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** To add insult to injury, the child actually took more damage from being pushed onto the ground than he would have taken otherwise. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].
{{quote|'''Botan:''' "The kid would've survived without a scratch without your intervention, but thanks to your meddling, the kid gets scraped up, and you ''die.'' Haha, way to go, moron!"}}
* In the manga version of ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', doomed clumsy girl Kisaragi is informed by Kurama that she must be sacrificed in order to kill Lucy, who has taken her hostage. She agrees to this readily, owing to her deep feelings for her boss. Arguably, the anime, wherein Lucy simply kills her ASAP, leaving a dumb look on the poor girl's floating severed head, owns the shock value. But when Lucy is able to use her hostage's death to confuse things just enough to help ensure her escape, she does not hesitate to taunt the hell out of Kurama, stating 'Her Death Was Useless!'.
** Though Kisaragi's death ''does'' inspire Kurama not to try sacrifice anyone else to stop Lucy. This ends up saving Nana's life later.
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* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', a group of Jedi lure Darth Vader into a trap and try to kill him, and he [[Curb Stomp Battle|effortlessly annihilates them]]. When it finally gets down to the last three Jedi, they manage to cripple him, but just as they are moving in for the kill a squad of [[Elite Mooks|501st clone soldiers]] arrives and rains fire down on them, killing one. Tsui Choi, one of the Jedi masters, selflessly lunges at the clones in order to buy the other Jedi time to escape...but Vader seizes him in midair with the Force, pinning him helplessly in the sights of the clones, and both Jedi die.
* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' has Fred Christ, a Transient (humans spliced with alien DNA) cult leader, who has been portrayed as a [[Corrupt Church|corrupt]] [[Jerkass]] throughout the series. During the finale, however, he and some of his followers choose to rush some of the [[President Evil]] supporting police, believing that their [[Heroic Sacrifice]] will be shown on the news. The cops point out that there are no cameras filming at the moment. After a moment's hesitation, Fred decides to charge anyway. Whether or not this qualifies as his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] or not is debatable.
* In ''[[The Secret History (comics)|The Secret History]],''
* Crossing over into [[Stupid Good]] territory, in one ''[[Spider-Man]]'' story, Spidey's friend (more or less) Flash Thompson was working as an emergency paramedic when the hero and the [[Badass Abnormal]] crook Tombstone were duking it out, and when the cops started to arrive, Flash stood up to the villain to try to prevent him from using the ambulance as a getaway car. That's right, Tombstone didn't care about anyone who was injured, he just wanted the ''ambulance'', and Flash tried to stop him. Flash was ''very'' lucky Tombstone was in a hurry, but even so, the poor guy wound up in the hospital in traction for several weeks, and his girlfriend Felicia (the Black Cat) almost got herself ''killed'' going after Tombstone when she heard about it.
* The Sentinels were first invented ''way'' back in 1964 in ''[[X-Men| Uncanny X-Men #14]]'' by a man named Bolivar Trask, one of the first humans to believe mutants were a threat to humanity - at least, he did at first. A [[Heel Realization]] after reading Beast's mind and discovering the X-Men's heroic intentions led him to destroy the Sentinels' base, at the cost of his own life. Sadly, his death was for nothing, as his son would continue his research, and in the years that followed up to the present, the Sentinels would practically become symbolic for anti-mutant hate. Even worse, Trask was resurrected relatively recently by Bastion, who hoped to make him part of a new anti-mutant team, [[My God, What Have I Done?|
== Fan Works ==
* In the ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' fanfic ''[[Material Days]]'', {{spoiler|the appearance of the Materials, formed out of the remnants of the Book of Darkness}}, effectively shows that {{spoiler|Reinforce's}} [[Heroic Sacrifice]] accomplished nothing, greatly upsetting those closest to her.
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** In ''Necropolis'', one of the Vervun infantry commanders grabs as many explosives as he can carry and charges towards a Chaos war machine. He makes most of the distance without the guns touching him, but is shot down - {{spoiler|but when the war machine runs over his corpse, the [[Subverted Trope|explosives detonate and ruin it]]}}. Not to mention ''the entire book'', from the first tankers to the fighting in the Spike, given that {{spoiler|Vervunhive is official disbanded at the end}} because of the massive casualties.
