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| 8 | {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s in [[LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]. |
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| 11 | * Perhaps include here also ANY war movie where the flawed character with the shady past calls in an air strike (or artillery barrage, etc) on his own position to save his partner or teammates and redeem himself and his reputation although it means certain death. |
| 12 | ** ''Film/FlightOfTheIntruder'' is the definitive example. |
| 13 | ** Subverted in ''Film/{{Platoon}}''; [[spoiler: the CO survives.]] |
| 14 | * The thirteen samurai who accept the suicide mission of assassinating Lord Naritsugu in ''Film/ThirteenAssassins''. The chances of survival are almost nil and they know this going in -- they fight not for money or fame, but to kill a monster who is a threat to all of Japan. |
| 15 | * ''Film/{{Aftershock}}'': Gringo distracts one of the prisoners so Irina can escape, [[spoiler:and pays for it with his life. It turns out to be AllForNothing however as she's killed while fleeing.]] |
| 16 | * In ''Film/AgainstACrookedSky'', Charlotte is falsely accused of the murder of [[spoiler:Cut Tongue]] and scheduled to be executed, but her friend Ashkea takes the arrow for her. |
| 17 | * In ''Film/AirForceOne'', an F-15 pilot [[TakingTheBullet interposes his plane]] between a missile fired at the titular plane by a [=MiG=]. Apparently, he needed to stay to the end to ensure success. |
| 18 | * The two main characters Chris and Theta in ''Film/AlienCargo'', who choose to remain in their dying spaceship to prevent a dangerous virus from reaching civilization. |
| 19 | * ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': [[spoiler:Both Gorman and Vasquez: [[VasquezAlwaysDies "You always were an asshole, Gorman."]]]] |
| 20 | * ''Film/Alien3'': |
| 21 | ** [[spoiler:Ripley throws herself to her doom just as a chestburster bursts from her chest]]. |
| 22 | ** Also, [[spoiler: Dillon,]] who stays at the bottom of the lead mold to keep the alien from escaping, telling it YouShallNotPass. Leads into a DyingMomentOfAwesome when the alien charges him and he grabs hold of it, taunting it angrily as he is ripped to shreds. |
| 23 | * ''Film/Armageddon1998'' is a disaster film where anything that can possibly go wrong does. At the end of the movie, in order to detonate a nuke that will destroy a meteor headed for Earth, one person has to stay back and manually detonate it because the remote detonator was broken. They draw straws and AJ drew the shortest stick. However, as he leaves the ship to fulfill his duty, Stamper cuts off AJ's oxygen supply and locks him inside the ship, taking his place and sacrificing himself to save all of humanity and the Earth. |
| 24 | * ''Film/{{Ashfall}}'': Already bleeding out from a wound, [[spoiler:Joon-pyeong leaves his daughter in In-chang's care and brings the uranium bomb into the mines himself. The explosion kills him but also stops the earthquakes.]] |
| 25 | * ''[[Film/AssassinsCreed2016 Assassin's Creed]]'': Every Assassin who dies in the revolt at Abstergo Madrid so the Brotherhood can have a chance of stopping Dr. Alan Rikkin from gettong an Apple of Eden, but particularly Emir, who's alone in the control room. |
| 26 | * ''Film/{{Attachment}}'': Chana switches places with Leah in the [[GeometricMagic magic circle]], knowing this will kill her, so her daughter can live. |
| 27 | * Near the end of ''Avalanche Express'', [[spoiler:Leroy]] tackles terrorist Helga off the titular train when she activates grenades, ensuring that the grenades go off harmlessly in midair. |
| 28 | * In the ''Series/BabylonFive'' made-for-TV movie ''A Call to Arms'', Captain Anderson [[RammingAlwaysWorks rams]] the IAS ''Victory'' into the control node of the [[AbusivePrecursors Shadow]] Planetkiller, saving Earth from destruction. As usual, this is preceded by a clenched fist and the phrase "Ramming speed!" |
| 29 | * ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': Doc distracts the terrorists to give Marty time to run. They gun him down. |
| 30 | * ''Film/{{Balibo}}'': |
| 31 | ** When Ximenez and Roger are surrounded by the TNI, Ximenez distracts them and lures them away so Roger can escape, resulting in him being hunted down and killed. |
| 32 | ** Roger chooses to remain in East Timor to cover the Indonesian invasion, knowing he risk being killed by the TNI. This decision ultimately results in him being captured and executed during the invasion of Dili. |
| 33 | * In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[spoiler: Superman]]. He [[spoiler: grabs a [[KryptoniteFactor Kryptonite spear]] and charges at [[TheJuggernaut Doomsday]], knowing full well that either the Kryptonite or Doomsday will be the end of him. When Doomsday [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales]] him through the chest with a bone spike, [[HeroicResolve Clark simply pulls himself further onto it]] to allow him to drive the spear deeper into Doomsday, stopping the beast at the cost of his own life]]. |
| 34 | * ''Film/BattleInOuterSpace''. Iwomura feels guilty over blowing up one of the two Earth rocket ships while under Natalian MindControl. He gives his life fighting off the attacking Natalian saucers so the remaining Earth ship can escape. |
| 35 | * ''Film/TheBeastmaster''. Two in one movie. First Dar's dog is struck with an arrow and with the last of his strength, drags Dar to safety. Kodo the ferret sees the evil and wounded wizard Maax sneak up on Dar in an attempt to finish him off. Kodo leaps onto Maax and both fall into a fire pit. |
| 36 | * A non-lethal example in ''Film/BigGame'' -- Moore stands in Morris' way so that infuriated man would beat the crap out of him, not the thirteen-year-old boy he was going for. |
| 37 | * ''Film/BirdBox'' |
| 38 | ** Charlie tackles his deranged coworker to save the rest of the group at the supermarket, killing himself shortly thereafter since he wasn't wearing a blindfold. |
| 39 | ** [[spoiler:Tom]] fights off the crazy survivors so the children and Malorie can escape. [[spoiler:He manages to kill three of them before being wounded, so he removes his blindfold so he'll have a better chance of killing the rest. He's infected by the creatures, but maintains his sense of self long just enough to [[DyingMomentOfAwesome kill the last crazy survivor]] before turning the gun on himself.]] |
| 40 | * ''Film/TheBlackDemon'': To give his family a chance to escape the titular megalodon, Paul allows himself to be eaten while holding on to a bomb. |
| 41 | * ''Film/BlackLightning2009'': When the university has 11 students for the free course out of 10 spots available, Dima [[DeliberateUnderPerformance deliberately fails]] his exam after noticing Nastya is struggling with questions. |
| 42 | * In ''Film/BloodDiamond'' Danny Archer allows Solomon to escape with the diamond as he makes a final stand against the approaching soldiers. |
| 43 | * ''Film/CaptiveState'': [[spoiler: Jane Doe allows herself to be uncovered and killed as the leader of the Resistance Cell in Chicago, so her partner will take the credit. He's thus promoted and given direct access with the aliens, permitting him to launch a suicide attack on them.]] |
| 44 | * ''Film/{{Casper}}'': In hopes of achieving his father's dream by using his machine: the Lazarus to return back to life, Casper decided to sacrifice that one and only chance by giving it to Dr. James Harvey, so his friend: Kat wouldn't live her life as an orphan. |
| 45 | * ''Film/ChildsPlay3'': Whitehurst jumps on a live grenade to save his friends. |
| 46 | * ''Film/Constantine2005'': Damned to go back to hell after he attempted suicide to stop the psychic visions he kept having in his youth, John Constantine has spent much of his life trying to earn forgiveness by kicking the minions of Hell's asses. However, the BigBad is in a league far higher than he is at the moment. Unable to stop [[spoiler:Gabriel]] from [[spoiler:unleashing HellOnEarth]], John brings the plan to Satan's attention by committing suicide. As Satan believes that only he will be the one to conquer Earth and win his wager against God, Satan begrudgingly intervenes and stops these interlopers who aren't going by ''his'' plan. Feeling in debt to John, Satan offers John a life extension as a reward for his assistance. Already dying from lung cancer, John declines, instead asking that the soul of [[spoiler:Isabel Dodson]] be allowed to return to Heaven instead. Satan honors this request after a second to think on it, not realizing the deeper ramifications to John's action. In giving his life for the sake of another without premeditation of some future reward, he earns his way into God's good graces, who prevents Satan from taking John to Hell. As his body rises to the heavens -- while [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu giving the Devil the finger]], no less -- the now angered Satan rips the cancer from Constantine's body, restoring him to full health. He does so in order to give John another chance to prove that his soul belongs in Hell, not Heaven. |
| 47 | * In ''Film/TheCore'', upon reaching the outer core, the crew discovers that one big nuclear explosion isn't going to cut it- the material is thinner than expected- so they devise a plan to split the bombs into multiple compartments, which they will then release in key locations. Unfortunately, their ship, ''Virgil'', wasn't designed to be able to jettison undamaged compartments, and the manual override switch is outside the ship. In an area exposed to magma. The ship's creator, Braz, volunteers to go, burning to death in the process but allowing the others to carry on with the mission. |
| 48 | ** Later on, during the procedure to disengage sections and distribute the bombs, ''Virgil'' is struck by an energy flare and the huge bomb falls on top of Dr. Zimsky. He grabs his colleague, Joshua, and tosses him out the door before it seals and the section they're in is ejected. |
| 49 | * In the climax of ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', [[spoiler:Ella]] went into the core of the aliens' spaceship and activated the bracelet's self-destruct bomb, knowing there's only a couple of seconds for the bomb to go off. |
