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Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir! Mal: Ain't we just?
"Haahaha! It's a hero's job to show up when they're least expected! "Why is that?" you ask! Because it's just cooler that way!!"
— Axel:, Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
The poor Damsel In Distress is looking her fate dead in the face, and is resigned to it, because she knows that Nothing Can Save Us Now... and then, boom! Here come the heroes.
Big Damn Heroes is the heroic swoop to save the day just in the nick of time. Generally this is because the heroes had to fight through a swarm of baddies, or had to figure out just where their friends are before the clock ran out. Or sometimes the hero is just being a real jerk and likes to see the Distressed Damsel suffer a little.
Abandoned By The Cavalry is a subtype where the Big Damn Heroes should have been there in the first place and are only redeeming themselves now. When the Big Damn Heroes come in with a massive gunship or other vehicle with intimidating firepower (see BFG), it is a Big Damn Gunship. In the event that the Big Damn Heroes just show up in some relatively dramatic manner and clear a path for the Hero to get to whatever they need to go, usually during an air battle, it's the I Got You Covered subtype. Commonly precedes or constitutes awesome.
Compare The Cavalry, when it's the heroes being rescued by the suddenly competent Redshirt Army. See also Contrived Coincidence. Polar opposite to Big Damn Villains. However, beware. Villain may declare You Are Too Late.
Examples
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Anime and Manga
- Debatably, what happens when Sara gets Ram-Dass in Soukou No Strain — in any case, the other pilots certainly see it as such.
- In the Elfen Lied manga, just when Mayu is about to be raped by the unnamed "hunter", Bando shows up in big damn heroes fashion, which leads to fight that is his Crowning Moment of Awesome.
- The main characters in action anime tend to do this so many times in their respective anime that it becomes tired and cliché after a while. Notorious perpetrators of this trope include Goku from Dragonball Z, Ichigo from Bleach, Kenshiro from Fist Of The North Star, etc.
- Bleach plays with this by sometimes making the main characters into the rescuees, to indicate that they're not yet Bad Ass enough to be a Big Damn Hero. The Hueco Mundo arc does this to/for every single primary character. Each one gets their own Captain to save their arse. Currently, Ichigo's rescuer/rescued from ratio is about 5:2, tipping to 3:2 if the current arc continues its trend.
- Interestingly, the characters who are the rescuees sometimes end up that way after a failed Big Damn Heroes attempt. Examples include Ichigo helping Renji against Aizen(saved by the captains), Uryu helping Renji against Szyael (saved by Kurotsuchi), Momo helping Rangiku against Halibel's fraccion, Hisagi helping Momo and Rangiku against Allon, and Iba helping Momo, Rangiku and Hisagi against Allon (yes, three failed attempts in one battle- all saved by Yamamoto). More recently, after the rogue captains and a new Giant Mook make their proper entrances, the Visored finally show up (after taking several chapters just to walk across town) to save pretty much everyone. Ten to one says that Shinji planned it out just to look cool.
- Naruto has quite a few of these - Naruto rescuing Inari from Zabuza's thugs, Asuma rescuing Shikamaru during the Chunin exam arc, Naruto saving Sasuke from a crazed Gaara, Lee rescuing Naruto and then the Sand Siblings rescuing Shikamaru (again), Kiba and Lee during the "Retrieve Sasuke" arc, and the Konoha ninja returning the favor to the Sand Siblings in one of the filler arcs.
- (Naruto pulls what may be the biggest damn heroes moment of the all. Dressed like the 4th Hokage, standing atop a huge toad that's on an even bigger toad, with two equally huge toads nearby. Then he takes out one of Big Bad Pain's bodies in one hit, with nobody noticing his movement)
- Speaking of which, this is topped by the Fourth Hokage himself, stopping Naruto from giving into despair and unleashing the Nine-tailed Fox from beyond the grave. Something He was preparing for from the beginning.
- Another DBZ character who abuses this trope is Piccolo, whose constant Gohan rescuing actually becomes something of a running gag in the movies. It finally gets lampshaded in movie 10, when Krillin pulls the obligatory Gohan rescue... dressed up as Piccolo.
- Vegeta also has a few of these moments. Granted, he only does it because someone else was about to kill off Goku before he got the chance.
- Subverted in the fact that Gohan unintentionally pulled one of these off thanks to the Old Supreme Kai, who purposefully allowed him to sit there for the extraction of his latent power longer than was necessary.
- The last thirty minutes or so of the Martian Successor Nadesico movie is pretty much a long string of these moments crammed together. There's so many heroes showing up to foil the bad guys in various places that the narrative starts to fall apart at the end.
- The last 5 or so minutes of the OVA Gao Gai Gar FINAL is the ultimate Big Damn Heroes moment, after an episode leading up to it: after all of the Yuusha Corps members pull out all the stops to defeat their 'rivals', the bad guys revive. In droves. No, really. Droves. But then it is revealed that the battles themselves were merely a diversion for GGG to figure out just how the Sol 11 were regenerating themselves - the 'Sun'. So Genesic Gao Gai Gar flies up and - in what has to be the most incredible attack sequence ever animated - combines with the 3 battleships waiting in orbit, themselves combined in hammer form. The show had its Goldion Hammer before, which crushed enemies with near-infinite mass - the Goldion 'Crusher' was designed to be used against Jupiter-sized enemies. So yeah, GGGG warps to the fake sun, and crushes it into light.
- Most of the new character (and tool) introductions in that series actually qualify. Especially anything involving Symmetrical Docking. ChoRyuJin, being the only one who can operate the energy-dissipating Eraser Head "missile", gets multiple ones, including the crowning Big Damn Heroes moment in the third episode of FINAL.
- This troper wonders if you're not referring to the second episode of FINAL, where Replica Mamoru has paralysed Guy with the 'true' Hell and Heaven. Then, moments before it hits: "ERASER HEAD XL!!".
- And one cannot forget perhaps ChoRyuJin's Big Damn Heroes in the original Gao Gai Gar when, after realising a second ubercharged railway cannon shell is coming moments after the first has been dissipated, detaches his Mirror Coating chestplate and stands firm, holding it up as a shield.
- ChoRyuJin also gets a Big Damn Heroes moment when he flies into a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth, preventing the collision but in the process becoming stranded with no way back.
- Suzaku from Code Geass is an expert at pulling of Big Damn Heroes moments.