*** I think that falls under a different trope. The point of the battle was largely to deny Chaos the world. But on a more personal level, it was a chance for the Ghosts of Tanith to fight the battle Gaunt denied them when he fled Tanith. And it is arguably the only thing that allowed the Ghosts to survive as a unit since a large portion of the Vervunhivers they fought with would later join the Ghosts.
* Katniss volunteering for ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' to probably die in place of her sister Prim proves senseless because {{spoiler|Prim dies in book three, as a direct result of the rebellion Katniss inadvertently kicked off. The same rebellion kills lots of other people, and ends up putting in place a government no better than the one they toppled, which Katniss then has to take down, leaving the whole situation up in the air.}} It's also arguable whether Katniss actually did
* Played straight in ''[[Animorphs]]''. In a mission to capture the Pool Ship in order to use its communications systems, it's evident that a split faction, led by Tom, is planning to kill everyone involved and make their escape using the Blade Ship. Jake orders Rachel to infiltrate and disable the Blade ship, and though she knocks out the weapons systems before finally succumbing in a six-to-one fight. Unfortunately, Erek drains the Pool ship's weapons systems, so rather than having its engines knocked out, the Blade ship escapes anyways, though Tom is killed.
* Subverted in C. S. Lewis' ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]''. In ''The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe'', Aslan [[Messianic Archetype|(Who else?)]] agreed to give up his own life to Jadis in order to save Edmund. Before killing Aslan, Jadis tells him that she's still going to kill Edmund (and everyone else in the rebel camp). Later, Aslan resurrects himself (invoking a loophole in the Deep Magic) and proceeds to [[Kung Fu Jesus|kick Jadis' butt]].
* Subverted in Brandon Sanderson's ''[[Mistborn]]''. {{spoiler|Kelsier}} challenges the Lord Ruler and is killed in what appears to be a Senseless Sacrifice. Later, it turns out that this was [[Batman Gambit|all part of the plan]], and his sacrifice is what finally inspires the people to rise in rebellion.
* In ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan]]'',
* In [[Harry Harrison]]'s novel ''[[The Daleth Effect]]'', Denmark's space liner is invaded by US and USSR agents in an attempt to steal the piece of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] allowing the ship to fly. In response, the captain of the ship triumphantly tell both parties that all their efforts are in vain, as a fail-safe has been installed on board to prevent a takeover. The ship is destroyed seconds later. The captain's widow laments that all the crewmembers and passengers, including the inventor of the device, died in vain to protect a secret that was already made public days before. Even worse, since Denmark refused to patent the technology for fear of it being misused, they now have nothing.
** It's even worse for the widow (who is American and has never applied for Danish citizenship), since she's partly responsible for the Americans being able to board the ship. Earlier, she is approached by an American agent, asking her help in obtaining the plans of the [[Anti Gravity]] device, threatening to revoke her American passport if she won't help. She refuses, but later discovers that her husband is cheating on her with a stewardess. In a fit of rage, she steals the inventor's notebook and gives it to the agent. He reveals that it's just the plans for a portable fusion reactor, which they have no interest in stealing (they'll just buy the patent and avoid legal trouble). However, he uses the notebook to blackmail her into spying for them.
* Subverted example in ''[[
** RAB is a straight example. Actually, he made the horcrux ''harder'' for Harry to find and destroy ({{spoiler|because he handed it to Kreacher hopping he would be able to destroy it}}). Can even be considered [[Stupid Sacrifice]] when you think what could have been if he told Dumbledore everything he knew instead.
* In ''[[Neverwhere]]'' {{spoiler|the Marquis de Carabas}} allows himself to be killed by the resident [[Those Two Bad Guys|Two Bad Guys]], Croup and Vandemar in order that he may learn something of the nature of their employer and purpose. As it happens, he has [[Soul Jar|his life hidden away]] somewhere else so that he can come back, so this is less a sacrifice than it might be; however, it is utterly unnecessary, as by the time he gets back to the other characters, they already know who the [[Big Bad]] is.
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** His sacrifice did, however, {{spoiler|make [[Physical God|Illyria]] very angry. Resulting in her [[Talk to the Fist|punching Vail's head off]]}}. So perhaps not so meaningless after all.