| 50 | * Nearly EVERYBODY in ''Film/{{Damnatus}}''. Injured Oktavian stays behind and [[TakingYouWithMe blows himself up]] when discovered. Adeodatus grenades himself to both try and destroy the daemon and prevent his own possession ([[spoiler:he only succeeds on the second count]]). Von Remus pulls a YouShallNotPass to let Nira escape. Nira herself then dies trying to banish G'guor. Farseer Phaer makes one, too... from [[SoulJar beyond the grave!]] |
| 51 | --> "In this universe, one is either sacrificed or sacrifices themself." ArcWords indeed. |
| 52 | * [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie Selma]]]] in ''Film/DancerInTheDark.'' In the latter half of the film, [[spoiler:Selma]] is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. [[spoiler:She]] meets with a new lawyer who says [[spoiler:her]] previous lawyer was incompetent and new evidence has been brought forth that could save [[spoiler:her]] from death. The only way to pay for this new attorney is to use the money that [[spoiler:Selma had been saving for her son to get a surgery that would cure his hereditary degenerative blindness]]. Believing that it is important for [[spoiler:her son to be able to see his own grandchildren some day]], [[spoiler:Selma]] chooses to die. [[spoiler:Just before Selma is hanged, her close friend tells her that the surgery was a success.]] |
| 53 | * In ''Film/DarbyOGillAndTheLittlePeople'', Darby uses the last of his three wishes from the leprechauns to [[spoiler: [[BalancingDeathsBooks take his daughter's place when Death comes for her]].]] Fortunately for him, [[spoiler: King Brian tricks him into making a fourth wish, which negates the last three and Darby's sacrifice, by which time his daughter has recovered from her illness.]] |
| 54 | * ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'': |
| 55 | ** Many of the cute little fuzzballs that force skekTek into the bottomless shaft go down with him. Fizzgig too, though he ends up catching hold of something and gets rescued by Aughra. |
| 56 | ** Kira throws the Shard to Jen just before she's stabbed, so he can heal the Crystal when the three suns align. |
| 57 | * In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Batman confesses to the killing of all of Harvey "Two Face" Dent's victims and takes the fall in order to protect Dent's image as the 'good guy' that the city needs. He becomes a fugitive from this point on, even though he did not kill Dent's victims. |
| 58 | * {{Implied|Trope}} in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' with the nuclear flash, mushroom cloud, and the characters mourning [[spoiler:at Bruce's grave. Later subverted. While Batman is believed to have perished in his epic attempt to detonate the nuclear bomb away in the ocean with the Bat, Alfred sees [[EarnYourHappyEnding Bruce Wayne alive and happy on a date with Selina]] in his annual vacation to Italy.]] |
| 59 | * Occurs in the ''Film/DeathNoteSeries'' (but not the original manga or anime). [[spoiler:Like in the anime/manga, Light gets Rem to write L's name in the Death Note. When L is apparently dying due to that, Light admits that he's Kira to him... but then it's revealed that L outwitted Light by writing ''his own name'' in the Death Note before Rem did, setting himself to die in 23 days and overriding Rem's attempt to kill him. L thus proves Light is Kira, but still dies less than a month later due to writing his own name in the Death Note.]] |
| 60 | * ''Film/DeepImpact'', a [[DuelingMovies similar movie]] to ''Armageddon'' has the entire shuttle crew with the nukes sacrifice themselves on the same mission. |
| 61 | * A funny and mild version in ''Film/DirtyWork'': |
| 62 | -->'''[[Creator/NormMacDonald Mitch]]:''' So, who's with me?\ |
| 63 | ''[dead silence]''\ |
| 64 | '''Mitch:''' Alright, who's with me on the understanding that if this plan fails, you all get to beat the crap out of me?\ |
| 65 | ''[crowd becomes very enthusiastic]'' |
| 66 | * ''Film/{{Dinosaurus}}'': The Caveman chooses to save his friends by holding up the collapsing mine. He doesn't make it out. |
| 67 | * ''Film/District9'': Through his HeelFaceTurn, Wikus ultimately decides to help Christopher get to the dropship, even if it means he himself will either die or live [[spoiler:and transform completely]]. |
| 68 | * In ''Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1973'', Annie manages to save a young girl Hyde kidnapped at the cost of her own freedom and sanity. |
| 69 | * The wizard Ulrich, who sacrificed himself ''twice'' in ''Film/{{Dragonslayer}}'' (1981). His first death [[spoiler:placed part of his life force into a gem]] and his 2nd death [[spoiler:when the gem was crushed killed the dragon, as he exploded while being carried by it]]. |
| 70 | * In ''Film/DraculaUntold'', [[spoiler:when his vampiric subjects begin to turn against him, with plans to feed upon his son, Dracula gives him to the monk to be taken away to safety, and then uses his powers to part the dark clouds currently blocking out the sun, burning the vampires and of course, himself. On his part however, it doesn't stick, as the gypsy Shkelgim recovers his body and uses some of his blood to revive him]]. |
| 71 | * ''Film/EagleEye'': Towards the end of the film, [[spoiler: Jerry]] fires a gun up in the air during a children's concert at the Capitol Building, knowing full well the Secret Service will react to that by shooting first and asking questions later. The reason this is a heroic sacrifice is that [[spoiler: one of the instruments have been altered to act as a detonator for a bomb once a [[MusicalTrigger certain note is reached]], so the concert has to be stopped ''now'' or else they're all going to die, president, his Cabinet sans the Secretary of Defense, and children included]]. The reason it's not a stupid sacrifice is that this is only done after shouting, waving and trying to get to security has been tried and failed. [[spoiler: Jerry actually ''survives'' being shot by the Secret Service, and appears to have been exonerated once it was revealed why he'd done what he did]]. |
| 72 | * ''Film/{{Elysium}}'': [[spoiler:Max knows the data in his head will kill him if it's removed, but lets Spider do it so Frey's daughter will survive.]] |
| 73 | * ''Film/EndersGame'': At the start of the film, the fighter that crashes into the Formic's MotherShip seems to have done this. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the pilot, Mazer Rackham, ejected in time. But it was cut in the propaganda narrative to invoke ThePowerOfLegacy.]] At the end of the film, [[spoiler:the entire human fleet follows Ender's orders to go for a Hail Mary attack against the Formic homeworld, knowing full well that the Formic armada would tear them to pieces. They all die, but not before they obliterate the Formic planet. When Ender finds out it wasn't a simulation, he has a HeroicBSOD]]. |
| 74 | * In ''Film/EndOfDays'', {{Satan}} has until midnight on New Year's Eve to impregnate the chosen bearer of his child, and having been thwarted once by her bodyguard Jericho Cane and running out of time, he possesses Jericho himself in a last ditch effort to rape her. Jericho is able to resist Satan's control just long enough to allow her to escape and impale himself on protruding sword of a nearby statue. Midnight passes, Satan is driven out of his body and back to hell, and Jericho dies. Since Jericho regained control with only five seconds left on the time limit, this may also double as a StupidSacrifice. |
| 75 | * ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates''. In the middle of a sniper stalemate in between main protagonist Vasily and the German ColdSniper, Vasily's friend-slash-sentimental-rival, quite jealous that the LoveInterest (now presumed dead) has chosen Vasily over him and disillusioned with the communist cause, [[spoiler:exposes himself to the enemy's field of fire as a final act of friendship and gets a bullet in the head as a result; this allows Vasily to pinpoint the bad guy's position and kill him]]. |
| 76 | --> '''Danilov''': I want to help you, Vassili. Let me do one last thing, something useful for a change.[[spoiler: ''(Takes off his helmet)'' Let me show you where the Major is]]. |
| 77 | * In ''Film/EventHorizon'', [[spoiler: Miller blows the ship in half just before the hyperspace portal opens, allowing the survivors on the other side of the ship to escape while leaving himself to an unknown, horrible fate in the Lovecraftian hyperspace dimension.]] |
| 78 | * ''Film/TheExorcist'': [[spoiler: Father Karras, in a flight of rage in the very end of the film, tackles the possessed Regan, demanding that the creature take his body instead. It does so, freeing Regan, and in a struggle between himself and it, the Father throws himself out of the bedroom window, killing himself in the fall down the stairs, thus preventing it from getting to Regan (and hopefully anyone else) again.]] |
| 79 | * ''Film/FemaleAgents'': Jeanne shoots a random German soldier to create a diversion to Louise can complete the mission. [[spoiler: She was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, and hanged.]] |
| 80 | * ''Film/FlowersOfWar'': Major Li takes on a group of far more Japanese soldiers, knowing it will end in his death. George and the prostitutes take the places of the girls, [[FateWorseThanDeath fully aware of what's in store for them]]. |
| 81 | * Three deaths in ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films come from heroic sacrifices. |
| 82 | ** ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' has Sheriff Garris taking on Jason in a LastStand to stop him from attacking the kids. |
| 83 | ** ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' has Duke handcuffing himself to Jason to buy more time for the protagonists to stop him. He dies in the attempt. |
| 84 | ** Sgt. Brodski in ''Film/JasonX'' catches Uber Jason in the vacuum of space and drags him into Earth Two's atmosphere, burning them both up. |
