Tropescilloscope: Heroic Sacrifice

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

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