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** If there is to be only one example of this trope from [[The Last Samurai]], it should be the climax. Which is a cavalry charge by the weary, outnumbered, defeated remnants of the samurai army into first a line of gunners and then frickin' GATLING GUNS. The samurai are, of course, killed to the very last man.
* In the movie ''[[Glory]]'' (based on the story of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry during the American Civil War), {{spoiler|Colonel Shaw is killed in a rather dramatic charge up the earthworks of Battery Wagner (referred to as Fort Wagner in the movie). It takes a sum total of five gunshot wounds (any one of which would have been mortal) to finally stop him.}} After which his regiment launches itself over the wall in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. {{spoiler|And then proceeds to get utterly destroyed by reinforcements coming out of the bombproof shelter inside the battery.}}
* The Olympic Runner Orc from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: The Two Towers''.
* One of Lawrence's warriors charges a Turkish column all by his lonesome about three quarters of the way through [[Lawrence of Arabia]] and gets gunned down before he reaches them with his scimitar, prompting Lawrence to snap and order his army to kill every single Turk in the column. Including wounded.
* The charge of centaur general Oreius and the rhinoceros in ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'', a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] on both parts to buy time for Peter to get away from the White Witch's advance. Oreius also takes out the Witch's right-hand minotaur along the way.
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