- Kallen's return after the end-of-season upgrade right into the middle of a climactic fight was... fabulous. But followed right afterwards...
- The Earl of Pudding himself, Lloyd Asplund, and his assistant Cécile had one in the first season finale when they swooped onto the battle field and saved Suzaku and the student council from the gun happy Black Knight and Zero's self-proclaimed best friend, Tamaki.
- Happens in the first episode of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha's second season, when Fate and Yuuno save Nanoha's ass from a rather messy hammer-induced death literally at the last second.
- In Shakugan No Shana, the Bottle Fairy Magical Girl (No, really) Margery Daw has a Big Damn Heroes moment. Both she and her Sidekick/Empathic Weapon point out that this is "Nice timing".
- Subverted in Saiyuki Reload, when Sanzo, Goku and Hakkai show up to 'save' Gojyo from Kami-sama—only to spend several minutes kicking him into submission for making them go through the big damn trouble of backtracking several days to find him. Still moot, though, because Kami-sama proceeds to beat them all spectacularly. Ironically, Gojyo is the only one conscious in the end and mostly responsible for their escape.
- Used again in the finale of Gunlock, when Goku, Hakkai, Gojyo, and even Hakuryuu have gotten sick and tired of being attacked by assassins thinking they're still the Sanzo party after they split from the priest, so they decide to go kick his ass right as he's being shot repeatedly. Plenty of jeering, Sanzo gets shot some more... only after that does Goku get a chance to punch him, and then Sanzo punches Gojyo, Sanzo tells them they're pains in the ass, they agree wholeheartedly. All is right with the world.
- And don't even get me started on InuYasha —although it does subvert this trope occasionally.
- Lampshaded in Rurouni Kenshin, when Hiko saves Yahiko from the giant Fuji. The boy accuses the swordsman of timing his rescue perfectly to look cool, with the latter rebutting that he was merely lost because of his pupil's poor directions.
- This became a trademark feat of Gundam SEED protagonist Kira Yamato after he acquired the Freedom Gundam, and its upgraded model in the sequel Destiny.
- Mai and Mikoto play Big Damn Heroines to Natsuki at the end of Mai-HiME episode 4, freeing her from the Naughty Tentacles of the Panty Thief Orphan and giving her an opportunity to finish it off herself.
- Natsuki returns the favor in Episode 14 when the others are cornered by the Searrs army, shooting the soldiers' guns and blinding them with a flash cartridge to give Mai and Mikoto a chance to escape.
- The manga series Kamen Rider Spirits seems to be one Big Damn Heroes moment after another - only it's often just one such Hero against a small army of overpowered cyborgs. (The V3 version of this is the best - a seemingly untransformable Kazami Shiro versus the first half of his Monsters Of The Week, then transforms and beats them all down. While bleeding from the transformation. And then firekicks the Big Bad's body into little pieces of BLAM. On the moon.)
- In Guyver, Guyver III tends to do this a lot to Guyver I, the protagonist. Occasionally, Guyver I will return the favor.
- In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Simon and Viral leave Earth to save the day when Anti-Spirals are destroying the Arc-Gurren, a huge spaceship. They arrive in an epically awesome Big Damn Heroes moment — so awesome that it is actually a Crowning Moment Of Awesome as well, as the raw, unrestrained awesomeness of this particular Big Damn Heroes moment is so great that it actually, by itself, wipes out a swarm of Anti-Spiral enemies.
- On the subject of Crowning Moment Of Awesome, the first 4-5 minutes of the last episode. The heroes, ALL of them, each tear themselves out of personalized dream worlds and show up right in the Big Bad's lair, bursting in, saving the Damsel, taunting the Big Bad, and then assembling a new, awesome, Galactically Huge new form. 'Nuff said.
- In the Kyoto arc of Mahou Sensei Negima, Evangeline, of all people, gets one when she shows up on the field trip to save Negi and co. from a giant demon.
- Not to mention Mana and Ku Fei doing the same for Asuna and Setsuna, and Kaede preceding hers with a Big Fraggin' Shuriken, all earlier in the same arc.
- And again in the latest arc with a double BDH. Setsuna and Kaede show up to rescue Nodoka from bounty hunters,but the hunters planned ahead and they're suddenly caught in their magical lightning trap. Then Asuna appears,jumping in to rescue Setsuna & Kaede whilst Negi completes the first BDH and saves Nodoka all on his lonesome with his Dangerous Forbidden Technique. The series' transformation into Magical School Dragon Ball with added fanservice is now complete.
- Once more in the latest arc, as Kotarou shows up to save the collective rears of Nodoka, Paru, and Chisame, entering the scene with a nonchalant "whoa there."
- Macross Frontier episode 14: Sheryl is forced to pilot Skull-02 (Mikhail's Valkyrie) when he's knocked unconscious, but she's shot down less than a minute later and they're both ejected from the vehicle. Then Luca shields them both from the approaching Vajra, but his shots are ineffectual and his gun is knocked away. He's literally staring death in the face (the biggest Vajra is reflected on his visor) when Alto folds in at the last second, destroying all the approaching Vajra and letting loose a volley of micro missiles that demolishes several dozen more, all while performing a continuous axis roll
 that turns his Transforming Mecha into the missile equivalent of a Gatling gun. Then he does a fly-by as the others look on in awe.
- Pulled on a grand scale in episode 25, as not only has Alto's VF-171EX been shot down, the Vajra are enjoying a Theme Music Power Up thanks to Ranka, and to top it off, a Vajra gunship is charging up to fire right into the Battle Frontier's bridge. Cue the SMS Macross Quarter skewering the Vajra gunship with a shot from its Heavy Quantum Reaction cannon, while still inside the fold portal. Then, after explaining everything to the Frontier commanders, the Quarter and all its squadrons proceed to counterattack.
- Rom Stoll in Machine Robo: Revenge of the Chronos practically lives by this trope. His favorite method is when there is trouble, he would suddenly appear out of nowhere and yell MATTE!!! (WAIT!!!), causing the said villain to be shocked and ask who's there. With arms crossed, Rom then proceeds to give out a long-winded speech of virtue and justice, frowning upon the said villain, and then the villain would respond with "Wha!? Who are you to talk to me like that!?" Rom's answer? "You don't deserve to know my name!". Cue ass-kicking.
