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I like nothing more than a character sacrificing himself or herself for the sake of others. That’s drama at its finest for me.
~ Bryan Konietzko, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra

Heroic Sacrifice is a common theme for certain heroes and is linked to the noble choice, confrontation, and negativity turned positivity. It is reserved for heroic or supporting characters who embrace their last moments with acts of honor or morality (usually to show they are willing to redeem themselves or undo their wrongdoings they indirectly caused). However, it wasn't always the case.

Though this scenario is arguably one of possible Noble Choices a hero/heroine may take for the greater good, ALL examples of Heroic Sacrifice are lethal, by its very definition — also many heroes who died with honor are directly responsible for their own demise (for example a character may know they are about to die, as their last action was one of nobility or kindness — thus making them an example of this theme) and subsequently become Saved Souls after death. In rare case, sometimes they revived via. certain circumstances or outside interferences some time after performing such sacrifice.

However, this does not always apply to only heroes who sacrificed their lives; it also applies to those who nearly died in saving others. As the way to maintain the impact of the hero/heroine's choice on the story however, the hero/heroine in question would be more than often handicapped by sustained injuries that forced his/her allies to continue without him/her, and the injury may or may not permanent.

Regardless, the consequences remained same; the hero/heroine's sacrifice cemented his/her status as a hero worth to look up to and strengthen his allies' resolve in overcoming their darkest hours.

Examples[]

Literature[]

  • Harry Potter series:
    • Lily Potter and James Potter : James and Lily sacrificed their lives to protect their infant son, Harry, from being killed by Lord Voldemort. Though Lily ended up received more credit than her husband, the noble choice they made nonetheless had a profound impact on their son good and bad, further carving Harry's destiny's as the Chosen One, a mythical legendary wizard whose ability to feel and empowered by strong love matched only by the Dark Lord's malice thus the only one who can kill Voldemort.
    • Harry Potter: Harry allows himself to be struck down by Voldemort's Killing Curse in order to place similar sacrificial protection upon his allies and loved ones, resulting the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters unable to harm every single one of them. Unlike his parents' case, Harry manages to survive as his Heroic Sacrifice also aimed to destroy a fragment of Voldemort's soul inside his scar and in the process, discovered his nemesis' eventual fate where he won't be able to move on due to trapped in Limbo as a mutilated ghost from creating Horcruxes.
    • Ron Weasley: Ron opted to sacrifice himself in the underground chess game to ensue Harry being able to go on and stop Quirrel from reaching the Sorcerer's Stone. While he fortunately survived the ordeal, that cemented how great his determination to help his friends in their adventures together.
  • Lord of the Rings:
    • Frodo Baggins: Though not killed by his heroic but somewhat suicidal quest to destroyed One Ring, Frodo ultimately cannot heal himself from both spiritual and physical wounds that he sustained from the said mission so he goes with the Elves to Valinor to find true medicine.
    • Samwise Gamgee: Though he fared better than Frodo throughout the quest to destroy One Ring as he able to live a family life following his master's departure and in the aftermath of the same journey, Samwise's sacrifices are just as much as the latter owing to his involvement in it and he eventually set out to follow Frodo to Valinor.
      • Again, Samwise apparently sacrifices Frodo to take the Ring on to Mordor at Cirith Ungol before he realizes Frodo was alive after all.
    • Gandalf: Gandalf's entire life is an act of sacrifice, as he is an angel sent to destroy Sauron. Gandalf said he was too afraid of Sauron so he'd be useless but the Archangels said that was all the more reason to go. Gandalf's first sacrifice comes in Moria when he apparently dies fighting a Balrog, only for later revived as the new White Wizard.