| 85 | * ''Film/GhostsOfWar'': In a shootout with some Nazi soldiers in the chateau, a grenade gets thrown into the house through a window. Butchie sees it and throws himself on top of it to smother the explosion. [[SubvertedTrope He lives]], but he lost pretty much all of his limbs in the blast. |
| 86 | * ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': |
| 87 | ** The original ''Film/Godzilla1954'' has Doctor Serizawa using his [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Oxygen Destroyer]] to kill the titular monster, but, fearing that it will become weaponized by governments, destroys all his notes and allows himself to be killed by it as well, destroying the knowledge of its creation forever. Unfortunately, some of the continuities imply that it was a SenselessSacrifice by having Godzilla [[FromASingleCell regenerate his whole body]]. |
| 88 | ** In ''Film/MothraVsGodzilla'', Mothra goes into battle against Godzilla knowing full well that she will die. |
| 89 | ** Then in ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'', Katsura Mafune, after failing to convince Ichinose to kill her after revealing [[spoiler:she had Mechagodzilla’s remote control built inside her after being resurrected]], takes her own life as a way to help Godzilla defeat Mechagodzilla. |
| 90 | ** And in ''Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth'' Battra sacrifices himself to help Mothra [[SealedEvilInACan trap Godzilla at the bottom of the sea]]. |
| 91 | ** Topping that, in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', Mothra, [[spoiler: mortally wounded, kamikazies into Gigan's head, blowing both of them up.]] |
| 92 | ** Then there's ''Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS'' in which Kiryu (A cyborg version of [[spoiler:The ORIGINAL 1954 Godzilla]] that somehow manages to gain self-awareness) [[spoiler:carries Godzilla over the ocean and sinks both of them to the bottom of a trench.]] |
| 93 | ** ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'' gets three of these with Baragon, Mothra (who [[spoiler:gives her life-force to Ghidorah to revive him and make him stronger]]) and King Ghidorah. |
| 94 | ** In ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzillaII'', Rodan gives his life so that he can give Godzilla enough power to destroy Super Mechagodzilla. |
| 95 | ** In ''Film/Godzilla2014'', Sandra Brody told her husband to shut the blast doors, thus dooming her and her team, in order to prevent radiation from leaking out. |
| 96 | ** In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', Dr. Serizawa volunteers himself on a suicide mission to plant and detonate a nuclear bomb next to Godzilla in order to rejuvenate him, as their submarine's firing system was damaged and the radiation levels in the water around Godzilla are so high that they can't get close without experiencing a fatal dosage. |
| 97 | *** Another happens during the final battle with King Ghidorah. [[spoiler:As Ghidorah prepares to finish off an injured Godzilla, Mothra puts herself between them despite being heavily wounded from her prior fight with Rodan. After seemingly healing Godzilla and stopping his meltdown, she launches a last-ditch attack on Ghidorah, and while she dies in the attempt, Godzilla absorbs her energy and transforms into his Burning form, which definitively turns the tides in his favor.]] |
| 98 | ** Really, Mothra ought to be the poster child for this trope within the franchise. She bites the dust in almost all of her appearances. It's confirmed in some continuities and implied in others that she is NotAfraidToDie due to her BornAgainImmortality, therefore she has no problem sticking her life on the line. |
| 99 | * ''Film/GranTorino'': [[spoiler:Walt Kowalski goes to the house of the antagonist gangsters, creating enough of a ruckus to draw some witnesses before he goes for his cigarette lighter. The jumpy gangsters shoot him dead, and the way the setup goes it looks like they killed an unarmed old man in the street, ensuring lengthy jail sentences for all of them and that Walt's Hmong neighbors (who had been the gang's primary targets throughout the film) can live their lives in peace.]] |
| 100 | * Late in ''Film/HalloweenII1981'', [[spoiler:Dr. Loomis blows up the room he and Michael Myers are in to save Laurie Strode. This winds up being subverted in the sequels to this film (via CanonDiscontinuity that branches from this film) since both Loomis and Myers survive the explosion.]] |
| 101 | * ''Film/HaloNightfall'': When Locke, Macer, and Aiken pick beads to determine who will be left behind to manually detonate the bomb, Aiken says the one who draws the red bead will stay behind. Aiken had Locke and Macer pick first, but there in fact ''was'' no red bead -- they were all white. Never mind the moral question of letting the OldSoldier die to save the young, [[JustifiedTrope it's a good decision on purely practical terms]] because, as a [[DePower former]] [[SuperSoldier SPARTAN-II]], Aiken has the strength and stamina necessary to hand-carry the bomb to the detonation site. |
| 102 | -->'''Aiken:''' As it should be. |
| 103 | * Near the end of the hospital battle in ''Film/HardBoiled'', two of the SWAT team officers charged with getting the newborns safely out of the building use their kevlar vests to protect the babies. Immediately after securing the infants inside of the vests, they're riddled with bullets that they might otherwise have survived. |
| 104 | * ''Film/HongKong1941'' ends with Kim-fay (Chow Yun Fat) at the end of the movie blowing up himself and a patrol-boat full of Japanese soldiers to allow Hak-keung, Nam, and the rest of the refugees fleeing Hong Kong to escape. |
| 105 | * In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', the Elf siblings Nuada and Nuala both share the same lifeforce. [[spoiler: Even after being defeated by Hellboy, Nuada vows to continue his RoaringRampageOfRevenge against humans. So Nuala kills herself to stop him.]] |
| 106 | * Early on in ''Film/TheHiddenFortress'', Princess Yuki discovers [[spoiler: Kofuyu, General Rokurota's sister]], has been beheaded while pretending to be her (which causes her to cry TearsOfRemorse. Also, a few of her servants do this off-screen to make sure she and Rokurota are able to escape with a warning. |
| 107 | ** Averted later with the farm girl Princess Yuki and Rokurota rescue from slavery later; she's quite prepared to sacrifice herself for the princess (even to the point of an IAmSpartacus moment), but Princess Yuki refuses to let anyone else die for her. |
| 108 | * ''Film/HighlanderEndgame'' has Connor sacrifice his head to Duncan so the combined power of the two will be able to defeat Jacob Kell. |
| 109 | * ''Film/TheHollowChild'': Allison holds back the Hollow One possessing Olivia temporarily so Sam can escape, being {{killed offscreen}} in doing so. |
| 110 | * In ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', [[TeamPet Anty]] sacrifices himself to save the kids from a scorpion. |
| 111 | * In ''Film/HostileWaters'', Seaman Preminin successfully lowers the control rods to the sub's reactors, but the pressure buildup in the compartment is enough to trap him inside. He soon suffocates. |
| 112 | * ''Film/TheHungerGames'': |
| 113 | ** What Katniss Everdeen volunteering for her sister was intended to be, as she knew her chances of getting out of the Games alive were extremely slim. She does make it out, though. |
| 114 | ** The [[spoiler:attack on District Five's hydroelectric dam]] in ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1''. Even if the attackers survive charging the Peacekeepers unarmed, [[spoiler:they can't outrun the wave from the collapsing dam]]. |
| 115 | * Subverted in ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober.'' As the Soviet sub is being evacuated following the [[spoiler: false]] reactor accident, Captain Ramius tells the ship's doctor to go with the crew in the life rafts while Ramius and the officers submerge and "scuttle the ship" (to which the doctor replies that Ramius will "receive the Order of Lenin"). Unbeknownst to the doctor and crew, Ramius intends to [[spoiler: meet up with an American sub to defect and hand over the Red October]]. The crew is rescued by a U.S. destroyer, upon whose deck they see the surface elements of an undersea battle, culminating in an explosion which they believe destroys the Red October. |
| 116 | ** Played straight during the same fight when [[spoiler: Captain Second Rank Borodin, Ramius's first officer, spots the hidden GRU agent aiming his gun at Ramius and shoves Ramius out of the way, taking a bullet for him.]] |
| 117 | * In the final cut of the ''Film/IAmLegend'' movie, [[spoiler:Will Smith's character]] blows himself up with a bunch of zombies in the end so that the woman and her child can escape with the vaccine that would cure the zombies. |
| 118 | * [[spoiler:Ken]] of ''Film/InBruges'' [[spoiler:sacrifices himself in the name of Ray's redemption by jumping from the Bruges belfry and splattering on the cobblestone pavement below. The original intention was to deliver a gun to Ray and warn him so that he could defend himself from Harry, but the gun was crushed under his massive body, so he was only able to give the warning. Ken even prepares for the event by putting on a black suit, leaving his will tucked away on the hotel dresser, and displaying an almost stoic attitude towards his boss (but getting shot in the leg and neck still hurts like a bitch).]] |
| 119 | * In ''Film/IndependenceDay'', Russell, the alcoholic, semi-washed up crop duster pilot who is rushed out into the cockpit of a fighter jet for the FinalBattle. He's got the last missile in his squadron, which arms itself but fails to discharge, so what does he do? He looks down at a photograph of his kids and makes the decision to pilot his plane directly into the alien's energy weapon while it's charging up to fire. He doesn't make it, but neither does the alien ship, resulting in humanity learning the AchillesHeel of the huge ships. In the original version, Russell was not present for the battle but [[BigDamnHeroes turned up with the last missile strapped to his crop duster biplane]]: this was swapped out as it got a good laugh out of test audiences, but was nowhere near as poignant, plus he doesn't really have a reason to sacrifice himself at this point; in the final version, the missile arming itself but not launching meant he was doomed either way, making his sacrifice much more rational. |
