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** And, as the trailer for ''Mass Effect 3'' indicates, everyone is now waiting for Shepard to return to Earth and save them all...

* Sol Badguy from [[Guilty Gear]].

* Gulcasa from the [[Dept Heaven]] series' [[Yggdra Union|episode II]][[Yggdra Unison|-related]] [[Blaze Union|games]]. Miracle birth? Check. Miracle worker and savior? Uh-huh. Twelve disciples? Yep, and one of them even backstabs him. Suffers in the process of saving people, and eventually attempts a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]? Check and check. The only discrepancy is in the fact that {{spoiler|if he actually completes his [[Heroic Sacrifice]], he'll cause [[The End of the World as We Know It]], so you have to kill him before he can}}.

* Gulcasa from the [[Dept. Heaven]] series' [[Yggdra Union|episode II]][[Yggdra Unison|-related]] [[Blaze Union|games]]. Miracle birth? Check. Miracle worker and savior? Uh-huh. Twelve disciples? Yep, and one of them even backstabs him. Suffers in the process of saving people, and eventually attempts a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]? Check and check. The only discrepancy is in the fact that {{spoiler|if he actually completes his [[Heroic Sacrifice]], he'll cause [[The End of the World as We Know It]], so you have to kill him before he can}}.

* The Avatar from the [[Ultima]] series. He serves as [[The Paragon]] for the eight Virtues, and is implied to have sacrificed himself at the end of [[Ultima IX]] in order to defeat [[Big Bad|The Guardian]].

* Aerith of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' - Half-human, half-supernatural, the planet is ultimately saved through her prayers and her death, and humanity is kept alive. In ''Advent Children'', she cures Geostigma from beyond the grave, which is effectively cancer. The disease is notably uncurable by any other means.