Live-Action[]

  • DC Extended Universe:
    • Steve Trevor (DC Extended Universe): Though it required him steeling his resolve to do so, Steve decides to steal Imperials' cargo plane full of experimental gas weapon and have it fly high into the sky before safely detonating its contents there while still piloting it and sacrifices himself in the process. The noble act ultimately cemented hin as the best representation of humanity in Diana's eyes.
    • Superman: Dangerously using Batman's kryptonite spear to slay Luthor's Doomsday in order to save everyone from its reign of terror.
  • Stephen Hart: Upon noticing their plan to trap the creatures hoarded by Leek inside a chamber went wrong due to its door's locking mechanism got damaged thus can only be locked from the inside, Stephen Hart chose to do so against his friends' wishes in a bid to save everyone albeit at the cost of being devoured by the locked predators.
  • Independence Day series:
    • Russell Casse: During the battle against alien invaders, Russel Case sacrifices himself to destroy the aliens' City Destroyer by flying his plane into the Destroyer's weapon in a kamikaze attack. This action of his effectively reinvigorate humanity's resolve as by doing so, he exposes City Destroyer's achilles' heel which turned out its main weapon all along.
    • Thomas Whitmore: During the all-out battle against Harvester Queen, Thomas Whitmore sacrifices himself to defeat the leader of the second Harvester invasion not just to save the planet but his daughter.
  • Baelfire: When the Shadow arrives to take one of Wendy Darling's brothers to Neverland, Baelfire asks the shadow to take him instead, to save Wendy and her brothers.
  • Henry Hart/Kid Danger: He sacrifice himself to save Swellview after his archenemy Drex made the blimp steer off course to Swellview baby Hospital.
  • Batman (The Dark Knight Rises): He sacrifice himself to save Gotham from a bomb that was rigged to blow. leaving everyone to believe he is dead.
  • In Piranha 3D, Jake Forester is in love with Kelly, but because of numerous misadventures including the attacking Piranhas, Jake sacrifices his lust for Kelly until the finale. Also, Laura Forrester sacrifices her lust for her brother Zane as well as her eagerness to cause havoc in order to save everyone.
  • Star Wars:
    • Obi-Wan Kenobi: Sacrifices himself in his final battle with Darth Vader on the Death Star, so Luke, Han, Leia, Chewie and the droids can escape.
    • Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars): As Darth Vader, he sacrificed himself to save his son, Luke from Emperor Darth Sidious in Return of the Jedi. This ultimately allow him to redeem himself from his Moral Event Horizon deeds.
    • IG-11: IG-11 sacrifices himself to save his friends from Moff Gideon's Stormtroopers through self-destruction.
    • Amilyn Holdo: She dangerously jumps her ship, Raddus, into hyperspace to save her fellow Resistance where the vessel aimed at First Order's armada led by a Mega-Star Destroyer, The Supremacy, cleaving it into half and destroying 20 smaller Star Destroyers at the cost of her own life.
  • V: Getting himself mortally wounded by Party Leader Creedy and his Fingermen, sacrificing himself for the revolution.
  • Jack Dawson: Sacrifices himself to save Rose Dewitt Bukatter from freezing to death in the cold ocean water.
  • Nux: Sacrifices himself to block the canyon pass by crashing the War Rig and kill Rictus and the remaining War Boys while the rest of the group escape on the Gigahorse.
  • Casper McFadden: Sacrificing his chance for having a second life by given it to a ghostly Dr. Harvey, so Kat can be with her father.
  • May Day: May Day sacrifices herself to get the detonator out of the mine thus saving Silicon Valley in the process.
  • Lee Abbott: Distracts the Death Angel who threatens his children so they can escape from the creature's grasp at the cost of his own life.
  • Willard Decker: Decides to allow himself to be absorbed by V'Ger alongside Ilia in order to save Earth.

Cartoons[]

