Tropescilloscope: Heroic Sacrifice

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

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