Tropescilloscope: Heroic Sacrifice

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

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