Tropescilloscope: Heroic Sacrifice

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

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