- Super Robot Wars then plays on this one to further Rom's awesomeness. He would interrupt LOTS and LOTS of villains out of his series, even those who can't audibly speak (for example, an Angel) and tell them that they don't deserve his name!
- Great Mazinger was a master of these kinds of moments, as even his debut was a major one. During the final episode of Mazinger Z, a new enemy army appears and proceed to completely overwhelm Kouji. As the Mazinger barely holds itself even a tiny bit together, the Great Mazinger shows up just before the final blow is struck and proceeds to absolutely dominate the new foes. Also something he's fond of doing in remakes, often with a nice big THUNDER BREAK to blast any number of enemies ready to swarm his allies. Also some really nice descending from the clouds shots.
- The Fullmetal Alchemist manga just had an incredibly awesome one from Ran Fan complete with new automail arm in chapter 86.
- Suzumiya Haruhi - When Kyon was about to get killed by Ryoko Asakura, Yuki arrives to the rescue by ''breaking through the wall/into the space'' and catches the knife with her hands.
- In the 4th novel Disappearance, Yuki gets another Big Damn Heroes moment. Again, catches Asakura's knife.
- And then when Kyon himself mobilizes Mikuru, Yuki and the older Mikuru to save himself and shoot the changed Yuki with the program Yuki(non-changed one) gave him.
- Played straight in episode 19 of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The Angel Of The Week is trashing Central Dogma and suddenly Unit One crashes through the wall and Shinji kicks arse!
- And again in the lava episode (which one was it?) where Asuka, having killed the Angel of the Week, begins to sink into the magma, sure to die of either starvation, overheating or suffocation. Shinji, without specialised armor or orders, dives headfirst into the magma and catches her.
- While we're on the subject, I'd like to bring up Rei during the fight with Ramiel. I can't remember if this happens in the original series, so feel free to edit this if it does, but in the first Rebuild of Evangelion movie, just when it seems the Angel Ramiel is about to kill Shinji with a super powered laser, Rei comes to the rescue at the last second, blocking the energy blast with a frickin' space shuttle!
- This happens fairly often in Chrono Crusade. Two scenes that come to mind is Remington suddenly appearing to chase off Aion as he looms over a weakened Rosette and a badly injured Chrono, and Satella who comes flying in on a summoned beast to save Chrono and Rosette from a long fall.
- Berserk pulls a big one of these off in the manga when the Skull Knight saves the lives of Guts and Casca at the end of the Eclipse just as the two of them are about to be finished off by Griffith and the Godhand.
- Sailors Uranus and Neptune do this all the time in the anime adaptation of SailorMoon. Likewise, Sailor Pluto comes to their rescue at one point in Sailor Stars. In the movies, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the de facto Reinforcements.
- At one point in the manga of Flame Of Recca, Recca suffers a serious Heroic BSOD. Apparently, not only that he found out that Mikagami picked up a Distress Ball and is now a hostage to the enemy, then he learns that Domon can't survive his Jumping Off The Cliff stunt way back, and Fuuko is currently getting drained of her personality. Who came to snap him out of it? DOMON, Not Quite Dead, instantly gives out a rallying speech that raises everyone's morale back. And you thought he's just a Dumb Muscle Joke Character...
- The second season of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni does this twice, a great indicator of the gradual mood change.
- First is towards the end of Minagoroshi-hen, with Keiichi, Rena, and the Sonozaki Twins saving Rika and Satoko from the Yamainu, only to be brutally subverted by the main villain showing up and personally murdering them all.
- Second, in Matsuribayashi-hen, Akasaka saves Rika by way of his new martial arts mastery.
- In Hellsing, Alexander Anderson and his monk/nun army, of all people, shows up to save Integra from an horde of vampires in a manner most awesome.
- Aya ends a Ten Minute Retirement with one of these in Weiss Kreuz. Yoji, Ken, and Omi are cornered, outnumbered, and out of ideas - until Aya arrives, standing on top of a speeding car and packing a machine gun.
- In the Black Cat manga, Train goes and saves Rinslet just before Creed is about to kill Naizer, making this example slightly different in that the person whose life was in immediate danger wasn't the Damsel In Distress. What follows after this, however, certainly makes this instance also a Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
- During the Seven Devils arc in Kinnikuman, Mr. Khamen is about to suck out Brocken Jr.'s blood through a straw when Mongolman saves him.
- Subverted in Soul Eater: Near the end of the Kishin arc, Black Star and Death the Kid pull a Big Damn Heroes act on Eruka and Free just about to awaken the Kishin, and a battle ensues. In a last-ditch effort, Black Star manages to slice in half the tool used to awaken the Kishin, seconds before Eruka can use it. As he is celebrating his victory, Black Star suddenly finds that the aura of madness that the Kishin is emitting caused him to hallucinate the whole thing — he'd really just attacked one of the room's statues, and the Kishin is revived before the heroes' eyes.
- Gun Buster, Episode 4. the Exelion fleet is ambushed during a Fold jump by Alien Monsters. almost all of the fleet is destroyed, the mecha squadrons are decimated, and everything looks at its worst . . . then Gunbuster Rises, Noriko at the controls, and destroys nearly entire alien fleet with one attack.
- Chrome Shelled Regios when Layton increases his kei in order to save nina and win the match with the 16th platoon
- In Claymore, Awakened Being Agatha has Galetea literally pinned to the wall, and is about to kill Clarice and Miata. Her attack gets thrown off by one of her legs being destroyed. Cut to Clare and the rest of the Sexy Seven standing on top of a building in the rain and informing Agatha that as she is about to die, she doesn't need to know who they are.
- In the climax and crowning moment of confusing of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Syaoran and Sakura, arriving minutes too late to save Syaoran and a few days too late to save Sakura, are freed from a decade of imprisonment just in time to save their son, Syaoran, and his girlfriend, Sakura. Everyone with the same name looks exactly alike. Yes, it is somewhat hard to keep track of.
- Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Rei: Just when Keiichi has given up hope of escaping with his swimsuit from his friends, Tomitake, Oishi, and Irie (together with Keiichi, the "Heavenly Kings of Darkness") swoop in on surfboards in the middle of a pool scene to save him, each sprouting a grandiose line about not giving up. Oishi even ends up summoning a squad of fully-armed riot police to help, which storms in after their truck bursts through the pool fence.
