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* ''Anime/MaiHime'': The second-to-last episode has Natsuki [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing herself]] against her [[PsychoLesbian love-crazed best friend Shizuru]] by blasting Shizuru's CHILD (Kiyohime) while her own CHILD (Duran) is in Kiyohime's clutches, which destroys both [=CHILDs=] and kills them both. To further [[TearJerker drive the point home]], Natsuki tells Mai ahead of time that she knows she's not going to make it, and when she actually [[ShootTheDog does so]], hugs Shizuru for the first (and last) time as they both disappear, taking Shizuru with her (though they ultimately [[DisneyDeath get better]]).

** [[spoiler: The series culminates with [[CharClone Rau Le Creuset]] attempting this on the entire human race. As a [[CloningBlue defective clone]], his constant seizures were actually a symptom of his [[CloneDegeneration dying body]]. Unable to find meaning in his short life and convinced that HumansAreBastards, he escalates the war to see if he's right that [[ItsInYourNatureToDestroyYourself we'd wipe ourselves out]] given [[FantasticRacism sufficient hatred]] and [[WeaponOfMassDestruction the means to do so]]. [[VillainHasAPoint Unfortunately, we try. Really, really hard.]]]]

* ''Manga/FairyTail'': The Tartarus arc begins with one of these in the form of [[spoiler: Tempesta, blowing himself up into a deadly and rapidly-spreading cloud of poisonous particles after his defeat at the hands of Laxus and the Raijinshuu. In a desperate bid to save the lives of the citizens of Hargeon, Laxus makes a HeroicSacrifice by inhaling as much of the poison as possible as his Dragon Slayer powers enable him to do. [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat He and his team all survived]], albeit with a strong possibility of being permanently weakened, and Tempesta's poison still managed to kill over a hundred Hargeon inhabitants.]]
** Downplayed again in the same arc, [[spoiler: Acnologia]] shows up at the end and is confronted by [[spoiler: Igneel]]. [[spoiler: Acnologia]] is still alive after killing him, but [[spoiler: Igneel]] used his dying breath to tear [[spoiler: Acnologia's]] arm off.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden'' Deidara fights Sasuke, and when he loses the use of his legs and realizes his opponent can [[ElementalRockPaperScissors cancel out the effect of his Earth-based attack with lightning]] he opts to swallow the exploding clay and set it off inside himself (where it can't be rendered useless) [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled so he wouldn't be taken alive]]. It didn't work due to [[spoiler: Sasuke summoning a giant snake, going inside it, which shielded him from the most of blast, and had the snake teleport another location]].

** In the original series, Zabuza also attempts this on Gato during the Land of Waves arc.

* Occurs several times in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', with most attempts being unsuccessful (since success would instantly remove a major villain or hero from the story). We start off with Goku holding Raditz in place for Piccolo to blast them both away (which was actually successful). Then there's the Saibaman who blows up Yamcha, Chiaotzu who tries it against Nappa (unsuccessfully), Android 16 who tried it against Cell (unsuccessfully), Cell who attempts to blow himself up along with the Earth after being beaten by Gohan (unsuccessfully due to Goku's intervention; though in consolidation he kills Goku, King Kai and his companions; destroys King Kai's planet; and is able to regenerate from the destruction even stronger than before), Vegeta who blows himself up in an attempt to kill Buu (unsuccessfully), then Buu who blows himself up trying to kill Gohan (though Buu is able to regenerate and it's later revealed he was only trying to buy time). Somewhat subverted with Frieza who tries to blow up Namek, seemingly to take Goku with him, but he then says that he's able to survive in space while he knows Goku cannot.

** At the end of ''Manga/PhantomBlood'', [[TheHero Jonathan]], lethally injured and with no chance of survival, decided to take [[BigBad Dio]] with him, trapping him in a sunken boat in the middle of the Atlantic. [[spoiler:This works out for quite a while, that is, until Dio eventually manages to escape nearly 100 years later]].
** ''Manga/BattleTendency'':

** In ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'', after being lethally injured, [[StarterVillain Gray Fly]] attempts to pull this on the heroes by crashing the plane they're on before it can reach Egypt. Unfortunately for him, Joseph manages to land the plane safely, with his actions only [[SmallRoleBigImpact extending the length of the journey from a simple plane ride to a country hopping adventure]].
** ''Manga/VentoAureo'':