** Also, he had pretty explicitly stated before that he didn't much care to go on living after {{spoiler|Fred}}'s death.
* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]''; "The House that Jack Built" has Emma trapped in a computerized maze built with the intent to drive her insane, and meets a man inside it who has already fallen victim to such a fate. Eventually, he tries to use the "suicide booth" intended for her, hoping it will shut the program down. It doesn't work; the design is too [[Crazy Prepared]] and will not shut the program down unless ''she'' uses it.
* The ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Abandon All Hope" includes a heartbreaking death for {{spoiler|Ellen and Jo}} in order to make possible an attempt to {{spoiler|kill Lucifer with the Colt. It fails.}}
** In another episode foreshadowing these events, Dean is sent to the future by Zachariah to meet his future self after turning down Michael. Future-Dean turns out to have become such a {{spoiler|hate-filled, heartless bastard, that he gets many of his present good friends killed just to get close to now Lucifer-inhabited-Sam with the Colt. Apparently he doesn't even get the chance to shoot the gun before he's killed, making Cas and the others' death completely pointless, even for the present-Dean, who doesn't understand that ''even if he got a shot, it still wouldn't do no good''. Then the Ellen/Jo thing happens.}}
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** In the scene where Donovan arranges to trade himself for his son, the rebels are set up to ambush the visitors, but they don't. Instead, they let Donovan get taken by the aliens.
** In a scene where the rebels are sabotaging the water facility, one of the rebels is wounded. The rebel's girlfriend comes back for him and insists she will stay with him. Two (fit) mercenaries come back, too. They pick up the perfectly fit woman and haul her away, leaving the wounded man behind to be killed. If they'd grabbed the wounded man instead, they would have all made it out alive.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has a few of these early on:
** In the finale of ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'', T.J. decides to activate the Rescue Megazord's self destruct in a last resort to destroy the enemy (granted the Megazord was horrendously damaged and they didn't have time to repair it on the battlefield). The monster survives, requiring the Rangers to switch to the Turbo Megazord... which also gets defeated. {{spoiler|They do eventually beat the monster, but later the Command Center is destroyed and they lose their powers.}}
*** A similar thing happened in the source series [[Gekisou Sentai Carranger]], in the exact same footage, the enemy survives VRV Robo's self-destruct, RV Robo gets badly damaged (but is later rebuilt) and the monster (who is the [[Big Bad]], [[Demoted to Extra]] in Power Rangers), only dies after being shrunk by stale [[Make My Monster Grow]] food (changed to a weapon sacrifice in ''Power Rangers'' since the Make My Monster Grow method was changed).
** In ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' former [[Big Bad]] Astronema [[Heel Face Turn|turned traitor]] but is sent back to her old base in order to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth. It doesn't work. Overlaps with [[Stupid Sacrifice]] because the Rangers had [[Humongous Mecha|Megazords]] they could have used. (Granted, Astronema did volunteer and the Megazords they had weren't enough anyway, they needed one more)
* On ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', Marian prevents Guy of Gisborne from assassinating King Richard at the cost of her own life. However, if one knows their history, it's rather depressing to realize that Richard returns to England only to leave and then die soon after in Normandy.
* Al on ''[[FlashForward]]'' commits suicide because his flash forward has him receive news on the death of a woman. Afterwards, everyone takes to the fact that the flash forwards will not necessarily come true. In a later episode, the woman is hit by a car and dies anyway. Al was only receiving the news of her death and was not responsible for it.
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* {{spoiler|Anatoly's return to the USSR}} at the end of ''[[Chess (theatre)|Chess]]''; he does it primarily so Florence {{spoiler|can be reunited with her father}}, but afterwards Florence finds out that
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5YW4qKOAVM Parodied], like every other WWII cliché, in the "Aftermyth of War" sketch from ''Beyond the Fringe''.
{{quote|'''Peter Cook:''' Perkins, I want you to lay down your life. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.}}
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*** Even worse since {{spoiler|Tellah is the ''only'' character in the game to sacrifice himself and ''actually stay dead''. Not only does everybody else who attempts a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] pull it off successfully, they're able to stay alive no matter how impossible that should be.}}
*** Not really sure it's that senseless, if he hadn't done that Golbez would have probably killed all the party right there. The second time the party encounters Golbez, it takes a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment from {{spoiler|Rydia}} for them to survive.
