Tropescilloscope: Heroic Sacrifice

Character sacrifices him/herself to save others. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Race Against the Clock Hollywood Darkness Reality Has No Subtitles Parental Substitute Freeze-Frame Bonus Break the Cutie You Have Failed Me Villain Opening Scene Rule of Three Wrong Genre Savvy Mr. Fanservice Cloudcuckoolander Beta Couple Lighter and Softer Obstructive Bureaucrat Demoted to Extra Gory Discretion Shot Even Evil Has Loved Ones Our Zombies Are Different Beard of Evil Good Is Not Nice Better to Die than Be Killed Say My Name Freudian Excuse Nice Hat Dirty Old Man Star-Crossed Lovers Pragmatic Villainy Extreme Doormat Apocalypse How Recycled IN SPACE! Took a Level in Jerkass Artistic License – Gun Safety Call-Forward Cool Guns Foregone Conclusion Award-Bait Song Ripped from the Headlines Would Hit a Girl Bad "Bad Acting" Psycho for Hire Overly Long Gag She's Got Legs Fake Shemp Drill Sergeant Nasty Taking the Bullet Slasher Movie Jump Scare Blatant Lies World of Ham Fate Worse than Death Villain Ball Accidental Misnaming Undying Loyalty Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Epic Fail Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Ghost Fiction Almost Kiss You Killed My Father The End... Or Is It? Cat Fight The Mole Together in Death Plot Hole Blood Knight Not What It Looks Like Guile Hero Deal with the Devil Canadian Movies Get Out! Vitriolic Best Buds Kids Are Cruel Bound and Gagged Logo Joke Creator Cameo Evil vs. Evil Cain and Abel The Lancer Mad Scientist Laser-Guided Karma Dark and Troubled Past Kill It with Fire Cowboy Cop Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Hero Antagonist Immune to Bullets Gilligan Cut Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Disproportionate Retribution Not So Above It All Author Appeal Cool Car A Date with Rosie Palms Chase Scene Off with His Head! Meaningful Background Event The Stoner Bittersweet Ending Curb-Stomp Battle Your Head A-Splode Anguished Declaration of Love Chekhov's Gun Based on a True Story Epic Movie Corrupt Corporate Executive Black Comedy Brutal Honesty Age Lift Obviously Evil You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Major Injury Underreaction Rule of Cool Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Whole Plot Reference Improbable Weapon User Slasher Smile Pretty Little Headshots Awesome, but Impractical Affably Evil Drowning My Sorrows Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Artistic License – History Artistic License – Biology Dogged Nice Guy Sequel Escalation He Who Fights Monsters No Celebrities Were Harmed Red Right Hand Plucky Comic Relief Interrupted Suicide BFG Red Shirt The Starscream Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Redshirt Army Affectionate Parody Knife Nut Genre Throwback Dark Reprise Disguised in Drag Brick Joke Room Full of Crazy N-Word Privileges Mood Whiplash Bond Villain Stupidity Be Careful What You Wish For La Résistance Belligerent Sexual Tension Card-Carrying Villain Amusing Injuries Gorn '80s Hair Narrator Villain with Good Publicity Refuge in Audacity Anachronic Order No Antagonist Never My Fault Jitter Cam Failed a Spot Check Blood from the Mouth Advertised Extra Agony of the Feet Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Reality Ensues Really Gets Around Wham Line Reality Is Unrealistic Fiery Redhead May–December Romance Knight Templar Nothing Is Scarier Everyone Has Standards Diabolus ex Machina Final Girl Coming-of-Age Story A God Am I Stylistic Suck Silent Movie It Will Never Catch On Hate Sink Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Henpecked Husband Australian Movies Defrosting Ice Queen "Well Done, Son!" Guy Action Survivor Shipper on Deck Shut Up, Hannibal! Leitmotif Dramedy Danny Peary Cult Movies List Babies Ever After Hair-Trigger Temper "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Those Two Guys Love Triangle Dual Wielding Ugly Guy, Hot Wife How We Got Here Smoking Is Cool Disney Villain Death Older Than They Look The Faceless Decoy Protagonist Index of Film Westerns Fainting Pimped-Out Dress Eiffel Tower Effect Kill 'em All Crapsack World Naïve Newcomer Madness Mantra Crazy Jealous Guy Determinator aka: The Determinator Sole Survivor Gainax Ending Calling the Old Man Out Irony Film Noir The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Fantastic Racism Badass in a Nice Suit Heroes Want Redheads The Atoner Superhero Call-Back Science Fiction Films Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Not Using the "Z" Word Sanity Slippage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy