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* The beginning of ''[[Star Fox (
** {{spoiler|Falco}} gets one in ''Star Fox Adventures'', during the final battle against {{spoiler|Andross}}.
** Wolf O' Donnell gets one in ''Star Fox Assault'' when he saves Fox McCloud from a group of Aparoids.
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** The player can also choose to ignore these and, in some cases, even decide to help out the bad guys instead.
** Story-wise, there's John saving rebel leader Abraham Reyes from execution and later {{spoiler|Reyes returning the favor when the Mexican Army decides to betray him.}}
* Subverted and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''[[Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories]]'', when Beauty Queen Etna, arrives just in time to save the heroes from being overrun by a neverending flood of zombies. She's actually downright annoyed that she's wound up arriving just in the nick of time, "like one of those 'heroes of justice' losers", and considers just letting the zombies finish you off before taking on the [[Big Bad]] - fortunately for you, the [[Big Bad]] is carrying the [[Villain Ball]], and sics the [[Mooks]] on her instead of letting them finish you. Cue the [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosions]].
** Played straight and lampshaded later in the game with Axel arriving with his flute to subdue the Rifle Demons (see the second page quote)
** Played straight in the first ''[[
** At one point in ''[[
* Happens several times in ''[[
* In ''[[
* Can happen, largely depending on how you yourself play, in ''[[Fallout]]'' 1 and 2 - taking on the Regulators in LA towards the end of the first game is a pretty BDH moment; and in the second, there's a sequence where you rescue a girl from a pair of rapist/kidnappers which even features the suitably badass pre-rescue quip [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|"You're one sick puppy. I think it's time somebody put you down"]]. Being Fallout, of course, the moment is kind of subverted when the rescuee threatens to [[Groin Attack|turn your bawsack into a bowtie]], but hey.
* ''[[
* There's one in ''[[
* ''[[
* And viciously subverted in ''[[
** That's not even the first time that Yuna provides a subversion of [[Big Damn Heroes]] either. Earlier, in Luca, she is Kidnapped by a rival blitzball team, prompting Tidus and company to mount a rescue operation. However, upon getting aboard the kidnappers' ship and defeating their guardian robot, they find that Yuna has already beaten her captors senseless.
{{quote| '''Lulu''': "I hope you hurt them."<br />
'''Yuna''': "A little." }}
* ''[[
** Snow gets quite a few Big Damn Heroes moments in the game, fitting considering he keeps referring to himself specifically as a "Hero".
** {{spoiler|During the cutscene between the Final Boss' two forms, Lightning, Snow, Sazh and Hope are all dead (or at least Cie'th), Fang is being tortured and resurrected by Orphan mercilessly, and all Vanille can do is stand around and watch. Suddenly, a massive blast of magic hits Orphan, and Fang's body (thrown from the blast) is caught by Snow, with Lightning, Sazh and Hope just behind him - [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|readily forgiving her and asking her to stand with them and fight]].}} Much [[Badass|badassery]] followed.
* During the second trip through the Forsaken Fortress in ''[[
** A pretty ironic example, considering that she's the damsel and he's the hero. Well, she's an [[Action Girl]] after all.
* It also happens in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Pretty much happens in every case of the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series at some point. The prosecution appears to have won and Phoenix is ready to give up but then...'''''OBJECTION!''''' Someone comes in with new evidence to save the day. The last case in the second game ends up boiling down to stalling until the big damn hero arrives.
** Also of note is the third case of the first and third games where [[Butt Monkey|Detective Gumshoe]] pulls this outside of court. Not to mention Gumshoe's failed attempt at this in the fourth case of second game, and {{spoiler|Franziska's}} pick up save off of this at the very last second.
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'''Mission Log:''' "STOP DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN RACE...IN PROGRESS"<br />
''The Master Chief then proceeds to throw himself out of a rapidly decompressing launch bay on a space station into a pitched space battle in Earth orbit to directly assault a Covenant cruiser...'' '''[[One-Man Army|alone]]''' }}
* The Subspace Emissary of ''[[
** {{spoiler|Meta Knight manages to save Lucas and Red/Pokemon Trainer from falling to their deaths (or rather falling to their trophycation).}}
** {{spoiler|Link, Mario, Pit, Kirby, and Yoshi get one as well, leaping off a cliff to come to the aid of some of the other heroes who're fighting off the Primids.}}
** Pretty much ''every'' character gets one of these at one point or another. {{spoiler|Fox bursting out of the wreckage of his Arwing to save Diddy Kong}}, {{spoiler|Captain Falcon [[Megaton Punch|using his signature move]] to take out a ROB who's just annihilated Cpt. Olimar's pikmin team}}, {{spoiler|Ike destroying a Subspace Bomb being carried by the Ancient Minister}}, this list could earn its own separate page.
** Don't forget {{spoiler|The [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment of [[Good All Along|King Dedede]], [[Butt Monkey|Luigi]], and [[Earthbound
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' does this in every game out in the US (probably every game, period), generally as reinforcement to the story's lord showing when they are in a really serious bind. However on easier difficulties this often leads to the reinforcements needing AMAZING projection as they aren't as leveled.
** The first example of the lord getting to be the "Big Damn Hero" is in ''[[Fire Emblem]] 7'' (released in the states as ''[[Fire Emblem]]''). Florina (a supporter to the tutorial chapter's lord, Lyn) arrives to the main team of heroes to tell how her Lyn and the castle are under attack, naturally the main team of the game go to save them.