  • Darkwing Duck: He chose to let himself get pulled into Paddywhack's evil Jack-in-the-box, sacrificing himself to save his daughter Gosalyn; fortunately,
  • John Smith: He saved Chief Powhatan from getting shot by Governor Ratcliffe, and is sent back to England for medical treatment.
  • The Iron Giant: He decided to save Rockwell and die with the missile. However he turns out to have survived and is now reassembling himself in Langjökull Glacier, Iceland.
  • Kerchak: Steps in between Clayton's gun and Tarzan and is shot. In his dying breath, Kerchak apologizes to Tarzan for not approving him then finally accepts him as his son.
  • Megara: She pushes Hercules out of the way of a falling pillar, taking the impact herself. She dies of injuries, but Hercules retrieves her soul from the Underworld--nearly sacrificing his own life--thus re-earning his Godhood that previously destroyed by Hades through help of Pain and Panic previously.
  • Stoick the Vast: He rushes to save Hiccup and is killed by Drago Bludvist through crazed Toothless, leading him to give up his own life for his son. His sacrifice also proved that Hiccup's attempt to convince Drago was proved to be fatal mistake, as this led Drago to cause every single adult dragon to turn against Berk.
  • Charlie Barkin: When Charlie's life watch was sinking in the water, Charlie manages to get Anne Marie to safety. But when he dived down to retrieve the watch, it fills up with water and stops working, as this led to Charlie dying in the process. The hellhound originally intended to send Charlie to the underworld due to his previous actions. However, Annabelle intervenes as Charlie's sacrifice for Anne Marie turned out to be noble enough for him to re-earn him the access in returning to Heaven.
  • Gurgi (Disney's The Black Cauldron): After Gurgi rescues his friends, Taran attempts to stop the Black Cauldron's power by jumping into it. But Gurgi did not want to let Tarzan die for the sake of his friends and decides to sacrifice himself by jumping into the legendary cauldron while his friends escape the evil Horned King's Castle safely. He would later be revived by witches who owned the dark artifact.
  • Jean-Bob: Jean-Bob sacrificed himself to save Prince Derek from Clavius.
  • Scully: Scully sacrificed himself to save Princess Odette and Alise from the Forbidden Arts, thus destroying them for good.
  • Ashi: Ashi sacrificed her existence by using her time portal powers to bring Jack back to the past, destroy Aku, and undo the horrific future he's created, which caused her to fade away during her wedding with Jack.
  • Crysta: Sacrifices herself like Magi did by allowing Hexxus to devour her in one bite and uses her powers from inside him to grow a seed she had with her to again imprison Hexxus (together with The Leveler) inside a new tree. She emerges, unharmed and alive.
  • King Triton: He takes Ariel's place as the evil Ursula's prisoner to atone from his violent outburst of destroying his daughter's Grotto and transforms into a polyp. Fortunately, after "Queen" Ursula is killed and the magic-binding contract is nullified, King Triton reverts back to his normal self.
  • Sir Lionel: Sacrifices himself to save King Arthur from the attack of Ruber, who wants to take the throne of Camelot for himself. He is the first to step in the defense of the king during the battle where he is struck with a fatal blow from Ruber's mace and dies shortly after Ruber is exiled from Camelot upon his immediate first dfeat by King Arthur wielding the fabled sword Excalibur in self-defense.
  • Korso: He sacrificed himself to get the TITAN operational and destroy the Drej.
  • Justice League Dark: Apokolips War:
    • Swamp Thing: He successfully bringing down the Congolese Earth Reaper at the cost of his own life.
    • Shazam: Blows himself up to stop the Paradooms on the Great Wall.
    • Cyborg: Sacrifices himself to destroy the planet of Apokolips and banish Darkseid into a void where he can never again threaten the universe.
  • Venom: Venom sacrifices himself to save Dr. Ashley Kaflka and stop Carnage as he fell into an interdimensional portal.
  • Tempest Shadow: Tempest Shadow sacrifices herself to defeat the Storm King by intercepting the latter's petrifying blast aimed at Mane 6, resulting both of them to turn into stone. The act further cemented her redemption and subsequent salvation as not only she already realized her errors from her days as Storm King's commander and pawn, but also completely won Mane 6 over leading Twilight to restore her.
  • Baymax: He launches Hiro and Abigail back to Earth at the cost of his deactivated form trapped inside the void between portals with his rocket fist after his thrusters got damaged by the debris.
  • Frozen:
    • Queen Anna: She steps in to protect Elsa before Hans could cut her down despite gradually freezing from inside out. Fortunately for her, she winds up frozen solid seconds before the rogue prince's sword and her flesh meets, resulting the attack to be deflected back to him and the act of sacrifice being crucial for Elsa's change to better and with it, her improved mastery over her immense ice-based powers.
    • Olaf (Frozen): Used his remaining time to pass the dying Elsa's message to Anna to do the right thing and undo the damage of their unfeeling grandfather King Runeard against entire Enchanted Forest and its magical inhabitants. He and Elsa would later be revived once the dam Runeard built completely demolished.
  • Megatron (Prime Wars Trilogy): Keeps Unicron's consciousness within Matrix of Chaos at bay while allowing Optimal Optimus destroying them both with the Requiem Blaster for the sake of his fellow Decepticons.
  • Littlefoot's Mother: She gave her life to save her son, Littlefoot, and Cera from Sharptooth during a massive earthquake. Before she succumbed to her wounds, she tells Littlefoot that she will always be with him and to let his heart guide him to the Great Valley.
  • Spear: In order to protect Fang, her new babies, Mira, and her village, Spear ultimately sacrifices himself during the final battle against the Viking Chieftain in his fire demon form as he tackles him off a tall mountain. But in the process, he ends up suffering second to third degree burns all over most of his body. On his deathbed, he asks Mira to mate with him moments before he dies. As a result, they gave birth to a daughter, who will follow her father's footsteps in honor of his incredible sacrifice and the wonderful legacy he left behind.
  • The Tod: The Tod sacrifices himself to the military dogs to save Rowf and Snitter from the Parachute Regiment and give them time to escape to the Irish sea via a railway from Eskdale to Ravenglass.
  • Emmet: Sacrifices himself to save his friends.