What the Hell, Hero? Eldritch Abomination Cool Old Lady Kick the Son of a Bitch Artistic License – Military Dressing as the Enemy Throwing Your Sword Always Works Eagleland Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Oner Paper-Thin Disguise Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Gratuitous English I'm a Humanitarian Kubrick Stare Only Sane Man Important Haircut Manly Tears Parental Abandonment Villain Song You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Pretty in Mink Only in It for the Money Posthumous Character Straight Gay Batman Gambit Imagine Spot Rasputinian Death Bolivian Army Ending Missing Mom Unusual Euphemism Sequel Hook Smug Snake Femme Fatale Mythology Gag Monumental Damage A.I. Is a Crapshoot Playing Gertrude Scenery Gorn The '60s Informed Ability Disney Death The Chessmaster Totally Radical Blackmail Our Vampires Are Different Book-Ends Ms. Fanservice Death by Adaptation Biopic Mundane Made Awesome Toplessness from the Back Christmas Movies Index Animal Motifs Never Trust a Trailer Depraved Bisexual Fingore Needs Wiki Magic Love Music Stories Body Horror Honor Before Reason Neck Snap Abusive Parents Amoral Attorney Actor Allusion Jerk Jock The Quiet One Red Herring Motor Mouth Large Ham Match Cut One-Word Title Up to Eleven Shower Scene Artistic License – Physics Heroic Sacrifice Documentary Friend to All Children Japanese Films Slashed Throat Dramatic Gun Cock British Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bloodless Carnage Only Known by Their Nickname Television Movie Index Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Scenery Porn Asshole Victim The Alleged Car Face Death with Dignity 20 Minutes into the Future Breaking the Fourth Wall Moment Killer Half the Man He Used to Be Red Eyes, Take Warning The Ace The Stoic Drugs Are Bad Action Prologue Face–Heel Turn Death of a Child Death Seeker Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane One Steve Limit Super Strength Evil Counterpart Celebrity Paradox As the Good Book Says... Chiaroscuro Pre-Mortem One-Liner Air-Vent Passageway Setting Update Fourth Date Marriage Fat Bastard Too Dumb to Live Big Eater For Want of a Nail Adult Fear Peek-a-Boo Corpse Break the Haughty Dirty Cop Hong Kong Films The Stinger Instant Death Bullet Obfuscating Stupidity Meaningful Name Ass Shove Riddle for the Ages Rape as Drama Double Entendre Fanservice Serious Business Casting Gag Jerkass Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene All Just a Dream Composite Character All for Nothing A Minor Kidroduction Reckless Gun Usage Deliberate Values Dissonance Spared by the Adaptation Exact Words Arc Words Take That! Let's Get Dangerous! The Bad Guy Wins Your Cheating Heart Creepy Child Badass Normal The Dog Bites Back Noodle Incident Here We Go Again! The '80s Woman Scorned Dark Action Girl She Cleans Up Nicely Dark Is Not Evil Dull Surprise Evil Sounds Deep Word of God Mistaken for Gay Film Noir Index Facial Horror Evil Is Hammy Parental Neglect Ambiguous Disorder As Long as It Sounds Foreign Unusually Uninteresting Sight Shoot the Shaggy Dog Ambiguous Ending Put on a Bus Adaptation Name Change Did Not Get the Girl Bring My Brown Pants Badass Longcoat Aside Glance Badass Boast Jerkass Has a Point The Ditz The Smart Guy It's All About Me Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Fan Disservice The Cavalry Alas, Poor Villain Wham Shot Fatal Family Photo Have a Gay Old Time Not Quite Dead Guns Akimbo Catch-Phrase Men Are the Expendable Gender Training Montage Insistent Terminology Historical In-Joke Mind Screw Character Development An Aesop The Sociopath Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Shell-Shocked Veteran Well-Intentioned Extremist Wounded Gazelle Gambit Fantasy Films Corpsing Storming the Castle All There in the Script Flashback Spanner in the Works Bi the Way Dutch Angle Male Frontal Nudity Offscreen Teleportation Film Series Genre Shift "Shaggy Dog" Story Artistic License – Geography Faking the Dead Romantic False Lead Camera Abuse Improvised Weapon Pay Evil unto Evil Tagline What Happened to the Mouse? Martial Arts Movie Captain Obvious Romantic Comedy Precision F-Strike Take a Third Option Abhorrent Admirer Adaptational Badass Suddenly SHOUTING! Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Sexy Discretion Shot And the Adventure Continues The Smurfette Principle Action Genre Dissonant Serenity Demonic Possession Villain Protagonist Sealed Evil in a Can The Voiceless Exactly What It Says on the Tin Once More, with Clarity! The Vamp Eye Scream Early Installment Weirdness Intrepid Reporter Token Minority Redemption Equals Death Boom, Headshot! The Un-Reveal Drives Like Crazy The Place Not So Stoic Cluster F-Bomb For the Evulz The Musical Gender Flip Cat Scare Politically Incorrect Villain In the Back He Knows Too Much No Ending Video Credits Crucified Hero Shot War Is Hell Taking You with Me Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Make It Look Like an Accident Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Offscreen Moment of Awesome Vampire Fiction Does This Remind You of Anything? Alpha Bitch Hope Spot Suspiciously Specific Denial Translation Convention Manipulative Bastard Real Life The Remake The Hero Unreliable Narrator Anti-Villain Tempting Fate Ambiguously Gay The X of Y Black Best Friend Parental Incest Silence Is Golden Unresolved Sexual Tension Only a Flesh Wound Overprotective Dad Laughing Mad Those Wacky Nazis Ironic Echo Rousing Speech Damsel in Distress Camp Gay No OSHA Compliance Sports Stories Unspoken Plan Guarantee Running Gag After the End Enemy Mine Downer Ending Male Gaze And Starring Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Evil Laugh I Did What I Had to Do Sassy Black Woman Foreshadowing Dramatic Irony The Load NO INDOOR VOICE Black and Gray Morality Central Theme Domestic Abuse Took a Level in Badass Broken Aesop The Power of Love Developing Doomed Characters Big Bad Stuff Blowing Up Green-Eyed Monster Annoying Younger Sibling The Brute Adults Are Useless Adaptation Expansion Mystery and Detective Films Historical Hero Upgrade Reasonable Authority Figure Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sci-Fi Horror Artistic License – Law Woman in White Heel–Face Turn Twist Ending Black Comedy Rape Ax-Crazy Self-Deprecation Animal Title Index Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Framing Device Horror Films Properly Paranoid Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Karmic Death My Beloved Smother Military and Warfare Films Dying Moment of Awesome Police are Useless This Is Gonna Suck Oh, Crap! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Chekhov's Gunman Not Even Bothering with the Accent Trailers Always Spoil And I Must Scream Credits Gag Jerk with a Heart of Gold Curse Cut Short Chewing the Scenery The Great Depression Arch-Enemy In Name Only Badass Bookworm One-Man Army Action Girl Department of Redundancy Department Evil Brit The Big Guy Man on Fire Empathic Environment Evil Plan Villainous Breakdown Bland-Name Product Car Fu The Casanova Idiot Ball Mexican Standoff Gone Horribly Right All Girls Want Bad Boys The Film of the Book Bottomless Magazines Bullying a Dragon Covers Always Lie Protagonist Title Mercy Kill Badass Grandpa Names to Run Away from Really Fast Rewatch Bonus O.O.C. Is Serious Business Vacation Films Left the Background Music On Victoria's Secret Compartment Bar Brawl Papa Wolf Zombie Stories Would Hurt a Child Berserk Button Mama Bear Genre Savvy The '90s Off-into-the-Distance Ending Big Fancy House In Medias Res No Name Given Actually Pretty Funny Alliterative Name Funny Background Event Retired Badass Shown Their Work Stock Footage "The Reason You Suck" Speech Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Ungrateful Bastard Humans Are Bastards From Nobody to Nightmare Big Bad Duumvirate It Can Think Closed Circle Accidental Murder Hidden Depths Mugging the Monster Continuity Nod Worthy Opponent Sacrificial Lion Maybe Ever After Killed Mid-Sentence Heterosexual Life-Partners Spiritual Successor Adaptation Distillation Early-Bird Cameo Pyrrhic Victory Vomit Discretion Shot Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Tranquil Fury Brainless Beauty Meaningful Echo Malevolent Masked Men Contrived Coincidence Scare Chord Funny Foreigner Heel Realization Double-Meaning Title Leaning on the Fourth Wall Catapult Nightmare Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Sir Swears-a-Lot No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Broken Bird Light Is Not Good Kick the Dog All There in the Manual French Films Getting Crap Past the Radar The Dragon Yandere Bait-and-Switch Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Vomit Indiscretion Shot Time Skip Shirtless Scene Defiant to the End I Need a Freaking Drink Costume Porn Title Drop Novelization It's Personal Five-Man Band Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bilingual Bonus Revenge Rule of Funny Karma Houdini Bury Your Gays Naked People Are Funny True Companions Fire-Forged Friends Deliberately Monochrome Arranged Marriage Bavarian Fire Drill Hypocritical Humor timeperiod Does Not Like Shoes Psychopathic Manchild The '70s Leave