*** For that matter, everyone who "[[Unexplained Recovery|dies]]". The most jarring example would be {{spoiler|Palom and Porom turning themselves to stone to prevent walls from crushing you; the door in front of you could have easily been broken with a simple fire spell.}} Another involves
* The Shofixti in ''[[Star Control]] 2'' blew up their own sun in order to deal a crippling blow to the Ur-Quan invaders... which not only nearly wiped out their entire race, but caused the Ur-Quan (who sought to enslave all life other than their own) to lose their battle against the Kohr-Ah (who sought to ''destroy'' all life other than their own). [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].
* Every time the monster Sin rears its ugly head in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', a Summoner is sent on a quest for the Aeons in hopes of performing the Final Summoning that is said to be the only way to defeat Sin, a quest that invariably costs the Summoner his or her life. {{spoiler|But as it's revealed, the Final Summoning does nothing to stop Sin for good, as the Final Aeon that destroys Sin becomes the new Sin, making everybody's sacrifices pretty much meaningless}}. Not surprisingly, Yuna in ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'' rails against the entire idea of sacrificing one's life afterwards because of this, opposing a plan in which {{spoiler|Nooj would shoot Baralai, who was under possession by Shujin, and then kill himself once Shujin re-entered his body}}.
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* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic 2006]]'s'' Silver quest ends with Blaze sacrificing herself to power the ritual to seal [[Cosmic Horror]] Iblis away. It works... except they are in the [[Time Travel|future]]. Back in the present, Iblis is still alive and well and begins its plans to become invincible, forcing Silver to travel back and defeat Iblis then. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Good job, Blaze.]]
* ''[[MS Saga]]'', a ''[[Gundam]]'' spinoff RPG, has {{spoiler|Gavanger}} make a Senseless Sacrifice fairly early in the game by trying to hold off the Psyco Gundam on his own while the rest of the party escapes. The "senseless" part comes in when you realize that even the best MS you have available at the time wouldn't have been much more than a speed bump to Psyco Gundam. The situation is deliberately [[Gundam]]-[[Troperiffic]], paying homage to the franchise's long and glorious history of similar sacrifices.
* ''[[Tsukihime]]
* Another [[Nasuverse]] example in ''[[Fate/hollow ataraxia]]'' is the original life of {{spoiler|Avenger. He was a normal village boy who was [[What the Hell, Townspeople?|randomly designated by the villagers to bear all the evils of the world for them]]. [[Human Sacrifice|And then die for them]].}} Somewhat subverted, as the villages ''were'' quelled by the sacrifice, if only even as a
* An odd example where this is part of the ''gameplay'' can be found in ''[[Pokémon]]''. The moves Selfdestruct and Explosion do a lot of damage but render the user unconscious. This can be useful if you have other teammates, but if you have no other battle-ready Pokémon left on your team, it's an instant loss. Despite this, wild Pokémon will still use them for no apparently in-universe reason by spite (the real reason being that [[AI Roulette|wild Pokémon have no AI and just choose attacks randomly]]).
** That last bit may be at least somewhat justified. You would have to design believable AI for hundreds upon hundreds of creatures, each with any number of potential movesets.
** Perhaps even worse is a recently added move, "Memento". It will sharply decrease the target's Attack and Special Attack stats, but the user of said move faints. If a wild Pokémon uses this, it ends the battle, but... stat decreases and increases reset immediately after a battle ends.
** A new move, Final Gambit, causes the user to faint and forces the opponent to take damage equal to the user's HP. It would already qualify for a Senseless Sacrifice by itself, but then you learn that Shedinjma, a literal [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]], can learn Final Gambit.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', a victim of a sadistic sort of [[Puppeteer Parasite]] manages to resist his master's command to kill [[Player Character|Commander Shepard]] long enough to take his own life instead in a cutscene. The problem? You just got done ([[Video Game Cruelty Potential|potentially]]) fighting a bunch of people with the same parasitic infection, and/or managing to use nonlethal takedowns and Frisbee-like gas grenades to harmlessly render them unconscious. But, because [[Cutscene Incompetence|this is a cutscene]], you can't. Where's a good [[Quick Time Event|Paragon Interrupt]] when you need it?