| 120 | * ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'': [[spoiler:Former President Whitmore]] volunteers to lure the alien Queen's ship in a moon tug strapped with a cold fusion bomb. The bomb detonates, killing [[spoiler:Whitmore]], but the Queen survives. It's still helpful, as the Queen is forced to leave her ship and come out into the open, resulting in her eventual death. |
| 121 | * ''Film/InventionForDestruction'': On learning that Count Artigas is planning to use his invention to [[TheConqueror conqueror the world]], Prof. Roche detonates the shell containing the RidiculouslyPotentExplosive: blowing up the island with himself, Count Atigas and all of Count Artigas' men on it. |
| 122 | * ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'': |
| 123 | ** Clarence does this in order to stop George from throwing himself off the bridge. |
| 124 | ** George turns out to do this a lot in his life, starting with sacrificing his hearing in one ear to save his brother, then sacrificing college and any number of opportunities to leave Bedford Falls to keep his father's company afloat, helping people get into their own homes. |
| 125 | * ''Film/JamesBond'' |
| 126 | ** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. Bond's fellow agent Paula is kidnapped by a couple of Largo's thugs and taken to be tortured for information. Bond goes to Largo's estate to rescue her but arrives too late. Paula has taken a CyanidePill and killed herself so she can't be made to betray Bond and the operation. |
| 127 | ** ''Film/AViewToAKill''. [[spoiler: After the [[BigBad Zorin]] double-crosses his men, including May-Day (his [[TheDragon Dragon]] ''and'' lover) she tries to help Bond move the detonator he intended to use to set off the explosives that would destroy Silicon Valley out of the mine; when it gets stuck, May-Day leaps onto it and manually moves it out of the mine, dying when it explodes. Her last words to Bond: "Get Zorin for me!"]] |
| 128 | ** ''Film/NoTimeToDie''. [[spoiler:During the fight with the BigBad, Bond is infected by nanobots that are programmed to kill his LoveInterest Madeline Swann and their daughter Mathilde. He checks with Q to make sure there's no way to remove the nanobots except by blowing them up and knowing missiles are on the way to take out the island facility, Bond elects to stay behind and calls Madeline to tell her he loves her, just before the missiles arrive and blow everything to hell.]] |
| 129 | * ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'': [[spoiler: Spider]] [[BiblicalMotifs gives himself up to be crucified]] by the Street Preacher so that Johnny and Jane have an opportunity to escape with [[spoiler: the NAS cure]], likely to set an example for Johnny the {{Jerkass}} about what it means to be willing to sacrifice oneself for a greater good (it doesn't really help). |
| 130 | * ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' |
| 131 | ** In ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', Malcolm very nearly makes one distracting the ''T. rex'' with a flare to try and save Hammond's grandchildren. The thing rams him through an outhouse and breaks his leg, but he ultimately survives, so arguably it's still a non-lethal sacrifice. |
| 132 | ** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'': Eddie saves Nick, Sarah, and Malcolm from falling off a cliff by securing a cable to the sliding trailer and throwing a rope to the others. [[spoiler: As he tries to pull the trailer back up with his SUV, the two ''T. rex'' that pushed the trailer in the first place come back and start to attack him. Despite the car being torn apart around him, he still keeps his foot on the accelerator trying to save the others. Ultimately though, he is plucked from the car and killed.]] |
| 133 | * In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', Eggsy's father performed one in the prologue set in 1997, jumping on a grenade that would've taken out Harry, Merlin, and the previous Lancelot. |
| 134 | ** In [[Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle the sequel]], Eggsy steps on a landmine just before the climatic assault on Poppy's base. Merlin knocks him off it and takes his place, before luring in several of Poppy's {{Mooks}}, so he can [[TakingYouWithMe blow them up with him]], thus giving the others an opening. |
| 135 | * The StarCrossedLovers [[spoiler:Uncas and Alice]] in ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans''. May count as a StupidSacrifice if you think about it [[RuleOfCool too much]], since [[spoiler: Uncas]] is the LastOfHisKind and apparently decided OnlyICanKillHim. |
| 136 | ** And when [[spoiler:Hawkeye]] offers to be burned alive in [[spoiler:Cora]]'s place, and ''then'' [[spoiler:his romantic rival Major Heyward]] deliberately mistranslates the offer so ''he'' gets killed instead.... |
| 137 | * ''Film/TheLastStarfighter'' with [[spoiler:Centauri as he defends Alex from the hitman.]] Also it's a case of an inverted trope as at the end of the movie [[spoiler:Centauri comes back.]] |
| 138 | * In ''Film/LazerTeam'', [[spoiler:Adam]] allows himself to be killed by the Worg warrior to show the team how the dark matter cannon works. Made worse by the fact that [[spoiler:he previously tried to explain to them how to use the weapon, but they ignored his explanation]]. |
| 139 | * ''Film/ListenToMe'': Garson pushes Tucker away from an oncoming car when the two's fight caused him to get out into the street in front of it. [[spoiler: He's struck instead and killed.]] |
| 140 | * ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' |
| 141 | ** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'': [[YouShallNotPass "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!"]] |
| 142 | *** Boromir dies trying to save Merry and Pippin, taking three arrows in the process. |
| 143 | ** In ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'', Haldir deserves special mention in the Film section, as he and his army willingly march into Helm's Deep to their death to fight alongside Rohan, while in the books he survives and goes into the West with the rest of the Elven race. |
| 144 | * ''Film/MadMax'' |
| 145 | ** In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', [[spoiler: Nux sacrifices himself to flip over and crash the Rig in order to block the canyon pass to prevent the rest of [[BigBad Joe's]] War Boys from pursuing the group as well as [[TakingYouWithMe take Rictus with him]] while Max, Furiosa, and the Wives escape on Joe's car.]] |
| 146 | ** Goin' way back to ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'', the whole FinalBattle is this, with Max himself [[spoiler:unwittingly performing a non-lethal one. He was led to believe that he was driving the real fuel tanker, but it's revealed in the end that he was driving a decoy filled with sand, and all the fuel was really in the vehicles with the fleeing community, who were able to escape while the Vermin were occupied with the rig Max was driving. Possibly played straighter with the rest of the defenders on the rig, as none of them survived the battle and maybe even were in on the plot all along]]. |
| 147 | ** Also in ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'', [[spoiler: Max buys Jedediah and the kids some time to take off in the plane while Max uses a vehicle to crash into Aunty's army, causing a huge crash in the process.]] |
| 148 | * ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven2016'': [[spoiler:All of the Seven who die go out this way. Horne dies trying to distract Denali from attacking a wounded Teddy, Goodnight and Billy are mowed down taking out the {{Mooks}} chasing Faraday, and Faraday himself takes out the Gatling gun by blowing himself up when he's in range.]] |
| 149 | * ''Film/MaleficentMistressOfEvil'': |
| 150 | ** [[spoiler: Conall takes several iron dust arrows from Queen Ingrith's forces to save Maleficent.]] |
| 151 | ** A tree shields Knotgrass, Thistlewit and Flittle from the iron dust when [[spoiler: the fairies were trapped in the chapel by Ingrith.]] |
| 152 | ** In the same scene, [[spoiler: Flittle sacrifices herself by flying into the organ that releases the dust, blocking it and saving the fairies.]] |
| 153 | ** Subverted in the climax when [[spoiler: Maleficent takes an iron dust arrow from Ingrith to save Aurora, but then [[BackFromTheDead rises from her ashes]] [[OneWingedAngel as a Phoenix thanks to her powers.]]]] |
| 154 | * ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'': [[spoiler:D'Artagnan]] throws himself in front of Philippe when [[spoiler:Louis tries to stab him.]] |
| 155 | * ''Film/ManOfSteel'': |
| 156 | ** [[spoiler:Jonathan Kent dies just to protect Clark's secret. Although this traumatizes Clark.]] |
| 157 | ** [[spoiler:Col. Hardy and Dr. Hamilton go down to ensure the Kryptonians are sent back to the Phantom Zone.]] |
| 158 | * The ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' uses this trope more than once: |
| 159 | ** Yinsen sacrificing himself to buy Tony time in ''Film/IronMan1''. |
| 160 | *** [[spoiler:While he ultimately survives Tony orders Pepper to overload the Arc Reactor to overload the Iron Monger Armor while Tony was hanging from the remains of the roof, very nearly costing his life in the process.]] |
| 161 | ** In ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', [[spoiler:Tony]] sacrifices himself by catching the nuke headed for Manhattan and flying it out into space through the wormhole, fully expecting to be trapped there and die, after Steve warned him that it was a [[SuicideMission "one-way trip"]]. He survives, but only due to luck -- he loses consciousness and plummets back through the wormhole just before it closes. Also a CallBack to his argument with Steve earlier in the film, when the latter accused him of being incapable of sacrificing himself for someone else. |
| 162 | ** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': |
