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== Film ==
 
* Naturally, films about firefighters, such as ''[[Ladder 49 (Film)|Ladder 49]]'' and ''[[Backdraft]]''.
* In the film ''[[Film/Turk 182|Turk 182]]'' an off-duty fireman goes into a burning building and rescues a little girl; he gets injured, but since he had alcohol in his system the city refuses to pay for his medical expenses. His little brother goes on a Roaring Rampage of...uncivil disobedience.
* ''[[Homeward Bound]] II: Lost in San Francisco''. Shadow and Sassy rescue a little boy and his cat from a burning house.
* ''[[Backdraft]]'': As most of the man characters are firefighters by profession this happens multiple times in the film.
* In ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'', a rescue of this nature occurs toward the end of the film.
* In ''[[Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Film)|Pee Wees Big Adventure]]'', Peewee runs into a burning pet shop to rescue all the pets... [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|including the snakes]], although he waited until the last minute.
* The title character of ''[[Bolt]]'', a dog who thought he was a superhero, shows his true heroism by running into a burning soundstage to rescue his girl Penny.
* Occurs in ''[[Crash (Filmfilm)|Crash]]'' when Officer John Ryan, so far shown only as a racist, performs a rescue of a black character from a burning car and hence gets [[Character Development]] into a [[Noble Bigot Withwith a Badge]].
 
== Literature ==
 
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'': {{smallcaps|Bill Door}} saves a little girl from a fire.
** ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'': Played more-or-less straight, although Moist is very [[Genre Savvy]] about it (yet he actually saves several lives).
{{quote| "A man who rushes into a burning building to rescue a stupid cat and comes out carrying that cat is seen as a hero, even if he is rather a dumb one. If he comes out ''sans'' cat he's a twit."}}
** Parodied in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Jingo|Jingo]]''. Vimes does this and is accused of trespassing (in the embassy which was on fire) and kidnap (of the woman he rescued).
* In the first book of [[Timothy Zahn]]'s ''[[The Cobra Trilogy|Cobra]]'' Trilogy, the war has ended and a Super Soldier has come home to great distrust from his community. At one point he is almost hit by a car, and his computerized reflexes save him and then cause the car's tires to blow out, making it crash and killing the people inside despite his best efforts. Later on the mayor, who's on his side, gets him to a burning building after the firefighters have an equipment shortage, and he saves several people to mass cheers, daring then to hope that public opinion has turned around. It didn't, unfortunately; after the excitement died down he was regarded with yet more fear.
* ''The Decorator'': [[Erast Fandorin]] does it once, as recounted by Angelina.
* Discussed in ''[[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]]'', Siuan tells Mat that he reminds her of her uncle from when she was a fishermen's daughter. He was a heavy drinker, chased after woman all the time, loved to gamble and was able to charm his way out of any kind of trouble (which he frequently go in). He died rescuing children from a burning building, in fact he died because he kept going back to look for more pepole and the roof collapsed on him. Siuan implies that Mat would do the same thing and he scoffs. {{spoiler|She turns out to be right, while not quite the same he goes back to rescue Olver (his ward) in the middle of a Seanchan Invasion, braving exlosions and damen attacks}}
* The demon Crowley in ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'' runs into a burning bookshop with what everyone else perceives is an intention to rescue the (similarly immortal) angel Aziraphale; but what Crowley is ''really'' after, and rescues, is the extremely vital sole remaining edition of ''The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Wyttche''.
* ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)|The Dresden Files]]'': How Harry breaks his back in ''Changes''. He does have a severe case of [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] after all.
* ''[[Circle of Magic]]'': Daja and Frostpine do this in ''Cold Fire''. Of course they are Smith Mages so it's slightly less dangerous for them to do it as they have magical resistance to fire.
** Coldfire also has another example {{spoiler|but of the subversion.}} Ben Ladradun is the heroic firefighter, rescuing people from burning buildings, {{spoiler|but also the serial arsonist setting the fires in the first place.}}
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* In season 3 of ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'', Ray runs into a burning building when he hears a woman in there. This trope is subverted, because a fireman ends up saving both Ray and the woman from the fire.
* ''[[Chuck]]'': Chuck and Casey in "Chuck Versus The Frosted Tips", who run into a helicopter and its surrounds on fire to rescue Morgan and Gertrude Verbinski respectively.
* ''[[Body of Proof (TV)|Body of Proof]]'' kicks off one episode by having Peter run into a burning house to rescue one of the inhabitants, underlining his bravery credentials.
* ''[[Castle]]'': After a bomb goes off in Beckett's apartment, Castle rushes into the burning apartment to rescue her. Played down somewhat because the apartment fires are quite small and it is then [[Played for Laughs]] when it turns out that Beckett is naked in her bathtub and she demands he hand her his jacket before they leave. Then Beckett lampshades this trope by joking that Castle must be extremely keen to tell her about his heroism with regards to breaking down the door and rushing into the apartment.
* In the backstory of ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'', this how Jim and Melinda met. He rescued her from a burning apartment complex.
* Subverted in an episode of ''London's Burning''; a man had to be forcibly restrained from rushing back into a burning house to rescue his daughter, and when he finally broke loose he ended up trying to sprint up an already-unstable flight of stairs that collapsed, injuring himself quite badly and making the crew's job a lot more complicated.
* In the ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' episode "Siren Song", Cole does this to try to prove to Phoebe that he's reformed.
 
 
== Music Videos ==
 
* The "My Hero" video by the [[Foo Fighters (Music)|Foo Fighters]].
 
== Web Comics ==
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== Western Animation ==
 
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'':
** On the way to the company softball game Jose Canseco comes upon a house on fire. "Save my baby!" He runs in and saves the baby. "Save my cat!" So he saves the cat. "Save my player piano!" He spends all day running in and out of the burning building saving things.
** Ned Flanders saves Homer when the Casa Simpson catches fire.
** When Moe's bar burns, Barney saves...[[Subverted Trope|a couple of kegs of beer]]. [[Double Subversion|Before running back in for Moe and Homer.]] [[Zig Zagged Trope|And two cases of beer.]]
* In ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'', Fry (whose consumption of 100 cups of coffee has [[Caffeine Bullet Time|momentarily given him superpowers) rescues the patrons of a burning art exhibit (one at a time, using super-speed]]).
* [[Classic Disney Shorts]]:
** "Society Dog Show", Mickey enters Pluto on a dog show, but is rejected. Then a fire breaks out and Pluto rushes in to save the Pekinese he fell in love with.
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