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| 14 | {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s in AnimeAndManga. |
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| 22 | * ''Manga/SevenSeeds'': During the Ryugu Shelter arc, unhappy inhabitants end up drilling a hole into the wall and sea water begins to flood the Winter Section (where the food storages are), which is directly connected to not just the Autumn Section (where the livestock is) but also the Center Hall. Miho shuts the emergency gates and was about to leave herself... when she sees that the emergency gate to the Autumn Section isn't closing properly. She pushes with all her might to close it and remains in the flooded Winter Section, drowning. [[GoOutWithASmile Smiling]]. |
| 23 | ** Shigeru pulls one during the final events of the Final Test during the Hail Of Corn arc. He and Ango are partner-climbing a cliff in a cave to get out, Ryo is free-climbing by himself. Ango makes a mistake and he and Shigeru almost fall to their deaths -- Ryo merely manages to grab a hold of the rope. Shigeru is suspended in mid-air and so is Ango, who is still barely kept stuck to the wall because of one remaining hook that is about to break out, too. Shigeru, knowing that he cannot go on any further, cuts the rope that keeps him suspended and falls to the ground of the cave, rescuing Ango. |
| 24 | ** Of the non-human variety, the older dogs that Aramaki has been keeping for the last 15 years, which includes the two puppies he originally kept as company [[DeadGuyJunior named after his comrades Fubuki and Mitsuru]]. They sense danger up ahead and give Aramaki a goodbye cuddle and run ahead, in the forest area where a then-unknown Shiitake mushroom is damaging the environment. The spores cause mushrooms to grow through their bodies, too, and a fire breaks out. The dogs willingly let themselves get set ''on fire'' and run around the entire forest, setting the area ablaze and eradicating the traces of the mushroom and ending the suffering of all the other animals afflicted with "mushroom growth". |
| 25 | * ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Each of the girls (except Hahari) perform non-lethal sacrifices while escaping from [[ItMakesSenseInContext Hahari's tentacle hair]]: |
| 26 | ** First Kurumi pushes Mei out of the way of the hair strands, and gets caught. |
| 27 | ** Then Kusuri throws herself at the strands (after giving Shizuka the rest of her drugs) in order to buy time for the others to escape. |
| 28 | ** Then Hakari pushes Karane out of the way of the strands and is ensnared. |
| 29 | ** Then Karane and Iku get out of the car the group is using to escape in order to push it to safety. Karane is able to help Iku escape by hitting her with a baseball bat and causing her to land on the roof of the car, but is unable to escape herself. |
| 30 | ** Then Iku grabs hold of the strands in order to clear a path for the others and is caught. |
| 31 | ** Then Mei and Shizuka lure the strands away from Rentarou, Nano and Mimimi by having Shizuka drink a drug that gives her rabbit ears, causing the strands to target her because of her cuteness (although this ends up subverted when they appear just fine in the next chapter). |
| 32 | ** And finally, Nano and Mimimi stay behind to distract the strands from Rentarou, who is escaping so that he can find and help Hahari. |
| 33 | * In ''Manga/AirGear'' when [[spoiler: Yoshitsune fully activates his Rumble Regalia to repel the slug of an AT-powered railgun back into its barrel, simultaneously annihilating his enemies and saving his territory from certain destruction.]] However, moments later, [[spoiler: Nike shows up and delivers a one-hit knockout.]] |
| 34 | * In ''Anime/AkudamaDrive'' [[spoiler: virtually every major character sacrifices themselves to save the children]] |
| 35 | * Spoofed in Episode 8 of ''Anime/AngelBeats'' when the group decides that the best way to get past the [[spoiler:clones of Angel]] is to impale themselves on the enemies' blades (since they're already dead, they eventually get better) and use the difference in size and weight to pin them down so that the others can move on. While the first instance is treated seriously, each successive sacrifice gets faux-dramatic music, a BondOneLiner, anguished SayMyName from the survivors, until it gets to the point where it's treated as slapstick. |
| 36 | ** TK also sacrifices himself to save the group from a crushing ceiling, complete with a speech and dramatic music that immediately cuts out when everyone casually crawls out from under the trap and continues on their way. |
| 37 | ** [[spoiler:Interestingly, the Protagonist has a straight and serious example of a HeroicSacrifice as part of his backstory. While studying to become a doctor, he becomes a victim of a disastrous train crash, with him and everyone else trapped inside a collapsed tunnel. Despite suffering from internal injuries, he spends all his time tending to the other victims in order to keep them alive and healthy until help can arrive. He even fills out his organ donor card right before he dies.]] |
| 38 | * In ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'' there are many heroic deaths, though some are more 'I'll die as a hero' by characters who'd die anyway but want to show off a little. |
| 39 | ** The heroic sacrifice that sets off majority of the events of the rest of the manga:[[spoiler: Sara]] throws herself in front of [[spoiler: Setsuna]], having said a chapter ago that "this time I will be the one to protect you". She consequently [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in his arms]], resulting in the prophecied end of the world. |
| 40 | ** [[spoiler:Zaphikel]], after his wings are cut off -- the most [[ColdBloodedTorture cruel torture]] and death sentence to an angel -- uses the last of his strength to kill the warden endangering a big part of the main cast and [[spoiler:his then-revealed son, Raziel]]. |
| 41 | ** In front of Heaven's gate, [[spoiler:Kato]] gives his life when stopping the nearly closed gate to the highest sphere so [[spoiler:Setsuna]] can slip through, leaving him to be vaporized by a giant meteor [[spoiler:he himself has summoned to kill Lucifer minutes ago. He was about to die anyway, because his 'biomechanical' body was about to decease. He had sacrificed himself twice before when saving Setsuna, and both times had to be resurrected from the brink of near-afterlife existence.]] |
| 42 | * ''Literature/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': [[spoiler: Miledi]] ensures that Hajime and Yue can escape [[spoiler: Ehitorujue's realm, at the cost of her life.]] |
| 43 | * In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', [[spoiler:Eren]] dives straight into a Titan's mouth to pull [[spoiler:Armin]] out, and gets swallowed whole himself (minus an arm). [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}: He comes back. [[OneWingedAngel With a vengeance]].]] |
| 44 | ** {{Deconstructed|Trope}}, if you can believe it. Given the threat of [[HumanoidAbomination the Titans]], the idea of sacrificing yourself to save others has become a societal ideal, and many people do it. However, they tend to [[HesitantSacrifice regret their choice when they finally get to the "sacrifice" part]], but this is usually as they're being digested, so... Also, the very conceit and morality of sacrificing yourself is attacked repeatedly: [[spoiler:Krista has a genuine death wish, and wants to be remembered as someone who died helping others. She actually puts others in danger to try and engineer a situation where she can pull off a sacrifice. When others clue in to this, ''boy'' [[WhatTheHellHero does she get it]]]]. |
| 45 | ** Arguably played straight ''once,'' with [[spoiler: Hannes]] pulling a YouShallNotPass on the Smiling Titan who killed Eren and Mikasa's mother in order to protect them. [[spoiler: It eats him almost immediately, but the situation ends up awakening Eren's ''other'' Titan related ability.]] He may very well have saved the human race with that sacrifice. |
| 46 | ** Not to mention [[spoiler: Armin]], who sacrifices himself when fighting [[spoiler: the Colossal Titan]] so that Eren can win. [[spoiler: [[CallBack Call backs]] are made to earlier in the series when he expresses his dream to see the ocean, and when he says that those who cannot throw anything away cannot change anything themselves. Bertolt expresses shock that Armin's final act with his brilliant mind was a self-sacrificial one, and Eren says that Armin was braver than any of them, after having cut Bertolt out of the Colossal Titan's nape.]] [[spoiler:Like with Eren, it's also {{Subverted|Trope}} and he becomes the new Colossal Titan after Levi titanizes him to save his life and he eats Bertolt.]] |
| 47 | ** Finally, the biggest death so far has to be [[spoiler: Hange, who decided to buy the crew time to fix the plane Floch shot. Sadly, Hange would be vaporized to death by the giant titan's fume, but not before killing one of many.]] |
| 48 | * ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' has a few instances of this: |
| 49 | ** [[spoiler:Drago]] has to merge with the Perfect Core at the end of the first series in order to save Vestroia for the other Bakugan, losing his physical form. However, he regains it back at the start of ''New Vestroia'', [[TimeSkip which takes place a few years after the events of the first series]]. |
| 50 | ** The last episode of ''New Vestroia'' has no one, but two examples. First [[spoiler:Professor Clay chooses to stay behind in the Alternative when he gets trapped instead of having Mira and Keith risk their lives to save him]]. Second, [[spoiler:Prince Hydron goes against [[AbusiveParents his father]] and makes sure he goes down with the quickly collapsing ship, resulting in both dying.]] |
| 51 | * The character [[spoiler: Judeau]] from ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' definitely earns this one. When the Eclipse goes into full swing, he grabs Casca, the newly made acting Commander, and does everything he can to get her to safety -- [[spoiler:including shielding her from attacks and being fatally wounded in the process.]] |
| 52 | ** [[spoiler: Pippin]] also qualifies. He steps in to save the Commander from a demon, and willingly stays behind against insurmountable odds in order to buy her and Judeau time to escape. |
| 53 | ** Guts' HeroicSacrifice is of the non-fatal kind. When Femto [[spoiler:rapes Casca]], Guts brutally hacks off his own trapped arm with a broken sword so that he can get to them. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' [[spoiler:has this as the main premise of its entire plot]], since it turns out that [[spoiler:the GiantMecha Zearth drains the life force of whoever is currently piloting it. As such, its [[PoweredByAForsakenChild (child)]] pilots die whenever they're finished using it. However, if they don't, the invading GiantMecha (all of which are also piloted by children from alternate dimensions) will destroy their universe. With this in mind, Seki, Tanaka, Ushiro, Machi, and Kana(manga only) all join ''after'' the game has started and they ''know'' they'll die if they have to pilot]]. Yeah, it's that kind of series. |
| 55 | * In ''Manga/Brave10'', there are a few: |
| 56 | ** In the anime adaptation, Rokuro attempts one after he reveals that the prophecy was about [[spoiler:having the ten Braves sacrifice their lives to stop Izanami no Mikoto.]] Saizo was having none of that, however, and put a stop to it. |
| 57 | ** In the sequel manga, [[spoiler:Isanami decides to sacrifice herself to her SuperpoweredEvilSide Izanami to prevent any more of the Braves being hurt by Susanoo, and at the very end of the story, she stays in Yomi alone.]] |
| 58 | ** Also in the sequel, [[spoiler:Kakei pulls one against Susanoo]] to save Rokuro at the final battle. |
| 59 | * In the same episode of ''Anime/TheBraveExpressMightGaine'', [[spoiler:Guard Diver]] dies protecting a child and [[spoiler:Battle Bomber]] dies taking a fatal blow for Maito and Great Might Gaine. |
| 60 | * ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': During the third arc of the series, [[TheGoodCaptain Captain Bravo]] [[spoiler:uses his impenetrable Silver Skin buso renkin to shield Kazuki, Tokiko and Gouta from Hiwatari's napalm bomb, while he takes the full force of the attack. [[DownplayedTrope While he doesn't die from the sacrifice]], he is wounded seriously enough that he spend the rest of the series in recovery, and the BigGood has to alter his plans to compensate for his absence.]] |
| 61 | * In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Kamijou Touma in the end of the Third World War fought against the Archangel Gabriel in the Star of Bethlehem, for the sake of the world which was going to be destroyed if the archangel absorbed the ice of the Arctic Sea, with this Kamijou experienced a near death incident. |
| 62 | * In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', TheScrappy [[spoiler:Rolo Lamperouge]] redeems himself by [[spoiler:overloading his MagicalEye to carry Lelouch to safety, fully aware that the strain from using it for so long with so much range would be too much for his heart to endure]]. |
| 63 | ** Also, earlier in the season, one of Toudou's lieutenants, Urabe, sacrifices himself to distract Rolo and buy Zero time to escape. |
| 64 | ** Also, [[spoiler:Gilbert G.P. Guilford]] believed he was sacrificing his life to save [[spoiler:his princess, Cornelia]], but he was actually saving [[spoiler:Zero, his mortal enemy, who had hypnotized Guilford into thinking Zero was Cornelia.]] |
| 65 | *** Later, [[spoiler: it turns out he's NotQuiteDead.]] |
| 66 | ** [[spoiler: Lelouch himself, combined with a ZeroApprovalGambit.]] |
| 67 | ** C.C. pulls a subversion in the first season finale, using the Gawain to drag Jeremiah's Siegfried into the ocean, but it isn't a sacrifice since she can't die. She even says (in the Japanese version) "I have no intention of committing lovers' suicide with you!" |
| 68 | *** This one's doubly ineffective. [[spoiler: Jeremiah doesn't die either.]] |
| 69 | * At the end of ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', David rescues Lucy [[spoiler:after Faraday tries to send her back to Arasaka. However, [[FinalBoss Adam Smasher]] drops in and relentlessly hunts the two. Knowing how outmatched he is against Smasher, David hands Lucy over to Falco to give her a chance to live as she is the only thing he has left in his life. He then buys them time to escape Arasaka Tower by provoking Adam Smasher into a HopelessBossFight. Smasher proceeds to quickly and utterly defeat David before ultimately killing him. However, David ultimately [[GoOutWithASmile goes down smiling]], knowing that his loved one made it to safety.]] |
| 70 | * ''Manga/Cyborg009'' was intended to end with one of these, that overlapped with a SenselessSacrifice (and the story appears to indeed end this way in the 2001 anime, "God's War" OVA arc aside): [[spoiler: 002 goes up into space to save 009, but then reveals he doesn't have enough fuel for both of them to make it back to Earth. 009 pleads with 002 to leave him behind and save himself, but 002 insists upon not abandoning him, even if they'd both wind up dying together. The two plummet towards Earth, and appear to burn up in re-entry, becoming a "shooting star". One retcon later, and the two were revealed to have survived, but were still damaged and wound up comatose for a few months when Dr. Gilmore had to repair their burnt and mangled bodies.]] |
| 71 | ** The 1980 film "Legend of the Super Galaxy" also has a sacrifice involved in its plot: [[spoiler: 004, already a suicidal DeathSeeker, insists upon staying behind in the enemy's ship. After gun shots breach his body and trigger the atom bomb stored inside, he explodes, causing the ship and its entire fleet to be vaporized. However, by the end of the film, 004 finds himself resurrected and back on Earth, thanks to 009 temporarily gaining reality-warping powers and subconsciously wishing him back to life. The execution of 004's resurrection was criticized, however, and some later TV broadcasts of the film removed the scene where he was revealed to be alive again.]] |
| 72 | ** The manga version of "Conclusion: God's War" has some sacrifices, albeit ones that overlap with being senseless ones: [[spoiler: 006 is the first to sacrifice himself, although it winds up not being enough to stop the fleets of gods and mythical creatures that the cyborgs are up against. 008 then volunteers to sacrifice himself, against the pleas of 002, and dies as well. Finally, after being crippled, 004 orders 007 to fly him away to a secluded spot and leave him behind -- so he can use the atom bomb in his body to take out more of the hordes.]] |