| 163 | *** [[spoiler:Captain America stays aboard the [[CoolPlane Valkyrie]] to intentionally crash it rather than risk the lives of a thousands of people, setting the stage for him to become a FishOutOfTemporalWater.]] |
| 164 | *** Earlier in the movie, Steve, prior to being turned into Captain America, [[spoiler:jumped on what he thought was a live grenade while the rest of his unit scrambled for cover. That's right. The little asthmatic weakling almost no one thought should have been there was willing to die to save others. It was this event that finally swayed Phillips to choose Steve to be the first SuperSoldier]]. |
| 165 | ** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': |
| 166 | *** [[spoiler:Frigga holds her ground against Malekith while the latter wants Jane and the Aether.]] |
| 167 | *** [[spoiler:Loki does this twice and it winds up subverted both times. First he pushes Jane out of the way of a black-hole grenade and is nearly sucked in before Thor gets him away from it. Then he spears Kurse in the back while the latter is pummeling Thor. Kurse turns around and spears Loki, but this placed Loki close enough to activate one of his black-hole grenades which rips Kurse to pieces. This appears to have killed Loki... but it turns out he survived, with the end of the film revealing he's impersonating Odin.]] |
| 168 | ** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', when Ronan's ship goes into freefall, Groot creates a shield around his comrades, knowing full well that he could die in the process. When the ship crashes, all Rocket can find of him was a single twig. [[spoiler:Groot ultimately subverts this trope, though, as he can recover FromASingleCell: the twig that Rocket finds is placed in a flower pot and grows into a little Grootling, which will mature into another Groot in due time. [[DoubleSubverted However]], WordOfGod has stated that the original Groot did die, and Baby Groot is his son.]] |
| 169 | ** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', [[spoiler:Yondu stays behind to save Star-Lord following Ego's destruction and gives him the forcefield spacesuit previously given to him by Rocket. Yondu [[SpaceIsCold freezes to death]], and is later incinerated and his ashes are blown into space. Overlaps with RedemptionEqualsDeath, as Rocket tells the Ravagers what he did, and they find Yondu's act worthy of their forgiveness. They show up to give him DueToTheDead.]] |
| 170 | ** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', [[spoiler:Quicksilver [[TakingTheBullet takes a bunch of bullets]] from an Ultron-commandeered Quinjet to save Hawkeye and a little boy]]. |
| 171 | ** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', [[spoiler:the titular character [[GroundhogDayLoop pulls multiple in rapid succession]] by [[TheManyDeathsOfYou being killed repeatedly]] by [[EldritchAbomination Dormammu]] until the invading abomination begged the doctor to free him]]. |
| 172 | ** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': |
| 173 | *** [[spoiler:Loki and Heimdall each give their lives to try and thwart Thanos. Loki tries to bait Thanos by pretending to offer himself as Thanos's guide on earth before attempting to stab him. He is choked out by Thanos and it is for naught. Heimdall, on the other hand, succeeds in sending Hulk back to Earth in an attempt to warn anyone he can of Thanos's impending arrival. While he accomplishes his task, he is stabbed to death immediately after. Thor is ForcedToWatch both in merciless despair]]. |
| 174 | *** {{Subverted|Trope}} with [[spoiler:Gamora and the Vision. Gamora tries to commit one, first by having Quill shoot her if Thanos would capture her (he tries but the Reality Stone neutralizes his weapon) and then trying to kill herself so Thanos cannot use her as a sacrifice for the Soul Stone (Thanos neutralizes her knife with the Reality Stone and kills her himself to complete the sacrifice). The Vision, on the other hand, is fine with sacrificing himself for the greater good but Wanda Maximoff and Steve Rogers don't agree that has to be the first option and try to find other ways. Sadly, he is proven right at the end of the film when all other options fail and Wanda does kill him by shattering the Mind Stone in his head, only for Thanos to undo the sacrifice with the Time Stone then rips it out of his head himself]]. |
| 175 | ** In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler:Black Widow and Hawkeye actually fight over who sacrifices themself so the other can get the Soul Stone. Black Widow "wins". Later, Tony Stark uses the infinity gauntlet to finger snap Thanos and his army out of existence, because Tony is human, his body can't handle the stones' powers, as a result he dies, on his deathbed were his beloved wife, his surrogate son, and his friends]]. |
| 176 | * In ''Film/MassacreAtCentralHigh'', David plans to blow up Central High with a TimeBomb, killing everyone. When Theresa runs in with Mark and refuses to leave, David takes the bomb and runs outside, where it explodes, killing him but saving Theresa. |
| 177 | * ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' |
| 178 | ** Subverted in the [[Film/TheMatrix first film]] with Morpheus. He attacked Agent Smith with the full knowledge that he wasn't going to win/escape. When the surviving crew members contemplate whether or not to pull the connection on him to prevent the Agents from obtaining the access codes for Zion, the last human city, Neo instead takes [[TakeAThirdOption an alternative option]]; to simply go back in and [[BigDamnHeroes rescue]] their leader. Several [[MoreDakka gun fights]] later, he succeeds with a GunShipRescue. |
| 179 | ** In the climatic battle at the end of ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'', Neo jacks himself into the virtual world once more, but not before making a deal with the Machines: [[spoiler:Destroy the rogue agent Smith and the Machines will establish peace with the humans. Powered by the code of the Matrix's "mother", The Oracle, Smith is too strong for Neo, but Neo realizes he must lose himself to win and lets Smith assimilate him. Smith gets promptly deleted by the Machines when they're able to use Neo's avatar to excise Smith's code from the Matrix once and for all.]] |
| 180 | * In ''Film/{{The Maze Runner|2014}}'', during the Griever invasion, one Griever ends up grabbing Chuck. As the others try to pull him back, Alby ends up attacking the Griever's tail, saving Chuck, but not himself. |
| 181 | * In ''Film/MissFisherAndThecryptOfTears'', [[spoiler:Jonathon Lofthouse]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath pays for his crimes]] by holding [[spoiler:Crippins]] at bay long enough for Phryne and the others to escape the CollapsingLair, which then buries him and his opponent. |
| 182 | * During the climax of ''Film/TheMissing2003'', [[spoiler:Maggie's father Samuel tackles the BigBad El Brujo off a cliff when he tries to shoot Maggie, killing them both.]] |
| 183 | * ''Film/MissionToMars'': The rescue mission's leader does a slightly accidental Heroic Sacrifice when he [[spoiler: purposely overshoots the satellite the [[FiveManBand four-man band]] need to land on Mars, going out of range of both the team and their grappling hook]] and a more deliberate one when he [[spoiler: removes his helmet so his ''wife'' won't risk her life trying to save him, and the two other guys' to save theirs.]] |
| 184 | * ''Film/TheMummy1999'': |
| 185 | ** Dr. Bey takes on the population of Cairo enslaved by Imhotep with a sword to buy time for Rick, Ardeth, and Jonathan to escape from the city. |
| 186 | ** [[spoiler:Ardeth Bay takes on the priest mummies alone to buy time for Rick and Jonathan to rescue Evey. Subverted in that he survives, though he was originally intended to die in the script.]] |
| 187 | * Discussed in ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', during the attack of the pygmy creatures. Like so: |
| 188 | -->'''Hafez''' [to the two guards behind him]: "The two of you must... sacrifice yourselves... for me." ::turns and runs:: "''You shall be rewarded in heaven!''" |
| 189 | ** The two guards look at one another, mentally say "Screw that!", and try to run away, only to be jumped and killed, anyways. |
| 190 | * [[spoiler: Subverted]] in ''Film/MysteryTeam'' with [[spoiler: Jason]] getting shot trying to calm down his friends and convincing the shooter to let them go. |
| 191 | * In ''[[Film/Napoleon1927 Napoléon]]'' (1927), [[UsefulNotes/JosephineDeBeauharnais Joséphine]]'s first husband volunteers to take the spot when the name "de Beauharnais" is called for execution [[ActOfTrueLove so she can say farewell to their children]]. |
| 192 | * ''Film/ANewYorkChristmasWedding'': Azrael when he sends Jenni back. He's the unborn child Gabby lost. By letting Jenni change history he'll never have been conceived in the first place, and so presumably cease to exist. |
| 193 | * ''Film/NoEscape1994'': Robbins is saved due to these three times in the film. |
| 194 | ** [[spoiler:Casey]] throws himself on Robbins' knife so at least one of them can escape. |
| 195 | ** The Insiders' spy in the Outsiders frees Robbins, while knowing that he'll be killed for doing this. He considers it [[TheAtoner the penance for his crimes in the past]]. |
| 196 | ** [[spoiler:The Father]] dies in defending him from Marek. |
| 197 | * ''Film/OldPeople'': After throwing Ella to the [[EvilOldFolks old people]], Kim later sees the family fighting to save her, and decides to help by throwing herself out the second story window onto the concrete steps, making the old people focus on killing her instead, allowing the family to save Ella. |
| 198 | * ''Film/PacificRim'': [[spoiler: As a last ditch effort to clear a path for the Gipsy Danger, Pentecost and Chuck detonate the nuke strapped to the Striker Eureka just as two Kaiju collide into it.]] |
| 199 | ** [[spoiler: Pentecost simply going on this mission in the first place also qualifies, as he'd been told that getting into a Jaeger would kill him after the neural load from piloting Coyote Tango solo almost did him in. He does it anyways, deciding that he would die from the Kaiju that would attack if the mission failed, and he might as well die fighting.]] |
| 200 | * ''Film/PerfectAssassins'': Billy jumps in front of his sister as she's about to be shot. |
