunai in his teeth, cuts a path through the army while getting impaled, and proceeds to behead his target. ''With a kunai in his teeth.''
122** Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage died fighting the resurrected First Hokage, Hashirama, his younger brother and Second Hokage Tobirama, and their [[{{Necromancer}} summoner]] [[BigBad Orochimaru]]. And he won. While the battle appeared to have become OvershadowedByAwesome as the series progressed and fights got ever increasingly epic, [[spoiler: the [[CurbStompBattle fights]] [[ColonyDrop against]] the likewisely [[CameBackWrong revived]] [[WorldsStrongestMan Madara Uchiha]], who was supposedly ''AlwaysSecondBest'' to Hashirama (at least pre-Edo Tensei), and the one against the Kin-Gin brothers, who killed Tobirama, put that battle into a new perspective.]]
123** Deidara used a jutsu which transformed him in a FantasticNuke in his fight with Sasuke, who had no intent to kill Deidara. Deidara didn't kill himself for a HeroicSacrifice or TakingYouWithMe, but to spite the Uchiha and make himself his final work of art.
124** Jiraiya managed to disable one of the paths of Pain and sent a dying message that was crucial to his defeat. Some of this occurred after he had already briefly died.
125*** [[PragmaticAdaptation The anime shows us how he did that]]. He first pulls Animal Realm into his Barrier Toad's stomach, then while it's trying to escape the acid [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome he swings in and nails a Rasengan powered by]] [[SuperMode Sage Chakra]] right into Animal Realm's gut, delivering the killing blow even though he only has one arm!
126** Kakashi subverts this by using the last bit of his chakra to stop Pain from killing Chouji, which would normally fit here... but he's brought BackFromTheDead a few chapters later.
127** Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage and his wife Kushina Uzumaki [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu sealing the Nine-Tailed Fox in Naruto]] ''and themselves'' into his seal. They do this ''after'' successfully [[spoiler: [[BattleCouple forcing Tobi and the Fox back]].]] And just to ensure their death was as spectacular as possible, the fatal wound wasn't any of the other crap that happened, but them willingly using their own bodies to slow and then ''catch'' the claw of the Nine-Tails, saving their son's life.
128** Konan being the first person since Minato to give Tobi a run for his money to the point that he has to bring out the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique big guns]] just to ensure she didn't blow him [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill TO BITS.]]
129** Kisame bit through his tongue, trapped himself in a water prison, and summoned three sharks which he let eat him alive so that he wouldn't divulge any information on Akatsuki to the good guys.
130** It's unknown exactly how he died but the third Raikage [[YouShallNotPass held off an army of 10,000 by himself]].
131** Shikaku and Inoichi, knowing that [[spoiler:a blast from the Ten-Tails will kill them shortly]] are less afraid of death and more angry about not being able to do more. Even as the attack is closing in, they use their remaining time to forward their final strategy to the [[spoiler:Shinobi Alliance]] and even say "We're SoProudOfYou" to [[spoiler: their children Shikamaru and Ino]].
132** [[spoiler:Might Guy, resident BunnyEarsLawyer BadassNormal of Konoha, opened the Eight Gates to fight Madara and fought with him to the point where even such a smug asshole like [[WorldsStrongestMan Madara Uchiha]] acknowledged him as a WorthyOpponent, even though Madara was at the pinnacle of his strength after becoming the Ten-Tails' Jinchuuriki. Guy lost the fight only because he ran out of time, and he came within inches of winning. This trope is subverted, however, in that he didn't die... he would've if Naruto hadn't saved him, using his Yin-Yang nature to revitalize his life force. The damage he did to himself left him wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life and 'killed' his career as an ninja in the most spectacular way possible.]]
133** [[spoiler:Obito Uchiha]] commits a HeroicSacrifice for the sake of Naruto and Kakashi. Why is this a moment of awesome? Nearly any blow this son of a bitch has suffered in the series was either [[NoSell no selled]] like it was nothing or he managed to survive through due to his [[{{Determinator}} determination]], or having a back up plan. The fact that it took [[spoiler:a one-hit kill from a '''goddess''']] to finish him for good should speak for itself. Also, before he crumbles into dust, he gives Naruto an inspiring speech and [[GoOutWithASmile dies with a smile on his face]]. But the best part? [[spoiler:After his death he proceeds to TELEPORT OUT OF THE AFTERLIFE temporarily and passes his chakra to Kakashi to give him the Mangekyo Sharingan that ultimately allows Team 7 to get an opening on Kaguya and seal her again.]]
134* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Jack Rakan managing to [[PowerFist hammer]] [[BigBad Fate Averruncus]] into a huge crater ''while being erased from existence''. Depending on the reader's interpretation, it could be argued that he went out PUNCHING GOD IN THE FACE... And if Jack Rakan has to die, that's exactly how it should happen.
135* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
136** Misato's death in ''End of Evangelion'' wasn't the most dignified way to go, despite being heartbreaking. She gets a new, decidedly more awesome send-off in the manga adaptation: After sending Shinji off in the elevator with a heartfelt pep-talk, she waits calmly for SEELE's soldiers. When they break through the door Misato sealed off earlier, they prepare to fire, and Misato... [[DyingSmirk gives them a small smile,]] and [[TakingYouWithMe holds up a pinless grenade]].
137** Also, special mention should go to Asuka's death, which occurs less than twenty minutes later. After her LastStand against the MP Evas, she finally runs out of power, gets stabbed through the skull, disemboweled, harpooned, dismembered, and finally eaten. The entire time, not only is she still alive, but she's still trying to fight back! This is either one of the most [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome kick-ass moments in the series]] or one of the most disturbing... She gets better 'tho... If waking up in a ruined post-Apocalyptic world as one of possibly the only two people alive can be called "better". Oh, and the other person is ''trying to strangle you to death''.
138** Kaji knows that he's about to be shot dead [[spoiler: as punishment for releasing a jailed Fuyutsuki]]. But he smiles at his unseen murderer and then says "[[FaceDeathWithDignity you're a little late, aren't you?]]"
139** Similiar to Misato, Ritsuko's death in the anime was even sadder and more undignified, because at least Misato accomplished something with her's. In the Manga, Gendo tells her that he really did love her before shooting her. It's revealed that she didn't die a few issues later and she manages to shoot him in the throat telling him that he never loved anyone before dying.
140** Rei II death was awesome as well and [[TearJerker cute]] and quite disturbing all the same.
141* Future Bunmei defeating the alien invaders in ''Anime/OccultAcademy''.
142* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
143** The Pirate King, Gold Roger. The man spent the last few years of his pirating days with a terminal illness. Rather than letting the disease take its course, he finished exploring the Grand Line, and allowed himself to be captured by the World Government. Obviously, they sent him to be executed, publicly, with the spectacle transmitted to the entire world, just to warn aspiring pirates what awaits them. Roger took advantage of this, and the moment comes with his last words, which turned his execution from a warning, to the moment that ''sparked the golden age of piracy''. And then, he simply laughed as they took his head.
144---> "You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place. Now you'll just have to find it!"
145** A lot of the posthumous characters in the series get some heroic and/or heartwearming send offs. To name a few, Belle-mere takes her death with dignity as she tells Nami and Nojiko she loves them. Dr. Hiriluk gives a great speech about his view on life and declares his pride in his adopted son Chopper as he faces down Wapol's guards, before he suicides via an explosive elixir. Tom gave a soul-stirring speech to his apprentice Franky just before being taken away to his fate. And Brook's crew, including himself, spend their final moments singing their favorite song, ''Binks' Sake'', in tribute to their long-lost friend Laboon the whale, as they slowly die from poisoned arrows.
146*** And then there's Corazon, aka [[spoiler:Doflamingo's brother Donquixote Rocinante]] and Trafalgar Law's BigBrotherMentor, who was fatally injured but willed himself to stay alive as long as possible as [[SnowMeansDeath he bled out in the snow]] so the silencing-effects of his Devil Fruit would aid a young Trafalgar Law's escape . ''And it works''. His heroism is what motivates Law to this day.
147** Another "person" was, strangely, the ''Going Merry''. After having its keel damaged beyond repair, dropped into the sea during a typhoon from several feet, and getting washed up onto the rocks, it still manages to show up to save all the heroes at Enies Lobby during the largest bombardment that is capable by the Marines, and sailing through about a dozen battleships, finally falling apart after getting the crew to safety. It manages to make the [[MercyKill following scene]] one of the biggest {{tear jerker}}s in the series.