*** Doppio[[spoiler:/Diavolo]]'s fight against Risotto Nero goes in the latter's favor until Doppio [[HoistByHisOwnPetard makes use of Risotto's]] [[FightingSpirit Stand]], [[ExtraOreDinary Metallica]], to manipulate him into being shot by Narancia's Stand, Aerosmith. As [[spoiler:Diavolo]] is standing over him, Risotto then attempts to use Metallica to make Aerosmith shoot them both, but [[spoiler:Diavolo uses King Crimson to delete the point in time that he was/will be shot so that only Risotto gets hit]].
** ''Manga/StoneOcean'':

* Either inverted or subverted in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', depending on how you look at it. A dying Jonathan, the hero of the first arc, attempts to take Dio, the closest thing the series has to a central antagonist, with him. It does appear to be played somewhat straight for a while, until Dio returns in the third arc.
** In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]], there was one particular Stand that only manifested after its user died. The catch? The only way to surely end a Stand is to kill the user, and as in this particular case he was already dead, it was ''completely unstoppable'', and was hunting the heroes relentlessly in revenge. The fact it was a BlobMonster powered by BodyHorror and corrupting everything around it to absorb it did ''not'' help.
** Attempted later in Part 5; Doppio/Diavolo's fight against Risotto Nero goes in the latter's favor until Doppio [[HoistByHisOwnPetard makes use of Risotto's Stand, Metallica]], to manipulate him into being shot by Narancia's Stand, Aerosmith. As Doppio is standing over him, Risotto then attempts to use Metallica to make Aerosmith shoot them both, but Diavolo uses King Crimson to delete the point in time that Doppio was/will be shot so that only Risotto gets hit.
** Another Stand in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]] plays on this. An inmate possesses an ability named Highway to Hell, allowing this inmate to share self-inflicted injuries. The catch? This inmate is [[SuicideAttack extremely suicidal]].

** Attempted later in Part 5; Doppio/Diavolo's fight against Risotto Nero goes in the latter's favor until Doppio [[HoistByHisOwnPetard makes use of Risotto's Stand, Metallica]], to manipulate him into being shot by Narancia's Stand, Aerosmith. As Doppio is standing over him, Risotto then attempts to use Metallica to make Aerosmith shoot them both, but Diavolo uses King Crimson to delete the point in time that Doppio was shot so that only Risotto gets hit.

** Naraku ''orders'' Kanna to do this, after she sustains heavy damage from protecting her Mirror-Demon. Although Kanna fails to take anyone with her, in her final moments, she {{Heel Face Turn}}s slightly, and manages to tell Kagome how to defeat Naraku. In the anime it is shown quite clearly that Kanna completely refuses to do this.

** There was one particular stand that only manifested after its user died. The catch? The only way to surely end a stand is to kill the user, and as in this particular case he was already dead, it was ''completely unstoppable'', and was hunting the heroes relentlessly in revenge. The fact it was a BlobMonster powered by BodyHorror and corrupting everything around it to absorb it did ''not'' help.
** Another stand in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean part 6]] plays on this. An inmate possesses an ability named ''Highway to Hell'', allowing this inmate to share self-inflicted injuries. The catch? This inmate is [[SuicideAttack extremely suicidal]].

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden'' Deidara fights Sasuke, and when he loses use of his legs and realizes his opponent can [[ElementalRockPaperScissors cancel out the effect of his Earth-based attack with lightning]] he opts to swallow the exploding clay and set it off inside himself (where it can't be rendered useless) [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled so he wouldn't be taken alive]]. It didn't work due to [[spoiler: Sasuke summoning a giant snake, going inside it, which shielded him from the most of blast, and had the snake teleport another location]].

* ''Manga/FutureDiary'': After having a hand blown off, being shot in the gut, and lost ''a lot'' of blood as a result, [[MadBomber Minene]] reveals she has a heartbeat bomb on her person, and [[HeroicWillpower heroically]] ([[BlackAndGreyMorality for this series anyway]]) [[HeroicWillpower wills]] herself to stay alive long enough so it can be used to blow the door to Eleven's vault/hiding place, so Yukiteru can kill him.

** This trope also plays a pivotal (albeit non-lethal) role in Universe 7's performance in the Universal Survival arc of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', with Tien using his clones to bring down his opponent while being ringed out himself, Frieza blasting Gohan and Dyspo off the arena while the former holds down the latter, and finally, [[spoiler:Goku and Frieza grappling Jiren as they drop out of the arena, leaving Android 17 the sole remaining fighter (and thus, Universe 7 victorious)]]. There are also some failed attempts, like Nink attempting to drag Goku out with him, only for Goku to use Super Saiyan Blue to break his hold at the last second.