| 73 | * In ''Anime/DaikyouryuNoJidai'', Zhu the ''Triceratops'' fights to protect his adopted human parents from the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' that had killed his actual family. Despite being wounded by the T.rex, Zhu pushes the carnivore off the cliff, and falls to his own death in the process, to keep the predator away from the kids. |
| 74 | * ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'': [[spoiler: After his own side betrays him, and Kento welcomes him with open arms, Kloppen realizes that his adoptive father figure Grand Emperor Dolmen was the true villain all along. He willingly gives up his organs to a severely injured Harlin, even though Kento tries to stop him. Kloppen, despite being injured, forces himself towards Harlin and sings his praises as his last words.]] |
| 75 | -->[[spoiler: '''Kloppen:''' ''"Transplanting my organs into Harlin isn't just for him, it's also for me. I want to live through him! Harlin! This body I received from you...I will now give it back!"'']] |
| 76 | * ''Manga/DarwinsGame'': |
| 77 | ** The unnamed police officers in the early chapters spends his last moments helping Kaname run from a knife-wielding murderer. |
| 78 | ** Later on, one of the ''villains'' does this. Though injured, [[spoiler: Kanehira still uses his last moments to help someone who paid for his protection escape from some powerful monsters]]. |
| 79 | * Played with in ''Manga/DeathNote''. Done straight with [[spoiler: Rem sacrificing herself to kill L and Watari for the sake of Misa's life and happiness, and with Matt, who was trying to stop Kira.]] Less traditionally, [[spoiler: Souchiro accepted the DeadlyUpgrade to gain the power to stop Mello, was killed before he could write the name...but in the end, Takeda did use the name to finish off Mello.]] |
| 80 | ** Subverted in the first live-action movie. Shiori throws herself in front of Light and takes a bullet for him, literally. It seems like she was an unfortunate victim in a LoveTriangle, but it's a lie. [[spoiler:While Light planned for Naomi's death, he also planned for [[FetishizedAbuser Shiori's]]. He intentionally made Naomi kill Shiori in order to draw the attention away from him and look innocent.]] |
| 81 | * At the start of ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', Falin shoves her brother out of the way and manages to cast an escape spell while being eaten by the dragon attacking them, saving the entire party and kicking off the plot. |
| 82 | * In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', Fo fights against the Level 3 Akuma, instead of Allen, adopting his form, [[spoiler: and getting seriously damaged, until Allen awakes his Innocence and defeats the akuma]]. |
| 83 | * In most incarnations of the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' franchise, there is almost always [[PantheraAwesome a Leomon or an otherwise lionlike Digimon]] [[SacrificialLion who sacrifices himself to either save the world or the heroes]]. |
| 84 | ** Every heroic Digimon who dies in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' does so in a HeroicSacrifice, including the very Leomon whose death kicked off the RunningGag. The biggest tear-jerker of them all would be [[spoiler:Wizardmon, who takes a deadly attack from Vamdemon to protect Tailmon and Hikari, and unlike normally dead Digimon, he simply cannot be revived.]] |
| 85 | ** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' had [[spoiler:[=BlackWarGreymon=] sacrifice himself to protect Iori's grandfather from Oikawa, completing his HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 86 | ** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' had Leomon again. It was Leomon's death which actually sparked the final arc of the series, [[spoiler: [[PoweredByAForsakenChild with his tamer Juri's ensuing depression eventually coming to fuel the D-Reaper]].]] |
| 87 | *** [[spoiler: Which leads to Impmon become TheAtoner, manage to enter the D-Reaper, almost get Jeri,and then get nearly fatally impaled by it]] |
| 88 | ** In ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', [[spoiler: Kouichi sacrifices himself to save the kids from Lucemon. This was the first time this befell any of the protagonists, and as usual, his forms were lion-based. Others present include Sorcerymon and and Ophanimon.]] |
| 89 | ** In ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', [[spoiler: [=BanchoLeomon=] (surprise surprise) and Suguru Daimon, though both were the same entity at the time. Mercurymon also did this, again completing a HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 90 | ** In ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', [[spoiler: Deckerdramon sacrifices itself to protect Kiriha and the rest of Xros Heart from Gravimon's gravity attack.]] |
| 91 | ** ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' has this in the form of [[spoiler: Bokomon]] in order to save [[spoiler: Gammamon]]'s life. It gets worse and even more heartbreaking as this leads to [[spoiler: Gammamon Dark Digivolving into [=GulusGammamon=]]]. |
| 92 | * ''Manga/DontMeddleWithMyDaughter'': This is how Athena's husband and Clara's father, the masked hero B.M. the Shooter, died - he blew up an airship he was on to prevent it from crashing into a city of millions, and Athena wasn't able to reach him in time to save him. |
| 93 | ** In Chapter 15, Clara is forced to surrender herself in exchange for Zenovia sparing the people of Tokyo, which would have resulted in her public execution if [[spoiler: her parents]] had not arrived in time to save her. |
| 94 | * This happens a few times in the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' series, though it frequently ends up as a SenselessSacrifice. It's a good thing DeathIsCheap. |
| 95 | ** At the very beginning of ''DBZ'', Goku pulls this off successfully with Piccolo's help against Raditz. Goku grabbed him from behind and told Piccolo to shoot. The attack went straight through Raditz and Goku, killing them both, and Raditz stayed dead for the entire series. Of course, Goku fully expected to be revived later. It may have been a last resort, but hardly permanent for him. |
| 96 | ** Tien and Chaozu both used life-ending attacks on Nappa, and the latter did so knowing he couldn't be revived (as he had already been once before). The best that could be said of their attempts is that Tien did some minor ClothingDamage. |
| 97 | ** In a straighter example, Piccolo saved Gohan from one of Nappa's attacks at the cost of his own life, knowing his death would also kill Kami and thus render the Dragon Balls inert. Luckily, there was another set on Namek which Kami knew of. |
| 98 | ** Piccolo repeats this action years later in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' when he intercepts an attack from Frieza to save a now adult Gohan from being executed. |
| 99 | ** Piccolo does it again in the fight against Frieza, knocking Goku out of the way of Frieza's attack after Goku's Spirit Bomb failed. In this case, his death would have not only killed Kami (again), preventing the use of Earth's Dragon Balls, but also prevented the revival of the Namekians and their currently-inert Dragon Balls. Had he actually died, every death would have been permanent. It was sheer luck that he lived long enough for the necessary wishes to be made to save everyone, himself included. |
| 100 | ** Goku sacrificed himself to stop Cell from blowing up the Earth. It did save the Earth, but Cell regenerated not long after and nearly blew it up again. |
| 101 | ** Vegeta blew himself up to try and take out Buu, but Buu was able to regenerate. Krillin also tried to fight Buu knowing he was hopelessly outclassed so 18 could lead everyone else to safety. Krillin was turned into candy within seconds, followed by 18 and their own child Maron. Everyone else save Dende met the same fate. |
| 102 | ** Old Kai in the Buu saga gives up his life to bring Goku back from the dead. Though it's PlayedForLaughs since, being a god, he just immediately gets back up and starts berating Goku for not hurrying up. |
| 103 | ** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', during the [[DeadlyGame Tournament]] [[DuelToTheDeath of]] [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath Power]] where the losing teams have [[DeaderThanDead everyone -- including the Gods and the participants themselves -- in their universe, except for the Angels, erased from existence]] by [[TopGod Zen’ō]] [[JerkassGods Sama]], [[spoiler:only Goku, Vegeta, Frieza, and Android No.17 remained to fight against Jiren during the final round between Universes 7 and 11. Jiren, who is [[WorldsStrongestMan absurdly powerful]], tosses around Goku and Vegeta [[CurbstompBattle like they are nothing]]. Even Frieza couldn't do anything. In order to ensure Goku and Vegeta could regain more energy for even a second, No.17 erected barriers around them and held off the blast as long as he could before [[SuicideAttack self-destructing]] to neutralize it. To say Universe 7 took it well would be a ''massive'' understatement.]] |
| 104 | *** [[spoiler:Subverted in that in Episode 130, it is revealed that 17 actually survived. [[GambitRoulette It was still a gamble though]].]] |
| 105 | ** Episode 131 [[spoiler: has a non-lethal variant where Goku and Frieza ring themselves out to take down Jiren.]] |
| 106 | ** In ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', the Earth is about to explode thanks to the Black Star Dragon Balls. While everyone else evacuates the dying planet, Piccolo chooses to stay behind so that the Black Star balls will be neutralized. Later on, he forfeits his spot in Heaven so that he can rescue Goku, who has been trapped in Hell. After Goku escapes, he chooses to stay and basically becomes prison warden to the residents of Hell. |
| 107 | * In ''Manga/DropkickOnMyDevil'', [[spoiler: the finale to ''X'' has the sun falling down to Earth due to Mei's reckless gunshots hitting it during a pool party hosted by the main characters. Trying to regain her status as a noble demon, Jashin decides to fly into the sun as encouraged by everyone, but it is left ambiguous if she makes it back or not as the episode ends while she is performing a dropkick.]] |
| 108 | * Arguably [[spoiler: Lucy]] towards the end of the manga adaptation of ''Manga/ElfenLied''. [[spoiler: Lucy realizes that Kouta is dying of multiple gunshot wounds and decides to use her vectors to help heal them, despite the knowing that using her power to that extent would cause her body to become unstable and deteriorate.]] |
| 109 | ** A girl is mortally wounded TakingTheBullet for a young Lucy when she's finally tracked down. Lucy, in turn, submits and allows herself to be captured on the condition the girl is saved. |
| 110 | * In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Erza Scarlet and Master Makarov try to go through this several times throughout the story but haven't quite managed to pull it off. Erza actually stops doing this after the Tower of Heaven arc. Makarov will try this any time the guild as a whole is at stake, [[spoiler: even against Acnologia.]] |
| 111 | ** Also with [[spoiler:Ur]] in Gray's flashback in the Galuna Island Arc. [[spoiler: Ur casts the spell "Iced Shell", knowing it would ruin her body to seal Deliora as well as save Lyon and Gray.]] |
| 112 | ** [[spoiler: Her daughter follows in her footsteps. As everyone is getting their asses killed by dragons, Ultear casts a spell to rewind time at the cost of her life, but is only able to turn back a minute, much to her horror. She appears to die thinking she died in vain, not knowing that one minute actually ends up saving most of the heroes' lives and turning the battle in their favour, but it turns out her spell actually aged her very quickly instead of outright killing her, allowing her to see that her efforts helped.]] |
| 113 | * Happens in ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' twice, one the rare non-lethal way, and another the usual lethal way: |
| 114 | ** The non-lethal version: [[spoiler: Princess Charlotte/Tabitha and her mother, the duchess of Orléans, were in a high-class party. At some point a waiter handed Charlotte a drink while smiling weirdly; the Duchess was aware that Charlotte's EvilUncle Joseph wanted to harm her as she was the next in line for the Kingdom of Gallia, so she immediately took the glass and drank the contents whole. While the lady survived the incident, [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink the poison in the spiked drink]] caused her such brain/body damage that she ended up as a madwoman, [[BabyDollBaby holding a doll that she mistook as her daughter]]. Still, after Joseph's death in battle an antidote was brewed and given to her, and she ultimately recovered.]] |
| 115 | ** The lethal version: [[spoiler:Saito pulls a YouShallNotPass against an army of 70,000 men in order to ensure that Henrietta's army, which includes his master/girlfriend [[{{Tsundere}} Louise]] can escape, mananging to cut down everyone in melee range before being riddled with arrows and fireballs. He's [[BackFromTheDead resurrected]] shortly afterwards by Tiffania's magic, but [[DyingMomentOfAwesome STILL]].]] |
| 116 | * Two examples turn up in ''Anime/Figure17TsubasaAndHikaru''. First off, early in the series, DD's first "Figure" unit sacrifices itself in order to move him away from fatal attacks that ''would'' have killed him had it saved itself by deactivating -- this appears to be something of a standard for the semi-sentient bio-armour. The second is a bit curious: [[spoiler:Hikaru ''attempts'' to do exactly the same thing to save Tsubasa from a similar attack, but Tsubasa somehow overrides her and forces them to keep fighting. This might, however, be the reason Hikaru's energy suddenly started to drain so fast later on, leading to a heroic sacrifice at the end where she burns the last of her power to participate in the final battle, and subsequently protect Tsubasa during the fall from orbit.]] |
| 117 | * In ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'', [[spoiler:Gray]] touches the Phantom Gaia to heal it and save Earth, knowing that (meta)physical contact with any alien spirit is fatal. |
| 118 | * The final episode of ''Anime/FinalFantasyUnlimited'' has [[spoiler:Kaze, Kumo, Lou and Moogle]] all sacrifice their lives (though some of them are already mortally wounded) to power the ultimate summons against the final boss. |
| 119 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 120 | ** [[spoiler:Al sacrifices himself towards the end to bring back Edward's missing arm so he can defeat Father.]] It's subverted, however, in that [[spoiler:his sacrifice actually made it easier for him to come back alive and whole]]. |
| 121 | ** [[spoiler:''Greed'' does this to protect Ling from pointlessly dying in the latter's futile effort to ''save Greed'' from being absorbed by Father. Greed also manages to severely weaken Father in this act. Unlike Al, however, Greed ''doesn't'' subvert it.]] |
| 122 | ** After being severely wounded, [[spoiler:Lan Fan severs her own arm with her kunai when Ling refuses to leave her behind in order to spare him from death.]] |
| 123 | ** The reason Scar is alive when the main story begins is because [[spoiler:his brother sacrificed his own arm to replace the one that Scar lost to Kimbley]]. |
| 124 | ** During the endgame, [[spoiler:after Major Bucanner & veteran shinobi Fu both fail to take down Wrath and are mortally wounded in the process, Buccaneer uses his last breath to stab Wrath ''through'' Fu's body. The old man thanks him for allowing his death to cripple (or at least harm) Bradley, who throughout the entire battle hadn't taken so much as a single hit after taking out multiple opponents]]. |
| 125 | ---> '''[[spoiler:Buccaneer]]:''' "Alright old man, maybe you are going to hell, but you're not going alone. I'll keep you company on the ride down." |
| 126 | ---> '''[[spoiler:Fu]]:''' "Thank... you." |
| 127 | ** A rather strange example from the manga, but [[spoiler:the souls of Xerxes trapped within Hohenheim. Over his long life, Hohenheim has personally spoken to every single soul trapped within him, and explained his plan for thwarting Father. This plan necessitates using their souls as fuel for a massive alchemic reaction, essentially sacrificing them. The souls are compliant with this, though, happy to be used for the sake of defeating the one who did this to them.]] |
