History HeroicSacrifice / WebComics

* ''Webcomic/SweetHome'':

** [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020303.html this]] strip.
** [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20081226.html This]] one too, also shows that AnyoneCanDie.

** PlayedForLaughs [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-07-20 here]]. Does it count as a heroic sacrifice if you clone yourself first?
** [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-03-03 Maxim 20:]] If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win.
** [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-18 Maxim 70:]] Failure is not an option. It is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.

''Caption: Paleontology texts have changed a lot since dinosaurs took over the school board.''

[[quoteright:350:[[Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smbc_dinos.png]]]]

* In ''Webcomic/RubyQuest'', Tom prepares to do this after [[LastMinuteHookup sharing a kiss with Ruby]] to allow time for her and Jay to escape the Metal Glen by fighting Ace. However, [[BaitandSwitch before he can fight Ace,]] [[SubvertedTrope Stitches lunges at Ace and tackles him, allowing Tom to escape with Ruby and Jay,]] in which this trope is then played straight for Stitches.

* In ''Webcomic/RubyQuest'', Tom prepares to do this after [[LastMinuteHookup sharing a kiss with Ruby]] to allow time for her and Jay to escape the Metal Glen by fighting Ace. However, [[BaitandSwitch before he can fight Ace,]] [[SubvertedTrope Stitches lunges at Ace and tackles him, allowing Tom to escape with Ruby and Jay,]] in which this trope is then played straight for Stiches.

* ''Webcomic/KidRadd'': [[spoiler:Bogey lets the titular character kill him in the final chapter, dropping a power-up that saves his life from an imminent, apocalyptic blast. [[BackFromTheDead He gets better though.]]]]
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
** Nanase experiences the pain of death repeatedly (through the repeated destruction of her fairy-doll avatar) during her fight with Abraham for Ellen's life. She has to be hospitalized afterward due to the extreme expenditure of magic and loses her magic completely for over 8 months.
** When a vampire nearly shoots Raven, Pandora causes his gun to explode in his face, then vaporizes him and the other two surviving vampires in the building, knowing that such direct action will lead to her immediate execution (the method of which she exploits to [[DyingMomentOfAwesome all but wipe out Earth's vampires]]).
* Played with in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': when the heroes, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo in desperation]], decide to kill the CardCarryingVillain Bob by [[ColonyDrop dropping an asteroid on his fortress]] even though the impact will also [[TakingYouWithMe kill the heroes]] and the many, many innocent people who happen to be to be within the range. Bob decides that, since he's going to die anyway, he might as be the only one who does, so he [[SuperpowerMeltdown blows himself up to stop the asteroid]]. Of course, they NeverFoundTheBody...

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': [[spoiler:Lars [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061211 shoves Agatha out of the way of an enraged Baron Wulfenbach's downswing]],]] putting himself in the way instead, and pays dearly. As a result, "Agatha [[UnstoppableRage Flips Out]]". It also [[ItHasBeenAnHonor earns him incredible respect]] from the Jagermonsters. Maxim even gives up his hat (the one thing Jagers prize above all else) to be buried with Lars, because he's made himself as good as a Jager with his act, and no Jager should be buried without a hat. Maxim walks hatless from that point on, until he acquires the replacement in a suitably epic mini-arc.

** Mika: "You idiot! Why did you hurt yourself to protect me?"
** Kyoko: "Because it's your wedding day, silly! You should be happy on your wedding d..."
** Mika: "Kyoko? KYOKOOOO!!!"

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''