148** As of Chapter 576, Whitebeard. [[RasputinianDeath Despite being slashed and stabbed 267 times, shot by no less than 152 bullets, hit by 46 cannonballs, and having half his face melted off]], [[{{Determinator}} he held off and completely decimated the marines]], [[YouShallNotPass giving his crew a chance to escape with Luffy]]. He finally dies '''[[DiedStandingUp standing up]]''' after the Blackbeard Pirates empty an extra helping of metal into him, but not before giving the World Government a final 'Up yours' by confirming the existence of One Piece. And he was already an old man with a foot in his grave before this battle, meaning that, in his prime, ''not even that would have been enough''. As a final Crowning Moment of Awesome, when his BadassLongcoat falls to the ground, it was shown that throughout his life as a pirate, not a wound of retreat scarred his back, a symbol of his unrivaled pride.
149** Kozuki Oden's final moments are spoken of as "the Hour of Legends" for a good reason. After failing to save his country from Orochi and Kaido, Oden and his 9 vassals are given the death penalty by boiling in oil. Oden makes a deal with the two leaders that if he survives the oil for an hour, he'll go free. He dives in alone, and when his retainers try to follow him he grabs the platform and holds them all up over his head. Even with Orochi increasing the temperature, Oden does not falter and manages to last the entire hour. When Orochi reneges the promise and decides to execute them by firing squad, Oden tosses his vassals away and stands alone. With his body destroyed, he tells Kaido off and that his dream will come true, before getting a bullet to the head. His final actions spurred the Wano revolution 20 years later.
150* In ''Manga/PandoraHearts'', two honorable mentions go to Elliot and Alice. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Elliot]] is mean and aloof to the main character, Oz, However, when Elliot has a TomatoInTheMirror moment where he realizes HE is the one who murdered his family and his chain controls him into murdering them, he realizes he has to do something, so he rejects Humpty Dumpty within him altogether, which eventually kills him. His last words are about his servant.
151-->'''Elliot''': [[SorryThatImDying "I'm sorry, Leo."]]
152** [[{{Tsundere}} Alice]] is a girl/monster called [[HairRaisingHare B-rabbit]] who normally beats up on Oz and calls him her property -- [[spoiler:But when she was a human 100 years ago, her personality was entirely different. She was warm and loving to her [[AnimateInanimateObject rabbit doll Oz]] -- even though she [[ComedicSociopathy liked to beat him up and bite him]]. So when her sister and her sister's crazy love interest plot to destroy the entire world using her beloved plush bunny and make him suffer, she is [[MamaBear not happy.]] She acts like her sister by putting on her dress and acting all innocent and then once she learns what Jack did, she reveals herself to him and laughs at him before pointing out that [[TearJerker her friend Oz is crying and screaming about how he doesn't want to kill anymore. She cries when she hears him and puts her hands on over her ears because it's so heartbreaking.]] Jack pins her to the ground and starts screaming for her sister to enter her own body and not her. Her sister starts to tell her to back off and Alice [[YouShallNotPass tells her not to come]] and her sister says she'll force her to leave her own body. Alice stabs Jack's arm with a pair of scissors. She tells him he's a fool, then she thinks over what she has to do, then she looks over at [[ItMakesSenseInContext Oz (both the rabbit and the human who is watching)]] and tells him that she was happy to have him by their sides. "Oz, you've been with us since the very beginning. [[TrueCompanions Having you with me made me very happy... thank you.]] Don't worry, Alyss and I, we are one and the same, but [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome you are mine!]] [[MoralityPet I'll protect you with my own hands! I won't let anyone take away what's mine!]] She then kills herself with a pair of scissors, thus preventing Jack's craziness from winning over... oh, and then she fuses with Oz and steals his power from him in order to accommodate her dying soul.]]
153* Kyoko of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'''s HeroicSacrifice taking down Oktavia/Sayaka and [[TakingYouWithMe dying with her]] so Sayaka wouldn't [[DyingAlone die alone]] ''and'' Kyoko would finally [[DeclarationOfProtection get to protect someone else.]]
154* ''Anime/RahXephon'': Kunugi pulls this off in Episode 23 against a dolem controlled by Kuki. He arms a device that can create a second Tokyo Jupiter around Nirai-Kanai.
