Last Stand / Western Animation

• Avatar: The Last Airbender: This is heavily implied to have happened with Monk Gyatso in "The Southern Air Temple". When Aang, Katara, and Sokka happen upon his skeleton, it's laying on top of dozens of firebenders' (who were powered up by Sozin's Comet, it should be noted) and none of the bodies are burnt. He very likely suffocated all of them as well as himself. Airbenders are pacifists and it's usually a defensive form of bending but this was the first time in the franchise that it was implied that airbending could be used in a lethal manner. The only other time it's used in such a manner is when Zaheer uses it to bend the air out of the Earth Queen's lungs towards the end of season 3 of The Legend of Korra.
• Transformers:
  • Beast Wars:
    • Dinobot's last stand against the Predacons in Code of Hero.
    • And of course, Optimus Prime himself is no stranger to this trope, having done it twice in two separate movies. And both were also pretty darn awesome.
  • Transformers: Prime:
    • The series starts with Cliffjumper's last stand... and he does not go quietly.
    • But what goes around comes around for at the end of the penultimate episode of the series, the odds have never been more in the Autobots' favor when they attack the Nemesis: The Decepticons have lost the Insecticons, most of their bog-standard Vehicons, and their juggernaut Predaking, and their only assets at this point are the Dark Star Saber and Soundwave. Shockwave, Knock Out, Starscream, and Megatron are all easy prey for at least one of the incoming Autobots (Megs being no match for the upgraded Optimus). Needless to say, Megatron gleefully accepts the situation to make things more pragmatic.
    Megatron: If Optimus wishes to wage a battle, for the fate of both Earth and Cybertron, then I shall oblige him. This will be our last stand...
• Star Wars:
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars:
    • "Landing at Point Rain": Obi-Wan is quite aware that his outnumbered and outgunned men's surrounded position may turn into a fight to take as many Geonosians down with them as possible, and right before reinforcements arrive he forces himself to his feet with lightsaber in hand to join his men in a hopeless fight when they're about to be overrun.
    • "Supply Lines": Jedi Master General Ima-Gun Di ("I'm a Gunn(a) Die") and the clone troopers under his command take on the Separatist forces to keep them from attacking the Twi'leks until supplies are delivered, likely knowing they won't be coming back alive. They truly go down as heroes, fighting to the bitter end, holding the droid advance until relief troops arrive and supplies are dropped to starving Twi'lek citizens.
    • "Missing In Action": With droids (including R2) on a mission to recover precious intelligence, they stumble across an amnesiac clone commando. After he recovers his memory, he joins the mission — but they're made, and a droid army is sent to keep them from escaping the planet. Alone, Gregor stands against an army of droids to buy time, proving that the clone commandos really are the best in the Grand Army, and assuring the droids and officer who'd helped him that he'd find his way home. (Ultimately averted in this case; Gregor did survive the war, apparently didn't participate in Order 66, and shows up on Star Wars Rebels.)
    • "Crisis At The Heart": Count Dooku's flotilla invades the neutral planet Scipio with the goal of capturing Senator Amidala, with her only defense being a small garrison of shock troops led by Commander Thorn. Despite their valiant efforts, the majority of them are gunned down by Heavy Missile Platform gunships and the super battle droids they deployed while Thorn himself is slowly surrounded, desperately taking as many with him as he can to the point of using his minigun to melee several droids, but is ultimately gunned down.
  • Star Wars Rebels:
    • Ahsoka Tano's desperate Last Stand and You Shall Not Pass! against Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader at Malachor. This is eventually revealed to not have ended in her death, as Ezra, finding a "world between worlds" that offered access to all of time and space, managed to reach in and pull her out of the battle before Vader would have killed her, then sent her back to moments after she had left; Vader, distracted by the collapse of the temple, presumably thought Ahsoka had died in the collapse and limped away.
    • Kanan holds off a massive fuel dump explosion with his force abilities so that his love Hera and the crew can escape. He is granted Dying as Yourself apparently by the Force itself and seems to regain his sight so that he can look on Hera one last time with his own eyes.
• In the Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers episode "Armada", the Crown Forces vastly outnumbered the League's and were pretty much ready to steamroll Earth. Commander Walsh even invoked the trope. It was only at the last minute that Shane and Niko arrived, exposing a critical flaw in the Crown's experimental engine design.
• Winx Club has a villainous example. After failing to capture the fairies in the Dark Abyss, Ogron, Gantlos, and Anagan run to the Omega Dimension prison planet to hide. When they're followed, Anagan wants to surrender, but Ogron decides to take on the fairies even though they're outnumbered and low on magic. They end up frozen and stuck in Omega for their efforts.
• Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles featured C.H.A.S. rescue Higgins from a minefield by stepping on the mine him/itself. As the bugs swarm in C.H.A.S. opens up with every gun he has to buy the others time to get away. Notable in that he gets two Pre-Mortem One Liners. The first is "I am out of ammunition" so he starts punching bugs to death. When that fails he lets the bugs crowd in close and... Takes his foot off the mine. "ROUGHNECKS, HO!"
• In The Simpsons couch gag where the couches come to life and start killing people, Moe downs an entire bottle of (presumably) quality liquor before taking his shotgun and firing at all of the bar stools and booths that had come to life. It cuts to the next scene before showing what happened in the end.
• In Godzilla: The Series, we learn that Godzilla does this offscreen in a Bad Future in the episode Future Shock. He dies fighting, protecting the last of humanity from a race of genetically engineered monsters called the Dragmas, and it sounds like he took a few of them down with him. He has a memorial statue in that timeline to honor his sacrifice.
• In Green Lantern: The Animated Series Kilowog confronting the entire Red Lantern Armada alone. "It may be just a matter of time, but I'm not makin' this easy on ya... Well if it's my time to clock out, at least I know I went down swingin'..." leading to a moment where the cavalry arrives in the form of the Green Lantern Mogo the Living Planet and the Blue Lantern Saint Walker.