Tropescilloscope: Heroic Sacrifice

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

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