| 128 | ** Occurs in the final episode of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', when [[spoiler:Al [[BalancingDeathsBooks sacrifices himself to bring Ed back to life]]... and then Ed promptly sacrifices himself to bring Al back]]. |
| 129 | ** Wrath pulls one in ''[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa Conqueror of Shamballa]]'' during his fight with [[spoiler:Gluttony. Punching his automail arm into the ground, he allows Gluttony to bite him. As the monster chews on him, he tells Al to transmute both of them so that the Gate can be summoned. After a moment's hesitation, Al obliges]]. |
| 130 | ** Also from the movie ''Conqueror of Shamballa'': [[spoiler:Alfons knew he was going to be killed for a traitor if he helped Ed reach his world and stop the Nazis from invading it, but he did it anyway (albeit against Ed's own will). He is shot to death right away and dies with a smile on his face as he watches Ed go]]. |
| 131 | * In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', we have Nuriko, who dies fighting a werewolf so Miaka can get the [[{{MacGuffin}} Shinzaho]], Hotohori, who gets chi-blasted by Nakago while [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething fighting for the Konan empire]], Chiriko, who commits suicide to free himself from being possessed by Miboshi, and Mitsukake, who uses up the last of his power healing sick and wounded people in Konan. Also, Soi, who dies to protect Nakago. Even Yui makes one, using her final wish to unseal Suzaku, so that Miaka can summon him, resulting in Yui being devoured by Seiryuu. |
| 132 | * A particularly [[MemeticMutation meme-tastic example]] occurs at the end of ''Anime/FZeroGPLegend''. After having his Dark Reactor prematurely destroyed and his plans for destroying and remaking the galaxy ruined by [[TheHero Ryu Suzaku]], [[BigBad Black Shadow]] tries to escape from the destruction so he can lick his wounds and plot anew. However, his escape is prevented by [[MemeticBadass Captain Falcon]], who '''FALCON PUNCH!!!'''es Black Shadow back into the radius of the explosion, incinerating the both of them while at the same time saving the galaxy. |
| 133 | * In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureMaxHeartTheMovie'', Shiny Luminous takes an attack from the Dark Witch to save the prince of the Garden of Hope, which temporarily knocks her out. |
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| 137 | * ''Anime/TheGalaxyRailways'' has a number of these, such as [[spoiler: Manabu's father]] near the beginning and [[spoiler: Vega Platoon]] near the end. |
| 138 | * The ''entire'' cast of ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' (or at least the mecha cast members. The robots make up at least half the cast!) do this at least once. Possibly the most memorable is during a turning point in the original series, where [[spoiler: [[CombiningMecha Choryujin]] grabs a ''meteor'' that was hurtling towards Earth, and gets sent back in time, where he is rendered inoperable for millions of years.]] (Although this one was later reversed when the mech in question is eventually brought back online.) Even more tend to happen in FINAL during the final episode in order to defeat their EvilCounterpart. As a matter of fact, even the ''EVIL CLONES'' of the characters sacrifice themselves to stop [[spoiler: [=GaoFighGar=] from killing J]]. |
| 139 | * [[spoiler: Musashi]] from ''Manga/GetterRobo'', naturally, who is required to die in every incarnation, most of the time via HeroicSacrifice. Given that he's appeared in 3 anime series, a manga and every ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' game bar a few (there are ''dozens'' of them), that's a whole lot of awesome deaths. |
| 140 | * In ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' the Major takes the [[SpiderTank Tachikomas]] out of service because they start to develop too much of their own personalities. Because of their increasingly subversive behaviour she no longer trusts them to reliably follow orders in combat situations, which could be deadly for members of the team, hostages, or bystanders. When the members of Section 9 are hunted by soldiers from a rival government agency and Batou is about to be crushed to death by a soldier wearing a mecha suit, three Tachikomas who escaped from their new civilian assignments come to his rescue at the very last moment, jumping at the heavily armed walking tank with nothing but a single mortar round. [[spoiler:One is instantly shred to pieces by an anti-tank machine gun and the mortar round doesn't properly fire and gets stuck in the barrel. Desperate to save Batou, one of the remaining Tachikoma holds the mecha suit in place by tying itself to it with liquid cables, and the other one charges at them to crush the gun barrel with the mortar round against the attackers chest armor.]] This leads the Major to change her mind and recommission the remaining Tachikomas for service and keep their developing personalities intact. |
| 141 | ** Which turns out to be a very good idea, as the Tachikomas exhibit an extremely strong compulsion to sacrifice themselves if there's no other way to save someone. At the end of the second season [[spoiler:a rocket containing an nuclear warhead is fired at a city scale refuge camp as a staged terrorist attack. To save the people and their friends in the city, they hijack the satellite that contains the servers for their own controls and memories to crash it into the rocket before it reaches it's target. Singing children songs about all people and little animals being alive and happy. Doubles nicely as one of the strongest TearJerker scenes in the series.]] |
| 142 | *** Fortunately, after the first sacrifice, the Tachikomas were smart enough to leave behind backups of their memories on the internet. The Major eventually finds them and they make a return in ''Solid State Society'' where they were thankfully not asked to lay down their lives for the third consecutive time. |
| 143 | * HeroicSacrifice is one of the central themes of ''Anime/GiantRobo: The Day The Earth Stood Still''. No surprise then that the series involves a ''huge'' number of mind-blowing yet touching sacrifices from both heroes and 'villains' alike. |
| 144 | * In ''Manga/TheGirlFromTheOtherSide'', in order to save [[spoiler:Shiva]] from the [[TheCorruption Outsiders’ curse]], [[spoiler:Teacher gives Shiva his soul. While this cures her, it turns Teacher into a BlankSlate who doesn’t even know who Shiva is, and causes him to start to undergo the final stage of the curse –- becoming a tree.]] |
| 145 | * ZigZagged in the final episode of ''Anime/GuiltyCrown''. (Since this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, spoilers will not be hidden in this entry.) At first it seems that Shu is going to sacrifice himself to absorb the Apocalypse Virus and finally free the world from it's horrific take on BodyToJewel, only to find that Inori, whose consciousness was originally thought to have been destroyed when victimized by a case GrandTheftMe, is still alive. It looks like Shu and Inori are going to be TogetherInDeath, but Inori completely gives herself up to the virus and mysteriously vanishes. [[LoadBearingBoss Then the fortress they're in begins to collapse.]] Shu's fate is left ambiguous, but the post-credit epilogue displays that he is alive and healthy, but blind, yet still living happily. |
| 146 | ** Played straight in Episode 15, where after Hare and Shu are caught in an explosion, the former uses her void to heal Shu first, before her void is destroyed by gunfire, killing her. |
| 147 | * In ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', this is how [[spoiler:Jean]] goes out. When used as a HumanShield by Dante, [[spoiler:he orders Rico to kill them both with an anti-material rifle]]. |
| 148 | * In ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure'', Yuri[[spoiler:'s mascot partner Cologne jumps in front of a blast meant for her.]] The event helps cement her HeroicBSOD and TenMinuteRetirement for most of the series. What's even worse? [[spoiler:In the episode Yuri returns to action as Cure Moonlight, it looked like Cologne would come back, only for it to be revealed that he was KilledOffForReal.]] |
| 149 | * Ikaros attempts to do this in the ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'' movie by containing a time bomb with her shield, with her inside of it. Luckily for her, Tomoki successfully manages to disable the bomb before it explodes. |
| 150 | ** Ikaros does it again in the GrandFinale, when [[spoiler: she sacrifices herself to cover for Tomoki entering Synapse. However, she is revived thanks to Tomoki hitting the ResetButton.]] |
| 151 | ** Nymph also pulls one when she [[spoiler: uses her self-destruct in an attempt to take out Minos. It fails, although it does destroy the Zeus core and allow Tomoki access to Synapse.]] |
| 152 | * Non Fatal example in ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': When [[AlphaBitch Kitty]]'s car was about to hit a sheep, Sandybell jumped in front of it and carried the sheep to safety. Even Kitty is impressed by this. |
| 153 | * Towards the end of the ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' manga, [[spoiler: Walter.]] |
| 154 | ** [[spoiler: Commander Penwood and the whole of the command base]], during the [[spoiler: London Invasion]]. |
| 155 | * ''Manga/HoshinEngi'': [[spoiler:During the Sennin war, Fugen ordered an attack from all of the other Juunisen on Bunchu all at once. This gave him the chance to slip in behind Bunchu and use the explosive power of his paope, destroying him and the other Juunisen. Unfortunately, this attack barely hurt Bunchu.]] |
| 156 | * ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'' -- The Producer pulls saves Haruka from falling into the stage pit, but falls himself. |
| 157 | * If Endou Mamoru from ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' is in [[HeroicBSOD his down time]] or if [[CurbStompBattle things goes out of control]] during a soccer match, expect the rest of his team to cover him and take some (usually powerful) shots for him just to pull their captain back to a fight. The shots sometimes even knock them out cold. |
| 158 | * In ''Literature/ImTheVillainessSoImTamingTheFinalBoss'', Aileen [[spoiler: gets in-between Lilia and the transformed Claude to protect him from the Holy Sword. Luckily, she survives due to both her desire to protect him and the fact that the sword shouldn't work on humans.]] |
| 159 | * Averted in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', but not for lack of trying on Miroku's part -- trying to ensure that Sango's younger brother will not have to die, he makes a valiant effort to suck Naraku's heart into the Wind Tunnel in his hand, steadfastly ignoring the poisonous insects and massive amounts of toxic miasma that he's consuming in the process even when it causes him to start [[BloodFromTheMouth bleeding from the mouth,]] [[DeadlyNosebleed nose]], and ''[[TearsOfBlood eyes]]''. He only stops when Inuyasha forces his hand closed. |
| 160 | * Several in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 161 | ** In Part 1, Jonathan's father saved him by [[TakingtheBullet jumping in front of the knife]], when Dio attempted to stab him. If it wasn't for his father, the main character of Part 1 and ancestor of the all other main characters [[spoiler:up to part 6]], would have died, before the story even started properly. |
| 162 | ** [[spoiler:William Antonio Zeppeli]] going into the fight with [[spoiler:Tarkus]], disregarding the prophecy, that he would die in this fight. Not only that, [[spoiler: but after he (as predicted) gets bisected, he gives all his remaining power to Jonathan,]] making him powerful enough to win. |
| 163 | ** In the end of Part 1, [[spoiler: [[TheHeroDies Jonathan himself does it, by blowing up the boat with him and Dio on it]], in order to kill Dio and save his wife, unborn son, and an infant girl whose mother ''also'' sacrificed herself to save her little girl from Dio's zombies. His family and the girl manage to survive.]] |
| 164 | ** In order to destroy [[BigBad Kars]] in Part 2, after [[spoiler:he becomes [[UltimateLifeForm the perfect life form]], Joseph attempts to crash his plane along with him into an active volcano. However, not only [[SubvertedTrope is he saved]], but Kars survives as well... until the volcano erupts, sending Kars into space and leaving an injured Joseph to fall back from the stratosphere. However [[ZigZaggingTrope he still manages to survive the fall]], gets treated from his injuries and [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral shows up at his funeral later on]].]] |
| 165 | ** Stroheim deserves a mention as well, for [[spoiler:saving Joseph from crashing into a volcano by jumping from a plane while holding him and using his own cyborg body to soften the impact, breaking both legs in the process.]] |
| 166 | ** Stroheim attempts to do that several times, when Santana escapes the lab -- [[spoiler:first, he attempts to blow up entire lab along with himself, then asks Joseph to cut off his leg, so he would be able to reach the door to open it and burn Santana with sunlight; and after Santana hides in his body, blows himself up with a grenade in order to destroy both of them. Even though [[SenselessSacrifice Santana survives that]], it gives Joseph a chance to expose him to sunlight, which turns him into stone.]] |
| 167 | ** Another moment from Part II is when Caesar [[spoiler:uses the last of his Hamon energy to send the antidote out to Joseph in the form of a bubble. Caesar is already close to death, but his final actions allow Joseph to reverse the effects of the poison ring that the Pillar Men placed inside him.]] |
| 168 | ** Joseph sacrifices himself again (and once again, [[SubvertedTrope non-lethally]]) in Part 4. [[spoiler: This time, in order to save a drowning infant with the power to turn herself and her surroundings invisible, he cuts his own wrists and paints the water with his blood, finding her by seeking a spot where water is invisible. Joseph himself suggests that he might die after doing this.]] |
| 169 | ** In part 3, after Polnareff [[TenMinuteRetirement storms off from the group]] and is promptly ambushed by Hol Horse and J.Geil, [[spoiler: Avdol saves his life by quite literally jumping in front of a bullet.]] |
| 170 | ** Near the climax of the Part, the fight with [[spoiler: [[HeroKiller Vanilla Ice]] requires two sacrifices in the row -- first, Avdol pushed Polnareff out of the way of [[TakingtheBullet Vanilla's first attack and got most of his body disintegrated]], and then [[TeamPet Iggy]], while already being heavily injured, used his powers to move Polnareff out of the attacks way, which led to him [[HeroicRROD dying from physical strain.]]]] |
| 171 | ** In the final fight of Part III, [[spoiler: Kakyoin sacrifices himself to support Jotaro. After DIO oneshots him, Kakyoin is smashed into a water tanker, free to retire or act dead. Instead, he [[DefiantToTheEnd figures out the secret of DIO's Stand and puts in all his remaining life force to convey this, dying in the process.]] [[DyingClue This information is critical in the heroes' victory.]]]] |
| 172 | ** During Part VI, after a confrontation with Whitesnake that resulted in [[spoiler:Foo Fighters losing her human body]], she uses the last of her strength to save Anasui's life after his own run-in with Whitesnake. |
| 173 | ** End of part 6 have [[spoiler: three attempted sacrifices in the row]] -- first, [[spoiler:Annasui sends his stand into Jotaro and absorbs a cut to the neck]] that would've killed him otherwise, and then attempts to use the same trick [[spoiler:to protect everyone, [[SubvertedTrope but gets killed before he manages to do so]]]]. Then,[[spoiler: Jotaro decides to protect Jolyne from [[FlechetteStorm knives thrown by Pucci]] instead of attacking him, and loses the chance to kill him ([[BatmanGambit just as he anticipated]])]]. And after that, [[spoiler:Jolyne uses her string to tie Emporio to the dolphin in order to give him a chance to escape, but refuses to go with him, knowing that Pucci will be able to track her down through his connection with the Joestar bloodline and resorts to a last desperate attempt to kill him]]. At first it looks like a string of [[SenselessSacrifice senseless sacrifices]], but later[[spoiler: Emporio manages to defeat Pucci, restart the universe and bring back the heroes, albeit under different names and living better lives]]. |
