It's not completely devoid of any "sacrifice" feel, but it's bad. I tried GIS-Fu, no luck so far.
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.There's probably a wide variety of potential images for this. For now, I'd suggest something from this
video; namely, starting with the panel 1:51, followed by the next 3 panels. (Well, if there could be a panel arrangement by which they could be shrunk and rearranged to be both readable and within TV Tropes width limit. First I'd want to know if it'd be a good image otherwise.)
EDIT: Or alternatively, this.
(Namely, the part starting at 6 minutes and 25 seconds in, which combines it with Im Taking You With Me on the part of another character; interesting way of contrasting personalities, to say the very least.)
edited 16th Mar '11 8:53:09 AM by neoYTPism
I don't think you need that much panels, but I'm not sure. The first two would be fine, but the one by 2:11 really fits the "heroic" part.
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.That's the thing about the first video; it has one character doing a Heroic Sacrifice to keep the other from heroically sacrificing himself. Each tries to save the other at the expense of themselves, but the alien "wins" because he has a stinger.
Oh, you added another. What about the panels shown at 6:35?
Here it is
◊. Too wide, however—needs to rearrange the placements somehow.
edited 16th Mar '11 8:56:13 AM by Catalogue
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.Well The Star Trek 2 pic is so into the It Was His Sled at this point. It was even in the trailers for the movie and the next movie.
We could go with the Funeral aspect
◊?
edited 30th Mar '11 4:15:38 AM by Raso
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!I don't think it's necessarily a spoiler, although the restriction does make it harder to picture. A Heroic Sacrifice taken from a one-shot strip or a Discussed Trope shouldn't count as spoiler.
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.How about Skurge the Executioner at Gjallerbru from Walt Simonson's Thor?
- His final page
◊, which probably won't work for our purposes, since you'd actually NEED to use the entire page.
- But how about the last two panels of this page
◊? I think they get the point across.
Still preferring neo's suggestion
◊.
Plasma Stream, while more touching, isn't clear on whether she will die during the feat.
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Are you sure that's the right link? This
◊ has nothing to do with this trope that I can tell.
edited 30th Mar '11 11:35:54 AM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryWoooops. I meant this one
◊. Much obliged sir.
(That one is from the Ron the Death Eater IP thread.)
edited 30th Mar '11 11:42:48 AM by Catalogue
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.What about The Iron Giant's Heroic Sacrifice? It's been a while since I watched the movie (and I'm not really sure how much of it I saw) but that's a pretty classic Heroic Sacrifice.
Would be spoileriffic in my book, but perhaps we should see the picture first.
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.Ok went through the edit history, it is EXACTLY the picture I'm thinking about, problem is that picture wasn't very good because it was a black and white one, so it was hard to tell what was going on. If we can find a picture of Piccolo protected Gohan in color I think that might be more beneficial.
This is Mimi-don't let her cuteness fool you-she's got spunk.
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The picture shows neither heroic nor sacrifice. It doesn't even show any danger.
edited 16th Mar '11 7:30:47 AM by Osmium