** This trope also plays a pivotal (albeit non-lethal) role in Universe 7's performance in the Universal Survival arc of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', with Tien using his clones to bring down his opponent while being ringed out himself, Frieza blasting Gohan and Dyspo off the arena while the former holds down the latter, and finally, [[spoiler:Goku and Frieza grappling Jiren as they drop out of the arena, leaving Android 17 the sole remaining fighter (and thus, Universe 7 victorious).]]

* This is how ''Anime/FZeroLegendOfFalcon'' ends. Rick Wheeler is able to destroy Black Shadow's DoomsdayDevice and, in the process, pulls Black Shadow and Captain Falcon. Falcon [[TakeUpMyMantle passes the title of Captain Falcon to Rick]] before Black Shadow attempts to escape. However, Falcon ejects from his racer and performs a Falcon Punch, knocking them both back into the pit.

* Sir Penwood from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' was presented as being mostly an incompetent ModernMajorGeneral at best. But then, after nearly being assualted by Millennium infiltrators, he reveals himself as a CowardlyLion and offers to remain behind in the complex the SS Waffen vampires were bound to attack to give time for the rest of the staff to flee. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Nobody takes him up on this offer; they all stay behind with him]]. After the attack has killed everybody, he waits until the vampires are too deep into the complex to escape, and pulls out a thin cylinder. He laughs right in the enemy commander's face...and reveals the stacks of C4 he'd wired into the building. He gets shot. Twice. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome And he still presses the detonator.]]

** Double subverted with [[BadassGrandpa Fu]], who intended to blow himself up and take Wrath with him...but then Wrath just sliced up the explosives and runs him through. It looked like a SenselessSacrifice until Buccaneer -- himself heavily wounded -- stabbed Wrath ''through Fu's body'', finally landing a hit that weakened Wrath enough for Scar to finish him off later.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': [[BadassGrandpa Fu]] and [[BadassBeard Captain Buccaneer]], who was the temporary leader of the [[BadAssCrew Brigg's Fortress]] at the time, tried to sacrifice themselves to take down King Bradley before their deaths.
---> "[[BadAssGrandpa Old Man]], we'll walk him down the path to Hell together."\\
"Yes, thank you."
** A particularly unique example (shown above), as Fu intended to blow up himself and Wrath, but Wrath just cut the fuses off the bombs strapped to his chest. Captain Buccaneer arrived to help avoid a SenselessSacrifice.

* In ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha,'' Frankenstein [[spoiler:unleashes her [[ShockAndAwe Blasted Tree]] Noble Phantasm, which at full power consumes her as well in a massive explosion of lightning]] in order to defeat Mordred. [[spoiler:It doesn't work in either the light novel or the anime due to Mordred's Master Kairi either teleporting her out of the blast with a Command Spell in the former, or empowering her defense with one to counter Frankenstein's Master Caules's own Command Seal boosting the attack, which cancels out the boosts and leaves Mordred injured but alive.]]

* In ''Fate/Apocrypha,'' Frankenstein [[spoiler:blows herself up]] in order to defeat Mordred. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]

* Occurs several times in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', with most attempts being unsuccessful (since success would instantly remove a major villain or hero from the story). We start off with Goku holding Raditz in place for Piccolo to blast them both away (which was actually successful). Then there's the Saibaman who blows up Yamcha, Chiaotzu who tries it against Nappa (unsuccessfully), Android 16 who tried it against Cell (unsuccessfully), Cell who attempts to blow himself up along with the Earth after being beaten by Gohan (unsuccessfully), Vegeta who blows himself up in an attempt to kill Buu (unsuccessfully), then Buu who blows himself up trying to kill Gohan (though Buu is able to regenerate and it's later revealed he was only trying to buy time). Somewhat subverted with Frieza who tries to blow up Namek, seemingly to take Goku with him, but he then says that he's able to survive in space while he knows Goku cannot.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Sailor Jupiter [[TearJerker does this]] near the end of the first season, [[HeroicSacrifice electrocuting herself]] along with the DD Girl who captured her. Sailor Venus takes out another in a similar way, with a powerful kamikaze overload of her Crescent Beam attack, and Sailor Mars [[KillItWithFire completely immolates]] the last with the remainder of her power. "Fire...'''SOUL!'''" They all got a DyingMomentOfAwesome.

** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Kimbley]] turns Al into a bomb shortly before he dies from the mortal wound Scar inflicted on him. Unfortunately for him, Scar manages to deactivate the bomb by giving Al his right arm, turning him into the new Philosopher's Stone and saving his life.