Anime/Manga[]

  • Dragon Ball franchise:
    • Goku: He sacrificed his life to defeat his evil brother, Raditz, by keeping him immobile so his former enemy, Piccolo, could use his deadly new attack to impale both of them.
    • Many years later, after having been wished back to life, Goku sacrificed his life a second time to keep Cell from self-destructing on Earth by transporting both of them to King Kai's planet (Though as a consequence, King Kai and his two pets, Bubbles and Gregory died with Goku).
    • Piccolo: He decided to stay on Earth and die in order to permanently destroy the Black-Star Dragon Balls while the planet Earth's populace safely evacuated..
    • Vegeta: Vegeta sacrificed himself to protect his family from Majin Buu.
  • Yusuke Urameshi: he sacrifices his own life to save a little boy from getting hit by a car, which led to both his resurrection and his adventures.
  • Asuna: Asuna throws herself in the way of Heathcliff's attack to save Kirito, depleting the last of her HP and "killing" her.
  • Digimon:
    • Digimon Adventure 01:
      • Angemon: He sacrificed himself to defeat Devimon and restore peace to File Island, as well as to defend T.K. Takashi from the evil Demon-Type Digimon.
      • Wizardmon: He sacrifices his own life to save Kari Kamiya and Gatomon from Lord Myotismon's sinister Grisly Wing attack, and dies, but not before telling Gatomon how grateful he is that they are friends.
      • Chuumon sacrificing himself to save Mimi Tachikawa from Lord Piedmon's malicious Trump Sword attack.
  • Pixiemon: He sacrifices himself to hold off the 4 evil Dark Masters with time long enough for the Digi-destined children in a bubble-like shield created by his magic power to escape from their heinous wrath.
      • Whamon sacrificing himself to save the DigiDestined as well as WarGreymon while being impaled Lord MetalSeadramon's vicious River of Power laser attack right through the skull; he dies from his injuries after MetalSeadramon is defeated, but not before he tells the DigiDestined themselves to save the Digital World.
      • Kari Kamiya: Kari gives herself up to Myotismon's goons, so they could stop hurting her friends.
    • Digimon Adventure 02:
      • Wormmon: He sacrifices himself to help Davis Motoyima defeat Kimeramon in hopes to save Ken Ichijouji from himself.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!:
    • Yugi Muto: He sacrificed himself to save Yami Yugi from being captured by Dartz.
    • Joey Wheeler: Sacrificed himself to the Man-Eater Bug to protect his friends from getting hurt and help Yami Yugi activate the Horn of Heaven card.
  • Sonic X:
    • Maria Robotnik: She sacrificed herself to save her friend Shadow the Hedgehog from the GUN soldiers who shot her in Sonic X. Her incarnations in Shadow the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog videogames and comic book adaptions also did the similar thing.
    • Cosmo the Seedrian (Sonic X): She sacrificed herself to help Super Sonic and Super Shadow, defeat the Metarex and save the galaxy.
  • Sailor Pluto: Sailor Pluto sacrifices herself by using her forbidden Time Stop to prevent Prince Demande from destroying everything and everyone of both the future and the past