| 201 | * In the finale of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1962'', the Phantom notices that [[FallingChandelierOfDoom the chandelier is about to fall]]. He leaps onto the stage of the opera and pushes Christine out of harm's way, getting himself [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice crushed by the chandelier]] in the process. |
| 202 | * In the movie ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', the first song is about a singer who kills himself to get the money for his sisters life saving operation. Later Winslow sacrifices himself to save Phoenix. |
| 203 | * The ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' series is rife with Heroic Sacrifices and attempts at the same, including the fate of James Norrington. [[spoiler:Barbossa's second (and final) death in the fifth movie is this, as he hurls himself off the anchor chain in order to kill the BigBad and falls with him into the ocean, saving his daughter in the process.]] |
| 204 | * ''Film/ThePostman'': Woody is ordered at gunpoint to kill Shakespeare with a knife by Idaho. He takes some swings at him, then turns and throws it into Idaho's shoulder, then lunges for him. Idaho instantly shoots him dead, but this distracts him long enough to help Shakespeare escape. |
| 205 | * The ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' films |
| 206 | ** In ''Film/{{Predator}}'', [[spoiler:Billy]] makes a last stand on a log bridge to give the rest of the team time to escape. |
| 207 | ** In ''Film/{{Predator 2}}'', [[spoiler:Jerry Lambert]] blocks the Predator from following the fleeing subway passengers and pays for it with his life. |
| 208 | ** Three occur in the space of several minutes in ''Film/{{Predators}}''. |
| 209 | *** [[spoiler:Nikolai]] goes back to save Edwin and is shot by the Tracker Predator; he proceeds to [[TakingYouWithMe activate explosives and blows them both up]]. |
| 210 | *** [[spoiler:Stans]] leaps at the Berserker Predator with a knife in hand, slowing it and buying time for the rest to gain more distance. |
| 211 | *** [[spoiler:Hanzo]] takes on the Falconer Predator in single combat which ends with a MutualKill. |
| 212 | * In ''Film/TheProfessional'', [[spoiler: after Leon is mortally wounded, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome he blows himself up using one of his grenades]] to [[TakingYouWithMe take Stansfield with him]].]] |
| 213 | * ''Film/PsychOut'': During Jenny's STP trip, she stands in the middle of traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge. Dave pushes her to safety and gets hit by a car in the process, atoning for his mistake in giving her the drug in the first place. |
| 214 | * In ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'', after the oldest vampires manage to successfully drain Akasha almost to the point of death, Maharet tells them to stop and takes the last drink herself, turning into a marble statue as a result. Note that this is just in the movie, there's nothing in the books to indicate that draining someone to the point of death is fatal to a vampire. |
| 215 | * In ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'', Betty sacrifices herself by trapping herself in a bus with a horde of undead ravens and blowing up the bus. Later in the film, [[spoiler:Carlos does the same thing. He rigs his truck with explosives and suicide bombs himself into a horde of the undead.]] |
| 216 | ** ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'': [[spoiler: Barry Burton holds off the Umbrella commandos so that the others can get in the elevator out.]] |
| 217 | * Buck the silverback gorilla in ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''. When the helicopter starts shooting down the apes, Buck knocks Caesar out of the line of fire and leaps at the aircraft, taking multiple and fatal gunshot wounds but succeeding in destroying it. |
| 218 | * ''Film/TheRunningMan''. Laughlin shoves Richards out of the way and is mortally wounded by Buzzsaw's attack. |
| 219 | -->'''Richards:''' He saved my life. It should be me down there. |
| 220 | * Subverted in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', where River declares YouShallNotPass to the Reavers and locks herself in a room filled with them to save her friends and family. Five minutes later, after everyone believes that she's been raped, killed, eaten, and possibly worn like clothing by the horde (in that order, if she's lucky), the doors slide back open....to reveal her standing completely uninjured and knee deep in enemy corpses. |
| 221 | ** [[CatchPhrase No power in the 'verse can stop her]]. |
| 222 | ** Also subverted earlier in the same film. Mal is going to take the shuttle to meet with Inara and spring The Operative's trap. He explicitly tells Zoe that if they do not hear back from him in an hour, "You come and you rescue me". |
| 223 | --->'''Mal''': What, it's cold out there. I don't wanna get left. |
| 224 | * ''Film/Scarface1983'': [[spoiler:Chi Chi]] dies fighting off Sosa's assassins. |
| 225 | * In ''Film/SecondTour'', Mercier knows that he has assassins after him, and he is afraid they might kill his secret twin brother instead of him. He decides to go out in the open without his bodyguards. |
| 226 | * in ''Film/SeeYouYesterday'': Claudette's brother does this when he sees his funeral portrait change to Sebastian's and then realizes all of what they were saying was true. He stands up and provokes the cop to shoot him rather than Sebastian. |
| 227 | * ''Film/{{Sharkenstein}}'': Duke volunteers to lead Sharkenstein into the lighthouse that's been rigged to explode, even knowing the explosion will kill him as well. Madge pleads for him not to, but he tells her it's the only way. |
| 228 | * In ''Film/SharkWeek'', Layla detonates a landmine, blowing up herself and the tiger shark, to allow the rest of the group to progress through the DeathCourse. |
| 229 | * At the end of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', Moriarty tells Holmes that he will kill Watson and his wife for Holmes' destroying Moriarty's plans. With Holmes too injured to fight, [[spoiler:he bear hugs Moriarty and forces them both over the Reichenbach Falls, saving his friend from Moriarty's wrath. Holmes survives the fall, though.]] |
| 230 | * ''Film/TheSilence2019'': |
| 231 | ** Glenn, having been trapped under his wrecked car and knowing he's a goner, [[spoiler:gives his life to lure a vesp swarm to himself with gunshots to give the other characters a chance to escape]]. |
| 232 | ** Lynn sacrifices herself by screaming while entangled with [[spoiler:the Hushed cultists trying to kidnap her granddaughter, calling down a flock of vesps to kill them alongside herself]]. |
| 233 | * In ''Film/SlaveGirlsFromBeyondInfinity'', Shala sacrifices herself to save Tisa from Zed; deliberately making herself a target and drawing Zed's fire so Tisa can escape. |
| 234 | * ''Film/SpaceCowboys'': [[spoiler: Tommy Lee Jones' character, already afflicted with cancer, volunteers to divert the Russian missile satellite, forcing him to leave the ship and lose his chance to return to Earth. He spends his last day alive on the surface of the moon, whistling Sinatra.]] |
| 235 | * ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'': |
| 236 | ** ''Film/SpiderMan2'': After getting the senses smacked back into him, [[spoiler:Dr. Octavius]] pulls [[spoiler:his very unstable sun generator]] into the water with him, saving New York City. |
| 237 | ** ''Film/SpiderMan3'': [[spoiler: Venom grabs Harry's glider and tries to kill Spider-Man, but Harry intercepts and is stabbed instead, in the same manner his father was.]] This one can also be found on the StupidSacrifice page. |
| 238 | * In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', while escaping the Bug hive, [[spoiler:Watkins]] is severely wounded and unable to move. He convinces Rico to leave a grenade/nuke with him so he can make a LastStand and kill as many Bugs as possible before dying, giving Rico and the rest of the team time to escape. |
| 239 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 240 | ** ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' |
| 241 | *** Spock's death at the end, when he fixes the ''Enterprise'''s warp core and enables the ship to escape the impending blast of the Genesis Device, but dies from radiation poisoning. Resulting in one of, if not the most, classic ''Star Trek'' and TearJerker moments. |
| 242 | ---> "Don't grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many... outweigh..." |
| 243 | ---> "The needs of the few." |
| 244 | ---> "Or the one." |
| 245 | *** While under Khan's MindControl, Captain Terrell is ordered to kill Admiral Kirk. Realizing he can't resist the order, he kills himself with his own phaser to save Kirk's life. |
| 246 | *** Midshipman Preston during Khan's sneak attack. |
| 247 | --> '''Scotty:''' He stayed at his post... when the trainees ran... |
| 248 | ** Data does the same thing in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''. |
| 249 | ** ''Film/StarTrek2009'' |
| 250 | *** Captain Robau boards a shuttle to go 'negotiate' with Nero which is done mainly to buy his crew time to evacuate the crippled ''Kelvin''. |
| 251 | *** [[spoiler: George Kirk]] staying onboard the ''Kelvin'' to protect the escape shuttles from enemy fire. The conversation with his wife where he tells her he loves her steers this straight into TearJerker territory, no pun intended. |
| 252 | *** [[spoiler: George Kirk]] ''rams his dying starship down the throat of a many-spiked alien death fortress to save his wife and newborn son.'' |
| 253 | *** "Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved eight hundred lives, including your mother's, and yours. I [[DareToBeBadass dare you to do better]]." |
| 254 | *** Captain Pike pulls a Robau, surrendering to Nero to buy time for his crew to stop him from destroying Vulcan (which doesn't work out, but his actions still keep Nero from destroying the ''Enterprise''). Oh, and the sacrifice is subverted when [[spoiler: Jim Kirk later boards the ''Narada'' to pull the tortured Pike out before Spock tries to do his own heroic sacrifice]]. |
