Heroic Sacrifice/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|The 10th Doctor}} in the second part of 'The End Of Time'. {{spoiler|He switches places with Wilf in a box-thing which was going to fill with radiation when opened. Cue [[Tear Jerker]] as The Doctor comes out dying, and then proceeds to say goodbye to all his friends and/or companions from throughout the series}}.

*** And incredibly, {{spoiler|The Master!}} But then again, [[Foe Yay|we should have seen it coming...]]

*** Possibly justified: "Get out of the way" means "''My'' prey. Scram." He's too pissed off to care about anything other than {{spoiler|making the Time Lords pay dearly for what they did to him, in the sense of [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]. This is [[Big Damn Villains]]. This is the Master. And they [[Never Found the Body]]...}}

*** It has been debated whether Time Lord sacrifices count, since they can regenerate up to 12 times; at any rate, several of the Doctor's incarnations regarded it as death.

** The Doctor in general tends to go out with a bang: most of his regenerations were heroic sacrifices of some kind or another. As well as the previous examples, honourable mentions go to Three (walks into a radiation-drenched cave to confront the Great One), Four (unplugs a cable with an effort that throws him off a tower and incidentally saves the Universe) and possibly Eight (something off-screen during, or ending, the Time War).

** {{spoiler|Rory}}, who [[Taking the Bullet|takes a shot]] meant for the Doctor in "Cold Blood". [[It Got Worse|It Gets Worse]] though, because {{spoiler|his body is very near one of the Cracks in time, and it starts to erase him from existence}}. Even worse, {{spoiler|Amy}} forgets all about him.

*** The indisputably biggest [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in the series is {{spoiler|Jack's. The Man in Black had Desmond remove a stone from the heart of the island so as to destroy the place. Jack, after being ''stabbed'' by him, still manages to get down there and reactivate the heart, thus saving the island. He then manages to get back to the same bamboo grove where he woke up in the first episode in time to die there with Vincent at his side.}}

* In the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode, "Ashes and Dust," {{spoiler|Evan Abby lures the serial arsonist into a warehouse (which has been doused with benzene) and incinerates both himself and the arsonist.}} Somewhat falls under [[Redemption Equals Death]], since {{spoiler|Abby was the head of the company that the arsonist believed was a club for setting fires.}}

'''Abby''': {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"I don't."]]}} }}

* On ''[[24]]'', George Mason (the former director of CTU) is accidentally exposed to radiation early in the second season, and slowly begins to die. He secretly stows away on a plane that contains a nuclear bomb, and is being piloted into the Mojave Desert by Jack Bauer. He ends up convincing Jack to let him fly the plane on a suicide run, letting Jack parachute out and live, as well as saving millions of innocent people.

** The entire team pulls this in ''2010'' in an alternate future. In ''Moebius'', they all sacrifice themselves in an alternate past. Both times, they fixed it.

** Sam''antha'' Carter in the alternate universe in ''There But for the Grace of God'' has a particularly awesome sacrifice, which allowed Daniel to get to the gate and back into the normal universe and stop the Goa'uld there.

** She also pulls one in the alternate reality episode ''The Last Man'' where the 'Phoenix' is critically damaged in a battle with 3 hive ships. With most of the systems offline, she beams the remaining crew down to the nearby planet, then rams the Phoenix into the nearest of the Hive ships, destroying both vessels, and with the blast destroying the other 2 hive ships.

** Dr. Janet Fraser in the series 7 episode "Heroes". She absolutely will not leave the side of a badly injured soldier on a battlefield. It saves his life, but she loses hers in the process.