Videogames[]

  • Galuf: Galuf deserves a special mention as he subverts normal RPG rules and summons the courage and will-power to fight past 0-HP to defeat X-Death to save his friends, he pays the price though as his HP was apparently so far into the negatives when his will to fight left him after battle that no amount of Raise!s or Phoenix Downs could revive him.
  • In Lollipop Chainsaw, Junji Morikawa, Juliett's mentor, sacrifices himself so that he can attack the Dark Purveyors who have just been summoned. Morikawa tries to blast them but then Zed strikes Morikawa and mortally wounds him. Morikawa lives to see Zed defeated and dies shortly after.
  • Sora: He stabs himself with Ansem's Keyblade in order to release Kairi and the rest of the princesses' hearts.
  • Baby Metroid (Super Metroid): During the final battle between Samus Aran and Mother Brain, the Baby attacks Mother Brain and sucks out her life force before she can release a finishing blow on Samus. As the Baby recharges Samus' health, Mother Brain resurrects herself and attacks, but the Baby jumps in the way and is killed. However, this allows Samus to obtain the Hyper Beam to obliterate Mother Brain.
  • Peppy Hare: When the Star Fox Team arrived at the Aparoid Homeworld, a shield is generated to keep them out, so Peppy tries to fire at the shields from aboard the Great Fox but to no avail, so he goes a step farther by ramming the mothership into the shield, effectively shattering it despite the protests of the Star Fox group, so they went without him. After the Aparoid Queen's death and the planet's destruction, the team mourned for those who presumably lost their lives, until they find out that Peppy and ROB 64 survived as they used an escape pod, much to their joy.
  • Asher Forrester/Rodrik Forrester (Telltale Games: Game of Thrones): In the episode 5 ending, Asher and his crew are almost to Ironrath, but they anticipate a fight when they arrive in the harbor to find it empty. Asher finds Rodrik, but the reunion is short-lived as a Whitehill soldier runs for the gate to cut Rodrik and Asher off from most of their men. Rodrik and Asher will run to the gate and try to open it but upon realizing that it is stuck, Whitehill soldiers will advance on the duo. Rodrik states that one has to stay to let the other out. How who survived, that's the player's choice.
  • John Black from Age of Empires III: Sacrifice himself to destroy the Circle of Ossus and killing General Warwick by causing an avalanche.
  • Sonya Blade: Sacrifices herself to ensure the Netherrealm Palace controlled by 2 ruling Revenants Lui Kang and Kitana being destroyed with a bomb.
  • Alister Azimuth: Sacrifices himself to stop the out of control Orvis Chamber at the Great Clock.
  • Charles Calvin: In "Government Supported Private Investigator" and "Presumed Dead" route, he sacrifices himself to let Henry escape from the Toppat's space ship in one of the escape pods, in which he is blown up with the ship, mentioning that you can say it was the greatest plan a moment before he dies, leaving Henry shouting at this sight.

Web Animation[]

  • The 9th episode of season 10 of Death Battle, pits Bill Cipher against Discord. In the scenario, Bill has successfully brought the Weirdmageddon to Equestria and has effortlessly defeated the Mane 6. Discord then arrives to challenge the Bill and save the world. Though Discord puts up a valiant fight, he was ultimately no match for the Dream Demon, who destroyed the Chaos Spirits very soul and was the overall winner of the episode... but not before Discord tricked Bill back into the Dream Realm, ending Weirdmageddon and saving Equestria. Much to the grief of Fluttershy though.