| 174 | ** In fact, most of part 6 happened due to Jolyne sacrificing her freedom and deciding to stay in prison, in order to save her father’s life. |
| 175 | * Episode 11 of ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' has two in rapid succession towards the end [[spoiler:that end up getting [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: Serval uses her own strength to throw Kaban and Lucky out of the [[EldritchAbomination Black Cerulean's]] arm attack, which results in her getting [[SwallowedWhole swallowed by the monster]]. Kaban, using her skills, manages to extract Serval from the Cerulean's innards, but because she's laying unconscious on the ground and Kaban doesn't wants her to die, lures the Cerulean far away from Serval, which results in her getting eaten instead. Ultimately, however, both of them are rescued by the other [[LittleBitBeastly Friends]] in a BigDamnHeroes moment.]] |
| 176 | * During the finale of ''Anime/KillLaKill'', Senketsu ultimately [[spoiler: sacrifices himself to save Ryuko from burning up upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere after the final battle.]] |
| 177 | * [[spoiler:The death of Rin's mother Aki ]] in ''Kodomo no Jikan'' technically qualifies as this. [[spoiler:She has lung cancer, but decides the money for expensive treatment to prolongue her life for a short while would be better used to raise Rin as well as possible. She hides it as long as possible; by the time it becomes inescapably noticeable, it's too far gone, and Aki herself dies a relatively quick wasting death.]] |
| 178 | * Mocked in the first few minutes of ''Literature/KonoSuba''. What Kazuma Satou thinks had happened was him pushing a girl from his high school out of the way of a truck, being fatally wounded in her place. What actually happened was that [[UndignifiedDeath he died from cardiac arrest after thinking he had been run over by a slow-moving tractor]]. [[BringMyBrownPants And wet himself in the process]]. [[LastDisrespects And had both the medical personnel and his family laughing over his dead body]]. |
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| 182 | * [[spoiler: Shadow Link]] from ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords2004'' falls victim to this when he [[spoiler: breaks the Dark Mirror, the only thing keeping him and Vaati alive.]] |
| 183 | * ''Anime/{{Macross}}'': |
| 184 | ** In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'', [[spoiler:Micheal sacrifices himself to save Klan's life during a Vajra attack on the Frontier]]. What this even more painful was that was one of the more popular pairings in the series. |
| 185 | ** In ''Anime/MacrossPlus'', we have [[spoiler:Guld Goa Bowman]]'s death, [[spoiler:where he removes the limiter on his YF-21 and [[RammingAlwaysWorks crashes into the Ghost]] to finish it off]]. ManlyTears [[TearJerker can and will be shed]]. Considering that [[spoiler: his TraumaInducedAmnesia is undone and then he recalls how he trashed his friendship with Isamu and Myung]], this doubles as [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath]]. |
| 186 | ** ''Anime/Macross7'': "What is Diamond Force if I can't bring down one battleship?!... Here's your love heart!" |
| 187 | *** To put it into perspective, Lt. Kinryu, in Episode 26, got out of his hospital bet, took an armored Valkyrie out into battle, saw that the Battle 7 was in the middle of transforming, and therefore defenseless, and that one of the Protodevlin ships was about to fire at the Battle 7, had his Valkyrie jettison its armor and charge into the Protodevlin ship (singing along to Fire Bomber's Totsugeki Love Heart), his Valkyrie lost AnArmAndALeg, and just as he got to the core of the Protodevlin ship, his Valkyrie seemed to run out of power. In frustration, he yelled out the first part of the above quote as his Valkyrie powered up again, and he said the second part as a PreMortemOneLiner just before firing his Valkyrie's Gunpod. Doubles as a DyingMomentOfAwesome, without a doubt. You can watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSAwU26JC3k here]] |
| 188 | * [[spoiler: [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots The first Reinforce]]]] of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''. Knowing full well that [[spoiler: her [[EnemyWithout corrupted self-defense program]]]] will come BackFromTheDead since her recovery system is already working hard to repair it, and that it has become impossible for her to restore it to its normal state, she willingly destroys herself to prevent any chance of it going on an [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal rampage]] again. |
| 189 | ** Defied in ''The Battle of Aces'', where [[spoiler: Reinforce intends to take the Dark Pieces into herself and sacrifice herself to stop the Book...]] In Signum's path, the pink-haired LadyOfWar will have nothing of it and they fight. After Signum wins, [[spoiler: she chastises Rein for thinking of doing so.]] Vita and Hayate have similar reactions. |
| 190 | ** Chrono's father Clyde met his doom protecting his men from the [[ArtifactOfDoom Book of Darkness]], either GoingDownWithTheShip to keep it from firing on the rest of the fleet (TV version) or taking it with him into an escape pod to keep it from blowing up his own ship (Movie version). |
| 191 | * One of the major parts of the ending of the series ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}''. Foreshadowed HEAVILY by [[spoiler: the countdown at the end of each episode, showing the exact date that Mahoro will stop functioning (hint: it's the same day as the death of Suguru's father, June 20). Events in the series force her to use a superweapon that shortens her lifespan each time she uses it; at the very end she uses it one last time to protect Suguru, destroying herself and her opponent in a blast that can be seen FROM SPACE. Naturally, this twists Suguru into a very bitter person as seen in the epilogue episode, which deals with how Suguru met his end.]] |
| 192 | * Defied in ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico''. [[spoiler: Gai Daigouji is killed in Episode 3, not as a result of heroically [[HoldTheLine Holding The Line]] to help the Nadesico escape the Earth as he would've wanted, but immediately afterwards, when he's unceremoniously shot in the back by a [[SmugSnake UEAF officer]] as he flees the ship.]] |
| 193 | * ''Anime/MazingerZ'': ... Just one too many. The most remembered was made by [[spoiler: Professor Morimori in Episode 79.]] It is subverted by Boss at an early stage, though. He self-destructed the Boss Borot, but showed up a short while later asking: "Why do I have to die for you, Kouji!?" |
| 194 | ** And in another episode the wife of a secondary character [[spoiler:saves their daughter's life at the cost of her own.]] |
| 195 | ** And in Episode 74 [[spoiler:Sayaka sacrifices Aphrodite-A]] to save Kouji. |
| 196 | ** And in ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' [[spoiler:Kenzo Kabuto]] pulled a kamikaze attack to save Tetsuya. In one of the manga versions, Tetsuya's reaction was [[spoiler:self-detonating Great Mazinger and himself]] to kill all commanders of the Mykene army. |
| 197 | ** And in ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' [[spoiler:Rubina]] gets in the way of an energy beam aimed towards Duke. |
| 198 | ** And in the ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'' movie, two {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s happens BEFORE the opening theme, and later the death of [[spoiler:Morimori]] gets rehashed. |
| 199 | * ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'': Mizuki sacrifices his life to save Ai, the little girl he is partnered with, by pumping all of the parasomeinine in his body into her. |
| 200 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has numerous Heroic Sacrifices, at times with both the Federation and Zeon. |
| 201 | ** [[spoiler:Ryu Jose]] is one of the first to die, [[spoiler:slamming a Core Fighter into the Dopp piloted by Haman, Ramba Ral's grief-stricken lover]]. His death shocks his comrades, and [[SacrificialLion motivates them to become stronger and bring an end to the war before another such tragedy can occur]]. |
| 202 | ** [[spoiler:Matilda Ajan]] is a major, hard-hitting one, [[spoiler:using her Medea to distract the Black Tri-Stars and their Doms, only to have her cockpit smashed and destroyed]] |
| 203 | *** [[spoiler:Matilda's fiancee, Woody]] follows soon after, [[spoiler:attempting to distract Char using a normal fighter plane]]. |
| 204 | ** [[spoiler:Sleggar Law]] is another, [[spoiler:slamming his G-Fighter/Core Booster (depending on the continuity) into the Big Zam, disabling its powerful I-Field]] |
| 205 | ** The hardest-hitting one of all is the death of [[spoiler:Lalah Sune, saving Char from getting skewered by the Gundam's Beam Saber.]] |
| 206 | * Four Murasame of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' pulls double duty {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s! The first time (and the one used in the movie) has her [[spoiler:being shot in the head after allowing Kamille to use a Space Booster to escape into space.]] The second time, [[spoiler:after she got better, was using herself and the Psyco Gundam to block an attack meant for Kamille]] |
| 207 | * At the end of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'', [[spoiler:Amuro Ray sacrifices his own life in his desperate push against the Axis drop which is about to destroy Earth.]] |
| 208 | * ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam: The Steel Seven'' had the threat ended by one of these, when one of the eponymous seven heroes rams the Jovian's Colony Laser that was pointed at Earth, seconds before it fired. The Jovians initially think this a SenselessSacrifice, as the Laser is barely even scratched... but the explosion threw its aim off a tiny bit, and when you're shooting from Jupiter to Earth, that tiny bit adds up and the beam completely misses the Earth Sphere. |
| 209 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'''s Mu La Flaga pushes this to a near limit when he flies the Strike Gundam into the path of a positron cannon blast aimed at the bridge of the Archangel and ''blocks it with his shield'', despite the beam being nearly as big as the Gundam. The Strike is destroyed in the process, and Mu's helmet is seen amongst the rubble. Ironically, the Special Edition of the series would edit that detail out, in a {{Retcon}} to prepare for [[spoiler: Mu's eventual return as the brainwashed Neo Roanoke, though he eventually got his memory back by the end of the series.]] |
| 210 | ** Natarle also performs one, locking terrorist leader Muruta Azrael inside the bridge of the ''Dominion'' with her and refusing to open the door for him, even as he '''repeatedly shoots her.''' |
| 211 | *** Considering how she was one of the more morally ambiguous characters in the show this comes across more as an example of RedemptionEqualsDeath. |
| 212 | ** Nicol as well performs this, when he reveals himself to attack Kira head on while Kira was about to finish Athrun, and ended up taking the BFS instead. His last words telling Athrun to run away while he had the chance. |
| 213 | ** Subverted in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', when [[spoiler: Mu La Flaga, finally remembering who he is, performs an identical act to his prior sacrifice with a superior mobile suit, and survives unscathed.]] |
| 214 | *** And played straight with [[spoiler: Meer Campbell TakingTheBullet for Lacus Clyne.]] |
| 215 | * [[spoiler:Lockon Stratos]] in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''. And another one from Season 2, [[spoiler:Patrick Colasour (he got better).]] |
| 216 | ** Even better is the ending of Season 1 which chained [[spoiler:Lichty and Christina Sierra's moment of UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo]] as he's dying from his heroic sacrifice with [[spoiler:Chistina reporting in to the relieved survivors of the attack, before they realize something isn't right. She gives what is slowly revealed to be her last words trailing on until she is finally KilledMidSentence, coughing up blood by a '''massive''' piece of shrapnel that was in her back '''the whole time'''.]]. It might just bring you to tears. |
| 217 | ** TheMovie [[spoiler: gives us two more, for Andrei Smirnov and Graham Aker. Patrick tries again, bless him, but it's subverted.]] |
| 218 | * ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': |
| 219 | ** Kimihito takes the hit when a purse snatcher tries to slash Centorea with her sword. Fortunately for him, it's subverted when the sword turns out to be just a (very sharp) fake. |
| 220 | ** [[spoiler: Mero almost ends up making one in chapter 37, in order to save Kimihito from drowning. She gives him CPR underwater using the air from her swim bladder, in the process giving up her ability to control her bouyancy. Her tail was heavily damaged from rubble, preventing her from swimming effectively, and she was almost sucked by a current into a grid of spikes. Fortunately, Kimihito managed to use leftover strings from Rachnera to pull her up along with himself being pulled by Miia.]] |
| 221 | * ''Manga/TheMotherOfTheGreatDemonKings10ChildrenInAnotherWorld'': Akari lost her mother after she sacrificed herself to protect Akari from a car cash. |
| 222 | * ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya'': Valentine, a demon idol who has spent years training her singing voice in the hope that her songs can help bring true peace between humans and demons, is utterly horrified when she discovers that her voice has the hidden power to force demons to demonify, which could very easily spread the image of demons as out-of-control monsters instead. She begs Merii to remove her vocal cords so that she can never cause harm like that again. Fortunately this is subverted in the end: Merii was able to identify the organ that was the true cause of the effect, and removed that instead. |
| 223 | * ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' doesn't generally kill off characters in the present-day story, but that doesn't stop it from having heroic sacrifices through [[spoiler:Depower]]s. |
| 224 | ** The first major [[spoiler:Depower]] sacrifice comes from [[spoiler:All Might]], in a face-off against his nemesis, [[spoiler:All for One]]. [[spoiler:All Might]] is forced to extremes in the battle, eventually being forced to [[spoiler:use up the rest of the power of One for All he had left in him after transferring it to his successor, Deku,]] in order to win the battle. At the end of the battle, [[spoiler:All Might]] is left victorious, but essentially powerless and probably with only a few years left to live, forced into retirement, and depriving the world of [[spoiler:his role as the "symbol of peace" for society]]. |
| 225 | ** Later on in the series, some villains have developed a drug which permanently [[spoiler:Depower]]s anyone, and they've loaded into darts for easy deployment against heroes. This drug was made using the power of a young girl, Eri, whose power to reverse time was so powerful that she inadvertently caused the death of her own father in the blink of an eye and was left afraid of what she might do to anyone else. In a confrontation with the villains, one of them shoots a dart at Eri, trusting in the heroic nature of [[spoiler:Mirio]], who doesn't know what the darts do, to lead him to take the shot for her -- leading to an unfortunate StupidSacrifice from his lack of knowledge, as it would have been better for both of them if he'd just let Eri get shot. Unlike the case of [[spoiler:All Might]] though, [[spoiler:Mirio]] is stripped of his powers, but not his physical strength or training, so he's still predicted to have a great future as a hero, and he does later get his power back, making it a zigzag. |
| 226 | *** Eri herself makes a sacrifice of her own in more than one instance. As much as the heroes are trying to save her, she's willing to remain under Overhaul's thumb just to ensure that the heroes don't die for her sake. As Mirio lampshades, she's kinder than everyone else in the complex, ''including the heroes themselves.'' But this also stresses how little she values her life and safety, thanks to the lifelong abuse she suffers under Overhaul. |
