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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Master Shifu decides to stay and fight [[BigBad Tai Lung]], despite knowing that his former student has become too strong for him, knowing that, as long as Tai Lung is fighting him, he will not attack the Valley of Peace, which is being evacuated by Po and the Furious Five.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'', Master Shifu decides to stay and fight [[BigBad Tai Lung]], despite knowing that his former student has become too strong for him, knowing that, as long as Tai Lung is fighting him, he will not attack the Valley of Peace, which is being evacuated by Po and the Furious Five.
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A delaying action is a battle fought by a clearly outnumbered and out-gunned force to try to hold up a superior force. The aim is to buy enough time for other friendly forces to a) escape or b) [[TheCavalry arrive]].

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A delaying action Delaying Action is a battle fought by a clearly outnumbered and out-gunned force to try to hold up a superior force. The aim is to buy enough time for other friendly forces to a) escape or b) [[TheCavalry arrive]].

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* In ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' when a inexperienced naïve group of young adventurers decide to go into a cave inhabited by goblins, they are ambushed, and completely outnumbered. The goblins manage to kill 2 members of the group with ease, and only the priestess and fighter girl are left, the fighter girl begins fighting off the horde to give the priestess enough time to escape, knowing full well the horrible fate that awaits her, so this can also count as a heroic sacrifice. Interesting enough the fighter girl is able to hold her own, until a large goblin joins the fight and breaks her leg, leading to her getting gang raped, despite this she shouts for the priestess to continue her escape.

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* In ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'', when a an inexperienced and naïve group of young adventurers decide to go into a cave inhabited by goblins, they are ambushed, and completely outnumbered. The goblins manage to kill 2 members of the group with ease, and only the priestess and fighter girl are left, the fighter girl begins fighting off the horde to give the priestess enough time to escape, knowing full well the horrible fate that awaits her, so this can also count as a heroic sacrifice. Interesting enough the fighter girl is able to hold her own, until a large goblin joins the fight and breaks her leg, leading to her getting gang raped, despite this she shouts for the priestess to continue her escape.



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* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', when [[spoiler:the prison break from La Gartia Prison is intercepted by N, M and a massive Agnian force]], Ouroboros opts to stand and fight to buy time for the rest.
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* ''[[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47038/book-of-the-dead Book of the Dead]]'': Even Slayers as powerful as Magnin and Beory Steelarm can't forever resist the ColdBloodedTorture inflicted on them via their magical branding when they disobey. But for the sake of their son, they intend to hold out as long as possible, giving him time to gather strength and survive.

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* ''[[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47038/book-of-the-dead Book of the Dead]]'': ''Literature/BookOfTheDead2021'': Even Slayers as powerful as Magnin and Beory Steelarm can't forever resist the ColdBloodedTorture inflicted on them via their magical branding when they disobey. But for the sake of their son, they intend to hold out as long as possible, giving him time to gather strength and survive.
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* In the third episode of ''Machinima/ClearSkies'', Commander Mallozzi jumps his Carrier the ''Magellan'' in to attack the rebel fleet to distract attention away from the Cynosural Jammer which is preventing the Caldari fleet from jumping into the system, giving the crew of the ''Clear Skies'' a chance to sneak in and blow it up without enemy realising. Unfortuately, the Cyno Jammer is more heavily defended than they expected and Captain Rourke tells Mallozzi he needs more time... and Mallozzi [[FaceDeathWithDignity stoically accepts]] that his delaying action is going to have to be upgraded to a HeroicSacrifice...

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* In the third episode of ''Machinima/ClearSkies'', ''WebAnimation/ClearSkies'', Commander Mallozzi jumps his Carrier the ''Magellan'' in to attack the rebel fleet to distract attention away from the Cynosural Jammer which is preventing the Caldari fleet from jumping into the system, giving the crew of the ''Clear Skies'' a chance to sneak in and blow it up without enemy realising. Unfortuately, the Cyno Jammer is more heavily defended than they expected and Captain Rourke tells Mallozzi he needs more time... and Mallozzi [[FaceDeathWithDignity stoically accepts]] that his delaying action is going to have to be upgraded to a HeroicSacrifice...
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* ''[[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47038/book-of-the-dead Book of the Dead]]'': Even Slayers as powerful as Magnin and Beory Steelarm can't forever resist the ColdBloodedTorture inflicted on them via their magical branding when they disobey. But for the sake of their son, they intend to hold out as long as possible, giving him time to gather strength and survive.
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* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's science fiction novel ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga The Vor Game]]'' a fleet of space mercenaries--5,000 people and a flotilla of relatively light warships--has to hold a [[PortalNetwork "wormhole"]] against a full-fledged invasion by an interstellar empire. That the nature of faster-than-light travel in the series naturally creates highly defensible bottlenecks--like a Thermopylae in space--is the only hope they have of success.

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* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's science fiction novel ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga The Vor Game]]'' a fleet of space mercenaries--5,000 people and a flotilla of relatively light warships--has to hold a [[PortalNetwork "wormhole"]] against a full-fledged invasion by an interstellar empire.empire until relief arrives in the form of a ''much'' more powerful group of warships sent by an alliance of multiple planets. That the nature of faster-than-light travel in the series naturally creates highly defensible bottlenecks--like a Thermopylae in space--is the only hope they have of success.

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