Quotes[]

Nick Cutter: One of us has got to go back in. I'll do it.
Stephen Hart: (
shook his head anxiously) You'll never make it out.
Nick: Get out of here. Just remember, Lester's not the enemy.
Helen Cutter: Nick, please!
Stephen Hart: .... (
suddenly punches Nick and makes haste to the center and locks the door)
Nick: Stephen!
Stephen Hart: Sorry, mate. I'm doing this one.
Nick: No! Open the door! Open it!
Stephen Hart: Can't do it, Nick. Can't take the risk.
Nick: Stephen, open the door!
Stephen Hart: Tell Abby and Connor... to stay out of trouble.
~ Stephen Hart sacrifice himself giving to devour by predators to save others.
Cassie Cage: General, can you hear me?!
Sonya Cage: (
breaths hardly)
Cassie Cage: General? Mom?
Sonya Cage: I'm here Cass.
Cassie Cage: Hang tight. We'll get you guys out.
Sonya Cage: (
coughs) They're gone, Cass. And I'm not gonna make it.
Cassie Cage: What? I'm not leaving you behind!
Sonya Cage: (
breaths hardly) Get your team home. That's an order. Your duty. Mine's to finish the mission.
Cassie Cage: Mom, no! We can save you!
Sonya Cage: I love you Cass. Give your dad a kiss for me.(
triggers the explosives)
Cassie Cage: Mom, no don't... Mom? Mom! (
desperately digs through the rubble only to hear a countdown to the explosion)
Jacqui Briggs: She's started the detonation sequence!
Cassie Cage: Override it, Jacqui!
Jacqui Briggs: There is no override! Commander! (
struggles with the desperate Cassie until the latter calms herself a bit) Our orders are to leave. (joins Cassie in fighting the oncoming demon horde before escaping the Netherrealm Palace's temple which subsequently explodes as he, Cassie, and their forces teleported by Raiden back to Earthrealm)
~ Sonya Blade sacrifices herself to destroy the Netherrealm Palace.
No! NOOOO!!!!
~ Anakin Skywalker as Darth Vader sacrificing his life to save his son Luke Skywalker from Darth Sidious his former master and the true traitor of the Galactic Republic, redeeming himself and fulfilling the Prophecy as the Chosen One.
Hiccup! SON!
~ Stoick the Vast sacrificing his life to save Hiccup from getting killed by the brainwashed Toothless.
Baymax: (finding his thrusters damaged by the debris while helping Hiro evacuating the pod containing Callaghan's daughter, Abigail) There is still a way I can get you both to safety. (places his rocket fist inside the bottom of the pod holding Callaghan's daughter. Hiro understands what he's going to do.) I cannot deactivate until you say you are satisfied with your care.
Hiro: No, no, no, no, no, wait. What about
you?
Baymax: You are my patient.
Hiro: B-B-Baymax, no—
Baymax: Your health is my only concern.
Hiro: Stop! No, I-I-I'm-- I'm gonna figure something out—
Baymax: Are you satisfied with your care?
Hiro: No! There's gotta be another way! I'm not gonna leave you here! I'll think of something!
Baymax: There is no time. Are you satisfied with your care?
Hiro: (
on the brink of tears) Please! No! I can't lose you, too.
Baymax: Hiro. I will always be with you.
Hiro: (
looks at his robotic partner sadly, then tearfully embraces him, seconds away from completely breaking down. Baymax hugs him back. Hiro eventually releases the embrace, takes a breath, and reluctantly replies) I'm satisfied with my care. (holds tight onto Baymax's launched rocket fist while holding Abigail's pod at the same time and watched as his robotic friend deactivates and stranded in portal)
~ Baymax sacrificing himself by igniting his rocket fist to send Hiro Hamada and Abigail Callaghan to safety, stranding him in the exploding portal.
Cell: Ten more seconds and the Earth will be gone. I guess we'll call this game a draw.
Goku: (
uses his instant transmission to tell Gohan something) Hey, you put up a good fight Gohan. I'm proud of you.
Gohan: (
shocked) What? Daddy?
Goku: Take care of your mother for me. She needs you. Tell her that I had to do this, Gohan.
Gohan: Ah! Goodbye, my son.
Piccolo: Goku!
Cell: No! Don't! (
helplessly watching Goku using his instant transmission to teleport both of them away from Earth, saving the planet)
Gohan: No! Come back!
Krillin: Goku!!!!! (
