History Main / StupidSacrifice

** In ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'' #10, Superboy interferes when a couple of crooks are attempting to kidnap Lucy. When one thug pulls one gun out, Lucy steps between Superboy and the thug, screaming she will not let them hurt him, while Superboy cries her to stop because he is bulletproof (unlike herself). Fortunately for Lucy, Superboy was quick enough to melt the speeding bullet.

** Whenever a hostile vampire appears, Bella immediately decides to try to get herself killed in order to "save" her {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le boyfriend.

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': In the flashbacks of "Social Engineering," Henry's LoveInterest Anne, a nurse, jumps in front of Henry to prevent him from being shot by his now old wife Nora, who was trying to show Henry's "gift" to the world. Nora is taken away to the asylum (LaserGuidedKarma for doing the same to Henry years before), and Henry is left holding the dying body of his new love. Justified since Anne didn't know about Henry's secret. Even if she did, she might have done the same thing anyway to help Henry keep his secret and continue to do good as a doctor.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Death Corps of Krieg are a particularly fanatical MartyrdomCulture even for the Imperium, each soldier of which is a DeathSeeker raised to atone for their ancestors' sins of rebelling against the Imperium. All well and good, except that it manifests as this trope. Where other regiments have {{commissar}}s to encourage men to duty and sacrifice, Krieger commissars are there to ''stop'' them from throwing their lives away when they can keep fighting elsewhere.

* Early on in ''Anime/{{Godannar}}'', [[TokenMiniMoe Lou]]'s father stays behind in his robot to fight a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Memesis Beast]] who invaded their space station. According to him, it's his duty to protect the crew, who were almost certainly all dead or evacuated by then, and the station itself, which ends up crashing to Earth later on in the episode anyway. This later on inspires Lou to start a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against all of the species, putting herself into constant danger as a result. Great parenting, dude.
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' has Nuriko die this way. He was wounded from his fight with Ashitare and chose to use his remaining strength to remove a giant boulder in the way to the location of the [[MacGuffin Shinzaho]], then collapsed when his team members arrived. One of them has [[HealingHands the power to heal injuries]], and even Miaka says Nuriko should've waited until [[TheMedic Mitsukake]] arrived before moving the boulder. The worst part is that the boulder was never an actual obstacle! The entrance was still accessible, as the team notices human skeletons lying around inside. Nuriko died to prove that AnyoneCanDie now.

* In ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', was Data's HeroicSacrifice even necessary? Did he have to fire the phaser himself, instead of setting the phaser to overload and beaming out? [[CharacterAgedWithTheActor Brent Spiner felt that he could no longer convincingly play an ageless character]] and demanded that Data "die". Curiously, they still introduced an identical twin, who is left alive. And gets all of Data's memories. To add an extra layer of stupidity, this was the last TNG film and so the problem of Spiner being too old to play Data any more was not exactly germane. The series actually ''did'' address the issue of Data being ageless, while Spiner obviously wasn't. Data once {{Hand Wave}}d it by saying he developed a means to appear as if he was aging (making it part of his quest to understand humanity). May not have been airtight, but most fans were likely not to nitpick this particular issue, all things considered.
** [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Nemesis/Pictorial-4.html Awesomely skewered here:]]
--->'''Data:''' The transporters conveniently failed after sending Picard, so I'm going to leap across space to get to Shinzon's ship.\\
'''Geordi:''' What about the transporters in the shuttles?\\
'''Data:''' Shut up.\\
'''Geordi:''' What about the Captain's Yacht?\\
'''Data:''' Shut up.\\
'''Geordi:''' Why didn't we just send a bomb instead of Picard?\\
'''Data:''' Shut up.\\
'''Geordi:''' What about the transporters in the cargo bays? They're independent units, remember?\\
'''Data:''' What part of "shut the fuck up" do you not understand? This is my big heroic exit, asshole. Don't fuck it up.
** As revealed in [[http://trekmovie.com/2010/10/06/patrick-stewart-on-the-fifth-star-trek-tng-movie-video-images-from-a-life-in-the-theatre/ this interview,]] a fifth TNG movie was still on the table while ''Nemesis'' was being made, so Spiner writing himself out isn't quite as senseless as it seems in retrospect. Still, he could have been sent away from the Enterprise, perhaps to focus on scientific research. Arguably better than contriving a reason he just ''has'' to do this in a way that will get him killed. The alternative method? "Hey, everybody, it's been fun, but I'm transferring to do my own thing. See ya!" Done.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':

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* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': Intending to deter the attacking ''Tyrannosaurus'' from Lex and Tim, Ian Malcolm uses a flare to distract it, since its vision is based on movement. There's one problem, though: his colleague, Dr. Alan Grant, has already done that. If he hadn't have used his flare, he wouldn't have gotten the serious injuries the theropod gave him, and Gennaro would have survived.