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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' does this with Sailor Neptune. She runs through two waves of painful projectiles in order to get to [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|her lover]], which indirectly leads to her death.
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* In the ''[[Claymore]]'' manga backstory, {{spoiler|Roxanne}} engineers {{spoiler|Cassandra}}'s death by letting {{spoiler|Cassandra}}'s close friend die horribly, telling the Organization that {{spoiler|Cassandra}} was planning to rebel in order to gather many other Claymores in the area, and then goading her into trying to reach her through said Claymores. In exchange for all the damage she does to them along the way, she doesn't try to evade their own attacks, and she doesn't quite make it. Her last memory is a smirking {{spoiler|Roxanne}} striking her down with the hilt of her sword.
* In ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'', [[Anti-Hero|Shinn]] takes Kira's [[Bigger Stick|Freedom Gundam]] out this way. When [[Technical Pacifist|Kira]] tries to go for a [[Non-Lethal KO]] by decapitating the [[Combining Mecha|Impulse]], Shinn [[Grievous Harm with a Body|launched the damaged upper torso at the Freedom]] then shot it with his cockpit-fighter's machine gun before commandeering the backup torso. A while later, Shinn threw one of his swords at the Freedom's shield to take it out before [[Double Knockout|charging straight into the Freedom's beam saber to impale it with his other sword]].
* Den does this twice in ''[[Battle Angel Alita]]''.▼
** It's undoubtably a Crowning Moment of Awesome, as his last charge {{spoiler|permanently disables a power cable to Tiphares, and causes children to be taught the legend}}▼
* Kikuchiyo from ''[[Samurai 7]]'' charges a wall of guards as they're firing at him with machine guns. But he's a cyborg, so it doesn't kill him.▼
** {{spoiler|Instead, he dies later on by standing heroically still in front of a charging ''city''. Very manly, and possibly very useful, but one wishes he hadn't.}}▼
== Comic Books ==
* During the period the team was helmed by the [[Martian Manhunter]], [[Mad Scientist|Professo Ivo]] send androids to take down the members of the [[Justice League of America]]. The second [[Hollywood Cyborg|Commander Steel]], Henry Heywood III, confronts an android capable of distintegrating his flesh and exposing [[Robotic Reveal|the machinery underneath]]. Heywood eventually charges the android and it continues blasting him, eventually overloading itself and exploding. Although he did defeat the android, little more than a [[Nightmare Fuel|metal skeleton]] is left behind, screaming out "HELPMEHELPMEHELPME." Later, he is [[Mercy Kill|euthanized]] by his grandfather, the original Commander Steel.
* In ''[[Negation]]'', {{spoiler|Matua casts a super-powerful spell that kills a Lawbringer standing between him and his goal by launching a swarm of magical energy swords at her - but because they were in an enclosed space, the swords rebounded off the walls and cut into Matua as well, killing him}}, making this his [[Dying Moment of Awesome]].▼
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* The bearded mercenary in [[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]] chases Nathaniel into a room full of [[Deadly Gas]]. Nathaniel manages to reach the Amulet of Samarkand in the center of the room and put it on to protect himself. The mercenary keeps chasing him, even as his flesh melts away and he collapses as a pile of bones at Nathaniel's feet.
* Alexander Tagere and the [[Badass Crew|Wolf Cubs]]' last charge in book five of the ''[[Arcia Chronicles]]'' was so vicious, its survivors (on the enemy side) have nightmares about it for the rest of the series. Notably, it is a faithful reproduction of historical [[Richard of Gloucester]]'s last moments, at least up to the point where {{spoiler|Alexander is knocked out from behind by [[The Lancer|his best friend]] (where Richard was unhorsed and hacked to death)}}.
* The [[Honor Before Reason]] charge of Kenny, the first self-aware [[Bolo]], which routed the enemy but left him too damaged to salvage.▼
== Live
* ''[[Jekyll]]'' sees {{spoiler|Hyde walking towards the [[Big Bad]] at the end of the last episode, getting gunned to pieces. His advance only stops because the bullet wounds eventually cut his muscles up so that he can't physically walk any more.}}
** "Show me a little respect. [[Say My Name|I'M MISTER HYDE!!]]"
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== Poetry ==
* Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade".
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* The [[Climax Boss]] battle against Luca Blight in ''[[Suikoden II]]'' is a perfect example of the 1st variety. Notable in that it continues for a lot longer than normal and he actually DOES reach his target, but he's been weakened enough that he can't best him in battle.