-->'''Captain Kevyn:''' You have many friends, general?\\

* ''Webcomic/TheBeastLegion'': [[http://www.thebeastlegion.com/comic/issue-12-page-11-desperate-measures/ Xeus pushes Master Grotto out of the way from Fyres sudden Attack]] putting himself in the way instead.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': There are a number of these throughout the comic, somewhat mitigated by the fact that every player starts out alternating between two bodies so that they can be resurrected into the other if one dies, all players go to an afterlife from which they cans till interact with living people and each other, and there are a number of ways to cheat death beyond that. In that regard, these sacrifices are more similar to sacrificing an extra life or body in a video game than actually sacrificing one's life in real life or other works. This is not to say that characters actually ''know'' that this is the case when they sacrifice themselves, mind.
** At the end of Act 4, [[spoiler: Jade sacrifices her Dream Self to push John out of the way of an oncoming meteor.]]
** In Act 5, "Hivebent", [[spoiler: Sollux withstands the MindRape of the cry of EldritchAbomination that was killing of every troll on the planet just long enough to get Feferi into the Medium.]]
** Feferi allows her dream self to get killed so she can prove the Horrorterrors of the Furthest Ring aren't at all something to be feared, so that she can [[YourMindMakesItReal interact with Jade on a more personal level]].
** Sollux has another go at it when he [[spoiler: overexerts his powers to propel the asteroid to the green sun before their window of opportunity passes]].
** This is one of the only two ways that a player who has ascended to the god tiers can die a permanent death, the other being a KarmicDeath.
* In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', during the Rabbits' Rampage storyline, Danielle Kindle[[note]]The ''original'' one. Long story.[[/note]] [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0921.html threw herself in the way of a sharpened carrot stake]] aimed at George Fennec, taking it in the heart. They had seconds to complete their plan, which was to kiss so that their ElectricLove connection could fry their mainframe.
* During the Escape from Brassmoon story arc of ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', a group of monsters is holding off guards by the gate while waiting for it to open. It finally does, to their relief and joy, only for a group of guards to charge towards them. The ogre in the group pushes the others towards the exit, grabs a spear and goes to meet the guards. Two pages later, you see two of the guards stabbing him repeatedly.
** Subverted in the same arc a few pages later. Complains tells Big Ears that he's badly injured and can't move, so Big Ears will have to--and Big Ears cuts him off, furiously telling him he won't leave him behind. Complains stares at him for a moment, then:
--> Are you high?! I was ''going'' to say you should find a board or something to put me on, and you could maybe drag me out of here! Damn ''right'' you're not leaving me behind!
** Played with in the case of [[spoiler: Chief]], who stayed behind to fight [[HeroKiller Kore]] to allow the rest of his group a chance to escape and hide in a dungeon crawl. The other goblins decide to go back to save him after they hear his screams of pain, but [[TearJerker they utterly fail to do so]].
* In ''Webcomic/PowerpuffGirlsDoujinshi'', Atomic Betty was about to get crushed by a giant robot claw (they never showed the robot), then Sparky runs and pushes her out of the way so he could get crushed to death instead. Leaving Betty with a big SayMyName.
* In the WhatIf story in ''Webcomic/AttackOfTheSuperWizards'', Big Red Mc Lane sacrifices himself after blowing up the universe to create a NewEden.
* ''Webcomic/BirdBoy'': [[http://bird-boy.com/volume-1-page-3 Mali Mani never returned from bringing light back to the world]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2009/03/10/issue-1-page-6/ Kyri had handed over her daughter to a friend whom she knew would look after her; neither of them had to say that she wasn't coming back.]]
* ''Webcomic/FakeNewsRumble'': [[spoiler: Yonatan leaps in front of Stephanos, shielding him from Cheney's attack.]] [[UnexplainedRecovery He got]] [[BackFromTheDead better.]]

* ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcninja''. In the "Futures Trading" story arc, Chuck Goodrich was protected from far by the [=NASAGhast=], which killed any of the dinosaurs that tried to harm him. But the battle was being lost due to the dinosaurs' ultimate weapon, the Horrorsaurus. In a moment of honor and courage, Chuck provoked the Horrorsaurus into attacking him so the [=NASAGhast=] would kill it, but the spirit didn't act quickly enough to prevent his gruesome death.
* Karnak, the Demon Lord of Wounds from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'', is an odd candidate for this. Especially since his sacrifice was what lead to him [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2006-04-13 physically entering hell and becoming a Demon Lord.]]
** A less odd candidate is Klo Tark, who switches places with Dominic when the latter is about to be annihilated in a foreign plane.
* In ''Webcomic/BlueYonder'', [[http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1037502/blue-yonder-prologue-page-8/ Maiden Flight goes to hold off the attackers because they can not get her younger brother.]]
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1535#comic 1535]]:
--> '''Dinosaur''': "Save yourself, mammal! We will fend off the asteroids!"
--> ''Caption: Paleontology texts have changed a lot since dinosaurs took over the school board.''
* In ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}' '' ZombieApocalypse arc, [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean James Norrington]] sacrifices himself to save a little girl and gets bitten by a zombie. [[spoiler: Later gets [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] because being [[DeathIsCheap canonically dead]] gives him PlotArmor.]]
** Later he does it again in ''Such Stuff...'' to save Sarah from Jareth and Jareth from himself and this time he actually dies. [[spoiler: But this one was AllJustADream combined with YourSoulIsMine by Jareth's father. So he got better.]]
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0827.html strip 827]], Thanh attempts to singlehandedly take on [[TheDragon Redcloak's]] forces during the fall of the Resistance, in order to buy time for Niu to escape and [[BringNewsBack get word]] to [[SupportingLeader Hinjo]].
** Belkar has to be the BearerOfBadNews, during which [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0880.html he explains the sacrifice for the party that]] [[spoiler:Durkon]] made.
** Durkon's father died in this manner [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy before he was born]], having caused a cave-in to save the rest of his squad from a troll with dragon blood. [[spoiler:This is also the reason why he was never resurrected, since having died a hero's death meant that he had earned his place in Valhalla. His wife couldn't bear to tear him away from paradise, even if it meant raising their son by herself.]]
* [[http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1357602/003-venusaur/ Venusaur]] does this in ''151 Hidden Depths''.

