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* In [[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]], Atomic Betty was about to get crushed by a giant robot claw (they never showed the robot), then Sparky runs and pushes her out of the way so he could get crushed to death instead. Leaving Betty with a big [[Say My Name]].
* In the [[What If]] story in [[Attack of the Super Wizards]], Big Red Mc Lane sacrifices himself after blowing up the universe to create a [[New Eden]].
* [[Bird Boy]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110403051247/http://bird-boy.com/volume-1-page-3 Mali Mani never returned from bringing light back to the world]
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', [http://endstone.net/2009/03/10/issue-1-page-6/ Kyri had handed over her daughter to a friend whom she knew would look after her; neither of them had to say that she wasn't coming back.]
* [[Fake News Rumble]]: {{spoiler|Yonatan leaps in front of Stephanos, shielding him from Cheney's attack.}} [[Unexplained Recovery|He got]] [[Back From the Dead|better.]]
* ''[[Tales Of Gnosis College]]'': {{spoiler|Moira makes one in hopes of preserving friendly relations between humanity and Howard the Tentacle Beast's species. Nanetta makes one for ''Moira'' at the same time.}}
* In the "Futures Trading" story arc of [[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja|Dr. McNinja]], Chuck Goodrich was protected from far by the NASAGhast, which killed any of the dinosaurs that tried to harm him. But the battle was being lost due to the dinosaurs' ultimate weapon, the Horrorsaurus. In a moment of honor and courage, Chuck provoked the Horrorsaurus into attacking him so the NASAGhast would kill it, but the spirit didn't act quickly enough to prevent his gruesome death.
* Karnak, the Demon Lord of Wounds, from [[Dominic Deegan]] is an odd candidate for this. Especially since his sacrifice was what lead to him [https://web.archive.org/web/20140912124334/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2006-04-13 physically entering hell and becoming a Demon Lord.]
** A less odd candidate is Klo Tark, who switches places with Dominic when the latter is about to be annihilated in a foreign plane.
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20121225080607/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1037502/blue-yonder-prologue-page-8/ Maiden Flight goes to hold off the attackers because they can not get her younger brother.]
* Parodied in ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1535#comic 1535]:
{{quote|'''Dinosaur''': "Save yourself, mammal! We will fend off the asteroids!"
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* In the [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates']]'' [[Zombie Apocalypse]] arc [[Pirates of the Caribbean|James Norrington]] sacrifices himself to save a little girl and gets bitten by a zombie. {{spoiler|Later gets [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] because being [[Death Is Cheap|canonically dead]] gives him [[Plot Armor]].}}
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'': In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0827.html strip 827], Thanh attempts to singlehandedly take on [[The Dragon|Redcloak's]] forces during the fall of the Resistance, in order to buy time for Niu to escape and [[Bring News Back|get word]] to [[Supporting Leader|Hinjo]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130219014357/http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1357602/003-venusaur/ Venusaur] does this in ''151 Hidden Depths''.
 
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