* A fairly common event in ''[[League of Legends]]'' is heroes who can't escape a turret, won't escape incoming enemies, are only alive because of some ability, or are going to be resurrected if they die, chasing enemies into danger to try and finish them off. Of course in the last case, the self-destructive aspect can be averted. Zilean's ultimate in particular encourages this kind of behavior because if you don't die while it's on you the spell does nothing. Kog'Maw has this built in - when he's killed he can still move for a while, then explodes for considerable damage to nearby enemies.
* In ''[[Command & Conquer]]'', many cyborgs can have their lower bodies blown off, and they'll just keep coming. Even the Cyborg Commando can do this, and it won't cost you the mission if that happens!
* In the Unlimited Blade Works route of ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', you bear witness to Berserker doing this in his battle against Gilgamesh. Shirou observes that it's a simple battle—if Berserker can push through the hail of swords Gilgamesh is sending at him long enough to reach Gilgamesh, he wins. {{spoiler|Not only is that hopeless, but Shirou turns out to be dead wrong--even if Berserker did reach Gilgamesh, Gil could use [[The Epic of Gilgamesh|the same chain he used against the Bull of Heaven]] to render Berserker harmless in an instant.}}▼
** Shirou himself can pull this at several points, though it almost always results in his death. {{spoiler|A notable exception is when he tries something similar against Gilgamesh only to have Gilgamesh leave him on the brink of death.}}▼
* A potential tactic in ''[[Halo]]'' in co-op mode, where as long as one player is alive the other will respawn. So one charges forward to remove a strong defense or locate snipers while the other hangs back.▼
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* [http://nerfnow.com/comic/159 This and the proceeding strips. (you may need to read the entire arc to actually get what's going on though)]
== Web Original ==
* The ''[[Leeroy Jenkins Video]]'' documents a particular instance with hilarious thoroughness.
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* ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "I Dated a Robot." When Fry's Liu-bot walks through the the popcorn seed-bullet fire to turn the projector on the other Liu-bots is pretty much a perfect example.
* In a post-1986-movie episode of ''[[Transformers]]'', Optimus Prime finds himself rebuilt—by whom, he doesn't know—and must make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to stop the episode's big menace. He flies his space ship right down the bad guys' gullet, and we can see him falling apart on the way in before he impacts and blows 'em up real good.
▲* In the Unlimited Blade Works route of ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', you bear witness to Berserker doing this in his battle against Gilgamesh. Shirou observes that it's a simple battle—if Berserker can push through the hail of swords Gilgamesh is sending at him long enough to reach Gilgamesh, he wins. {{spoiler|Not only is that hopeless, but Shirou turns out to be dead wrong--even if Berserker did reach Gilgamesh, Gil could use [[The Epic of Gilgamesh|the same chain he used against the Bull of Heaven]] to render Berserker harmless in an instant.}}
▲** Shirou himself can pull this at several points, though it almost always results in his death. {{spoiler|A notable exception is when he tries something similar against Gilgamesh only to have Gilgamesh leave him on the brink of death.}}
▲* Den does this twice in ''[[Battle Angel Alita]]''.
▲** It's undoubtably a Crowning Moment of Awesome, as his last charge {{spoiler|permanently disables a power cable to Tiphares, and causes children to be taught the legend}}
▲* Kikuchiyo from ''[[Samurai 7]]'' charges a wall of guards as they're firing at him with machine guns. But he's a cyborg, so it doesn't kill him.
▲** {{spoiler|Instead, he dies later on by standing heroically still in front of a charging ''city''. Very manly, and possibly very useful, but one wishes he hadn't.}}
▲* A potential tactic in ''[[Halo]]'' in co-op mode, where as long as one player is alive the other will respawn. So one charges forward to remove a strong defense or locate snipers while the other hangs back.
▲* In ''Negation'', {{spoiler|Matua casts a super-powerful spell that kills a Lawbringer standing between him and his goal by launching a swarm of magical energy swords at her - but because they were in an enclosed space, the swords rebounded off the walls and cut into Matua as well, killing him}}, making this his [[Dying Moment of Awesome]].
▲* The [[Honor Before Reason]] charge of Kenny, the first self-aware [[Bolo]], which routed the enemy but left him too damaged to salvage.
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