Heroic Sacrifice/Web Original

Examples of s in works include:


 * Survival of the Fittest character David Jackson attacks Jacob Starr to buy time for Adam Dodd to free Amanda Jones and Madelaine Shirohara from a locked warehouse. David dies in the ensuing gun battle, though not before wounding Jacob.
 * Also subverted in the case of Simon Wood, when he attacked Darnell Butler to buy time for his girlfriend, Madison Conner, to escape. The catch? Darnell isn't playing.
 * Handlers can do this if the character of another handler gets rolled. They have one hero card, which means their character dies instead.
 * from V4 did this in a fit of rage,
 * The Leet World: After being severely damaged by Ahmad, activates his self destruct mechanism.
 * In the first act of Sapphire Episode III, offers to be executed in  stead.
 * In Dusk Peterson's short story The Fool, the Villain Protagonist writes in his Diary about the capture, rape and romance (Stockholm Syndrome) of his boy slave only to sacrifice himself to a Cruel and Unusual Death so the boy he's fallen in love with can escape and be returned to his surviving family.
 * In The Kevin Saga, by to save . It
 * Fine Structure has five separate examples. In order:
 * Jim Akker kills himself while Zykov/Oul is telepathically probing his mind in an attempt to take him down too. He also sends a last-minute warning to Ching.
 * Jason Chilton sacrifices himself to save millions of people and several named characters from the Unstoppable Rage of the Twelfth Power.
 * John Zhang kills himself in an ostentatiously physics-breaking way, forcing the Imprisoning God to isolate our entire solar system from the rest of The Multiverse.
 * Anne Poole jumps onto a black hole to undo the results of John Zhang's actions, allowing the Final Battle to go forward.
 * And finally, Ching sacrifices himself in the Final Battle, taking Oul with him.
 * in the season 2 finale of We're Alive
 * ...there isn't a word for what does to this trope in Dragon Ball Abridged.
 * of The Gungan Council destroys the Heart of Darkness to keep it out of the Sith's hands. Some spectacular fireworks ensue as everything near her, including herself, disintigrates!
 * dies protecting modern civilization at the climax of Suburban Knights.
 * In Lonelygirl15, does the Ceremony to stop the Order chasing her friends, and  takes a bullet to save Jonas.
 * In The Gamers Alliance, quite a few characters end up doing this. Hiroshi Hayabusa casts Shiropyr which kills both him and the Big Bad Taro Ofuchi. Kagetsu I does the same to Arawn. Geraud/Grady chooses to become the new world tree when the old one dies. Mori'sul sacrifices himself to save the heroes from a collapsing temple.
 * In many Pokémon, the PokeDex entry on Gardevoir says it will give its life to protect a caring trainer; while this has yet to be shown in any game or anime, this video gives an idea of hoe it might happen...