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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???Whether Bob's sacrifice was senseless or not tends to be DependingOnTheWriter.
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* '''Enforced''': "This is a DarkerAndEdgier work, we can't have HeroicSacrifices be important!"
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* '''Enforced''': "This is a DarkerAndEdgier work, we can't have HeroicSacrifices {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s be important!"
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* '''Parodied''': Bob tries TakingTheBullet for Alice at literally every opportunity, protecting her from everything from literal bullets to getting splashed at the pool. [[StopHelpingMe Alice isn't amused.]]
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* '''Parodied''': Bob tries TakingTheBullet for Alice at literally every opportunity, protecting her from everything from literal bullets to getting splashed at the pool. [[StopHelpingMe [[UnwantedAssistance Alice isn't amused.]]
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** Bob is WrongGenreSavvy and/or is working with bad information - as far as he knows, his sacrifice is necessary, but the audience [[DramaticIrony knows it's not]].
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* '''Parodied''': ???Bob tries TakingTheBullet for Alice at literally every opportunity, protecting her from everything from literal bullets to getting splashed at the pool. [[StopHelpingMe Alice isn't amused.]]
* '''Played for Drama''': Bob is a DeathSeeker, but believes that SuicideIsShameful and that DeathEqualsRedemption. While he claims that he's just trying to protect Alice, he's clearly just looking for [[SecretlySelfish a "heroic" reason to die]].
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* '''Straight''': Bob attempts to pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop the BigBad, Emperor Evulz, from pressing the BigRedButton that causes his evil plan to unfold. After his death, Evulz simply presses the red button anyway.
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* '''Straight''': '''Straight''':
** Bob attempts to pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop the BigBad, Emperor Evulz, from pressing the BigRedButton that causes his evil plan to unfold. After his death, Evulz simply presses the red buttonanyway.anyway.
** Bob decides to [[TakingTheBullet take a bullet]] in order to save his friend Alice, who's secretly wearing a bullet-proof vest.
** Bob attempts to pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop the BigBad, Emperor Evulz, from pressing the BigRedButton that causes his evil plan to unfold. After his death, Evulz simply presses the red button
** Bob decides to [[TakingTheBullet take a bullet]] in order to save his friend Alice, who's secretly wearing a bullet-proof vest.
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* '''Inverted''': The sacrifice actually ends up making everything better, possibly because Bob was a HateSink to begin with so nobody really misses him.
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* '''Inverted''': The sacrifice actually ends up making everything better, possibly because Bob was a HateSink to begin with so [[AssholeVictim nobody really misses him.him]].
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's HeroicSacrifice could've prevented [[OmnicidalManiac Evulz from destroying the entire world]], but since he doesn't, [[DownerEnding we]][[KillEmAll ll]]...
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's HeroicSacrifice could've prevented [[OmnicidalManiac Evulz from destroying the entire world]], but since he doesn't, [[DownerEnding we]][[KillEmAll ll]]...well]]...
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob doesn't die in the sacrifice, but does get severely injured and it ends up being for nothing.
** Bob's sacrifice manages to stop Evulz, but only because he never thought to pull the machine's blatantly-obvious plug before deciding dying was the answer.
** Bob's sacrifice manages to stop Evulz, but only because he never thought to pull the machine's blatantly-obvious plug before deciding dying was the answer.
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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** Bob doesn't die in the sacrifice, but does get severely injured and it ends up being for nothing.
** Bob's sacrifice manages to stop Evulz, but only because he [[StupidSacrifice never thought to pull the machine's blatantly-obvious plug before deciding dying was the answer.]]
** Bob doesn't die in the sacrifice, but does get severely injured and it ends up being for nothing.
** Bob's sacrifice manages to stop Evulz, but only because he [[StupidSacrifice never thought to pull the machine's blatantly-obvious plug before deciding dying was the answer.]]
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** ** Bob's sacrifice manages to stop Evulz, but only because he never thought to pull the machine's blatantly-obvious plug before deciding dying was the answer.
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** ** Bob's sacrifice manages to stop Evulz, but only because he never thought to pull the machine's blatantly-obvious plug before deciding dying was the answer.
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** Bob's sacrifice was only senseless because he doesn't attempt to solve the problem any other way beforehand.
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** Bob's sacrifice was only senseless because he doesn't attempt to solve the problem any other way beforehand.
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Oh, self-disposing trash. Should have made the button self pressing as well."
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'''Basic Trope''': A HeroicSacrifice that ends up being AllForNothing.
* '''Straight''': Bob attempts to pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop the BigBad, Emperor Evulz, from pressing the BigRedButton that causes his evil plan to unfold. After his death, Evulz simply presses the red button anyway.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's HeroicSacrifice could've prevented [[OmnicidalManiac Evulz from destroying the entire world]], but since he doesn't, [[DownerEnding we]][[KillEmAll ll]]...
* '''Downplayed''': Bob doesn't die in the sacrifice, but does get severely injured and it ends up being for nothing.
* '''Justified''': Bob didn't think his HeroicSacrifice through, and Evulz is GenreSavvy enough to know how to prevent him from doing it.
* '''Inverted''': The sacrifice actually ends up making everything better, possibly because Bob was a HateSink to begin with so nobody really misses him.
* '''Subverted''':
** As Bob dies, it's revealed that he hit the self-destruct button on Evulz' machine.
** It was a DisneyDeath, or Bob gets resurrected and destroys the machine.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** It was a decoy.
** Then Bob tries to save Alice from the explosion, only to accidentally kill them both.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Nobody does a HeroicSacrifice.
** If someone does have a HeroicSacrifice, it ends up being important.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "They killed Bob off in that HeroicSacrifice, only for it to do ''nothing?'' How cruel."
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%% * '''Implied''': ???
%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???
* '''Straight''': Bob attempts to pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop the BigBad, Emperor Evulz, from pressing the BigRedButton that causes his evil plan to unfold. After his death, Evulz simply presses the red button anyway.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's HeroicSacrifice could've prevented [[OmnicidalManiac Evulz from destroying the entire world]], but since he doesn't, [[DownerEnding we]][[KillEmAll ll]]...
* '''Downplayed''': Bob doesn't die in the sacrifice, but does get severely injured and it ends up being for nothing.
* '''Justified''': Bob didn't think his HeroicSacrifice through, and Evulz is GenreSavvy enough to know how to prevent him from doing it.
* '''Inverted''': The sacrifice actually ends up making everything better, possibly because Bob was a HateSink to begin with so nobody really misses him.
* '''Subverted''':
** As Bob dies, it's revealed that he hit the self-destruct button on Evulz' machine.
** It was a DisneyDeath, or Bob gets resurrected and destroys the machine.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** It was a decoy.
** Then Bob tries to save Alice from the explosion, only to accidentally kill them both.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Nobody does a HeroicSacrifice.
** If someone does have a HeroicSacrifice, it ends up being important.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "They killed Bob off in that HeroicSacrifice, only for it to do ''nothing?'' How cruel."
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%% * '''Implied''': ???
%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???
