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* The trope name (and the quote) comes from ''[[Firefly]]'', wherein Mal and the rest of the crew save Simon and River from being [[Burn the Witch|burned at the stake]] in the episode [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYeqDD96gLg "Safe"].

* [[The Ace|Ace Rimmer]] (What a guy!) in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' is usually introduced in a [[Big Damn Heroes]] scene. In his first appearance, he flies in, saves the crew, then performs emergency surgery on the Cat while nursing a broken arm. The second time, he literally sweeps in, rescues a [[Damsel in Distress]] from a Nazi firing squad, surfs from a plane on an alligator, takes a bullet to the holodrive and still manages to have sex before seeking aid -- [[Catch Phrase|what a guy]].

* In an episode of the 2004 reimagining of ''[[Battlestar Galactica ~~Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]~~'', called "Exodus", the titular ship is attacked by three Cylon Basestars while attempting to help colonists on the planet New Caprica escape. The ship is severely damaged, and somber music plays while the camera zooms out as the basestars pummel the Galactica to death in the cold darkness of space...until a missile, then ''more'' missiles, fire off the edge of the screen, and the Battlestar Pegasus hurtles to the rescue, just in the nick of time. Of course, this is just the high point to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|heroic events]] which kicked off with a deadpan [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|"Prepare for turbulence."]]

* In an episode of [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the 2004 reimagining of ''Battlestar Galactica'']], called "Exodus", the titular ship is attacked by three Cylon Basestars while attempting to help colonists on the planet New Caprica escape. The ship is severely damaged, and somber music plays while the camera zooms out as the basestars pummel the Galactica to death in the cold darkness of space...until a missile, then ''more'' missiles, fire off the edge of the screen, and the Battlestar Pegasus hurtles to the rescue, just in the nick of time. Of course, this is just the high point to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|heroic events]] which kicked off with a deadpan [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|"Prepare for turbulence."]]

** In season 4, episode 13, Lee is {{spoiler|captured by members of Zarek's rebellion against the human-Cylon alliance. It looks as though he's about to be shot, and there's a gunshot...and you see Lee's face, spattered with blood, and Starbuck standing there, pistol in one hand. Another of the rebels moves, and she [[Guns Akimbo|draws another pistol]], shooting him. "I can do this all day."}} It escalates the situation later on, but it's awesome at the time.

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' did pretty much the same thing as ''Battlestar Galactica'', above, in a battle against Anubis fleet above Antarctica, in the two-parter [[Grand Finale]] (well, [[Post Script Season|it was a finale at the time]]), "Lost City", at the end of season seven. Dozens of ships are descending towards the heroes' defenseless cargo ship. Cue rockets blowing up Goa'uld fighters, as General Hammond leads the Prometheus against the incoming enemies.