155-->'''Kunugi:''' The entertainment is yet to come, Colonel. ''(inputs a short command)''\
156'''Computer:''' Jupiter System activated. [[TechnoBabble T-T Converter energy level plus 280. Local Weyl Tensor System operational. Pulse gravity field capacitor peak level plus 2000. T-J field excitation system activated.]]\
157'''Kuki:''' [[OhCrap That is... it can't be... YOU WOULDN'T!]] ''([[DyingSmirk Kunugi makes a smug smile]])'' '''[[SayMyName KUUUNUUUGIIIIIIII!!!]]'''\
158''(cue SphereOfDestruction)''
159** [[spoiler: Hiroko Asahina]] manages to mix hers with [[spoiler: quite the DyingDeclarationOfLove.]] Seriously, how many love interests of either gender can [[NervesOfSteel keep their wits]] enough to [[spoiler: [[DyingDeclarationOfLove write a last love message]] to the person they love as ''he's killing them without knowing it via pummeling the Golem [[{{Synchronization}} they're linked to]]'', '''and''' finish said message before kicking the bucket so these love words can reach the guy no matter what]]? .
160* [[spoiler:Orson]] in the anime adaptation of ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'' always was something of a badass and so gets a suitably epic death. [[spoiler:He takes back the Spirit of Anger and unleashes his [[TheBerserker berserker]] side to save Shiris. Despite being impaled multiple times by the elven necromancer's skeleton warriors, he trashes them all, then runs up to the DarkActionGirl Amazon warrior who beat Shiris, shatters her swords with a single strike and impales her through the chest with such force that he picks her up and rams her into a boulder, and finally he rushes the necromancer and slices him clean in two. With every enemy dead, Orson walks over to Shiris and collapses dead.]]
161* ''Manga/SailorMoon'' has many, but two stand above all the others:
162** The deaths of the sailor senshi against the DD Girls, the strongest Youma around, at the end of Season 1 of the first anime. Jupiter uses a super-charged Supreme Thunder and ''annihilates'' two of them before dying; Mercury, who has fairly weak offensive abilities, walks into certain death to destroy the source of the illusions that make them almost invincible; Venus survives the DD Girls' strongest attack and responds with a Crescent Beam that kills her but ''also'' disintegrates one of them, the latter happening only because [[OhCrap the other two ran in terror]] [[TheDreaded when they saw Venus was still alive]]; and Mars, who has been left for dead after a combined attack, burns the last two to a crisp before dying from ''exhaustion'' and the injuries she has already sustained.
163** In ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', Ace's death in an ActOfTrueLove: [[spoiler: knowing that Sailor Venus, [[ReincarnationRomance who he loved from their past lives]], [[MarriedToTheJob would always choose duty over love]] and fearing she'd suffer more than necessary from it and even die should she find out at a bad moment, he joined the Dark Kingdom, discovered that Venus had reincarnated as Minako, set up a situation in which Minako would fall for him, and then reveal his role as Kunzite's [[TheDragon Dragon]] and fight her, so she could realize it early and in a controlled situation by ''killing him'', and, mortally wounded, [[GoOutWithASmile he smiled]] before explaining what he had done]]. [[BrokenBird She suffered from it]], [[PluckyGirl but still lived and triumphed]], got over that pain, and ultimately [[EarnYourHappyEnding got her happy ending.]]
164* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
165** All [[FiveManBand five of the main Bronze Saints]] get one throughout the Sanctuary arc, though Athena's divine power [[BackFromTheDead helps them all get better]] at the end of the war.
166** [[ThePhoenix Phoenix Ikki]] cheats, because [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin he gets to die more than once]], and ''still'' makes ''every single one of his deaths'' a DyingMomentOfAwesome.
167** Gold Saint Shaka of Virgo -- having discovered the secret behind the Eighth Sense, the only way to enter Hades (the place) without falling under Hades' (the god) thrall, he allows himself to die at the hand of his Specters. It still took the combined might of [[PersonOfMassDestruction Gemini Saga, Capricorn Shura, and Aquarius Camus]] to kill him, and they had to resort to the [[GodzillaThreshold ultimate taboo]], the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Athena Exclamation]].
168** ''All'' of the Gold Saints receive a [[DyingMomentOfAwesome DMoA]] at the absolute furthest reaches of Hades, where the Wall of Lamentation -- which separates Hades from Elysium -- lies. This indestructible wall, created by the gods themselves, can only be pierced by [[CueTheSun shining true sunlight]] in the depths of Hades. So all Gold Saints, living or dead, [[HeelFaceTurn villainous]] or [[IncorruptiblePurePureness noble]], congregate at the site and [[ArcWords burn their]] [[BattleAura Cosmo]] to extreme levels... there's a flash of light that blinds Seiya and Shun... and then, the Wall is broken. And [[NoBodyLeftBehind all that remains]] of the [[HeroicSacrifice heroic Gold Saints]] is [[EmptyPilesOfClothing their Gold Cloths]], [[ManlyTears still shining silently in the sunlight of their creation]].
169* ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'' has way too many to list, given its [[DoomedByCanon premise]]. All Gold Saints but [[SavedByCanon Shion and Dohko]] die in some form of HeroicSacrifice, or [[TakingYouWithMe take the enemy with them]]. Bonus points go to:
170** [[ISeeDeadPeople Cancer Manigoldo]] and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Pope Sage]] (not that [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Pope]]), who sacrifice themselves to seal [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Thanatos]], ''the god of death''.
171** [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Capricorn El Cid]], who, [[AnArmAndALeg missing an arm]], manages to use Athena's arrow to mortally wound all [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu four Dream Gods]] at the same time, and takes Oneiros away long enough to ensure [[TakingTheBullet no one else dies]] [[SelfDestructiveCharge in the resulting explosion]].
172** Altar Hakurei, who [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu to seal Hypnos.]] Even Hypnos himself was impressed.
173** [[AnIcePerson Aquarius Degel]], who [[HumanPopsicle freezes himself and the entire city of Atlantis]] to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu prevent Poseidon's awakening]].
174** [[ImplacableMan Wyvern Radamanthys]], who, after being [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe split in half by Alone]], still manages to save [[BrokenBird Pandora]] with [[VillainousValor the last of his strength]].
175** [[TheAtoner Gemini Aspros]], who manages to defeat and seal the god of time who's been responsible for all the major events in the series, definitely earning his [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redemption.]]
176* ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' loves to play this trope to the samurai. Gorobei dies from protecting the farmers, and when Kanbei asks if he fulfilled his task, he merely replies "You gotta be kidding!"
177** Also when Kikuchiyo holds the falling capital from crushing the village with only his BARE HANDS, he manages to stop the capital though it destroys his entire body in the process, leaving only his feet behind.
178* Joe "The Condor" Asakura in ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman''. When told that thanks to a terminal sickness he had ten days left to live, he rushed into Galactor's HQ and fought them, ''then'' saved the world from destruction before he died at the feet of his teammates.
179* In ''Anime/ShadowSkill'', Blackwing's last stand against [[TheGrimReaper Darkness]] is so impressive, he's actually posthumously [[{{knighting}} awarded]] the title of champion of his magical kingdom, which is the highest honor a warrior of his nationality can attain, which includes resurrection and transformation into an unkillable immortal.
180* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'':
181** In "Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato", a giant space fortress assaults the surface of the Earth with ferocious energy blasts. With the Earth Defense Forces wiped out and most of ''Yamato's'' crew dead or evacuated, Kodai seeks advice from the spirit of Captain Okita and, surrounded by the spirits of the dead or still living crew, pilots the ''Yamato'' into a [[RammingAlwaysWorks collision course with the Comet Empire ship]] to end the movie.
182** The recent live-action movie ends in an almost identical way: the WaveMotionGun's muzzle is jammed so firing it will blow up the ''Yamato''. After evacuating the ship's remaining crew, Kodai stays behind on the bridge and does a SelfDestructiveCharge at the Gamilas Meteor Bomb, finally firing the WMG that blows them both out of the sky while the old ''Yamato'' Overture from the original anime's first season plays in the background.
183** Liutenant Saito from the second TV series goes out wielding a [[GunsAkimbo pair]] of machine guns and screaming his head off as he [[HoldTheLine keeps the bad guys off his companion]] while the latter is setting up the bomb for said bad guys. The next time we see him, his companion calls out to him a few times with no response... then [[DiedStandingUp Saito falls onto his back after a few seconds, revealing over a dozen holes all over his body]]. Can't be less from a character voiced by [[Creator/IsaoSasaki the same man who sang the series' opening song.]]
184* ''Anime/SpeedGrapher:'' Despite being the BigBad, Suitengu goes out of his way to save the hero, then blows up the world economy.
185* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' does this four times. Once with Kamina, once with [[AnyoneCanDie half of Team Gurren]], once with [[RetIrony Kit]][[JustifiedTrope tan]], and finally with Lord Genome [[NighInvulnerability the second time.]] ALL of them go out with AT LEAST a smile, and up to maniacal laughter.