* Buwaro the [[ThePollyanna Fire Demon]] from ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' takes a bolt of divine lightning for the woman he loves, who [[http://web.archive.org/web/20100612112111/http://www.sdamned.com/2010/01/01092010/ happens to be an angel.]]
* In ''Webcomic/DragonMango'', [[http://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter05/dm05-24.htm the priestess sees the future clearly, realizes her death leads to the best possibility, and so dies willingly.]]
* Done by ''[[SecondLawMyAss MOUSE]]'', of all computers in ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', when he [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2013/06/01/questions-answered/ fries most of his units]] trying to [[spoiler: keep [[BigBad Zenith]] from taking over the ship]].
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'': According to the South Kaioshin, the Grand Kaioshin did this in most universes to tame Majin Buu.
* ''WebComic/GuildedAge'': [[spoiler:A badly injured Rachel]] pushes Frigg out of the path of [[spoiler:the reality-destroying monster the cultists summoned]] rather than trying to escape.
* At the end of ''Roleplay/NanQuest'', a SadisticChoice is revealed: either [[spoiler:Pablo]] or [[spoiler:Santiago]] must die. [[spoiler:Pablo]] sacrifices themselves to spare Nan from having to choose.
* Xenol in ''Webcomic/SecondEmpire'' develops an extremely ingenious plan to cripple the pursuing enemy ship following their disastrous escape from Skaro. However, he needs explosives, and the closest thing he has is the [[SelfDestructMechanism Self-Destruct Mechanism]] in his warriors' travel machines. Fully knowing just how important Xenol will be to the Daleks, all present warriors immediately volunteer. [[spoiler:Xenol proceeds to show his awesomeness by ensuring the two chosen ones ''survive'' the SelfDestructiveCharge.]]
* In chapter 11 of ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'', Elan throws himself in front of the enemy forces to ensure Elka makes it to safety; he doesn't last long before the enemy wrights [[{{Gorn}} crush him between pillars of earth]]. The villain scores some {{Irony}} points by calling him a coward as he does so. It's implied that he did it because he was going to die soon anyway, as he had a heart condition and had gone several days without his treatment.
* ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'': Multiple times. [[spoiler:Grant does this early on to defeat Shugari's demon minion. Later, at the end of the story, Alex does this to defeat Yzin, and Miya does this to save Alex.]]
* ''Webcomic/DraculaEverlasting'': After Jill helps free Nicholas from the control of Dracula, he kills himself with the stake so that he cannot be controlled again.
* ''Webcomic/SweetHome'':
** [[spoiler: Jayhun]] goes down trying to stop the security guard from killing anyone else.
** [[spoiler: Seop Ahn]] pushes Hyun out of the way of one of Beefcake’s punches and gets crushed in his place.
** Jisu stops Hyun from pulling her away from the flying monster to stop him from being dragged along with her, even telling him to finish her song lyrics for her, but he manages to grab her again and drive the monster away before she's out of his reach.
** [[spoiler:Dusik]] blows himself up while taking multiple monsters with him.
* ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}'': Subverted three times in a row when saving the sewer and the town above from the Baron's bomb. Chub ''almost'' goes down with the bomb, failing to jump off in time while sailing it into a cistern, and then Coney leaps off the ledge to save Chub without any real survival plan for himself, but the nudist is able to catch them at the last moment. Then the nudist herself briefly appears to have died from being caught in the explosion's shockwave, but it turns out she was just unconscious.