Tropescilloscope: Heroic Sacrifice

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

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