Tropescilloscope: Heroic Sacrifice

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

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