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** Previously, Gagarin had tried to save his friend Vladimir Komarov's life by pulling one of these. The Soyuz 1 spacecraft was a poorly designed and completely doomed piece of junk that was only going to be launched due to pressure from the Politburo, and Gagarin knew it. Komarov was going to be the pilot, and Gagarin was his backup. Gagarin tried to use his clout to cancel the launch, and when that was unsuccessful, he tried to take Komarov's place. But the Politburo refused to allow a national hero on a flight they knew would not be two-way, and Komarov went up as planned. Almost every system on the craft began to fail almost immediately, and the mission was aborted. Unfortunately, the ship caught fire during re-entry and both the main parachute and reserve parachute failed to deploy properly, so Komarov hit the Earth without slowing down and was killed on impact.
** Previously, Gagarin had tried to save his friend Vladimir Komarov's life by pulling one of these. The Soyuz 1 spacecraft was a poorly designed and completely doomed piece of junk that was only going to be launched due to pressure from the Politburo, and Gagarin knew it. Komarov was going to be the pilot, and Gagarin was his backup. Gagarin tried to use his clout to cancel the launch, and when that was unsuccessful, he tried to take Komarov's place. But the Politburo refused to allow a national hero on a flight they knew would not be two-way, and Komarov went up as planned. Almost every system on the craft began to fail almost immediately, and the mission was aborted. Unfortunately, the ship caught fire during re-entry and both the main parachute and reserve parachute failed to deploy properly, so Komarov hit the Earth without slowing down and was killed on impact.
* [[wikipedia:Falling on a grenade|Falling on a grenade]].
* [[wikipedia:Falling on a grenade|Falling on a grenade]].
* Practically every posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor or similar awards.
* Practically every posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor or similar awards. In fact, most recipients who survived would later say they never expected to.
* Subverted, if the story behind the [[wikipedia:The Burghers of Calais|"Burghers of Calais" sculpture]] is to be believed: the six noblemen of the town who offered themselves in exchange for the town's safety ended up alive after it all, and the statue depicts them as not so much "heroic" as defeated and weary, but conscious of duty.
* Subverted, if the story behind the [[wikipedia:The Burghers of Calais|"Burghers of Calais" sculpture]] is to be believed: the six noblemen of the town who offered themselves in exchange for the town's safety ended up alive after it all, and the statue depicts them as not so much "heroic" as defeated and weary, but conscious of duty.
* Flower, veteran matriarch of ''Meerkat Manor'''s Whiskers clan, embraced this trope when she went [[Mama Bear]] on a den-invading cobra, and got bitten on the face defending her pups.
* Flower, veteran matriarch of ''Meerkat Manor'''s Whiskers clan, embraced this trope when she went [[Mama Bear]] on a den-invading cobra, and got bitten on the face defending her pups.
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