- Subverted in the first Ranma ˝ movie. In a tense climactic scene between Kirin and Akane, the door finally bursts open. But instead of Ranma coming to her rescue, it's Ryoga Hibiki and the rest of the motley crew. Ranma gets his own big damn moment a little while later.
- Played straight rather sweetly earlier in the series, both anime and manga. When Ranma temporarily loses his strength to moxibustion, most of his enemies gang up and decide to give him the monumental collective ass-kicking they've been wanting to give him for some time. Ranma, on the ground, just about to be completely flattened, closes his eyes, hears a strange noise and opens them again to find Ryoga Hibiki, who has appeared out of nowhere, defending him.
- Gintama has a lot of last-minute rescues. Gintoki especially rescues Shinpachi a lot.
- Miaka of Fushigi Yuugi gets handed the Distress Ball a lot, but the trade-off is that her warriors get to pull off some nice last-minute saves. Tamahome does this too many times to count, and in fact one of these is the start of their Rescue Romance.
- Tasuki runs a close second: saving Nuriko, Hotohori and Miaka as they're about to be killed by zombies, showing up at the very last second to prevent Miaka from having her skull bashed in by brainwashed Tamahome, and finally showing up with Chichiri in the real world to take on Nakago.
- The twins get their moments as well. Amiboshi saves Miaka after his Heel Face Turn. As a result, Tomo corners both Amiboshi and Miaka with intent to kill them - at which point moral event horizon-crosser Suboshi unexpectedly shows up and murders Tomo on the spot for daring to threaten his beloved brother.
- In Azumanga Daioh, Sakaki is saved by the gang of cats led by Kamineko by the Irimouto cat she befriended earlier. Good thing there's something that doesn't hate her, right?
- Great Teacher Onizuka does this all the damn time, sometimes with gunshot wounds. Ask any of his students. He even lampshades it once, where he apologizes for not arriving earlier, but then that wouldn't have been as dramatic.
- Interestingly, One Piece which usually takes any opportunity to turn the heroism up to the eleventh doesn't use this trope much. In fact, the only time I can think of it happening is when Usopp, a not particularly heroic character, snipes out the marines ready to gun down Nico Robin from an impossible distance. And then strikes a badass pose.
- Subverted for laughs in Eureka Seven's infamous football episode. When things aren't looking good for the Gekko team, Holland takes off his coat and declares that he's going in. Cut to the score of 34-0 against the Gekkostate.
- This happened often in the first two seasons of Pokemon, complete with some great background music.
Comic Books
- In the climax of Watchmen, this is subverted. The big bad saw the Big Damn Heroes coming and activated his plan as he did. Consequently, they arrive 35 minutes too late.
- Elf Quest: in part 15 of the original series, just as the Wolfriders and Leetah are about to be slaughtered by Guttlekraw's trolls, they are rescued by the Go-Backs and (big spoiler): Rayek. All except One-Eye, who's killed before they arrive. Here's the scene, if all the spoiler tags haven't put you off.
- Y: The Last Man. Natalya and Ciba arrive just in time to stop one of Alter's mooks from kidnapping Beth Junior. Genre Savvy Hero even quips: "Natalya; always with the last minute Han Solo."
- Grant Morrison is particularly fond of this trope, beginning his obsession in Zenith (see this article) and taking it to its logical conclusion in Seven Soldiers, which is literally just a bunch (conspicuously more than seven) of those moments strung together, from the badass ( "Gloriana! There is one!") to the farcical ( Bulleteer accidentally running over the Queen of Darkness in a cartoony art style to boot) encompassing romantic, metafictional and slightly creepy along the way even finding room for an ambiguous aversion, with Klarion merrily fulfilling his own personal character arc at the expense of the rest of the "team"
- "Ultron. We would have words with thee."
Fan Fic
Film
Literature
- In the Fairy Tale, Bluebeard, the heroine asks her murderous husband for a chance to pray as a last request, and her brothers arrive to save her just as her time is up.
- In Angela Carter's version of this story in The Bloody Chamber, it is the heroine's mother who comes galloping over the flooded causeway on horseback, bursts through the gates of the castle, and without a moment's hesitation, shoots her daughter's husband in the head with a revolver just as he's about to cut her head off. Definitely a Big Damn Heroes moment for mothers everywhere.
- Similarly, the heroine of The Seven Swans is rescued by her brothers just as she's about to be burned at the stake for witchcraft.
- In the Star Trek novel My Enemy, My Ally, the Enterprise and renegade Romulan vessel Bloodwing are fleeing from a Romulan research station with the Vulcan-crewed starship Intrepid II, having just freed the latter and her crew from being experimented upon. With Romulan forces overtaking them, they're saved in the nick of time as Starfleet reinforcements charge in across the Neutral Zone. Turns out to be a subversion, as Kirk had actually ordered them to do so several days previously, pre-emptively calculating that if he hadn't made it back by then, he'd probably need backup at that exact time.
- In Sandy Mitchell's Ciaphas Cain novel For the Emperor, Jurgen and Sorel get one of these moments when they arrive just in time to save Cain and Amberley from a Genestealer Broodlord.
- John Moore's Slay and Rescue opens with Genre Savvy hero Prince Charming (that's actually his name) carefully timing the rescue of a princess to achieve this effect. It's part of the job.
- In Dan Abnett's The Brothers of The Snake, a Space Marine arrives on planet to deal with an attack of Dark Eldar when it has wreaked havoc.
- Used a couple times in the Harry Potter series. In The Goblet of Fire, Harry is seconds away from being killed by Mad-Eye Moody, who in reality is a disguised Barty Crouch Jr., when Dumbledore and a few other teachers blast their way through his door and knock him out. It's then used twice in a row in The Order of the Phoenix, when Harry and his friends are saved from the Death Eaters, first by multiple members of the order (Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, Kingsly, and the real Mad-Eye Moody), then after the Death Eaters appear to gain the upper hand, Dumbledore again saves the day, single-handedly rounding up most of the Death Eaters within a matter of seconds.
- OK, while the book is good, Cornelia Funke really overuses this in Inkdeath.
In "City of Glass" Jace saves Clary from being killed by the big bad. The big bad then proceeds to kill Jace seconds after he gives his World Of Cardboard Speech.
Live Action TV
- The trope name (and the quote) comes from Firefly, wherein Mal and the rest of the crew save Simon and River from being burned at the stake in the episode "Safe".