| 227 | ** Aizawa counts as well. He suffered a DramaPreservingHandicap in the Paranormal Liberation War trying to stop Shigaraki from using Decay. Shigaraki attempted to blind him along with Aizawa cutting off his own leg to stop one of the quirk-erasing bullets he was shot with. He got a prosthetic leg and may still be able to use Binding Cloth style but with only one eye remaining and possibly earlier damage from having his face repeatedly slammed into the ground by a nomu during the [=USJ=] incident, he can no longer effectively use Erasure. |
| 228 | ** In the film ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaHeroesRising'', [[spoiler:with Nine poised to steal Katsuma's HealingFactor quirk and everyone in class 1-A overpowered, Midoriya is left with only one path to victory: transferring One For All to Bakugo, allowing them to both fight with enough power to finally defeat Nine. Midoriya is well aware that this would leave him {{Depower}}ed and end his dream of becoming a pro hero, but is willing to make the sacrifice regardless to protect Katsuma. Thankfully, [[HandWave Midoriya's transfer of One For All was incomplete due to the will of the quirk's previous owners, allowing Midoriya to retain his power and keep pursuing his dream.]]]] |
| 229 | ** A few pro heroes like Midnight die in the Paranormal Liberation War arc. |
| 230 | ** Oboro Shirakumo is a rare straight example in the franchise. He died protecting Aizawa and Present Mic from a building collapse. |
| 231 | * In ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', Esteban's father dies in his attempt to prevent a Phlebotinum Overload that could threaten the entire world. |
| 232 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 233 | ** The basic premise of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', wherein the Fourth Hokage gave his life to seal the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox into the titular character. |
| 234 | ** In the same incident, [[spoiler: Minato's wife and partner Kushina allowed herself to be impaled with a giant claw to protect the baby Naruto and then help Minato as much as she could to make the seals.]] |
| 235 | ** The Third Hokage used the same kamikaze technique as the Fourth to seal Orochimaru's arms so that Orochimaru's quest to obtain all the world's jutsu would be temporarily halted. |
| 236 | ** The first on-screen example, Sasuke during the battle at the bridge, is subverted when it turns out that Haku never meant to kill him. The next self-sacrificer is Haku, aka "chidori to the chest to save Zabuza". |
| 237 | ** Enforced in the [[Anime/NarutoShippudenTheMovie first]] ''Shippuden'' movie, where the visions of Priestess Shion predict the people who give their life for hers. [[spoiler: The prophecies are so accurate because she ''tells'' people they're going to die: they can be defied.]] At the end of the film [[spoiler:Shion almost succeeds in sacrificing herself to destroy the demon and save Naruto, but Naruto pulls her out of it at the last second, and destroys it through a different method.]] |
| 238 | ** Chiyo [[spoiler:sacrificed her remaining LifeEnergy to resurrect Gaara, redeeming her part in the sealing of the Ichibi]].\ |
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| 240 | Before this, Sakura and Lady Chiyo played self-sacrifice tennis. First Sakura [[spoiler:takes Sasori's sword thrust to protect Lady Chiyo, then insists that Chiyo take the poison antidote (they had both been poisoned).]] Two nil. Then Lady Chiyo counter-attacks by [[spoiler:jabbing Sakura with the antidote syringe and using part of her life energy to sort-of-resurrect her.]] Two all. But [[spoiler:Lady Chiyo]] got the last move, and so won the game. |
| 241 | ** [[spoiler:Hinata]] pulls this off when she [[spoiler: attempts to protect Naruto]] from Pain by buying him time, via an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, only for Pain to respond by brutally trying to [[StuffedIntoTheFridge fridge her]]. [[spoiler:Fortunately, she gets better.]] |
| 242 | ** [[spoiler:Jiraiya]] had the chance to escape from [[spoiler: Pain]] but sacrificed himself in order to get and relay crucial intel on the enemy that could not be obtained by anyone else. |
| 243 | ** During Pain's attack on Konoha, [[spoiler: PapaWolf Chouza Akimichi and Kakashi Hatake]] ''both'' do this to save Chouji. The former [[TakingTheBullet takes a hit]] from Pain in order to protect [[spoiler:his son]], while the latter sacrifices himself by [[spoiler:using the last of his chakra on his Mangekyo Sharingan]] to prevent a missile from hitting him, so that Chouji could deliver vital information to Tsunade. [[spoiler:Like Hinata, Chouza survives. Kakashi isn't so lucky... until he gets better.]] |
| 244 | *** And from later in the same battle, [[spoiler: ''Pain'' managed to pull this off, earning himself Redemption at the same time. Having acknowledged the folly of his earlier actions, Pain]] activates a [[AuthorsSavingThrow kinjutsu]] [[spoiler: which resurrects all of his victims in Konoha]] at the cost of his own life. |
| 245 | ** Kakashi himself was once saved in childhood by his Naruto-like teammate Obito Uchiha. When their teammate Rin was kidnapped during a mission, Obito [[WhatTheHellHero called him out]] on his callous choice of leaving her behind, choosing instead to save her. They did, and the enemy caused a cave in, where all of them would have been [[ChunkySalsaRule chunky salsa]] had Obito not pushed them away though he himself would be crushed. As a last gift, he gave Kakashi his [[TragicKeepsake Sharingan eye]] to replace Kakashi's own injured left eye.\ |
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| 247 | Kakashi's other team-mate, Rin Nohara, [[spoiler:threw herself in front of Kakashi's chidori]] to prevent [[spoiler:the Tailed Beast inside her from destroying Konoha.]] The ensuing trauma was quite bad. |
| 248 | ** Itachi Uchiha [[spoiler:purposely lost the battle with his younger brother Sasuke to die as a villain, thus preserving the honor of the Uchiha name and making Sasuke a hero in the eyes of the village simultaneously. He also granted Sasuke a new ocular Jutsu named Amaterasu.]] |
| 249 | ** Itachi's best friend, Shisui, [[spoiler:the guy he supposedly killed for the Mangekyo Sharingan,]] had been tasked by the clan to keep an eye on Itachi, who they suspected was feeding information to the village. [[spoiler:It turns out that he was with Itachi on this one, having the same UndyingLoyalty to Konoha as his friend.]] He originally planned to [[spoiler:use ''his'' Mangekyo Sharingan to]] place the entire clan under a genjutsu [[spoiler:(the most powerful in the world) to prevent the coup and simultaneously prevent a significant loss in military power.]] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain But then]] [[spoiler:Danzo stole one of his eyes]]. Unable to go through with the original plan, [[spoiler:he handed his other eye to Itachi and had him help him commit suicide in such a way that Itachi would gain the Mangekyo Sharingan to aid him with the massacre.]] Thus, Itachi's strange behavior prior to the massacre was not just because he was about to kill his entire family: [[spoiler:he was also legitimately mourning his best friend.]] |
| 250 | ** The Fourth Shinobi War's first act was mostly non-fatal (to main characters, anyway) until [[spoiler:Neji Hyuuga]] [[TakingTheBullet intercepted a barrage of wooden spikes]] that were aimed at [[spoiler:Naruto and Hinata.]] |
| 251 | ** Subverted after [[spoiler:Obito's defeat. He attempted to use the same jutsu Pain used to revive his victims in Konoha in order to revive his own victims from the war, in exchange for his life. However, Madara hijacked the jutsu in order to revive himself instead, effectively giving Obito a death sentence.]] |
| 252 | *** Double Subverted when [[spoiler:Obito lived long enough to not be denied his redemption when he and Kakashi used themselves as shields to save Sasuke and Naruto from disintegrating bone stakes sent their way. Obito ended up teleporting one away, the one that would have hit Kakashi, rather than the other one, which hit him. Granted, he was a dead man anyway, but still, it deserves mention. He gave some final words to both Naruto and Kakashi before he finished disintegrating, telling Kakashi not to come after him anytime soon, and Naruto to become Hokage no matter what.]] |
| 253 | ** [[BoisterousBruiser Might Guy]] attempted this by opening all eight chakra gates (huge temporary power boost at the cost of dying in minutes) to get strong enough to fight off [[BigBad Madara]] until the main characters could get in shape to take him down. He actually would have killed Madara for good too, if it wasn't for his practical {{Immortality}}. Eventually subverted, since [[spoiler:one of the abilities Naruto got from his power up allowed him to stop Guy from dying]]. |
| 254 | *** Guy's father, Dai, went out with the same eight gates technique Guy used, saving his son and his team. No subversion for him though. |
| 255 | * ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''. Nausicaä, trying to stop the Ohmu attack but instead [[spoiler: getting killed in the stampede]]. |
| 256 | * Not death, but still a pretty big price to pay: in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Tosaka tries to blackmail Negi into being his slave. Realizing that this would screw all the other girls, [[TheWoobie Ako]], of all people, offers to be Tosaka's slave for life, as well as forfeiting any rights she has, if he leaves Negi alone. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Tosaka is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and just forks over the evidence.]] He still doesn't like her afterwards though. |
| 257 | ** Also speaking of the ball; [[spoiler: several secondary characters [[TakingTheBullet take the bullet]] to save members of Ala Alba; Mama Bear for Natsumi, Aisha and Craig for Nodoka, Emily for Yue, and Tosaka for Ako. Soon after that, Jack Rakan himself does a point blank attack on Fate, even though he knows he's about to be erased from existence. Fortunately, they all get better.]] |
| 258 | * Subverted in the most mean-spirited manner possible in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', where [[spoiler:Kaji rescues Fuyutsuki, and is later shot]], and in ''End of Evangelion'', where [[spoiler:Ritsuko tries to blow up the Geofront in front of Rei and Gendo, but fails, and is then shot by Gendo. Then Misato escorts Shinji to EVA-01, but shortly dies from a fatal wound and an explosion. Finally, Asuka makes a superhuman effort to defeat the Mass Production Evas, but is apparently killed in a brutal fashion after running out of power, while Shinji is stuck inside the EVA-01 launching bay, it having been filled with an adhesive bakelite as a security measure attempting to stop the military from fully infiltrating the base. ''All'' of this is in vain as the Human Instrumentality Project and Third Impact occur anyway.]] |
| 259 | ** Rei II and Kaworu played this trope straight in the show. |
| 260 | * ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' has two of these: [[spoiler: Kazam, and Lala Ru]] |
| 261 | * The finale for ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'' has [[spoiler:Ririka]] sacrifice herself [[DiedOnTheirBirthday on her 11th birthday]]. She learns that the [[spoiler:Flower Of Life is essentially within herself]] and that the only way to [[spoiler:stop Dark Joker from killing everything]] is to sacrifice herself. [[spoiler:Subverted as the final shot is her opening her eyes, showing that she somehow survived. It's ambiguous if her peers still remember her existence though]]. |
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| 265 | * ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' has several examples. Thankfully, they're all non-fatal. |
| 266 | ** Toward the end of ''S1'', Onpu uses magic to erase the memories of every {{Muggle}} who gathered at the Maho-Dou that night in an effort to prevent them from triggering the same ForcedTransformation that got Majo Rika and Majo Ruka turned into Witch Frogs. Because such magic is forbidden, and because the charm protecting her from the punishment rotted away from that last usage, Onpu is forced into a 100-year coma. |
| 267 | ** In the ''S1'' finale, Doremi, Hazuki, Aiko, and Pop cast a spell that lifts the punishment from Onpu after she saved them. Because this was considered forbidden magic, the girls had t relinquish their magic, including Onpu due to her abuse of MindControl magic. |
| 268 | ** In the ''Sharp'' finale, the girls have to go inside the [[EldritchLocation Cursed Forest]] to retrieve the Love Supreme flower that can save Hana-chan from dying. Unfortunately, the BigBad guards it, and she effortlessly defeats the girls and shatters their crystals ''despite'' being in [[MidSeasonUpgrade Royal Patraine]]. Fortunately, Doremi is able to pull through and get the flower, but they are all cursed into a 1000-year slumber. A newly healed Hana-chan's first words was able to break the curse, but the girls remained without their magic, forcing them to live as humans again. |
| 269 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 270 | ** During a life-or-death (well, life-or-exile) [[OvertookTheManga game of dodgeball]], Chopper takes a ball to the face to prevent Luffy from being knocked out of the game. The opposing team is so impressed by his HeroicSacrifice that they demand that the referee not declare him out, because "the face is safe". The ref is reluctant at first, because Chopper is in a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting spherical form]] at the time, and it's difficult to tell where his face begins and ends, but eventually succumbs to the pressure. And then declares Chopper out anyway, because he was knocked out-of-bounds. |
| 271 | ** For examples that aren't exclusive to the anime, see Alabasta Arc, which has several: |
| 272 | *** Igaram getting himself blown up to give Vivi and the Strawhats a chance to safely escape Whiskey Peak. |
| 273 | *** Igaram, however, had a ''duty'' to protect her. Vivi's partner, Mr. 9, had no such obligation. And yet when faced with the chance to escape, leaving Vivi at risk, or attacking a man who has the Devil Fruit power of exploding, and even then only buying Vivi a few seconds at most, he takes the latter without hesitating, and immediately disappears in a ball of fire. [[spoiler:Naturally, being ''One Piece'', he is eventually shown to have survived.]] |
| 274 | ----> '''Mr.9:''' Bye bye, baby. |
| 275 | *** Chaka taking on BigBad Crocodile, knowing he can't even wound him, to buy time for Vivi and Kohza. |
| 276 | *** Pell grabbing a giant bomb intended to level the entire city and flying high into the sky with it, thus saving thousands of lives at the cost of him losing his in a colossal explosion. |
| 277 | *** [[spoiler: Although, [[UnexplainedRecovery he survived]], as did Igaram and Chaka.]] |
| 278 | *** The Duck Claw Squad all took a poison that gives the imbiber an immense boost in strength before killing them, in hopes of beating Crocodile. Unlike everyone else who's ever made a heroic sacrifice in Manga/OnePiece, they actually die. The worst part is that it was a SenselessSacrifice as [[spoiler:they don't win against Crocodile. They don't even get to ''fight'' him. Crocodile just stands on a rooftop and lets the potion kill them.]] |
| 279 | *** [[spoiler:Bon Clay]] and his crew act as a distraction to let the Straw Hats escape the Marine blockade around the island. While they survive, all are ultimately jailed and [[spoiler:Bon Clay]] is sent to Impel Down. |
| 280 | ---->'''[[spoiler:Bon Clay]]:''' If we are to fall, let it be in the sea. The flower of friendship is rejoicing. |
| 281 | ** Robin ''[[SubvertedTrope tried]]'' to do this, offering her life to [=CP9=] in order to protect the crew from a Buster Call. The rest of them decided "screw that" and proceeded to rescue her by assembling a makeshift army, raiding one of the most secure islands in the world, ''declaring war on the entire world'', and defeating the world's deadliest assassins. |
| 282 | ** In Thriller Bark, [[spoiler: Zoro offers to let Kuma have his head to prevent him taking Luffy's.]] All that happens, however, is [[spoiler:Kuma making him take all the damage Luffy has sustained ''on top of his own injuries'', in exchange of sparing the rest of the crew.]] |
| 283 | *** That was hardly an act of mercy: [[spoiler:Kuma expected Zoro to die horribly from this. It's a testament to Zoro being a complete Badass that he survived.]] |