| 255 | *** Subverted. Spock attempts to do the same thing with the Jellyfish, but [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes the Enterprise shows up for a]] GunshipRescue and he is transported out in time.]] |
| 256 | ** In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', |
| 257 | *** At the beginning of the film, Spock is trapped in an erupting volcano because the device to stop it would kill him. He's prepared to die to stop it and prevent the ''Enterprise'' from being found, but the ''Enterprise'' [[BigDamnHeroes picks him up]]. Spock isn't happy about this since they violated the Prime Directive to rescue him. |
| 258 | *** [[spoiler:Kirk attempts to sacrifice himself to save the ''Enterprise''. His death is only temporary]]. |
| 259 | ** In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' Sybok tries to mind meld with "God" so Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] can escape. [[RedemptionEqualsDeath He doesn't survive the process]]. |
| 260 | --->Sybok: "I couldn't help but notice your pain." |
| 261 | --->God: "My pain?" |
| 262 | --->Sybok: "It runs deep. Share it with me!" |
| 263 | ** The original sacrifice in ''Wrath of Khan'' is [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' (which also features Khan as the main villain), down to some of the dialogue being lifted whole cloth. Kirk is the one to enter the warp core to make repairs while Spock is forced to watch his friend die helplessly. In this case it hits Spock's BerserkButton. Also, [[spoiler:Kirk gets better thanks to Khan's blood]]. Earlier, Kirk is willing to give up his own life for the lives of his crew, but [[spoiler:Marcus]] isn't willing to let any of them live. |
| 264 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' |
| 265 | ** ''Film/ANewHope'': Obi-Wan Kenobi raises his lightsaber in surrender, allowing Darth Vader to kill him (which, as most people believe, he actually ''doesn't''---the act of allowing Vader to kill him makes him disappear and become one with the Force) so that Luke will leave immediately instead of waiting for him. |
| 266 | ** In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' there's a villainous example when Captain Lorth Needa apologizes to Vader personally after losing the Falcon to [[TakeMeInstead prevent his crew from facing any reprisals.]] |
| 267 | ** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': [[FallenHero Vader]] [[HeelFaceTurn redeems himself]] when he stops [[BigBad Emperor Palpatine]] from torturing [[TheHero Luke]] with Force Lightning. [[PapaWolf Spurred by his son's cries of agony and pleas for help]], he grabs Palpatine and [[DisneyVillainDeath hurls him down into the reactor of the Death Star, destroying the evil Emperor at last]]. Vader is severely electrocuted and mortally wounded in the process, clearly making this a case of RedemptionEqualsDeath as well.) |
| 268 | ** ''Film/RogueOne'': One of the {{Central Theme}}s of the story. By the end of the movie, the entire Rogue One team is dead, including [[TheHeroDies the main heroes]], along with a lot of other rebel soldiers, but they also successfully got the Death Star plans and its fatal weakness into the hands of the Rebellion and... [[ForegoneConclusion the rest is history]]. |
| 269 | ** ''Film/TheLastJedi'': |
| 270 | *** Vice-Admiral Holdo's [[spoiler:and General Leia's]] plan to escape the First Order trail: [[spoiler: evacuate the remainder of the Resistance fleet onto transports and use the Resistance flagship to suicide ram the First Order flagship at hyperspeed]]. |
| 271 | *** [[spoiler:Luke double-subverts this as he appears to willingly stand in the path of a bunch of AT-AT lasers pointed at him, only for the dust to clear and him to still be standing as though the lasers never touched him...which they didn't because he was actually projecting his image with the Force from across the galaxy to give the Resistance the chance to escape. In the end, however, the strain takes its toll on him and he passes away and becomes one with the Force.]] |
| 272 | *** A running theme throughout the film is when sacrificing oneself is justified and when it is not. Early in the film, Paige [[GoingDownWithTheShip goes down with the ship]] after she manages to deploy the bombs that take out the First Order's dreadnought, but she was only put in that position because Poe senselessly decided to press the attack even though the Resistance had already completed their evacuation. As a result, the Resistance loses all their bombers and their crews, and their fleet narrowly avoids getting blasted by the Dreadnought's BFG. Later, Finn prepares to sacrifice himself to take down a First Order weapon, but [[spoiler: Rose saves his life at significant risk to her own]] because the weapon was going to fire anyway, and Finn would not have been able to stop it. Compare this to the two characters above, who legitimately had no other choice than to give themselves up. |
| 273 | ** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' |
| 274 | *** [[spoiler:[=C3PO=] gives up his memory drive to decode a Sith translation. Thankfully, Artoo has a back up drive on his system.]] |
| 275 | *** [[spoiler:Leia gives up her life to use The Force to reach out and turn her son back to the light side.]] |
| 276 | *** [[spoiler:Rey uses the entirety of the Jedi Order's force to defeat The Emperor, however doing so uses up her life force.]] |
| 277 | *** [[spoiler:Ben Solo in turn gives his life to revive Rey, dying in her arms after sharing a tender kiss with her before becoming one with the force.]] |
| 278 | * In ''Film/StrangerThanFiction,'' Harold Crick discovers from his author that his fate is to [[spoiler: die by pushing a child out of the way of a bus, taking his place and forming a DyingMomentOfAwesome for Karen Eiffel's novel. Accepting it as a good way to die, he does so. Subverted in that he survives the collision because Eiffel rewrites the ending.]] |
| 279 | * ''Film/TheSubstitute'': After CoolTeacher Mr. Sherman lets host student Lisa stay late after school to avoid some sexual harassers outside, the two witness Rolle conducting a drug deal as they leave. [[spoiler:Mr. Sherman has Lisa hide and makes a racket while running in the opposite direction from her, allowing Lisa to escape at the cost of being cornered and murdered himself .]] |
| 280 | * ''Film/SuckerPunch'' has two heroic sacrifices [[spoiler:Babydoll and Rocket sacrifice themselves for Sweet Pea, who had the best odds in the real world.]] |
| 281 | * In ''Film/{{Suffragette}}'', Emmeline Pankhurst admits to and goes to prison for the destruction of an (empty) manor house by the group of suffragists the protagonist Maud belongs to. It is not clear whether she was involved in planning the attack, but it is obvious that she was not involved in carrying it out. The government officials complain about not being able to arrest the real culprits. |
| 282 | * ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'': During the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: El Diablo]] and [[spoiler: Lt. Edwards]] both do this in order to take out [[TheDragon Incubus]] -- the former fights him and holds him in place long enough for the latter to set off a bomb that kills all three of them. |
| 283 | * In ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' |
| 284 | ** Physicist Capa -- and arguably Cassie -- sacrifice themselves to ensure the bomb successfully detonates. |
| 285 | ** Nearly the entire cast dies in separate heroic sacrifices: Kaneda gets obliterated by the sun repairing the solar shield, Mace dies of hypothermia repairing the mainframe, and Searle stays behind on the Icarus I in order to operate the airlock (even though he then commits suicide by subjecting himself to 100% exposure to the sun, he was only hastening his inevitable death). Even Trey arguably sacrifices himself by suicide, so the rest of the crew has enough air to survive. |
| 286 | * ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' |
| 287 | ** ''Film/TheTerminator'': Kyle Reese made one last attempt to protect Sarah by holding back the Terminator and then placing an explosive in its chassis, killing himself but also blowing off the bastard's legs, giving Sarah the opportunity to finally kill it. |
| 288 | ** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': |
| 289 | *** Miles Dyson -- one of the scientists primarily responsible for the development of Skynet and its technologies -- is mortally wounded by a SWAT team infiltrating Cyberdyne Systems. He stays behind while the heroes escape in order to detonate their explosives and destroy all the research on Skynet. |
| 290 | *** The T-800 himself also gets one, when he [[ICannotSelfTerminate lowers himself into molten metal]] to destroy himself and ensure that Judgement Day never occurs. |
| 291 | ** In ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'', T-800 pulls out his remaining nuclear fuel cell, stuffs it into Terminatrix's mouth, says [[PreMortemOneLiner "You're Terminated"]], and is promptly consumed by the fuel cell's explosion. |
| 292 | ** ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' absolutely takes the cake. [[spoiler: When John Connor's heart is pierced and failing, Marcus offers his own heart as a transplant.]] |
| 293 | * At the end of the classic giant-ant movie ''Film/{{Them}}'', trooper Ben Peterson sacrifices himself to save two young boys. |
| 294 | * At the end of ''Film/TheyLive'', [[spoiler:Nada destroys the alien transmitter to free mankind, knowing full well that he'll be shot and killed by the aliens in response.]] |
| 295 | * In the 1998 adaptation of ''Film/TheThinRedLine'' [[spoiler:Witt]] draws the attention of an approaching Japanese column to buy time for the rest of his unit to escape, only to get surrounded and gunned down. |
| 296 | ** In the 1964 adaptation of the same book, [[spoiler:Welsh]] [[TakingTheBullet takes the bullet]] for one of his men. |
| 297 | ** It should be noted that neither of those examples come from the book. |
| 298 | * ''Film/Thirst2015'': The helicopter pilot, upon seeing that the alien has its [[BizarreAlienBiology chest proboscis]] on him, flies the helicopter into the side of the cliff, hoping to kill it in the explosion. |