the Camera Running Truth in Television As You Know Bald of Evil Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome A Father to His Men Retirony Conspicuous CG "Awesome McCool" Name Serial Killer Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Adaptation Dye-Job There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mighty Whitey Evil-Detecting Dog Gold Digger MacGuffin The Cameo Re-Cut Tap on the Head The Chick Pragmatic Adaptation Big Brother Instinct Bloody Hilarious Mr. Exposition Cruel and Unusual Death My God, What Have I Done? Ominous Latin Chanting Author Avatar Non-Indicative Name Evil Is Petty Historical-Domain Character Only One Name No-Sell Wicked Cultured An Arm and a Leg Cool Shades Sadistic Choice Big Applesauce Bare Your Midriff Wretched Hive Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Cassandra Truth Anyone Can Die Destination Defenestration Adaptational Villainy Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Deadpan Snarker Hollywood Law Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Implacable Man Skewed Priorities Not So Different Police Brutality Show Within a Show Chekhov's Skill Big-Bad Ensemble Hell Is That Noise Market-Based Title Dropped a Bridge on Him Roaring Rampage of Revenge Darkest Hour Greater-Scope Villain Stealth Pun Grey and Gray Morality Works Set in World War II Horror Comedy Bunny-Ears Lawyer The '50s Canon Foreigner Every Car Is a Pinto Insane Troll Logic From Bad to Worse Big Damn Heroes Betty and Veronica Country Matters Rich Bitch Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dirty Coward Death by Irony Loophole Abuse Punch-Clock Villain Disappeared Dad German Films Ship Tease Even Evil Has Standards Lock and Load Montage Spiteful Spit Daylight Horror The Lost Lenore Fanservice Extra The Reveal Punny Name What You Are in the Dark My Greatest Failure Famous Last Words Handicapped Badass Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Never Found the Body Manchild Soft Glass Stalker with a Crush Last-Name Basis Married to the Job Crazy-Prepared Easily Forgiven Deus ex Machina Captain Ersatz Faux Affably Evil Adorkable Beware the Nice Ones Improbable Aiming Skills Fish out of Water Expository Hairstyle Change Four-Temperament Ensemble Eureka Moment Authority Equals Asskicking Line-of-Sight Name Love at First Sight Public Domain Feature Films Armor-Piercing Question Intergenerational Friendship Stepford Smiler B-Movie Nice Guy Dies Wide Open Real Life Writes the Plot Slap-Slap-Kiss Shout-Out Product Placement Anachronism Stew Frame-Up All Men Are Perverts Meet Cute Dwindling Party Those Two Bad Guys Bowdlerise Aluminum Christmas Trees Determinator Animated Credits Opening Becoming the Mask Rated M for Manly Loads and Loads of Characters Due to the Dead Brother–Sister Incest Visual Pun Morality Pet Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dumb Blonde The Ghost Hoist by His Own Petard Butt-Monkey Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Homage Comically Missing the Point Historical Villain Upgrade Scary Black Man Adapted Out More Dakka Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Alcoholic Made of Explodium Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Broken Pedestal No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Bully Flipping the Bird Neck Lift Bad Boss Bloodier and Gorier Distracted by the Sexy Happily Married Creative Closing Credits Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Dreaded Same Language Dub Russian Films Children Are Innocent Fatal Flaw Black Dude Dies First Small Name, Big Ego Random Events Plot Fun with Acronyms Hero of Another Story Thriller Humiliation Conga Rule of Symbolism Unwitting Instigator of Doom Didn't Think This Through Combat Pragmatist I Have Your Wife Auto Erotica Back from the Dead Pet the Dog Poor Communication Kills folderlabel Attempted Rape Antagonist Title As Himself Sinister Minister Earn Your Happy Ending Big "NO!" Race Lift Psychological Thriller Adaptational Attractiveness Red Oni, Blue Oni Outrun the Fireball Despair Event Horizon Spell My Name with an "S" Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Made of Iron Foil Expy Anti-Hero Retcon Bond One-Liner Deconstruction Daddy's Girl The Mafia Extremely Short Timespan Lampshade Hanging Death Glare Hypocrite Establishing Character Moment Italian Films Grievous Bottley Harm Death by Sex Heroic BSoD Eyepatch of Power Ascended Extra Groin Attack Soundtrack Dissonance Driven to Suicide Cool Old Guy An Axe to Grind Stealth Hi/Bye Mooks Cold-Blooded Torture Darker and Edgier Adaptational Heroism The Hero Dies Insult Backfire