| 284 | ** A criminally overlooked Heroic Sacrifice comes from [[spoiler: Sanji in the Skypiea Arc, as the extremely powerful Enel is about to kill Usopp and Nami with a [[ShockAndAwe massive lightning beam]] but Sanji comes in and kicks Usopp out of the way then tells his friends to run and takes the blast himself. If that wasn’t badass enough, Sanji is able to stay conscious and standing long enough to thank Enel for lighting his cigarette]]. |
| 285 | *** [[spoiler: Also worth noting up to that point we have seen Enel lay waste entire cities, create massive craters and vaporise people with that attack, so it’s a testament to Sanji being MadeOfIron the same as Zoro that he was still intact]]. |
| 286 | ** 2/3 of the Strawhat Pirates have flashbacks in which someone close to them sacrificed themselves heroically to some extent. And of those 6, only 2 of them ended with his mentor surviving... albeit with a lost limb. |
| 287 | *** The worst is [[spoiler:Nami's adopted mother letting Arlong kill her since she doesn't have enough money to cover both herself and Nami and Nojiko. [[TearJerker This right after they have a fight where Nami says she wishes was found by rich people so Belle-Mere could afford more for herself.]] [[PlayerPunch Ouch.]]]] |
| 288 | ** This trope is often subverted by Luffy, who adamantly refuses to let any of his crewmates sacrifice themselves for the sake of the crew. As he famously told Vivi, "YOU THINK RISKING ONE LIFE IS ENOUGH?! WHY DON'T YOU TRY RISKING OUR LIVES TOO?! I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!!" |
| 289 | ** The Impel Down arc ends with [[spoiler:Mr. 2 Bon Kurei]] staying behind to ensure the prison breakers gets past its final obstacle. |
| 290 | *** The guy has a special talent for this trope. You may recall that [[spoiler:at the end of the Arabasta arc, Mr. 2 saves the Straw Hats by having himself and his crew act as decoys, then taking on the pursuing Marine fleet in a clearly hopeless battle in order to buy said Straw Hats time to escape. He survived, saving some of his Baroque Works fellows from Hina's execution as well; and was jailed into Impel Down, only to do it again there against even worse odds, ... and ''[[NeverSayDie he still somehow survived.]]''. I don't care how he acts or dresses, I can't possibly imagine how anyone cannot admire the guy.]] |
| 291 | ** [[spoiler:Portgas D. Ace]] pulls one of these off in order [[spoiler:to save the life of his adopted younger brother, Luffy from an attack by [[MagmaMan Akainu]] which ultimately breaks Luffy down completely. Unlike most other examples from ''One Piece'', Ace actually dies.]] This whole situation finally gives Luffy the heroic sacrifice of a family member that had been lacking from his previous history in relation to the other characters. |
| 292 | ** One of the main plotlines of the Punk Hazard arc concerns [[spoiler:a group of children who are being experimented on and fed a highly addictive and dangerous drug under the guise of it being candy. When Mocha (a girl who had developed a natural resistance to the drug) finds out, she tries her best to keep the others from eating any more and further hurting themselves. But when they finally catch up to her and are far to drug crazed to listen to reason, she does the only thing she can to protect her friends... swallow the entire batch and suffer a near fatal overdose.]] |
| 293 | ** A group of Marines fleeing poison gas realize Tashigi won't reach safety due to her insistence on [[NoManLeftBehind making sure everyone escapes]]. Knowing she's more important than them, three of them grab her and throw her to safety, leaving them to be engulfed by the gas. |
| 294 | ** [[spoiler:In the flashback from Act 3 of the Wano Arc, we get a truly epic and tragic example from Kozuki Oden, as during his execution where he and his Retainers are to be StewedAlive, Oden literally [[LoadBearingHero holds his men above his head]] to prevent them being boiled for a full goddamn hour while he himself is in agony but believes it’s is WorthIt for his friends and country. Oden is considered a LongDeadBadass to present day in the series]]. |
| 295 | * ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers'': |
| 296 | ** When Gosaku realizes he'll be executed for teaching Hollander medicine and the (completely accidental) death of Sadanobu's nephew, he begs for his students to be spared, so the knowledge of the inoculation procedure and possible cure for the Redface Pox doesn't die out. |
| 297 | ** O-Shiga, Harusada's taster, voluntarily poisons herself so [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Harusada]] would eat the poisoned food they were giving her. [[spoiler: She dies literally minutes after the poison starts affecting Harusada.]] |
| 298 | * ''Manga/PandoraHearts'': In order to stop [[spoiler:Jack]] from using her sister and Oz, [[spoiler:Alice]] killed herself with a scissor when the Tragedy of Sablier occurred. |
| 299 | ** [[spoiler:Gilbert]] ''burns'' his arm off so he can be free from the vow to obey his real master and return to Oz's side. |
| 300 | ** All Child of Misfortune, although sometimes involuntarily, had to be sacrificed to the Abyss in order to maintain the balance of the universe. And the ones responsible to banish them, of all people, is their closest relatives. |
| 301 | ** Gilbert's happiness means everything to Vincent, and he will do anything in order to achieve it, to the point of [[spoiler:erasing his own existence]] |
| 302 | ** Kevin Regnard offered to gave The Will of The Abyss anything she wants in exchange for his master to be revived. |
| 303 | ---> [[spoiler:'''Kevin:''' You wanted this right eye, right?! No matter if it's arm or leg, I'll give you whatever you want!]] |
| 304 | * ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'': |
| 305 | ** Subverted in Episode 18 when [[spoiler: Himari is kidnapped by the maddened Tabuki and put in a construction cradle that is about to fall off ''several stores'' and Kanba is about to get himself killed to save her. When Himari sees Kanba gravely injured and about to pass out from pain and blood loss, she decides to throw herself off the cradle not just so Kanba will survive, but to wash all the SinsOfOurFathers off her siblings and finish the vicious cycle of hatred. However, her FinalSpeech actually makes Tabuki have a change of heart, so he rescues Himari and returns her unharmed to Shouma and Kanba.]] |
| 306 | ** Also played straighter by [[spoiler: Momoka]], in different degrees. [[spoiler: She's a RealityWarper who [[CastFromHitPoints suffers bodily harm when using her Destiny Diary]], but still uses it to change destinies if she sees it fit. To save a bunny, she suffered a cut on her hand; to rescue her and Tabuki's best friend Yuri from her abusive father, she [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion suffers a backlash that sets her on fire]]... and to stop the "Survival Strategy" set by the terrorist cell that the Takakuras belonged to, she either died or was {{ret gone}}d. (Which is the reason why her ex-boyfriend, Tabuki, was actually so pissed at the Takakuras in the first place.)]] |
| 307 | ** And later? [[spoiler: ''Tabuki'' is the one that attempts this, as in Episode 22 [[TakingTheBullet he shields Yuri with his own body]] from someone attacking both of them with a knife and gets stabbed in the stomach. He bleeds to almost death, but ultimately survives.]] |
| 308 | ** In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler: Ringo tries to play the trope via reciting Momoka's fate-changing spells while knowing she'll burn to death -- Shouma takres the backlash, however, and [[RetGone is written out of existence]] [[DyingDeclarationOfLove while saying "I love you" to her]]. Similarly, Kanba makes a "Survival Strategy" of his own to save Himari definitely, and is {{ret gone}}d too.]] |
| 309 | * In ''Manga/PitaTen'', [[spoiler: as a young child, Kotarou's mother pushed him out of the way of an oncoming truck costing her her life.]] |
| 310 | ** In the anime Misha helps bring back Shia by helping restore people's memory of her knowing full well this will cause her to fail her angel exam which will result in her [[FateWorseThanDeath disappearance]]. |
| 311 | * In ''Manga/{{Planetes}}'', [[spoiler:Tanabe carries a wounded former associate across the lunar surface after crash-landing in an escape pod several miles from the nearest place with air. She runs out of oxygen before reaching their destination; however, her associate has plenty of oxygen left as a result of her being carried while nearly unconscious. Frenzied, Tanabe almost decides to take the oxygen tank from her colleague, but changes her mind at the last second, unwilling to kill at any cost. She begins to convulse in a painful BreakTheCutie moment, and the viewer is left to wonder what happened to her until halfway through the next episode. She suffers terrible nerve damage and is wheelchair-bound, gradually recovering with physiotherapy.]] |
| 312 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' loves this trope, and uses it in almost every one of their [[TheMovie movies]]. |
| 313 | ** [[spoiler: Ash]] gets turned to stone in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', and is revived by the tears of the Pokémon. |
| 314 | ** [[spoiler: The Team Rocket trio]] is willing to do this to help Ash in ''Anime/Pokemon2000'', but they survive [[spoiler:jumping off of Lugia into the sea]]. |
| 315 | ** [[spoiler:Entei]] sacrifices himself to stop the Unown. |
| 316 | ** [[spoiler:Latios]] in ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'', saving his town from an enormous tidal wave. [[spoiler:The first onscreen Pokémon death in the entire series.]] |
| 317 | ** [[spoiler:Lucario]] does this in ''Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew'' [[spoiler:in order to save Mew and the Tree of Beginning]]. |
| 318 | *** [[spoiler: His mentor Sir Aaron does the same at the movie's beginning.]] |
| 319 | ** [[spoiler:Darkrai]] is seen doing this in ''Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai'', [[spoiler:although he [[DisneyDeath spontaneously comes back at the very end]]]]. |
| 320 | *** [[spoiler:Not quite as "spontaneous" as you'd think; after all, Dawn ''did'' ask Palkia to restore everything that had been destroyed by the fighting between it and Dialga. One of those things was Darkrai.]] |
| 321 | ** [[spoiler:Tommy's parents]] crash their helicopter into Jessie and James's metal Kangaskhan replica in order to save their son, Ash and his friends, and all of the Kangaskhan in the Safari Zone. |
| 322 | *** [[spoiler:They survive and live with their reunited son and the Kangaskhan.]] |
| 323 | * The anime version of ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'' has [[MagicalGirl the protagonist]] [[OverclockingAttack overloading]] an evil tree with her own LifeEnergy until it disintegrates, bringing back characters who died in the battle (including the one who died protecting ''her''), all at the cost of her own life. [[TrueLovesKiss She doesn't stay dead for long, though]]. |
| 324 | * Memorably parodied in ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis''. During a filler chapter/episode featuring an eating battle between several teams, Hyoutei's Shishido Ryoh noblly volunteers to drink [[GargleBlaster the disgusting Inui juice]] in order to allow his team to move forward, knowing full well he'll pass out after doing so. He gets a sunset-y "death" scene, his partner and best friend Ohtori pulling a BigNo on him and everything. |
| 325 | * In ''Anime/PsychoPass'', Masaoka does when trying to save his son Ginoza from being killed by a dynamite [[BigBad Makishima]] was using. |
| 326 | * [[spoiler: Madoka]] in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' does the heroic sacrifice big. [[spoiler: With her wish, she is granted the ability to destroy all witches before they are born. She effectively becomes ''a god.'' The sacrifice portion is that she is written out of existence, unable to be known to or interact with anyone. The only person who remembers her is Homura.]] |
| 327 | ** More accurately, [[spoiler:She re-writes the rules of the world so that witches don't exist. It's a long story that has a bit to do with screwing with causality.]] |
| 328 | ** In one of the previous timelines, Madoka lies that she doesn't have any grief seeds, but produces one and uses it to save Homura from becoming a witch because she knows Homura can go back in time. She then requests that Homura perform a MercyKill on her to keep her from becoming a witch herself. |
| 329 | ** [[spoiler:Kyouko Sacrificing herself to kill Sayaka's witch form so Sayaka won't end up DyingAlone.]] |
| 330 | * ''Manga/QueenMillennia'': When Aladdin receives a command from Leopardo to send its current location (where Hajime and Millenium Thieves are), it responds with self-detonation to preserve Hajime's friendship. He [[WeCanRebuildHim is rebuilt]] on Earth. |
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| 334 | * In the movie sequel of ''Literature/RascalDoesNotDreamOfBunnyGirlSenpai'', [[spoiler:Shoko's arc is a big mess of these. Sakuta and Shoko both try to give up their life for the sake of the other; the conflict is only resolved when ''Mai'' gets killed saving Sakuta from his own attempted sacrifice, leaving him to realize that he wants to be with her too much to let himself die. Cue more TimeTravel, eventually culminating in Sakuta pulling a DivingSave to save ''himself''.]] |
| 335 | * [[spoiler:Uni and Gamma]], to revive the dead Arcobaleno in ''Manga/Reborn2004''. |
| 336 | * In ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'', Tougo seemingly dies in the opening of the story while finishing up the Ender King, only to land in Idola's world instead. He attempts this again after running out of [[ThePowerOfFriendship kizuna energy]] to keep fighting, telling Idola to run while he holds the monster off. She scolds him for this, [[SenselessSacrifice pointing out what a stupid idea that is]] considering she has [[HealingHands healing magic]]. |
| 337 | * Kazuya pulls off a non-lethal version in ''Manga/RentAGirlfriend'', when he saves Ruka from falling down a flight of stairs and takes the brunt of the fall. |
| 338 | * ''Manga/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is a DeconstructorFleet to nearly every contemporary manga trope it could reach, and given the {{Heroic Sacrifice}}'s ubiquity, it gets [[DeconstructedTrope eviscerated]] multiple times. [[spoiler: To keep things spoiler-lite, the story shows how, at best, this trope is [[SenselessSacrifice almost never necessary]], can easily teach the recipient how to continue [[DirtyCoward using others as]] a HumanShield, and at worst, may even normalize martyrdom itself as [[YourAnswerToEverything always being the "right" answer in any situation]], which [[ManipulativeBastard bad faith actors]] can [[ExploitedTrope exploit]]. And ''[[MartyrWithoutACause defining yourself as a martyr]]'' [[FateWorseThanDeath is one of the worst things that can happen to you]], largely because [[DespairEventHorizon you have officially lost all hope for yourself]]. Finally, that there is a world of difference between risking your life to save someone and treating personal sacrifice itself as aspirational.]] |
| 339 | * In the reboot of the ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' manga, [[spoiler:after setting in motion a long and convoluted BatmanGambit to resurrect Souseiseki and defeating Kirakishou, who had possessed Souseiseki's body, Suiseiseki manages to finally get the plan in motion when Jun kisses her ring, which is linked to Souseiseki in some odd fashion. However, the plan gets hindered from completion when Suigintou refuses to give back Souseiseki's Rosa Mystica to complete the process. Leaving her with no other option, Suiseiseki decides to insert her own Rosa Mystica into Souseiseki instead, killing herself to let her twin sister live, thereby completing the process of banishing Kirakishou from her body.]] |
| 340 | * [[WorthyOpponent Anubis]], from ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' starts out as a [[HeelFaceTurn villain.]] After being saved by the [[MentorArchetype Ancient One's]] own sacrifice, he takes up his [[LegacyHero mantle.]] Near the end of the series he sacrifices his life and mystic armor in order to save [[LittleMissBadass Lady Kayura]] from [[BigBad Talpa's]] control. |
| 341 | ** [[TheHero Ryo]] pulls one at the very end of the series. He allows himself to be absorbed by [[BigBad Talpa]], using his 'Soul of Virtue' to restrain him so his allies are free to attack him. It is subverted by the [[MacGuffin Jewel of Life.]] |
