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* 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}}.
** Subverted with regards to Cid: Every opportunity he has to suggest it, he suggests a suicide ramming run using the airship. Every time, he's shot down as there's far less suicidal means of success. Rikku even mocks him for it one time.
* Subverted in ''[[Metroid]] [[Metroid Fusion|Fusion]]''; in a cutscene, {{spoiler|Samus pleads with the computer Adam to let her out to try to self-destruct the B.S.L. space station to destroy the X Parasites within (which would also destroy her, as apparently the ship's self-destruction would be immediate). Adam tells her that this would be pointless, as it would leave the X Parasites on the planet SR-388 (which the station was orbiting) alive and able to spread across the universe, while simultaneously destroying the universe's only hope to defeat the parasites, Samus herself. (He instead suggests setting the station to [[Colony Drop|collide with the planet]], [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroying both]] along with the X Parasites and allowing Samus to escape before the station impacts.)}}
* The engineer from ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'' who cut off his limbs in an attempt to be unable to hurt anyone once he changed. Not only do you encounter a legless Necromorph that is apparently him, having died before finishing the task... but you later encounter necromorphs that hurt people just fine despite not having ''any'' of their original limbs, so even if he'd been entirely successful, it wouldn't have worked.
* {{spoiler|Lujei Piche}} of ''[[Grim Grimoire]]'' turns all the sacrifices and convoluted planning in ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' to weaken the [[Big Bad]] and exile him through a dimensional portal into this when she {{spoiler|sent Sulfur back to Ivoire as a [[Bonus Boss]].}} It just takes some [[Level Grinding]] to kill him [[Deader Than Dead]] then. Although in their defense, they did think he would continue to live [[As Long as There Is Evil]].
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* ''[[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]]:'' Arcueid vs. Roa in her route. {{spoiler|Judging from the epilogues, it's clear she didn't expect to survive the battle considering how hard she had to fight off her bloodlust when she overdrew her power to use her Marble Phantasm for what is actually a rather minor effect.}} It motivates Shiki enough to give Roa a [[World of Cardboard Speech]], kill the hallway and then kill him. {{spoiler|She gets better, though, in the Good Ending. The True End she still gets better, but because she overexerted herself she can no longer control herself and decides to just sleep for the rest of eternity.}}
* 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.
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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}}!
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