| 299 | ** [[spoiler:Aunt Summer also pulls one off by driving a forklift with an oil drum full of gasoline into the hangar containing the alien... and the gasoline cannon that the cast constructed to prepare for its arrival.]] |
| 300 | * ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'': Craig, to atone for his selfish acts in the past, willingly tries to fend off a demon at the cost of his own life in order to get his friends to safety. This thankfully gives him a ticket to Heaven. Franco tries this as well, but to no avail (he successfully saves Seth and Jay from being eaten by Danny and his army of cannibals, but his gloating to Danny gets his trip to Heaven cancelled). Later, however, Seth willingly lets himself get eaten by Satan so Jay can ascend to Heaven, and he thankfully gets a ticket to Heaven as well. |
| 301 | * ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': Jack allows Rose all the room on the floating door, leaving most of Jack's body dangling in the freezing water, which leads to his death. |
| 302 | * In ''Film/{{Toothless}}'', Katherine reveals herself to the adults in order to tell them off and improve Bobby's life, knowing this will get her sent to Hell for breaking the rules. |
| 303 | * ''Film/TrainToBusan'': |
| 304 | ** Halfway through the movie, [[spoiler:Sang-hwa tries to hold a door closed against a horde of zombies so that his group — and particularly Seong-kyeong — can run to safety, and right afterwards the elderly In-gil stays behind to delay the infected enough so Seok-Woo can close the door.]] |
| 305 | ** [[spoiler:Much later, the homeless man charges three zombies to hold them off so that Su-an and Seong-kyeong can escape.]] |
| 306 | * ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'': |
| 307 | ** In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', [[spoiler:Jetfire rips his own spark out so that Optimus can use his parts to fight [[BigBad The Fallen]].]] |
| 308 | ** Optimus Prime himself kinda has one of these, after [[spoiler: fighting Megatron, Starscream and Grindor and assuming them beaten, he drops his guard to see if Sam is still alright and Megatron stabs (and shoots) him from behind, which kills him. With his last words, he tells Sam to run]]. He got better at the end of the film though by coming BackFromTheDead (in true Optimus Prime tradition). |
| 309 | ---> '''Megatron:''' Is the future of our race not worth a single human life? |
| 310 | ---> '''Optimus Prime:''' [[OmnicidalManiac You'll never stop at one!]] [[PapaWolf I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!]] |
| 311 | ** Jazz also gets one of these in [[Film/Transformers2007 the first film]]. He attempts to fight [[BigBad Megatron]] alone, whilst the others are retreating, in order to buy them time. Given Megatron's immense size and power in comparison with Jazz, [[CurbStompBattle he was rather easily beaten]], but even when Megatron prepared to finish him off, Jazz still goaded him. |
| 312 | ** During the climax of ''Film/TransformersRiseOfTheBeasts'', [[spoiler:the Autobot Mirage heroically sacrifices himself by shielding his human friend Noah from being gunned down by Scourge's cannon blasts. However, like certain examples of this trope, it's subverted in which it's actually revealed that Mirage ultimately survived the attack (heck, this even gives Noah a bit of catharsis as he hears Mirage speaking, in which he replies that he's alive, and Mirage replies that he is indeed alive, but can't move on his own), and ultimately uses what's last of his health by turning into a [[PoweredArmor exosuit]] to help provide him with strength and extra protection for the remained of the final battle. At the end of the film, when the day was won and the conflict was resolved, Noah makes him fully functional again after repairing him by using the pristine parts that made up his exosuit and various refurbished parts and many hours of hard work.]] |
| 313 | * ''Film/Trench11'': [[spoiler: Meuller]] stays behind to detonate the bomb and destroy the bunker after the timer is broken. |
| 314 | * ''Tron'' films: |
| 315 | ** In ''Film/{{Tron}}'', Flynn decides to jump into the Master Control's matrix to act as a distraction and save Tron after getting a LastKiss from Yori. Luckily, that ends up not only working, but also shoves him back into the analog world. |
| 316 | ** In Film/TronLegacy, however, Tron's LastStand against Clu's guards turns out to be a SenselessSacrifice [[spoiler: made all the worse by Clu "repurposing" him into Rinzler]]. "Rinzler" ends up with a HeroicSacrifice of the RedemptionEqualsDeath variety as he [[spoiler: remembers his original Tron programming]] and fends off Clu's forces, only to get a DisneyVillainDeath. And then, Flynn makes a ''second'' HeroicSacrifice to [[spoiler: [[KillUsBoth re-integrate himself with Clu]], destroying the reign of terror over the system, and insuring Sam and Quorra's safety at the cost of his own life]]. |
| 317 | * During the FinalBattle in ''Film/TurboKid'', the Kid uses his Turbo Glove to blow up [[BigBad Zeus]] with the Turbo Mega Blaster and [[spoiler: [[ActionGirl Apple]] shields the Kid from the blast.]] |
| 318 | * ''Film/VerticalLimit'' has several, starting with the main characters' father. Another one combines this with TakingYouWithMe, leading to the [[KarmicDeath death]] of the main antagonist. |
| 319 | * ''Film/{{Volcano}}'': |
| 320 | ** A train supervisor is going in with the rest of the men to save the passengers and the train operator, who have been trapped in a rail car that is being engulfed by lava. He chases the others out before they succumb to fumes or heat and goes to get last person left, the operator, dragging him out "fireman's carry" on his shoulders, and the train has already gotten so hot from the approaching lava that his shoes are melting as he starts reciting the Lord's Prayer ("Our father, who art in heaven..."). As he reaches the front of the train, lava has already gotten around in front of the train. The other railroad employees, who have escaped into the clear and can't reach him, implore him to jump and save himself. With only seconds to spare, holding the man on his shoulders, he jumps, landing in the pool of lava, then, with the last of his strength, throws the other man clear. |
| 321 | ** Also, the SWAT team/demolitions guy who gets pinned under some rubble while he and his partner place explosives critical to the survival of L.A. Knowing that they'd never get the guy out in time, they give the "all clear", leading to the explosives going off, saving L.A. Touching. |
| 322 | * In the Hungarian animated film ''Vuk'' aka ''Animation/VukTheLittleFox'' or Vic's (as he's known in the U.S. dub) uncle Karrack gives his life to save him and his mate Foxy from a hunter's bullet. |
| 323 | * Subverted than reverted in "When the Last Sword is Drawn": During the Shinsengumi's final stand, after the Emperor's forces have arrived[[spoiler: Yoshimura draws his katana and wakizashi, makes a bad-ass final speech, then charges at the lines of riflemen, who open fire on him.]] Due to a particularly thick fog of war, Saito never sees what becomes of Yoshimura, and assumes [[spoiler: he is dead]]. That is, until years later when he meets [[spoiler: the son of Yoshimura's best friend who tells him Yoshimura somehow survived the charge (though he is terribly wounded) and was later forced to commit seppuku when the Imperial forces threatened to suppress any clan who gave aid to rebel soldiers.]] |
| 324 | * ''Film/WhereHandsTouch'': When the SS demand Krestin choose between her or Leyna being taken off, she quickly offers herself. However, this only postpones Leyna's arrest. |
| 325 | * ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': [[spoiler:Steve]] flies the plane containing Doctor Poison's gas weapon as high as it will go and then blows it all up, killing him and incinerating the gas where there's no risk any of it will spread. |
| 326 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' |
| 327 | ** [[spoiler:Jean Grey]] accomplishes this in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', when the Blackbird is frozen at Alkali Lake with the dam about to burst in mere minutes, [[spoiler:Jean]] steps off the jet and uses her now heightened telekinesis to break the ice and allow the jet to lift off, at the same time psychically restraining her teammates to keep them from stopping her. [[spoiler:She frees the jet seconds before she is seemingly crushed beneath tons of rushing water.]] |
| 328 | ** Having survived this in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' but also becoming the [[spoiler:Dark Phoenix, Jean]] twice regains her sanity long enough to beg [[spoiler:Logan/Wolverine to kill her]] so she won't kill anyone else. He finally relents at the movie's climax and [[spoiler:impales her on his claws.]] |
| 329 | ** Near ''Film/TheWolverine'''s end, [[spoiler: Wolverine sets himself up for one during his battle with Ichirō (who was piloting the Silver Samurai armor), only for Harada to step in and distract Yashida long enough for Logan to get his bearings. The distraction gets Harada impaled onto a massive heated sword.]] |
| 330 | * In ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', [[spoiler: Cyborg's father sacrifices himself to superheat the [[BlackBox Mother Box]] as he's trapped in the laser chamber with it, in order for the League to track it and stop Darkseid from destroying the planet.]] |
| 331 | * For the FinalBattle of ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', Tallahassee distracts most of the zombies in the area to buy time for Columbus to save Wichita and Little Rock. This culminates in Tallahassee locking himself in a game booth and surrounded by zombies from all sides, though [[spoiler:this winds up being subverted with Tallahassee being too badass to die, having wiped out all the zombies chasing him, not even suffering a scratch.]] |
| 332 | * In ''Film/ZombiesZombiesZombies'', Chris throws himself into the horde of zombies; allowing himself to be ripped apart so the zombies will be exposed to antidote in his blood. |
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