186** Kamina gets bonus points for [[BeyondTheImpossible avenging his own death]] in the most awesome way possible. Oh, and it's even more epic in the manga.
187** Kittan takes this even further, not only giving out a badass speech, but managing to pull off the spiral eye level of power (which only Lord Genome and Simon, at their heights, pull off otherwise) and the signature move of Gurren Lagann... with a broken drill.
188*
189** Optimus Prime goes out TakingTheBullet, for the earth, from a PlanetBuster.
190** Starscream duels Galvatron, calls him out on his's failings as a leader, and the takes a shot at ''Unicron'' provoking him to attack and disintegrate him, finally convincing Galvatron of the threat of Unicron prompting him to team up with Optimus against him.
191* ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'':
192** [[TheDeterminator Starscream]], who goes down in a BattleAura enhanced PunchParry so massive it creates an explosion sufficient to destroy a small planet (and leaves a pretty big crater in the ''large'' planet they are actually on).
193** [[OldMaster Vector Prime,]] who supercharges his [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique time powers]] with the [[CombinedEnergyAttack combined energy of three starships]], knowing it would kill him. It does. His death is one of the few emotional moments in a series otherwise riding the RuleOfCool.
194* Wolfwood in the ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' manga. After a massively badass fight against his former mentor and the ''triple-Punisher-wielding'' Livio/Razlo that forced him to chemically push his body past all limits, Wolfwood sees the children from the orphanage to safety, shares one last, quiet drink with Vash in the ruins of December and dies.
195* ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'':
196** A teenage girl named Rangyaku is huddled in a corner, shivering and crying TearsOfFear as she mentally begs her ActionGirl friend Youshi (actually the Queen of Kei, Youko, in disguise) to help the Kei kingdom before she's stabbed to death. Not very awesome, huh? It's best to think twice. When Yoshi/Youko arrives and finds Rangyaku's lifeless body, she sees that Rangyaku hid something among her clothes... [[MacGuffin The Seal of Kei]], which is vital whenever Youko needs to show her authority. So the poor girl couldn't fight her killers back, but managed to protect something that Youko ''cannot'' act with in the end.
197** Another lady died even more awesomely: Ribi, one of King Shoryuu's counselors. She and the "Sacred beast" Enki have been captured by the enemy and are forced to wear magical red cords that react to one another: if one tries to take their cord off, it'll create a fatal backlash that will kill him/her. For worse, Enki's cord actually [[PowerLimiter seals]] [[BroughtDownToNormal his beastly powers]], [[DistressedDude making him completely helpless.]] So as soon as she and Enki are alone, Ribi tells Enki to run away as soon as he can... then cuts off Enki's cord ''herself'', clearly knowing that ''she'' will be hit and killed by the backlash. And yup, Ribi has her head sliced in half [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen]] and dies, but Enki is released and escapes from their prision.
198* Used ''repeatedly'' on ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', throughout the series, although obviously none of them stick (from the audience perspective anyways). Also used at least once in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' with Rika in the Shion arc, though there even she wasn't expecting it to stick.
199** Rena as well against the BigBad in one arc. She dies [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome laughing in their face.]]
200** Rosa's stand against the army of Goatmen in the second arc. Made even more awesome in that anime by the fact that she wasn't forced to take a [[LastStand final stand]] (in the Visual Novel she broke her ankle and had to stay), but ''chose'' to.
201* In ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'' Marie's backstory is given all in one episode, explaining her amnesia, which had been brought up only a few episodes before to, in turn, explain her strange behavior. With the Valvraves pinned down and the heroes on the verge of being completely wiped out, she pilots Valvrave Unit 1 and kicks lots of ass-but the Valvrave is absorbing Runes from her in the form of information-her memories. By the time its over, her memories, and then her life have been completely drained.
202** Kyuma Inuzuka who solos three advanced mechs with his machine being blown apart to save his friends in Episode 21, after being betrayed by their other friends who sold them out.
203* Lucius Artorious Castas in ''Manga/VinlandSaga'', cuts off the head of King Sweyn then challenges the entire assembly of Viking nobles, is finally taken down after killing dozens of soldiers. As bloody as it was, it was also the first selfless act the man had ever committed in his life.