- Ace Rimmer (What a guy!) in Red Dwarf is usually introduced in a Big Damn Heroes scene. In his first appearance, he flies in, saves the crew, then performs emergency surgery on the Cat while nursing a broken arm. The second time, he literally sweeps in, rescues a Distressed Damsel from a Nazi firing squad, surfs from a plane on an alligator, takes a bullet to the holodrive and still manages to have sex before seeking aid — what a guy.
- In an episode of the 2004 reimagining of Battlestar Galactica, called "Exodus", the titular ship is attacked by three Cylon Basestars while attempting to help colonists on the planet New Caprica escape. The ship is severely damaged, and somber music plays while the camera zooms out as the basestars pummel the Galactica to death in the cold darkness of space... until a missile, then more missiles, fire off the edge of the screen, and the Battlestar Pegasus hurtles to the rescue, just in the nick of time. Of course, this is just the high point to heroic events which kicked off with a deadpan "Prepare for turbulence".
- In season 4, episode 13, Lee is captured by members of Zarek's rebellion against the human-Cylon alliance. It looks as though he's about to be shot, and there's a gunshot...and you see Lee's face, spattered with blood, and Starbuck standing there, pistol in one hand. Another of the rebels moves, and she draws another pistol, shooting him. "I can do this all day." It escalates the situation later on, but it's awesome at the time.
- Stargate SG-1 did pretty much the same thing as Battlestar Galactica, above, in a battle against Anubis fleet above Antarctica, in the two-parter Grand Finale (well, it was a finale at the time), "Lost City", at the end of season seven. Dozens of ships are descending towards the heroes' defenseless cargo ship. Cue rockets blowing up Goa'uld fighters, as General Hammond leads the Prometheus against the incoming enemies.
- Raven pulls one of thee at the ending of The Secret Temple. About bloody time too.
- Both of those situations share several stylistic similarities: main characters convinced that they are doomed, and the sudden appearance of rockets, instantly followed by the use of a Theme Music Power Up: Galactica with fast-paced drums and Stargate with the main theme of the series. The resemblance is probably just a coincidence, unless a Galactica writer did a Homage to SG-1.
- Also shows up in the Babylon 5 episode "Walkabout". Just as Sheridan's White Star is about to be destroyed by a Shadow ship, the Narn cruiser G'Tok arrives and thoroughly fries the Shadow battlecrab. A small army of reinforcements arrive immediately thereafter.
- And again when the station breaks away from the Earth Alliance, after the station beats the EA's first wave and the second wave shows up. Delenn arrives Just In Time... with a Minbari War Cruiser (several, actually). CMoA ensues.
- G'Kar is good at these. A Late Delivery From Avalon, and they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the ground.
- Occurs all the time in Power Rangers
- And more often than that in Walker Texas Ranger.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: At the closing moments of Season Six's penultimate episode, Willow, on a black-eyed bender of murderous, bad-magic-is-bad fury, is mopping the Magic Box floor with the Slayer, the only one who might have been strong enough to stop Willow's skin-flaying rampage. With Buffy down, Willow crows her triumph, informing all present (at least those still conscious) that there is no one on earth who is powerful enough to stop her. Cue Big Damn Hero entrance in the form of Rupert Giles, hepped up on some serious magic of his own, to test Willow's theory.
- Doctor Who: Mickey and Jackie showing up to save Sarah Jane.
- Lost, third season finale "Through the Looking Glass:" Three of the Others are holding Sayid, Jin, and Bernard at gunpoint. Sawyer and Juliet are hiding in the bushes, wondering how they can possibly rescue them unarmed. All of a sudden Hurley comes barreling onto the beach and runs over one of them with a Volkswagen Bus.
- In the series finale of Roswell, Michael is on his way out of town when he sees a fleet of black cars heading the other way. Rightly guessing this means trouble, he turns back... just in time to burst through the school auditorium doors on a motorbike, ride up the aisle and onto the stage, where Max gets on behind him and everyone gets away.
- Happens fairly often in the 60s spy series The Man From UNCLE. Usually Solo is in James Bondage (often with the Girl Of The Week beside him) when Kuryakin will swoop in at the nick of time; occasionally it happens with the roles reversed. One example: The second season episode "The King of Diamonds Affair", when Kuryakin arrives to save Solo, the innocent of the week, and a villain-turned-hero who are strapped to cannons with lit fuses which are about to fire:
Napoleon Solo: Next time, try not waiting til the last minute.
Illya Kuryakin: Next time try not to go that far up the Amazon.
- Occurs all the time in Supernatural.
- Star Trek Deep Space Nine, episode "Shattered Mirror". When Mirror Bashir and Mirror Dax swoop in to save the day, we've almost forgotten that they were a part of the plan all along.
- Sharpe's Challenge sees Richard Sharpe, unarmed and being charged by mooks, saved by the timely arrival of a horseman who blasts the baddies with a seven-barrel Nock gun. So it's a Big Damn Heroes moment, The Reveal and a Crowning Moment Of Awesome all in the one short sequence.
Music
- This is the core theme of the Coasters' novelty song "Along Came Jones" (written by Lieber and Stoller).
Professional Wrestling
- This is called the run-in, and can be done by both heels and faces alike—but there's nothing like the crowd's pop when a face runs in to save an overmatched friend.
Close Professional Wrestling
Tabletop Games
- Most RPGs have you appear in the villain's lair just in time, after fighting your way past all his henchmen. This occurs even if you Take Your Time getting there.
- It could be said that Exalted takes this to an extreme, as not only do you show up in the nick of time, but you are all but guaranteed a flashy, even gaudy entrance that defies all logic.
- The ridiculously extensive battle history of Warhammer 40000 has hundreds of these moments on every side, to the point where in the latest Space Marine codex, Vanguard Veteran Squads have a 'Heroic Intervention' ability exclusively to pull off these moments... though it doesn't always work.
- Nobilis has a fairly basic power available to starting characters which ensures they always show up in the nick of time. The more powerful version ensures they ALWAYS show up in the nick of time... even if the bad guys did it 35 minutes ago, or sacrificed the princess last week.
