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* ''[[Air Force One]]'' plays this straight, inverts it and then subverts it. The Secret Service agents on board the plane perform [[Heroic Sacrifice]]s to get the President to safety but in the end it is the President who stays on board to fight the terrorists after the rest of his (expendable) staff are evacuated. It's played straight again at the end of the movie where the damaged plane is about to crash and the remaining military personnel on board insist that the President evacuate the plane before them. However, [[The Mole]] is not willing to die for the President and fights him for the last evacuation slot.
** The President wanted to get his family off and MEDIVAC a wounded staff member before saving his own life.
* In ''[[Avengers: Infinity War]]'', when the Red Skull tells Thanos that he has to sacrifice a loved one in order to gain the Soul Gem, he has no problem with doing so; being a villain, he throws Gamora to her doom without a second thought. In ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]'', however, the heroes' attempt to [[Set Right What Once Was Wrong]] puts Hawkeye and Black Widow in the same situation, and each insists the other has more of a right to live; the argument actually turns into ''armed combat'' between the two over which one is allowed to make the self-sacrifice. {{spoiler|Ultimately, Natasha "wins" the argument.}}
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