braces upon the blinding blast alongside Vegeta, Piccolo, Future Trunks, Yamcha, and Tien)
King Kai: (
shocked after Goku teleported himself to King Kai's planet with the exploding Cell) Ahhhh!!!! Goku! What have you done? Are you out of your mind?
Goku: Sorry guys. This is the only place I could think to bring him.
King Kai: (
confused) Well, you could've called first!
Cell: (screams as he helplessly detonates at the wrong planet, taking Goku, King Kai, Bubbles, and Gregory with him) AHHHHH!!!! AUGHHHHHHHH!!!
~ Goku deciding to sacrifice himself in order to save the Earth.
Gohan, can you hear me? (Gohan: Is that you, Piccolo?) Yes, it's me. I'm still here. I have a bit of a situation in my hands. (Gohan: Don't tell me you're still on Earth. The last ship already took off.) Yes, I know. I was helping someone out when it left. (Gohan: What? Call my dad. He can come and get you.) Your dad's out of energy, Gohan. I could call Lord Kai, but I decided to ride this one out. The Black-Star balls are too dangerous. Look what they're doing to the Earth. If I die, they'll turn to stone and this will never happen again. (Gohan: I don't want you to die!) It's okay, Gohan. I know now that it was meant to be this way. Sometimes we have to look beyond what we want and do what's best. (Gohan: But Piccolo... 'cries') Come now, it's alright. This is the path I've chosen. Let's talk about something else like how you're matured. You've become a truly great warrior Gohan, yet you've remained humble. You've shown me that power is nothing if not guided by love. Watching you grow has helped me grow, Gohan. That's why I'm here. (Piccolo's chest bleeds from the blast Gohan used on him when he was infected by Baby) It's begun. Good-bye, my friend. (Earth begins to erupt and overflow with lava) AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
~ Piccolo making his noble decision to stay on Earth and die in order to destroy the Black-Star Dragonballs and turn them to stone.
GET ZORIN FOR ME!!!
~ May Day sacrifices herself to stop her former boss' bomb from destroying Silicon Valley.
Superman: I love you.
Lois Lane: No. No, Clark, you can't.
Superman: This is my world.
Lois: No, Clark, don't.
Superman: You are my world.
~ Superman's last words to Lois Lane before sacrificing himself to kill Luthor's Doomsday with Batman's Kryponite spear.
Megatron: (holds Matrix of Chaos tightly while wrestling against the still-living consciousness of Unicron within to prevent him from controlling him in his upgraded form Galvatron) I won't be controlled by anyone or anything, and that's what this thing wants. And besides...it's the least I can do...for my team.
Unicron: No...NO...I'm so close!
Megatron: Oh, shut up.
Optimal Optimus: Farewell, Megatron.
~ Megatron (Prime Wars Trilogy) sacrificed himself to ensure that the Matrix of Chaos would be destroyed by Optimal Optimus with the Requiem Blaster.
Anna: (struggles to move across the fjord when hearing the sound of a sword being drawn) Elsa? (realizes Hans is about to kill Elsa, and uses her final ounce of strength to throw herself in front of Elsa) NOOO! (Anna freezes to solid ice, her solid form's fingers deflect Hans' killing blow back to him that he knocks himself out and broke his sword at the same time)
Elsa: ANNA! (
gets up and touches Anna's frozen face) Oh, Anna... No, no, please... No. (realizes what has happened, throws her arms around the frozen Anna, and begins to cry)
~ Anna saves Elsa from Hans' killing blow.
Some people are worth melting for.
~ Olaf risking his life to save Anna.
Time STOP!
~ Sailor Pluto sacrificed herself by using her forbidden Time Stop to prevent Prince Demande from destroying everything and everyone of both the future and the past.
Jim, I want this! As much as you wanted the Enterprise, I want this!
~ Will Decker sacrifices himself to save Earth and merged with V'ger.
Alister: No! What are you doing?!
Ratchet: Come on! (
pulls lever hard to stop, but it snaps and now the Great Clock is out of control)
Alister: It's not working. Why isn't it working?!
Ratchet: Because it's not a time machine, Alister! The clock isn't meant to alter time! Only keep it!