Video Games
- Subverted and lampshaded in Disgaea 2, when
Demon Lord Beauty Queen Etna, arrives just in time to save the heroes from being overrun by a neverending flood of zombies. She's actually downright annoyed that she's wound up arriving just in the nick of time, "like one of those 'heroes of justice' losers", and considers just letting the zombies finish you off before taking on the Big Bad - fortunately for you, the Big Bad is carrying the Villain Ball, and sics the Mooks on her instead of letting them finish you. Cue the explosions.
- Played straight and lampshaded later in the game with Axel arriving with his flute to subdue the Rifle Demons (see the second page quote)
- Played straight in the first Disgaea if you lose to the Alternate Overlord (and if you're not on a New Game Plus, you will), with all the random high-level NP Cs from the castle saving your party.
- Happens Several times in Skies Of Arcadia.
- In Tales of Symphonia, before facing Yggdrasill in Welgaia, all of the members of the party besides Lloyd apparently sacrifice their lives (via being caught in various traps) so that Lloyd may continue onward to face Yggdrasill. Finally, Lloyd enters the chamber in which Yggdrasill is waiting for the completion of the transfer of Martel's soul to Colette's body. Yggdrasill is shocked and extremely angry that Lloyd managed to reach him, and moves to kill him — but then a fireball from above stops Yggdrasill in his tracks. What do you know, the rest of the party didn't die after all, and appeared just in time to save Lloyd! (This scene also counts as a Battle Royale With Cheese.)
- Final Fantasy VIII pretty much lives off this trope. Half the game seems to be centered around Big Damn Heroes moments.
- There's one in Final Fantasy IV, too! After smiting the Calcobrina dolls, the group is confronted by Golbez, who promptly douses them with a paralyzing agent before summoning a Shadow Dragon to start killing them. Kain gets off lucky if he's in the air before the gas goes off and when the killing begins; Rosa and Yang are still screwed. Golbez happened to be hiding the Villain Ball in his robe at the time, as he takes a moment to bid Cecil farewell... a moment too long, as that's when a Mist Dragon erases Golbez' Shadow Dragon and Cecil's paralysis is lifted via Unicorn Horn before the real boss battle begins. Name the mystery benefactor, folks.
- Also, after returning from the Moon, Cecil and friends are horrified to see they're too late to stop the awakening of the Giant of Bab-Il, a kilometers-tall monstrosity that starts devastating the countryside. As they gape in horror, they see a huge burst of artillery on the Giant's flank... and the entire armed forces of the world arrive to buy Cecil's party some time, all with the Theme of the Red Wings rising in the background.
- The above is referenced later, in Final Fantasy IX, when the party, aboard the Invincible, try to enter the portal above the Iifa Tree. Beset by hundreds upon hundreds of Silver Dragons, the formidable ship looks suddenly very small and vulnerable, and is seconds away from being shot down when the airship armadas of Lindblum and Alexandria show up to protect the Invincible, and clear a path into the portal.
- During the second trip through the Forsaken Fortress in The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Tetra pulls this twice - once to distract the Helmarock King and buy time to rescue the captives and again when Link is in Ganondorf's grasp... only for this attempt to fail and require another dramatic rescue.
- It also happens in Twilight Princess, as Link gets confronted by a hoard of enemies in Hyrule castle, and suddenly BAM. Cavalry. Well, infantry, but same effect.
- Fridge Logic sets in as you realize Link has survived much more than the single arrow which was headed for him, and he regularly beats down all sorts of monsters (especially the kind he was up against in this case) without any trouble.
- This isn't exactly a story-based one, so much as one that I performed due to not wanting to deal with the Nightmare Fuel and the need for one of the items. I was collecting what was needed for The Well and noticed I needed some milk, which is easily obtainable at Romani ranch (I'd completed the ranch once already and had Epona's song). The alien attack starts at 2:30 and it was 2:15 when I noticed it (time was slowed down) and i remembered the boulder so I warped to clock town and bought a powder keg then warped to milk road at 2:25. I then blew up the rock and Goron rolled to the barn then reshifted into Link and got out my bow about a minute before the aliens came.
- Pretty much happens in every case of the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney series at some point. The prosecution appears to have won and Phoenix is ready to give up but then... OBJECTION! Someone comes in with new evidence to save the day. The last case in the second game ends up boiling down to stalling until the big damn hero arrives.
- Also of note is the third case of the first and third games where Detective Gumshoe pulls this outside of court.
- Not to mention Gumshoe's failed attempt at this in the fourth case of second game, and Franziska's pick up save off of this at the very last second.
- This happens four times during the final showdown of Ace Attorney Investigations, and three◊ of◊ them◊ get dramatic full-screen shots. (Spoilers on the links)
- This trope occurs in Halo games several times, with Master Chief rescuing marines, or Johnson rescuing the chief. The third game directly references the Trope Namer, as a character called Sergeant Reynolds, played by Nathan Fillion, states, "Looks like we got here just in the nick of time. What's that make us?". Of course, this troper immediately replied "Big Damn Heroes, sir!"
- In fact, part of the ad campaign for Halo 3 was based around the beneficiaries of such moments reminicing about the hero who saved them. You can see a couple of these ads here and here.
- The Subspace Emmisary of Super Smash Bros Brawl has Sonic showing up just in time to prevent the final boss Tabuu from releasing a superattack on everyone. Also Ness and Falco get their Big Damn Heroes moment.
- This troper recognizes it was the story mode of a fighting game, but still thinks it was a really lame way to introduce one of the most anticipated characters ever to be featured in the game.
- Meta Knight manages to save Lucas and Red/Pokemon Trainer from falling to their deaths (or rather falling to their trophycation).
- Link, Mario, Pit, Kirby, and Yoshi get one as well, leaping off a cliff to come to the aid of some of the other heroes who're fighting off the
Heartless Primids.
- Pretty much every character gets one of these at one point or another. Fox bursting out of the wreckage of his Arwing to save Diddy Kong, Captain Falcon using his signature move to take out a ROB who's just annihilated Cpt. Olimar's pikmin team, Ike destroying a Subspace Bomb being carried by the Ancient Minister, this list could earn its own separate page.
- Fire Emblem does this in every game out in the US (probably every game, period), generally as reinforcement to the stories Lord showing when they are in a really serious bind. However on easier difficulties this often leads to the reinforcements needing AMAZING projection as they aren't as leveled.
