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* Heroic Sacrifices are a staple of Superhero books (since, it's what makes them Superheroes and not just Supers), and a main cause of [[Comic Book Death]].
* ''[[Kingdom Come]]'': After spending most of his teenage and adult life under Lex Luthor's mindcontrol, {{spoiler|Captain Marvel dies by taking Superman's place and making a nuke detonate in mid-air, saving countless other superheroes. His death sends Superman on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].}}
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* In ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' #74, {{spoiler|Eddie Bloomberg, formerly known as Kid Devil (before he was depowered), is given his heroic send off. While the other Titans are fighting the Fearsome Five, Eddie discovers a dying metahuman with nuclear powers about to literally have a meltdown which would destroy all of San Francisco. Without any hesitation, Eddie takes the living nuke to the Titans jet, being horribly burned and subjected to lethal amounts of radiation in the process. Then he takes the jet into low Earth orbit, refusing to eject just to make sure the jet doesn't change course and go back down to Earth. Eddie vanishes in a nuclear explosion, with the Titans' battlecry "Titans Together" as his last words.}}
* {{spoiler|Giles}} in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Season 8 series.
* From ''Empire's End'', a [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] comic book from [[Dark Horse Comics]]: While fighting the reborn Emperor and his forces, the Skywalkers came across a cyborg Jedi Knight named Empatojayos Brand who had survived the Purge (barely). He followed them and helped defeat Palpatine, but, as the Sith Lord had transferred his soul from cloned body to cloned body to escape death, he launched his spirit at the infant Anakin Solo. Brand interposed his damaged body in between Palaptine and Anakin and used the Force to bind Palpatine to him as he died, thus ridding the galaxy of the Emperor forever.▼
* In
* A recent{{when}} issue of ''Amazing Spider-Man'' has {{spoiler|J. Jonah Jameson's own wife, Marla,}} sacrifice her life to save her husband. The action and resulting death is so powerful that, for probably the first time in his life {{spoiler|J.J. can't bring himself to blame Spider-Man for something that was his own fault!}}▼
▲* While fighting the reborn Emperor and his forces, the Skywalkers came across a cyborg Jedi Knight named Empatojayos Brand who had survived the Purge (barely). He followed them and helped defeat Palpatine, but, as the Sith Lord had transferred his soul from cloned body to cloned body to escape death, he launched his spirit at the infant Anakin Solo. Brand interposed his damaged body in between Palaptine and Anakin and used the Force to bind Palpatine to him as he died, thus ridding the galaxy of the Emperor forever.
▲* In {{spoiler|''[[Fantastic Four]]'' #587, Johnny Storm sacrifices his life to make sure an army of Annihlus-like creatures never escaped the Negative Zone.}}
▲* A recent issue of ''Amazing Spider-Man'' has {{spoiler|J. Jonah Jameson's own wife, Marla,}} sacrifice her life to save her husband. The action and resulting death is so powerful that, for probably the first time in his life {{spoiler|J.J. can't bring himself to blame Spider-Man for something that was his own fault!}}
* In ''[[Justice Society of America]]'', three generations of Hourmen try to do this. In the original timeline, the first Hourman Rex Tyler sacrificed himself to stop Extant from destroying the universe. Time shenanigans by the third Hourman (an android from the future) allow the first one to spend time with his son Rick the second Hourman, knowing that he will eventually have to go back to the point of his death and sacrifice himself. Rick refuses to let his father die since he wants his mother to have the same chance to reconnect with Rex that he had, and tries to take his father's place. In the end, {{spoiler|the android Hourman makes the sacrifice.}}
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* In ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', it's Rosemary Almond, a mere housewife whose whole life has been destroyed by Norsefire who decides to sacrifice herself (and avenge herself), by killing Commander Adam Susan, the state's dictator, knowing full well what would happen to her if she did so. She is then mobbed by a horde of Fingermen. Her final fate is unclear, but it's probable that she doesn't survive.
* There have been a few [[Heroic Sacrifice
** Tommy Turtle, having been [[Grand Theft Me|body jacked]] by [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|A.D.A.M.]], allows himself to be destroyed by the Egg Fleet.
** Sir Connery sacrificed his life force to destroy the corrupted Crown and Sword of Acorns.
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** {{spoiler|Antoine D'Coolette grappled with a Metal Sonic and pulled it away from the transport holding Elias and his family, letting Dr. Eggman detonate it and kill him instead (he survived, though he is currently comatose).}}
* {{spoiler|[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]}} himself does this with style, taking a bullet to the stomach meant for {{spoiler|Ultimate Captain America}}, then racing back to rescue his friends and family from the escaped {{spoiler|Ultimate Sinister Six}} before he finally succumbs to his wounds.
* The UK Marvel ''[[Transformers]]'' comics featured one of these mixed with Crowning Moment of Awesome. Inferno is injured in his ship above a huge battlefield. As he lays dying he remarks "Always wanted to go out in a blaze of glory" and then promptly ''crashes his ship into the heart of the Decepticon forces, wiping out a majority of them''.
** This is almost a tradition for Optimus Primes in the various continuities. In at least two instances, once each during the original Marvel run of comics and once during the [[Dork Age]] release in the 90's, Optimus plunges himself and the Autobot Matrix into two different types of [[Planet Eater]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]]. It turns out that [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]] and the result is volatile enough to bring salvation in the form of massive explosions. Optimus Prime being Optimus Prime, his death rarely 'keeps' for long, though.
* [[Marvel Comics]]: Jericho Drumm, aka Brother Voodoo, sacrifices himself as his final act as Sorcerer Supreme, rebelling an invasion by a major entity calling itself Agamotto.
* In the "Day of Vengeance" leadup to [[Infinite Crisis]], the last Lord of Order ([[The Spectre]] already killed the others along with the Lords of Chaos) Nabu engages [[The Spectre]] in a battle that he knows he can't win. [[The Spectre]] murdering the last Lord of Order convinces the Presence (which is effectively [[God]] in the mainstream DCU) that he's gone out of control, and [[The Spectre]] is promptly sealed into another mortal host.
* In ''[[Secret Six]]'', {{spoiler|Tarantula}} is killed after telling Junior she has the Get Out Of Hell Free card. {{spoiler|Scandal has it}}.
* During the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' storyline ''[[Spider Island]]'', [[Fantastic Four|Mr. Fantastic]] confronts Eddie Brock, at this point as Anti-Venom, and tells him his symbiote is the cure to the virus that's giving people Spidey's powers {{spoiler|and turns them into the Spider Queen's army of humongous spiders}}, but if he does so with so many people {{spoiler|the Anti-Venom symbiote would die.}} Eddie's response? {{spoiler|he goes to a church and gathers everyone infected and ''cures them''. It counts as a [[Heartwarming Moment]] because, after the symbiote dies, Eddie realizes that, for the first time since his hell began, he finally became the hero he saw himself to be. He was the hero of Spider-Island.}}
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