| 342 | * Twisted upside down in the final episode of the second season of TheNineties ''Manga/SailorMoon'' anime. A large chunk of the season had been spent finding a HeroicSacrifice in tangible form: a jewel that grants any wish but kills the wisher. It turns out that Sailor Moon had it, but unfortunately a BrainwashedAndCrazy loved one from her future had a time-shifted version of it as well. It is expected that the future gem will be used to destroy everything, so our Hero has to use hers to destroy the loved one before she can do any harm. [[spoiler: The other breaks off from her brainwashing, so both end up wishing that the other will make it out of this somehow.]] The gems cancel each other out, the evil is destroyed, and everyone can go home. |
| 343 | ** In the manga of this season ''and'' its ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' rendition, [[spoiler:Sailor Pluto does this. She [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique stops time itself]] in order to prevent the Black Moon Clan from destroying the world by bringing the two Silver Crystals together, knowing full well that she will die as a result. (Stopping time, as Neo Queen Serenity explains, is a taboo punishable by death.)]] She uses the same move in TheNineties anime when the Outer Senshi's helicopter is swarmed by daimons and explodes, buying time for Uranus and Neptune to escape. |
| 344 | ** Played straight in the 90's first season with Queen Serenity, who after witnessing her daughter's lover and the princess' deaths, as well as the destruction of her court and kingdom by Metalia and Queen Beryl's forces, uses the power of the Silver Crystal to rescue them all and sending the entirety of the Silver Millennium, including the Dark Kingdom, as well as Luna and Artemis to be reborn in the future. Doing so she uses all of her strength and dies alone in the ruins of the Moon Kingdom. |
| 345 | * In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', Dragon Shiryu attempts such a sacrifice, but ends up surviving. Phoenix Ikki follows one through and is vaporized...but has trouble staying dead. |
| 346 | ** ''Saint Seiya'' is full of HeroicSacrifice. For a start, Shiryu only ends up surviving one of his (many) heroic sacrifices because [[CoolSword Capricorn Shura]] decides [[HeelFaceTurn to do it for him]]. But the biggest example of this is at the end of the Hades Inferno arc...[[TearJerker where it's 12 heroic sacrifices!]] This results in the Gold Saints finally being reunited, and [[FaceDeathWithDignity facing death with dignity.]] RedemptionEqualsDeath had already occured (is it an inversion if half the guys doing the heroic sacrificing have already died at least twice?) It's not quite MartyrWithoutACause, either, as their sacrifice enables them to break the Wailing Wall and get the protagonists into the last part of the plot...where [[TheHero Seiya]] gets his own HeroicSacrifice moment after he finally dies at the hands of Hades, having rescued Athena and saved the world etc. |
| 347 | *** And see the whole bloody time in ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'', two notable examples being Capricorn El Cid finally killing the four Dream Gods and saving Sasha/Athena and the protagonists at the cost of his own life, and with Sagittarius Sisyphus' quite frankly terrifying HeroicSacrifice, in which he ripped out his own heart. Nice. |
| 348 | *** No, wait a minute, there's MORE! [[SomethingAboutARose Pisces]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Albafica]] pulls this killing [[TooKinkyToTorture Minos]] with his life's blood, Wolf Junkers and the other four Bronze Saints do this [[TearJerker in a very moving way]] to get the Ship of Hope to fly, [[AnIcePerson Aquarius]] [[HotLibrarian Degel]] pulls this saving the world (very quietly) from Posiedon and that was only after [[LivingOnBorrowedTime Scorpio]] [[SuicideAttack Kardia]] did it for him first to give him the chance, [[BlindSeer Virgo]] [[MindRape Asmita]] gives his life to remove the Spectres' immortality (resulting in less OhCrap and SenselessSacrifice moments), Cancer Manigoldo pulls this when he takes on a God and wins (ish)...it'd be quicker to name the characters that didn't die this way. |
| 349 | * Subverted and ultimately deconstructed in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}''. It's implied that the main reason Sanzo dislikes having companions of any sort is because, ten years prior to his journey, he witnessed his master Koumyou, the closest thing to a parental figure he ever had, sacrificing his life to protect him. This left Sanzo with a ''massive'' case of SurvivorGuilt as he is forced to carry on as the protector of the sutras inherited from Koumyou (and recovering the lost Seiten sutra practically becomes his life goal), so he would rather not have anyone pull off anything like this for him again, let alone do it himself for anyone. During the finale of ''Saiyuki Reload'', Ukoku speculates that [[spoiler:Koumyou's strength would have allowed him to easily defeat the attackers without resorting to this, meaning that he deliberately arranged his death through this trope to show his pupil what it's like to be on the receiving end of it]]. |
| 350 | ** Played ''[[TearJerker painfully]]'' straight in ''Saiyuki Gaiden'', which reveals that Goku's friends -- three of whom were past incarnations of his current companions -- all sacrificed themselves for his sake in one way or another. [[spoiler:Nataku tried to kill himself to resist having to kill Goku, which left him in a coma for over 500 years; Kenren allowed himself to be EatenAlive to erase any evidence that could be used against them; Tenpou got GuttedLikeAFish while fighting off a huge wave of soldiers so Goku and Konzen could escape in time; finally, Konzen got crushed to death by the Earth's entrance door because he held it open with his own body in order for Goku to pass through.]] |
| 351 | * ''Manga/SchoolLive'': |
| 352 | ** Kurumi attempts this twice however ends up getting saved. |
| 353 | ** PosthumousCharacter, [[spoiler:and teacher, Megu-nee]] died by placing herself in front of a door while a horde of zombies attacked her. |
| 354 | * ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'': |
| 355 | ** In the original series, [[spoiler: first Red Impulse aka Ken's long-lost father sacrifices himself to foil a Galactor plan, causing Ken to have a HeroicBSOD of the RAAAAAAGE variety.]] |
| 356 | ** Again in the original series, [[spoiler:in the last few eps, Joe is told that thanks to a terminal brain injury he only has a few weeks left to live, so he takes on Galactor by himself in order to go out with a bang. His final speech to the team is a TearJerker]] that redefines the concept of TrueCompanions for this series. |
| 357 | ** ''Gatchaman II'': Joe does come back [[spoiler:as a cyborg later on, and in the second series he sacrifices himself ''again'' to stop BigBad Sosai X. He doesn't die this time, though.]] |
| 358 | ** ''Gatchaman Fighter'': Finally, [[spoiler:Dr. Nambu in the final installment, as part of a gambit to get the detail's of X's plan this time.]] |
| 359 | * ''Anime/SCryEd'' has one of these with Sherice, whose ability involves [[spoiler:sacrificing her life for someone else's]]. This is also an extreme example of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy considering that [[spoiler: Ryuho is in love with someone else.]] |
| 360 | * ''Anime/{{Shelter|2016}}'': Shigeru built a spacecraft for Rin to escape on, rather than just one for himself or the both of them, even while knowing he would die on Earth with everyone else after she was gone. As the spacecraft carried Rin off, he seemed happy with his decision. |
| 361 | * [[spoiler:Cosmo]] does this in the last two episodes of ''Anime/SonicX'' by [[spoiler:undergoing what in her species seems to equate to puberty and growing into adulthood -- she turns into a tree. Her entire species does this, apparently, and her own development was merely sped up by a Magical Amulet [[BecauseDestinySaysSo because it was her destiny to save the galaxy from the beginning]]. She attaches herself to the giant evil seed which is about to wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy, therefore weakening it, requiring our heroes to shoot her, killing her and the Big Bad at the same time.]] |
| 362 | ** The real TearJerker of the scene is the fact that [[spoiler:Tails was falling in love with her at the time and he was the one who had to fire the gun.]] And also, Sonic and Shadow [[AbnormalAmmo were the ammo]]. |
| 363 | * The main plot of ''Manga/SoulEater'' is set in motion basically by the titular character throwing himself in front of his meister. He survives, but it causes a lot of tension between him and Maka and puts him in a lot of trouble in the future. |
| 364 | ** Crona jumps in front of a Vector arrow threatening to impale Maka in the anime. He got better. |
| 365 | * Cedie, and his successor Carris, in ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry''. [[spoiler:One could argue for Ralph, too.]] |
| 366 | ** [[spoiler:Melchi attempts one of these but ended up getting rescued before the ship can explode.]] |
| 367 | * ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' in Episode 14, [[spoiler:Asuna, with her ridiculous speed stat and ThePowerOfLove, overcomes the game's paralysis status (something even the game's creator didn't know was possible) to dive in front of a killing blow intended for Kirito, and she falls in his arms [[TearJerker as her health bar hits zero]].]] |
| 368 | * [[spoiler:Taliesin]] in ''VisualNovel/TearsToTiara''. In the middle of a blizzard with a magical army bearing down on the heroes, he urges everyone else to go on ahead and stays behind to sing the [[BrownNote Song of Creation]]. [[spoiler: It stops the blizzard and causes an avalanche, which takes out the enemy but also Taliesin himself]]. Subverted slightly in that [[spoiler: he gets better, though we don't find that out until several episodes later.]] |
| 369 | * Subverted by Ryoko in ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'', albeit with a particularly sadistic flare on the part of the writers. Having failed to convince Tenchi to abandon Ayeka to her fate and run away with her instead of heading into a seemingly hopeless battle with Kagato, Ryoko dedicates herself to making sure Tenchi arrives there alive. An elaborate space battle follows as the space pirate does anything and everything in her power to accomplish this. Only she's still grievously injured from her previous attack on Kagato, and the strain for her to just stand upright is noted by at least three characters (neither of whom tell Tenchi, naturally). After dropping Tenchi off at the palace, Ryoko reminisces about how the previous events have been really fun, even if it's just her and Ryo-Ohki again. She then closes her eyes, her arm slips off the armrest limply (complete with blood flowing down along it), and her head slumps forward with a small smile on her face. Ryo-Ohki presumably tries to wake her with her yowling, and the scene fades to black with one particularly mournful sounding howl. This continues into the wrap up episode, where Tenchi notes that [[NeverFoundTheBody no one had seen or heard from Ryoko]] since that battle, and includes an AntagonistInMourning moment with Ryoko's rival, Nagi to boot. All this culminates with [[spoiler:Ryoko popping up, none the worse for wear, in the last ten minutes of the series, ready to try again to win Tenchi's heart. No explanation as to how she survived is given.]] |
| 370 | * This one gets a bit of a workout in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. By the end of the series, we had several significant {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s that saved other people, most memorably [[spoiler:Kittan, who ''destroyed a space ocean'' with his dying laugh, and Lordgenome, who stopped and absorbed the shot from a WaveMotionGun ''[[SlapOnTheWristNuke powered by a Big Bang]]''. [[AllThereInTheManual Additional materials]] and [[WordOfGod the creators]] have also confirmed that Nia knowingly went to her death rather than ask Simon to save her, in order to avert [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Spiral Nemesis]], although [[GainaxEnding it wasn't entirely clear in the anime itself]]]]. |
| 371 | ** The ocean incident was actually [[spoiler: Kittan's second attempt. Remember that stunt with the Mugann and the shotgun?]] |
| 372 | ** [[spoiler: Jorgun and Balinbow]] successfully saved [[spoiler: Gimmy and Darry]] while destroying an enemy fleet, even though they were destroyed in the end, and [[spoiler: Makken rams his Moshogun into an Anti-Spiral missile]] to save the Chouginga Dai-Gurren. |
| 373 | ** [[spoiler:Kamina]] provides a rare {{Inver|ted Trope}}sion. [[spoiler:He didn't die to save someone else, he ''briefly came back to life to save someone else'']]. |
| 374 | * In the penultimate episode of ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'', [[spoiler:Kotetsu pulls a HeroicSacrifice to destroy H-10]] that's very similar to Goku's in the battle against Raditz. [[spoiler: It doesn't stick, however -- it's revealed in the finale that he just passed out from the pain.]] |
| 375 | * In the second to last episode of ''Anime/TokyoMewMew'' when Kish turns on Deep Blue for Ichigo's sake, [[spoiler:he gets killed by him. A few moments later when Kish is [[PietaPlagiarism dying in her arms]], [[FinalSpeech he tells her that he really does love her]], then dies [[AlmostKiss trying to kiss her one last time]].]] |
| 376 | ** In the same episode, [[spoiler:Pai is killed while protecting the rest of the Mew Mews from the energy blast unleashed by Deep Blue when the latter starts to lose control over Aoyama's body and the Mew Aqua inside him]]. |
| 377 | ** Masaya and Ichigo in the last episode. Masaya [[spoiler:lets himself be killed in order to get rid of Deep Blue for good, and Ichigo later revives him at the cost of her own life, requiring a TrueLovesKiss to bring her back. In the manga version, Masaya disposed of the evil alien personally, by stabbing himself with his sword.]] |
| 378 | ** Even Tart gets this -- [[spoiler:he charges forward in an attempt to stall (or kill) Pai so Ichigo could SaveTheWorld, but is killed by him.]] |
| 379 | * ''Literature/TokyoRavens'': Natsume sacrifices herself to stabilize [[TheHero Harutora]]'s [[PowerIncontinence rampaging power]]. It works and she gets enough time to make a DyingDeclarationOfLove. Also by [[KillTheCutie Hokuto]] who [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice takes a blow]] for [[TheHero Harutora]]. She makes a DyingDeclarationOfLove before [[DisappearsIntoLight disappearing into light]]. |
| 380 | * ''Manga/Touch1981'': Early on in the story, Kazuya Uesugi dies saving a kid from being hit by a truck. |
| 381 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': |
| 382 | ** Surprisingly, Galvatron at the end of ''Anime/TransformersArmada''. After a heated FinalBattle with Optimus Prime, the two find themselves hanging on for dear life as they are being pulled towards [[BigBad Unicron]]'s maw. In spite of Optimus trying to save him, Galvatron allows himself to fall and be destroyed by Unicron, his demise dispelling the hatred between the two eternal rivals that allowed Unicron to exist and causing the planet-devouring Transformer to disappear. |
| 383 | ** ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'': In order for the Autobots to leave Gigantion and return to their home universe, Vector Prime reveals one more trick up his sleeve: to reverse time to when the warp gate they entered through was still open, thus allowing them to travel through it. However, Jolt is the only one against such a plan, revealing that reversing time that much would cost Vector Prime his life. Despite the objections from the other Autobots, he was adamant that this was the only option. When the time came to enact his plan, the strain became too much for the old bot, and once the Autobots returned to their home universe, Vector Prime's corporeal form began to dissolve, ending his life.[[note]]That is, in the conventional sense. Because Vector Prime had spent most of his lifetime beyond the flow of time, he will continue to exist in spirit as long as time itself continues to exist. However, he will never be able to return physically again.[[/note]] |
| 384 | * Cloney/Syaoran Sr. from ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' does this. [[DeathIsCheap Twice]]. |