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* In the characters ending, {{spoiler|Xianghua of}} ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' does this in the fourth game, senselessly holding on to {{spoiler|Kilik as he sacrifices himself to neutralize both Soul Edge and Soul Calibur. He was going to die, with nothing that could have been done without another characters interference, and there was no reason beyond suicidal devotion for Xianghua to go as well.}} [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]]...
* ''[[Mortal Kombat|Mortal Kombat: Deception]]'' starts out this way when a three-way showdown between {{spoiler|Raiden, Shang Tsung, and Quan Chi}} is interrupted by the resurrection of the game's [[Big Bad]] The Dragon King. {{spoiler|Both villians try their hand to take it out with their own sorcery to no avail, then try it together; again, to no effect. In a brief [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], Raiden gets up, and all three enemies join forces to try to destroy the Dragon King...unsuccessfully. In a last-ditch effort, Raiden uses the aura of all three of them to send a powerful [[Heroic Sacrifice]] magic explosion that kills them and destroys everything...everything except for the Dragon King, who now holds the amulet the three were fighting over that could reawaken the King's [[Animate Dead|undead army]].}}
* One of the main plot points in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' revolves around this. To save the world of Sylvarant from rotting away and dying, the chosen of regeneration has to go beyond simply giving up his/her life, they give up aspects of their humanity one by one beforehand. They give up their sense of touch, taste and ability to speak before finally giving their lives. It later turns out to be pointless because {{spoiler|Sylverant exists parallel another world called Tethalla. The two worlds exist by vying for each others mana, essentially their lifeforce. The journey of regeneration reverses the flow from one world to the other, taken by the chosen one would prosper and one would decline... If the characters in the game did complete the journey of regeneration, it would only temporarily save their world, the cycle would continue. Ultimately, they manage to solve this by [[Save Both Worlds|saving both worlds]]}}.
* About halfway through ''[[God of War|God of War III]]'', Kratos' goals change from killing Zeus to opening Pandora's Box to find the one weapon that can destroy the Olympians. Unfortunately, the only way to open the box {{spoiler|is to sacrifice Pandora, the [[Artificial Human]] girl that also doubles as the key. Despite Kratos' best efforts, she kills herself so Kratos can defeat Zeus. He opens the box...and it's empty. [[It Was with You All Along|The weapon, Hope, had been inside Kratos ever since he fought Ares in the first game.]] }}
** Inverted when it turns out that {{spoiler|Hope wasn't any good at defeating Zeus because Kratos still didn't forgive himself over the death of his family. It takes the spirit of Pandora, during the moment Zeus is choking the life out of him, to get Kratos to forgive himself and gain the true power to kill Zeus.}}
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* In the comic version of ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', Zoey's father is attacked by his ex-wife/Zoey's mother, who is a zombie/infected. He gets bitten and being [[Genre Savvy]], he assumes that he will start to turn and asks Zoey to shoot him in the head so that he won't become a zombie. 2 weeks later, Zoey is told by a military doctor that she and the other survivors are carriers of the virus that are making people zombies, which makes them immune from changing and the carrier gene is passed down from the father. Zoey goes into shock, realizing that sacrificing her father was completely pointless.
* In ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'', Adam went on to Sector Zero to destroy the supposedly unfreezeable Metroids and promptly activated the damage-activated self-destruct. It seemed like a good idea at the time... then you meet the Queen Metroid.
