Senseless Sacrifice: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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]],'' {{spoiler|Aker attempts to destroy [[Complete Monster]] William de Lecce but only succeeds in killing herself. She's the first Archon to die, so we don't know if she'll actually stay dead or not. Erlin certainly thinks she's dead.}}

* 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?| and learned, to his horror]], that his creations had since caused the deaths of ''16 million mutants'', a revelation that drove him to suicide.