| 385 | ** Kurogane slices off his own arm to save a certain angst muffin... (His initials are Fai Fluorite) There's a special irony to this, as Fai's been playing fast and loose with his own life through the series up to this point (in particular trying to put himself between Cloney and Syaoran Jr. in Acid Tokyo), preferring a Heroic Sacrifice -- or at least a death with honor -- to the betrayal he knows he will eventually have to commit against his traveling companions. |
| 386 | ** Also, Sakura Li, who pulls off a human shield act when [[spoiler: the two Syaorans are to slice each other to pieces]]. |
| 387 | ** And, before this, she gets a self-sacrificial quest when she goes out into the wasteland of Acid Tokyo to retrieve a [[MacGuffin magical egg]], which serves as Yuuko's payment for saving Fai's life. Shall it be mentioned that this involves fighting off giant bloodthirsty worms with nothing but a pistol? |
| 388 | ** And let's not forget how [[spoiler: Fei Wang Reed gives [[TwinSwitch Original Fai]] and Yuui a [[SadisticChoice Sadistic Choice]] where they're both told to choose between getting to be free but sacrificing their twin, or being the sacrificed one. Both choose to be sacrificed, but [[ManipulativeBastard Fei Wang Reed]] decides to let Fai jump from his tower and sacrifice himself, probably because he thinks Yuui will be [[AngstySurvivingTwin much more angsty]] when he [[FakeMemories tricks him to think he choose to sacrifice his twin]].]] |
| 389 | ** Oh, and [[spoiler: Ashura tries. Oh how he tries.]] |
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| 393 | * In ''Manga/UbelBlatt'', three of the Fourteen Lances (who represent the Three Theological Virtues: charity, faith, and hope) sacrificed themselves on the journey to all Wischtech's advance into the empire of Szaalenden, and were beatified as 'The Precious Departed.' [[spoiler: This ironically spared them the fate that befell the [[HeroWithBadPublicity 'Lances of Betrayal,']] who were murdered by the [[FakeUltimateHero 'Seven Heroes,']] framing them as traitors and taking credit for the mission's success after the heroes had abandoned them.]] |
| 394 | * In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', [[spoiler:Ange Ushiromiya]] does a spectacular HeroicSacrifice after Battler goes through an epic HeroicBSOD. In order to restore his faith in truth besides red text, she [[spoiler:grabs him from behind so that he can't see her and declares her identity, thus breaking the rule that she could only exist in the past as long as Battler didn't know who she was]]. She then proceeds to beg him to continue the game and [[spoiler:come home to her... as her body is being torn apart. Even when he comes home, it won't be to her, since YouCantFightFate, but another her who doesn't have to experience the future without him]]. |
| 395 | ** [[spoiler:Beatrice]] does the same thing at the end of the third arc [[spoiler:before Battler acknowledges and revives her. Subverted a few minutes later, though]]. |
| 396 | ** [[spoiler:Lambdadelta]] pulls a spectacular one in [=EP8=]. |
| 397 | * ''Anime/VoltesV'': |
| 398 | ** Mitsuyo commits suicide by crashing her fighter jet into the Beast Knight to set her sons free. Her last words are of her repeating her sons names frantically. [[spoiler: Sadly, she never got to see them reunite with their father and know that their mission was complete]]. |
| 399 | ** [[spoiler:When Heinel attacks some nobles fleeing the Boazanian imperial palace at the end of the series, Katherine knocks him out of the way and takes a fatal energy blast that was intended to kill him, dying in his arms.]] |
| 400 | * At the end of ''Manga/WatashiNoMessiahsama'', [[spoiler: Lilu literally gives her life to Shinya, who's very dead at that moment.]] |
| 401 | * [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''Anime/WeatheringWithYou''. It is first played straight, when Hina, who is the Weather Maiden, sacrifice herself to save Tokyo from getting drowned by the neverending rain. But her friend Hodaka decides to save her and sacrifices Tokyo instead of her. |
| 402 | * Subverted in ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' when [[spoiler:Sato hallucinates that there is a giant 'final boss' monster standing by the cliff which he has just stopped Misaki from jumping off of. He tries to defeat it and end the (imagined) NHK conspiracy by holding onto his cellphone, which he hallucinates is a bomb that will destroy the monster, and taking a running leap off of the cliff. Not only is he prevented from dying by a safety net installed along the side of the cliff to prevent suicides, but the show also strongly implies that his hallucination and attempted heroism were just another failed attempt to give his life some kind of meaning beyond the existential uncertainty that characterizes real life in contrast to fictional stories.]] |
| 403 | * In ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'': [[spoiler:Masane sacrifices herself in the end to destroy any evil forces that were about to threat her and her (adopted) daughter Rihoko's hometown and also realising that her daughter is the true user of the Witchblade, though she's unable to use it until she is mature enough to do so. However, her sacrifice results in the apparent destruction of the Witchblade as well, despite her daughter being a neogene]]. |
| 404 | * ''Literature/WorldEndWhatDoYouDoAtTheEndOfTheWorldAreYouBusyWillYouSaveUs'': Main heroine Chtholly sacrifices herself in a last-ditch effort to save her friend and the person she loves. This trope can also be applied to the other leprechauns, as most of them are raised with the knowledge that they're going to have to sacrifice themselves eventually. Not very pleasant thoughts for an 8-year-old, now is it? |
| 405 | * In the anime version ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', [[spoiler:Kamui in his showdown with Fuuma allows Fuuma to kill him in order to create the ultimate barrier field that would protect the world from the destruction of humanity. In the process his sacrifice touches Fuuma and restores him to his normal self.]] |
| 406 | ** Also, Sorata's reason for existing is to die in place of the one he loves, which turns out to be Arashi. In TheMovie he fills it by taking a massive blast from Fuuma and then fighting him until his body gives out [[spoiler: though Arashi is killed almost immediately afterwards]]; in the TV series, he does so by blasting half of Fuuma's body off ''while he's being impaled through the stomach by Fuuma's Shinken'' [[spoiler: (and while he fails to kill Fuuma thanks to Nataku, he ''does'' manage to convince the FaceHeelTurn-ed Arashi to return to the Dragons of the Heaven).]] |
| 407 | *** [[spoiler:In the manga version, Nataku does this to protect Karen, and in the anime he does it to heal Fuuma after Sorata, as said aboe, almost fried him alive. Both times, it lets Nataku fulfill his Wish -- in the manga he wants to protect his mother-like figure (Karen), in the anime he wants to help his father-like figure (Fuuma)]] |
| 408 | *** It was Daisuke's wish to protect Hinoto with his life ... [[LiteralGenie a wish that Fuuma obligingly grants]]. |
| 409 | *** Seishiro and Subaru each want to die for the other, or, rather, be killed by the other. Are we seeing a pattern here? |
| 410 | * This is how [[spoiler:Jibanyan]] from ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' died. He was [[spoiler:a normal house cat]] named "Rudy". One day his owners time was up and a car was going to hit her but Rudy jumped in front of the truck and saved her. [[spoiler:Jibanyan forgot the specifics of his death and thought Amy was calling him "lame", when she was insulting herself.]] |
| 411 | * ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' is pretty big on the heroic sacrifices both in the anime and the manga. A good number of characters get one, but Yugi in particular seems to thrive on them. |
| 412 | ** In the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga, [[spoiler:Bakura]] does one of these. [[spoiler: Whilst his body is under the influence of Dark Master Zorc, and the rest of the gang (bar the Pharaoh) are trapped as miniatures, Bakura seals part of his soul into the dice that Zorc was using, and then makes one shatter, which helps free the others.]] But, he gets better. |
| 413 | ** Yugi pulls one in the Battle City arc of the manga and [[Anime/YuGiOh the anime]] after having to fight a {{Brainwashed|AndCrazy}} Jounouchi in a loser-dies-by-drowning duel staged by Malik. Yugi turns an attack on himself so that he'll lose and Jounocuhi will survive, which also breaks Jounouchi's brainwashing. And Jounouchi pulls the same stunt on Yugi in the same episode -- not long after Yugi loses and is pulled into the water, Jounouchi grabs Yugi's own key, follows him down and pushes him back to the surface -- while not taking his ''own'' key. In the anime, it takes [[spoiler: his sister Shizuka's BigDamnHeroes, as she retrieves Jou's key and jumps into the water]] to save him (in the manga, [[spoiler: Kaiba saves him by dropping the key into the water, out of respect for the fact that he's "finally become a decent duelist"]]). |
| 414 | ** No-one want to mention the Pharaoh? He sacrifices his life and memories to imprison both his spirit and Zorc's in the Millennium Items, using his own name as the seal, in order to save his people (and probably the continent) from falling to darkness. It's never seen, so whatever spell or ritual was used can't be known, but it destroyed the Pharaoh's body in the process. |
| 415 | *** There's also the time when he uses Slifer to shield the people while chasing Bakura down through the city. |
| 416 | *** In Battle City, he takes Ra's attack to shield Joey and Mai. He commends Joey for having put himself in danger first, as Joey presumably intended to do the same thing for Mai. |
| 417 | ** Also in the Millennium World arc, after the Pharaoh's father fell ill having learnt [[spoiler: the truth about the Millennium Items]], it's implied he sacrificed the remainder of his lifeforce to [[spoiler: create the spirit Hasan to help his son in the upcoming battle.]] |
| 418 | ** Another one in Millennium World, the priest Shada shields the Pharaoh from an attack, which [[spoiler: costs him the last of his lifeforce.]] |
| 419 | ** In one of the anime's filler arcs, Yugi pulls another later on when the Pharoah has a WhatTheHellHero moment and loses his own soul to the Seal of Orichalcos as a result. Calmly stating that the seal can only take ''one'' soul, regular Yugi shoves the Pharoah out of the way and lets the seal take him instead. |
| 420 | ** To a lesser extent, Kaiba gives up one of his Blue Eyes-White Dragon to protect Dark Yugi during the duel with Mask of Light and Mask of Darkness. He initially expected the favor to be returned with one of his monsters. He also told his Battle Ox to [[TakingTheBullet Take the Bullet]] for Yugi in the same duel. Kaiba had simply gotten into his head at that point what Yugi was trying to drive into it, that as much as he didn't like it, [[EnemyMine lack of teamwork would lead to both of them losing.]] |
| 421 | ** Anime filler: Jounouchi vs. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Mai]] in an Orichalcos duel where he effectively lets her win despite knowing it'll cost him his soul. |
| 422 | ** A far less serious example is Anna Kozuki from ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'', who has done this on two separate occasions, making a move in a duel that has taken her out in order to help Yuma. Neither duel had any lethal stakes involved -- for her at least -- so she survived both times. Of course, given how reckless Anna can be, it may just be only a matter of time where she does this and it has far worse consequences. |
| 423 | ** [[spoiler:Her defeat during the Barian Emperor Onslaught arc may have counted as a real one, [[NeverFoundTheBody as far as is known right now]], but she wasn't the only one it happened to.]] |
| 424 | ** In the manga version of ''[[Manga/YuGiOhZEXAL ZEXAL]]'', Princess Cologne is a doll who was brought to life and given a soul by [[BigBad Dr. Faker]], but warned that she only got to ''keep'' that soul if she succeeded her mission as a Numbers Hunter. Despite the fact that she failed and was defeated by Yuma, she avoided this dark fate when her friend Grandpa Demetto gave her ''his'' soul, sacrificing himself in the process. (Exactly who or what he was isn't clear, as no origin was provided; presumably, he was another creation of Faker who had made a similar deal.) |
| 425 | ** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' uses this trope quite a lot in Season 3. Jim attempts to sacrifice himself via ThePowerOfFriendship to save the protagonist [[TheAce Juudai]] from his SuperPoweredEvilSide. It doesn't work, but O'Brien proceeds to attempt the same thing a few episodes later, and their combined effort does the job. Hell Kaiser tries to sacrifice himself to defeat Yubel and save Johan. That doesn't quite work out as he planned, but it ''does'' snap Juudai out of his HeroicBSOD. [[AntiHero Edo Phoenix]] has a duel to the death with [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Amon Garam]] over a woman he just met [[TheDulcineaEffect 5 minutes ago]], which actually [[LampshadeHanging confused him as well as the viewer]]. |
| 426 | * In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', most of the heroes' monsters do this in the final battle. |
| 427 | * ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'': |
| 428 | ** [[spoiler:Karin]] sacrifices her sight, hearing, and the use of her right arm and leg to kill 5 Vertices, all the while, [[ScreamingWarrior reciting the 5 tenets of the Hero Club at the top of her lungs.]] [[spoiler:She gets better in the end.]] |
| 429 | ** [[spoiler:Yuki]] ends up in a blind, deaf, and comatose state in the finale due to her sacrifice. [[spoiler:She gets better]]. |
| 430 | * In the final arc of ''Manga/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings'', [[spoiler: Kogarashi sacrifices his spiritual body to protect everyone in Yuragi Inn from Nonko's father. Yuuna manages to save the residues of his soul and Ryuuzen appears to perform a technique that uses Kogarashi's harem's love for him to restore his spirit.]] |
| 431 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': |
| 432 | ** Although it illustrates the main article, it's somewhat subverted. Yusuke saves a small boy from a moving vehicle and dies. However, it turns out that not only was the boy going to ''survive'' being hit, but he actually would have been ''less'' injured than had Yusuke intervened. This turned his HeroicSacrifice into a SenselessSacrifice. Ironically, this worked out in Yusuke's favor as normally they would just give the boy's place in the afterlife to Yusuke. However, as the boy wouldn't have died and Fate hadn't expected Yusuke to intervene, there was no place for him, which leads to a huge LogicBomb and to his RedemptionQuest. |
| 433 | ** Humor aside, it was the intention of the act that counted, and earns Yusuke a chance to come back to life. The ''true'' sacrifice comes shortly after when Yusuke gives up this chance by failing the test to save his girlfriend Keiko's life. However, this proves to be enough to convince Koenma that Yusuke deserves to live, and he gets revived. |
| 434 | ** Played closer to straight when Kuwabara goes to his death at the hands of Toguro in the Dark Tournament, looking to unlock Yusuke's true power. As it turned out, Toguro missed his heart and Kuwabara didn't die (He might have meant for it to miss, but it's impossible to know for sure), so [[FakingTheDead Kuwabara played dead instead]]. |
| 435 | ** Actually Yusuke had attempted this up to EIGHT times. Car crash, egg in the fire, life mirror, explosive shuriken, shotgun the whistle, fight against Jin then Sensui. All subverted. |
| 436 | * In the manga ''Manga/ZatchBell'', the former badass Vincent Bari puts himself in a mortal situation to allow the protagonists to enter Big Bad Faudo's innards. To avoid killing him, Umagon burns his book to send him back to the demon world. |
| 437 | ** This is just one instance among way too many to count. |
| 438 | * ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'': [[spoiler:In the Meiji era, when tensions were high after the Saga Rebellion, [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaFranchouchou Yugiri]] gives her life to save [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaTheLivingAndOthers Kiichi]], [[TheScapegoat taking the fall for the deaths of Itou and the rebels in his place]]. She then enables him to escape and continue working to restore Saga.]] |
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