- The first example of the Lord getting to be the "Big Damn Hero" is in Fire Emblem 7 (released in the states as Fire Emblem). Florina (a supporter to the tutorial chapter's lord, Lyn) arrives to the main team of heroes to tell how her Lyn and the castle are under attack, naturally the main team of the game go to save them.
- Second example is in Fire Emblem 10, right when Lucia is going to be executed by the rebellion, The Greil Mercenaries in PERFECT Big Damn Heroes form all show up. What's great is that in the cutscene for their arrival, each one arrives saving another member of the party from being attacked. So any time the villains attempt a counter strike, they are instantly taken down. Making it a string of Big Damn Hero moments.
- In Mega Man Battle Network 6 (6 being the last game) in the 3rd to last (the last 2 being past the point of no return) cutscreen in the game, the villans realize it is a better idea to take on the Kid Hero in the real world then in cyberspace, only one of these moments save Lan.
- To be broader, Battle Network loves this trope such much that it has a Leit Motif for it
- Laker from Super Robot Wars Original Generation actally plans this, he lets Elzam keep the Kurogane, and occasionally gives him mechs so he can have moments like these, and aid the Hagane, and Hiryuu Custom from the shadows. In Original Generation 02 the Hagane did this a lot in the early levels pissing off the Shirogane's captain Lee Injun, who was jealous of the Hagane.
- Axel Almer and Alfimi both did this in OG Gaiden to play part in the Super Robot Wars MX prologue. When the Jetzt wrecked the Cry Wolves, and it got Foglia killed, Hugo fatally wounded and Albero is sure in to be their next victim, suddenly both of them arrive and attracted the Jetzt, giving Albero time to escape with Hugo.
- In Call Of Duty 4 you both play as the Big Damn Heroes in several missions and are blown up by a nuke because of it in one outstanding, totally badass instance and are saved by the Big Damn Russians in the very last mission, though Gaz and Griggs would probably have preffered it if they could have arrived a few moments earlier....
- "Reinforcements? I am the reinforcements."
- The same line occurs in Mass Effect on Virmire, when you ride in to recue the Salarian recon squad. They are less than impressed with your Bad Ass selves, wondering why the Council didn't send the army they asked for.
- And speaking of Mass Effect, what about "It's the Alliance! Thank the Goddess!"
- In Metal Gear Solid 4, Johnny Sasaki, the resident Butt Monkey of the series, saves both Solid "Old" Snake and Meryl in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and then saves Meryl near the end of the game. Johnny and Meryl then proceed to kick a lot of ass, becoming a Battle Couple in the process. Also Raiden, who would save Snake's life at least twice... the first time cutting off an arm to do so, then the second time appearing without his arms, his sword (Rule Of Cool) first clutched in his teeth and then in his left foot.
- Shinobu during the final boss fight of No More Heroes.
- Subverted multiple times in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, wherein the bounty hunters show up just in time to reactivate a dead orbital cannon and nuke the Space Pirates' asteroid weapon - and then just before they can hit the Big Red Button, Dark Samus shows up and blows them all away, achieving a Big Damn Villain moment of her own.
- And then subverted yet again, as Samus turns out to be Only Mostly Dead, hauling herself to the control panel and activating the cannon before lapsing into a month-long Convenient Coma.
- The World Ends With You has Neku and Shiki, in the third day, almost out of time. Then at the last second, Beat and Rhyme show up and finish off the "master of A-East." Since only one player needs to complete the mission to spare everyone from the threat of erasure that comes with running out of time, their action not only spared them, but also Neku, Shiki, and all the other players currently in the game.
- Near the end of their week, Neku and Josh get a few chances to do this during a Taboo Noise rampage, two out of three of which you can skip over and the third one, oddly enough, forces you to save someone who is as good as dead even if you save him from the things.
- In Mega Man X 2, if X succeeds in retrieving all of Zero's parts from the X-Hunters, Zero will break into the Central Computer's core just before Sigma unleashes his Copy-Zero on X, then proceed to destroy the Copy himself and punch a hole in the floor for X to pursue Sigma, all accompanied by kick-ass heroic music.
- Zero's introduction in the original Mega Man X is another Big Damn Heroes moment that establishes him as a serious Bad Ass.
- At the end of Megaman X3 either Zero or Dr. Doppler will arrive just in time to save X from the invincible Viral Sigma.
- "Looks like we are the support, huh, Colonel?"
- Earlier than that, when Marcus, Dom, and Rook- I mean Carmine are exploring the ruins of Ilima City and get pinned down by a squad of Locust, Cole pulls off a superb Big Damn Heroes by showing up and taking out the entire enemy squad by himself. "Nobody plays this game like me!", indeed.
- Early on in Suikoden II, Flik and Victor show up just in time to stop the executions of the main character and Jowy. On your way out, you discover the main character's sister has broken out of jail on her own, and was on her way to attempt the same.
- A variation in War Craft III. Arthas and the village have held the line as best they can, but finally the undead are proving unstoppable...and then Uther, with The Cavalry at his back, charges into battle. But despite his initial joy:
Arthas: Uther! Your timing couldn't have been better!
- ...he becomes defensive later, when he misinterprets Uther's admiration as disbelief that he was good enough to hold out so long.
- In Half Life 2: Episode 2, you try to protect a defenseless vortigaunt with two mooks and two busted turrets. By the last wave, it's the three of you and one working turret against dozens of Antlions. Then the last turret breaks down. You figure this is going to get unpleasant. Then, three Vortigaunts, who have been nothing but background filler until now, wander into the scene. Moments later, it's you, two mooks, and three Vortigaunts, against HUNDREDS of Antlions, all coming at once. And you know what? The Antlions never stood a chance. I really never expected the Vorts would get a Big Damn Hero moment, but there it was.
- And it decisively shifted the Vortigaunt's personality from fugly alien Magic Negros to definite badasses.
- Tales Of Phantasia offers a rather interest example, wherein one character performs a Big Damn Heroes moment for the player characters... who immediately perform one back. Near the beginning of the game, the Big Bad Dhaos is unsealed, and Morrison casts a spell to send Cless and Mint 100 years into the past in order to save them from Dhaos. The two of them go on a journey (collecting two other allies in the process), and eventually activate another time warp to appear between Morrison and Dhaos, mere seconds after Morrison had sent them away. To the player, it took 30 or so hours of gameplay, but to the mentor and the bad guy, they appeared to have warped right back... until they proceed to kick Dhaos's ass, something they certainly couldn't have done when Dhaos first appeared.