204** Let's tell the whole story here! Sweyn was going to have Lucius, AKA: Askeladd's beloved homeland of Wales attacked as a diversion and blackmailed him with the offer: Kill Prince Canute or Wales is invaded. In front of EVERYONE, Askeladd draws his sword, declares his true name and beheads Sweyn. He only dies when he allows CANUTE to stab him, making Canute a respected king and saving his homeland at the same time, as he knows Canute will protect it. [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent!]]
205* Chtholly's death in ''Literature/WorldEndWhatDoYouDoAtTheEndOfTheWorldAreYouBusyWillYouSaveUs'' may have been [[{{Tearjerker}} tragic]] considering the circumstances involved, but you can't deny that she went out ''like a badass'' by wiping out the hordes of Timere the entire crew (which included her equally capable fellow leprechaun friends plus [[AlmightyJanitor Willem]]) had trouble with for the previous episodes in the area they were assigned in. Even after tanking all the Timeres' fatal attacks against her (which inevitably led to her death), she ''still'' had enough energy in her to calmly walk towards Willem and an unconscious Nephren to deliver her final parting words to him.
206* In the ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' TV series, we have [[spoiler: Princess Hinoto]], [[spoiler: Sorata Arisugawa]] and then [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies Kamui Shirou himself]].]] The first [[spoiler: [[{{seppuku}} stabs herself in the neck in the manner of a suicidal Japanese noblewoman]] to [[TakingYouWithMe kill both herself and]] her SuperpoweredEvilSide that has been manipulating her and the Dragons of the Heaven, also saving Sorata and Kamui from certain death.]] The second [[spoiler: manages to ''almost'' kill Fuuma via [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe almost destroying half of his body]] despite being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice to protect Arashi, which prompts her to return to the Dragons of the Heaven.]] And the third [[spoiler: allows Fuuma to fatally strike him down... but not before staging a ThanatosGambit by using his LifeEnergy and his Wish to bring back Fuuma's gentler self, entrust him with the safety of the Earth, ''and'' extend his ''kekkai'' through the whole world, protecting it from ever being destroyed.]]
207** And in both the anime and the manga, there is [[spoiler: Seishirou Sakurazuka, who takes Hokuto's ThanatosGambit from ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' times (itself an example of the trope) and ''twists it into his own ThanatosGambit'' so he can die in exactly the way he wants to, in the arms of his [[StarCrossedLover cursed lover]] Subaru... while forcibly entrusting him with [[KlingonPromotion the title of the Sakurazukamori]].]] [[MagnificentBastard It's both awesome and horrible.]]
208* Kirschwasser gets one in the ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' anime, when she stays behind on the crashing space station Merkabah to make sure it falls apart and burns up in the atmosphere, preventing a global catastrophe. With a massive TearJerker song playing in the background. "Although the darkness may prevail..."
209** Also, almost immediately thereafter, KOS-MOS subverts this trope ''beautifully'' by saving the heroes' spaceship from disintegration in a manner awesome enough for ten death scenes... and surviving. Which makes it even ''more'' awesome.
210* Atem's death in ''Anime/YuGiOh''. It happens offscreen and before the series even starts, but he manages to seal the evil of the shadow realm and the power of Zorc Necrophades inside the Millennium Items whilst using his soul and name to maintain the seal, destroying his body and his identity in the process. The seal stands for 3,000 years until the protagonist [[NiceJobBreakingItHero solves the Millennium Puzzle]].
211* Kaiser's death in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''. He quadruples the ATK of his favorite monster, and despite him losing the duel, it snaps TheProtagonist Judai out of his HeroicBSOD, something that ''three'' other {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s had failed to do previously.
212* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'''s main character Yusuke dies rescuing a child from being hit by a car (doesn't seem much on this page, but the Powers That Be were so ''completely'' thrown for a loop that he received the chance to be resurrected), Kuwabara fakes one in the Dark Tournament Saga, and then Yusuke takes one for the team in the Chapter Black arc. He gets better, but he didn't ''know'' that he would. Raizen's death is pretty cool too.
213** Specifically Yusuke wasn't supposed to do anything AT ALL that first time. He actually defied fate to die helping the child [[SenselessSacrifice who would have been fine without his intervention]]... not that he knew any of that. In fact, his actions only served to make the accident worse and to give the child a bunch of scrapes from being pushed out of the way.
214* You know one of these is coming in ''Manga/ZatchBell'' when "[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Yasashii Kaze]]" starts to play.
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