What They Did For Love

What are some of your favorite things that heroes you know have done out of love? To prevent confusion, let's try to label each incident as "familial", "platonic" or "romantic" love. (That way we won't have any confusion over an incident meant as familial being taken as romantic or anything.)

Ben 10 (familial): Ben overcomes his coulrophobia when Zombozo reveals what he's done to Gwen.

edited 20th Jul '13 11:38:41 AM by Hero_Gal_2347

Storge / Phileo: Kamina literally coming back from the dead to help Simon take control of the enemy battleship.

edited 20th Jul '13 12:28:51 PM by DhanaRagnarok

Sonny Liston rubbed some tiger-balm into his glove

Some things you'll do for money, and some you'll do for love love love.

Meatloaf would do anything for love, but he won't do that.

He wouldn't do that though, mind you.

Oh my gosh you listen to the Mountain Goats?

//loves the Mountain Goats

edited 20th Jul '13 1:02:54 PM by SheWhoMustNotBeNamed

:D

I found them through Moral Orel.

I found them through John Green. :D

On the topic of this thread: (familial) Lily and James Potter dying for Harry.

John Lennon broke up his very famous band for love

Listening to the Get Back Glyn Johns mix bootleg right now, couldn't resist.

Happy Days (familial/platonic): Fonzie remaining in a dance contest to help Joanie, even though pushing his motorcycle to get there left him "dead on his feet."

The Lord Of The Rings, platonic we think Sam carrying Frodo as the latter slowly loses his strength to the Ring. Before that, Sam leaping out to Frodo's boat and Frodo pulling his friend up, allowing Sam to accompany him on his quest. Really, pretty much any Sam and Frodo moment whilst traveling.

"I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!" is one of my favorites too.

Back To The Future (platonic): the beginning, when Doc faces down the terrorists. He knows he's going to die, and he's willing to do so if it will let his best and only friend escape.

Here's a weird one: In King Kong Lives, Kong gives his life to protect his pregnant mate from the Big Bad Military.

edited 21st Jul '13 11:52:47 AM by maxwellelvis

Homeward Bound The Incredible Journey (platonic) — Shadow jumping the fence to go find his master. "I don't care about gates! I'm going home."

From The Dresden Files: Harry commiting genocide to extinction on an entire species of vampires. Don't fuck with his family.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer made a Heroic Sacrifice so her sister wouldn't have to be the one to die.

Star Trek The Original Series (platonic): Kirk, Spock, and McCoy each attempt a Heroic Sacrifice (via Cold-Blooded Torture, no less) to save the others. (It's "The Empath", in case you want to look it up).

Bump?

In Classical Mythology, Orpheus loses Euridice. Armed with only his lyre, he enters Tartarus, charms Cerberus, convinces Charon to give him a free ride across the river styx and plays such a lovely tune for Hades Himself that he lets him take the ghost of his love back to life on the condition that he can't look back at her until they have left the underworld and gone back to the world of the living.

Then when he does get out, he looks at her when she had just a foot out of the cave and was taking form again, and gets sent back to the underworld. Bummer. Then Orpheus kind of goes nuts and gets torn apart by the classical mythology equivalent of ravers on PCP in what is one of the biggest Downer Endig I have ever known of.

On the other hand, those same raving lunatic women were then turned into trees as punishment. And then they were used as roosts for the Harpies.

Människohamn (John Ajvide Lindqvist): The protagonist went down to the depths of R'lyeh a subaquatic mirror dimension to get back his daughter from an eldritch abomination that is the ocean (or maybe even all of planet Earth) itself.

edited 26th Aug '13 9:13:20 AM by TAPETRVE

Elrigo: agreed.

Bump.

Cave Johnson loved Caroline so much, he forced her to put her brain into a giant, limbless robot.

edited 4th Sep '13 6:33:00 PM by MobileLeprechaun