- All of a sudden, some guys rushed into the room!
- City Of Heroes...enough said.
- There's two in fairly close succession at the beginning of Valkyria Chronicles, the first where Welkin saves his adopted sisters life by clubbing an imperial soldier about to shoot her with a fence-post, the second moments later when the siblings get their dad's old tank up and running and perform a proper rescue of the town watch in Bruhl. Alicia even mentions 'Now you're my hero' to Welkin afterwards.
- Lancer of Fate Stay Night is king of this trope in the UBW path. Has his heart impaled, and then he kills the Big Bad of the last route in one attack. That's cool right? Heroic determination and stuff, nice from a guy who was basically just a minion. Only then Shinji shows up, and gets big damn heroed out as well, though not fatally. Still walking around and chatting sans heart, he lets Tohsaka go and burns the entire castle down.
- Gilgamesh subverts it by turning into the next baddie. Archer zigzags on the 'hero' bit.
- Tragically subverted in Cave Story, wherein the BDH arives moments too late to save the victim from being force fed a red flower, and is killed moments later when he tries to attack the villains in a rage. And then you have to Shoot The Dog.
- Later played straight in the final, good ending, where you and Curly Brace are nearly crushed to death by a set of moving walls before Balrog the flying toaster, of all people, swoops in to save you.
- In the last mission of Battalion Wars 2, Pierce has no fewer than 3 Big Damn Heroes moments: providing 3 Fighters to combat the air force; shooting down Kaiser Vlad's escape transport, rendering his obtaining the staff useless, at least until the next game; and giving Betty a ride on his personal Fighter to rescue her from being nuked by Vlad's usage of the staff used to call the satellite weapon.
- Mech Warrior 3, you have picked up two of your 3 available npc allies and are travelling across country to try and rendezvous with mechwarrior Keith Andrew, who you have been in contact with for much of the game. On the way, in dire need of repairs, you come across an enemy fortress and secure it for supplies. The enemy responds by sending a massive force, and another from the other way, and there's an assault mech closing from the west, wait isn't that...
Alan Matilla: Can you read me, Damocles Command? Looks like you need a hand.
- Turns out you're also his best chance of survival since he can't even reload without assistance, but credit for the entrance. Keith Andrew never joins you and eventually meets with a rescue ship that you can't reach.
- There's a great one of these in World Of Warcraft, during the Northrend quest Tirion's Gambit. At the end of a long (and excellent) quest chain, you enlist the help of Tirion Fordring to get a shot at destroying an artifact important to the Lich King. You, Tirion and a small band of Argent Crusade paladins sneak incognito into the Cathedral of Darkness, but the Lich King appears and exposes you all. Surrounded by elite Cultists, you and the Crusaders prepare for a hopeless battle, when...
Koltira Deathweaver: Take courage, crusaders. You do not fight alone!
- Highlord Darion Mograine and the Knights of the Ebon Blade rush in to save the day.
- In Resident Evil 3, If Nicholai gets away with the helicopter (or you destroy it), Barry shows up with a helicopter and saves Jill and Carlos just before the nuke hits.
Web Comics
Web Original
- There are a few instances of this in Survival Of The Fittest. A notable example is that of Seth Mattlock rescuing Bryan Calvert and Tory Johnson from a player - pulling it off in the true spirit of the trope: just in the nick of time. Amusingly, this is because he waited before pulling off the save, although he was, admittedly, trying to get the best possible shot on the bad guy. It also turns into an unintentional Heroic Sacrifice.
Western Animation
- Transformers: Beast Wars has too many of these to list, generally set up by cutting to the good guys headed towards where they're needed, then cutting back to their destination and letting a scene play out until it's a good time for it to be interrupted by weapons fire. The best example of the trope occurred in "Coming Of The Fuzors, Part 2", when the Maximals are outgunned and literally surrounded. When it looks like they're done for (Megatron says, "Finish it."), the wall of the Maximal baseship blows open to reveal the new-and-improved Optimus Primal, Back From The Dead and ready for a fight.
- Transformers: Full of moments like these, mostly when a character is either first introduced, or appeared to be at death's door previously. One of the best examples has to be the episode "Key to Vector Sigma" where Menasor has Superion pinned and is about to impale him on a large spike - only for Omega Supreme, nearly destroyed earlier in that episode, to show up and KO him.
- Avatar The Last Airbender: "The Boiling Rock" has Mai saving the group from having the gondola they're dropped into the boiling lake.
- Also, in "Sozin's Comet" : Sokka and Toph are about to fall off an airship, and are surrounded by Fire Nation soldiers...in comes Suki, riding on top of another airship, giving them someplace to jump down to and destroying the first airship at the same time.
- Happens here and there in Danny Phantom.
Pariah: *holding Danny and Vlad in his hand, both knocked out* Ghosts and humans! Is there no end to this day's surprises?
Valerie: Hey, stoneface! Surprise! *shoots him in the face*
Real Life
- Blücher and the Prussians managed to pull this off in the battle of Waterloo.
- Or possibly not; scholarship is divided as to whether Blücher outright saved the day, or turned up late and just turned the French defeat into a rout.
- The latter point of view reminds this troper of the story of Andrew Jackson (yes, the seventh president), who was considered a war hero for his rousing victory in a battle during the War of 1812...except, due to how slowly news traveled at that time, it was actually a battle fought just after the War of 1812 had ended, as a peace treaty had been signed a few days earlier, much further north. And yes, his war heroics were a major part of what got him elected. Go figure.
- To be fair, he was on the defensive. Holding your ground against a larger, better armed and disciplined force is heroic wether the war is technically still going on or not.
- A much less famous example is King's & Stĺlhandske's arrival at the battle of Wittstock, having been detached by Banér earlier on to outflank the imperial fortifications but been delayed by the difficult terrain.
- We also have Crown Prince Frederick at Königgrätz.
- Benito Juárez, one of the most remembered presidents in Mexico, was about to be shot by a traitor, when his friend Guillermo Prieto barged in screaming "Put down your weapons! Brave men don't murder!".
- D-Day.
- D-day wasn't exactly the nick of time, they planned it for months in advance, and the exact date was open to change right up until the hours preceding launch. It was pretty epic, though.
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