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid
** Except Big Boss ''wanted'' to die. It was symbolic: {{spoiler|with Big Boss and Zero dead, the Patriots are finally gone for good.}}
* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' we have the incredibly sad tale of {{spoiler|Vault 11: after being locked inside the Vault, the residents are immediately informed that every so often, one of the residents must enter a chamber in the Vault to be killed otherwise the computer will kill ''everyone'' in the Vault. After a long and terrible history (including things like sexual blackmail, coercion and armed insurrection) the five remaining residents of the vault (of the original ''one thousand'') finally decide to end this and refuse to sacrifice anyone else...prompting the computer to congratulate them in being "fine examples of humanity" and unlock the Vault door (the Vault, like every other except for a few control Vaults, was a sick social experiment). Out of those five people, four committed suicide, with the fate of the remaining survivor unknown.}}
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** With information gained from the Eldar campaign ''Retribution'', the plan does make a little more sense. {{spoiler|The Eldar's objective in the sector is the retrieval a soulstones within a craftworld that crashed on Typhon aeons ago. The Eldar don't give a damn about saving the sector, simply stalling the Tyranids long enough for the recovery, and the [[Melee a Trois]] they start was a good way of doing this. Without a prophecy telling them so, the idea of the Blood Raven actually defeating the Hive Fleet was acceptably unrealistic.}}
* In ''[[Eternal Darkness]],'' most of the chapters apparently end with this. It seems like a bunch of [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] stories, even the [[Downer Ending|ending]]. That is until {{spoiler|the third playthough}}. {{spoiler|Mantorok the corpse god set up a 2000 year [[Xanatos Gambit]] to defeat the other 3 gods, but it had to be done in three [[Parallel Reality|parallel realities]]}}. So when the player {{spoiler|beats the game for the third time, it is revealed that with each god weakened in one timeline, it's rival can kill it, but because all 3 are weakened, they kill each other simultaneously}}!
* In the [[Telltale Games|Telltale ''Batman'']] game, the player is given a choice between saving Catwoman or preventing the accident that will scar Harvey Dent's face and cause him to become the villainous Two-Face. To Batman fans, the second choice seems tempting, as one might assume sacrificing Catwoman for this purpose will prevent Harvey from descending into madness and becoming the murderous criminal that has plagued Batman throughout hi entire career. Sadly, this assumption is wrong. Harvey ''still'' becomes a dangerous villain if this choice is made, just a far handsomer one. Clearly, the message is, he was rotten to begin with.
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** A second example: {{spoiler|Dies-Horribly accepts a [[Deal with the Devil]], trading his soul to the demon who guards the Orb of bloodlight so that Duv can have the orb and no more of her slaves will need to suffer. Turns out, the Demon's promise relied on [[Exact Words]], and all he gets for his soul is a worthless ball of blue stone. At least he got his soul and life back after the demon realized that Die's arm had a soul of it's own, thus meaning it had breached their contract}}
* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' [[Backstory]]: Jin's [[Driven to Suicide|suicide]] did not derail the spell as she hoped it would. It did have a significant effect eventually, but much, much later than she wanted.
* Played for comedy in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja|Dr. McNinja]]'' when the mayor of Cumberland makes a deal with a demon samurai ghost thing: his soul in exchange for the demon abandoning a plan to raise an undead army. Immediately after the demon leaves, a man runs up to the mayor asking if he'd seen it, then saying that he was of a bloodline that could stop the demon and that it would have been ludicrously easy for him to banish it for another hundred years.
== Web Original ==
* Almost happened in ''[[Sapphire]] Episode III''. Even after {{spoiler|Boris}} killed {{spoiler|Ivanka}} after promising Alec would be spared, {{spoiler|he proceeds to kill Alec as well. He is saved, however, when his friend Andrew pulls a little [[Deus Ex Machina]].}}
* Parodied in the web animation ''[[Ducktalez]] 3'' when Huey martyrs himself in an attempt to stop Vegeta, likely homaging Chiaotzu's death against Nappa in DBZ:
{{quote|'''Louie:''' I'll miss Huey.
'''Dewey:''' If only he hadn't blown himself up when I had a perfectly good rocket launcher right here! }}
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** Let's not forget Planet Water, which the entire planet was turned into one massive cannon putting everything it had in one shot (which killed everyone on it), doesn't even dent the Beast.
* The death of Jet and implied deaths of Smellerbee and Longshot are this in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', they never found Appa in the HQ which was what Jet's sacrifice was meant to do, buy them time. Not to mention the Dai Li aren't taken down either.
* ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' has a rather big one, though caused by Fridge Logic.
* In ''[[Gargoyles]]'', Macbeth had a Senseless Sacrifice in his flashbacks; after he was officially killed by Canmore and his son Luach took his crown, he realized that Luach's only hope of defeating Canmore was if Macbeth himself remained officially dead. The end result:
{{quote|'''Phoebe:''' Did your own death save your son Luach from Canmore?
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