Computer: 30 seconds until total system failure.
Alister: (
steps in to stop the machine's control when Ratchet's own attempt to do the same fails) I'm so sorry. (stops Ratchet so he can step in and stop the control) No. Let me.
Ratchet: What are you going to do?
Alister: Take care of yourself, Ratchet. (
uses his wrench as a lever to push harder to stop. With that, an explosion of light engulfs the Orvus Chamber. As the light dies down, Alister's wrench is still standing)
Ratchet: (
gets up alongside Clank to see Alister's lifeless body) Alister? (picks up Alister's pocket watch)
Clank: He did a brave thing, Ratchet. You should be proud of him.
~ Alister Azimuth sacrificing himself to stop the out of control Orvis Chamber at The Great Clock and saying a final good-bye to Ratchet.
Cyborg: (opens up a portal for the rest of the heroes to return to Earth) OK, bus is leaving, they'll be no better time. (all the heroes sans Raven and Damian enter the portal. John and Wonder Woman stop in front of the portal, looking back at Cyborg)
Wonder Woman: Victor?
Cyborg: Can't come.
John Constantine: Download your consciousness into a molecube or whatnot?
Cyborg: It doesn't work like that, genius. Now leave, before these assholes realize they're gonna be trapped here forever.
John Constantine: Cheers. (
sadly enters the portal alongside Wonder Woman)
Raven: (
stops behind Damian as they head to the portal) Go on. I'm right behind you. (looks up at Darkseid and Trigon while Damian proceeds after a moment, who are still fighting each other)
Trigon: (
easily overpowers the New God and knocks his opponent away before pauses to acknowledge his daughter) What a wonderful gift, daughter. Be well. (fires his heat vision at an off-screen Darkseid and continues engaging him)
Raven: Goodbye, father. (
lowers her head as she enters the portal as it disappears, leaving Cyborg alone)
Cyborg: Looks like I get the last word. Suck it, bitches. (
opens a massive portal opens behind Darkseid and Trigon)
Trigon: (
laughs evilly as he grabs the horrified Darkseid before he could escape and drags the New God to the portal with him)
Darkseid: NOOOOOOOO! (
they disappear in the portal. Apokolips starts breaking apart as pieces of it are dragged into the portal. The fiery planet eventually explodes and is fully dragged into oblivion.)
~ Cyborg sacrificing his life by creating a black hole that drags Darkseid, Trigon, and Apokolips into oblivion.
Henry? You there? Man...that roughed me up. Got him though. Gotta be another escape pod around here somewhere. We did it though we got em. Pretty good plan. You could say it was the greates-
~ Charles Calvin's last words to Henry Stickmin before sacrificing himself to defeat the Toppat Clan.
(After Terra sent Slade to his firey doom in the lava, the place begins to shake and erupt) (Robin: Terra's power! It's triggered a volcano!) (Cyborg: Big enough to take out the whole city! And way too big to stop!) (Raven: We have to get out of here!) (Beast Boy: Terra! Come on! We gotta go!) I have to stay. (Beast Boy: No!) I'm the only one who can stop it. (Beast Boy: Please, Terra, you can't! It's too late!) It's never too late. (Terra hugs Beast Boy one last time) You were the best friend I ever had.
~ Terra making her noble decision to stay and save the city from the erupting volcano.
(Charlie: If we can get on the radio, we can ask Flying Corps to shoot her down.) No. If it crashes, it will wipe everyone out for 50 square miles; WE GOTTA GROUND IT! (Sameer: Bad news: it's on a timer. If we ground it here, it's the same thing.) (The whole team starts thinking and looking on in fear.) Is it flammable, Chief? (Chief: Yeah. You said it's hydrogen. It's flammable.) (hands Steve a gun.) I need you guys to clear me a path to that plane. (starts running towards it.) (Charlie: No, Steve!) (the team runs after him, but can't get very far.) (Chief: Come on!) (they run in a slightly different direction.)
~ Captain Steve Trevor ultimately deciding to sacrifice himself to prevent the Germans from winning the war.

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