** Second example is in ''Fire Emblem 10'', right when {{spoiler|Lucia is going to be executed by the rebellion, The Greil Mercenaries in PERFECT Big Damn Heroes form all show up. What's great is that in the cutscene for their arrival, each one arrives saving another member of the party from being attacked. So any time the villains attempt a counter strike, they are instantly taken down. Making it a string of Big Damn Hero moments}}. [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|One of the best--if not the best--cutscenes in the game.]]
* In ''[[
** To be broader, Battle Network loves this trope such much that it has a [[Leitmotif]] for it.
** Special mention goes to Protoman, who gets these moments all the time.
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** Axel Almer and Alfimi both did this in OG Gaiden to play part in the ''[[Super Robot Wars MX]]'' prologue. When the Jetzt wrecked the Cry Wolves, and it got Foglia killed, Hugo fatally wounded and Albero is sure in to be their next victim, suddenly both of them arrive and attracted the Jetzt, giving Albero time to escape with Hugo.
** An official ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] 3'' manga features a rather [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|epic]] version of this. After the [[Big Bad]] is defeated, [[Smug Snake|Son Ganlong]] appears to take advantage of the Alpha Numbers' weakened state and finish them once and for all. At that point all the Alphas who didn't return in 3 show up to support their friends and dispense an almighty smackdown.
** In ''[[Super Robot Wars Compact]]'', Londo Bell comes to the rescue of [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
** In ''[[
** [[Super Robot Wars Z 2]]: Hakai-Hen had this in a moment when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qQ1kCfyEk Amuro scares Asakim away from Crowe and warns Crowe on how Asakim was a backstabber].
** In a PSP exclusive mission for ''[[Super Robot Wars MX]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7j659VjfIQ Aqua pilots a Dragoon for the second time and together with the Dragonars, have to take on a large force of Martian Successors]. More enemies show up and wreck Aqua's Dragoon. As a result, the Dragonar team and Aqua are outnumbered. Hugo shows up with an upgraded robot and shows how powerful it is. This instance was supposed to show that Hugo will never let his teammates down in their direst hour.
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** There's also the moment when you have to save the quarian (Tali) from being assassinated.
** Highlighted in ''[[
** It's really all over the place in both games: Feros with the geth attack, Noveria with the {{spoiler|breakout of the rachni}}, the Citadel itself with Saren's attack, the first time you encounter Tali in ''both'' games and her recruitment mission in the second, the Archangel recruitment mission, the assault on the Collector base (if you do it soon enough), saving the hostages from terrorists...there's a reason by the second game paragon Shepard is considered by everyone, ''including'' the bad guys, the Biggest Damn Hero in the galaxy.
** ''[[
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHIAibDr3yM&feature=related The Fleet arriving to retake Earth].
** Really, by the third game, you have to wonder if the Alliance standing orders for the ''Normandy'' aren't just;
{{quote| [[Star Trek:
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'', {{spoiler|Johnny Sasaki, the resident [[Butt Monkey]] of the series, saves both Solid "Old" Snake and Meryl in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and then saves Meryl near the end of the game. Johnny and Meryl then proceed to kick ''a lot'' of ass, becoming a [[Battle Couple]] in the process. Also Raiden, who would save Snake's life at least twice...the first time cutting off an arm to do so, then the second time appearing without his arms, his sword ([[Rule of Cool]]) first clutched in his teeth and then in his left foot}}.
* {{spoiler|Shinobu}} during the final boss fight of ''[[No More Heroes]]''.
* Subverted multiple times in ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3: Corruption,'' wherein the bounty hunters show up just in time to reactivate a dead orbital cannon and nuke the [[Space Pirates]]' [[Colony Drop|asteroid weapon]] - and then just before they can hit the [[Big Red Button]], Dark Samus shows up and blows them all away, achieving a Big Damn Villain moment of her own.
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** This is perhaps the only recorded case where this trope is well and truly inverted.
** Samus pulls this off herself in ''Echoes'', if you look at things from the point of view of the Luminoth. The Ing were literally two rooms away from accomplishing their dominations. ''Two rooms.'' Then Samus turns up.
* ''[[
** Near the end of their week, Neku and Josh get a few chances to do this during {{spoiler|a Taboo Noise rampage, two out of three of which you can skip over and the [[But Thou Must!|third one]], oddly enough, forces you to save someone who is as good as dead even if you save him from the things}}.
** At the beginning of the third week, {{spoiler|Neku is the only player in the game after all the other players have been taken as his entry fee, meaning that he can't partner up with anybody and is completely defenseless. Just as he's about to get erased, Reaper Beat comes out of nowhere to form a pact with Neku.}}
* In ''[[
** Zero's introduction in the first game is another [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment that establishes him as a serious [[Badass]].
** At the end of ''X3'' either Zero or Dr. Doppler will arrive just in time to save X from the invincible Viral Sigma.
** ''X8'' allows players to make a team of two characters to take on every level. In the last level in Hard Mode, however, one of them will be incapacitated by Vile going kamikaze. Later in the level, during the confrontation against Sigma, he gets the upper hand, and has the player in a choke hold ([[Cutscene Incompetence|in a cutscene]]). Cue the other character swooping in to save his partner, and the battle resumes.
* X returns the favor at the end of ''[[
** But subverted in both Zero 2 and 4. In 2 you arrive to confront {{spoiler|Elpizo}}, and he hasn't destroyed X yet. But as Zero dashes in, he's caught in a capture field and can only watch as X is destroyed. And in 4 {{spoiler|Craft}} fires Ragnarok just as you reach the boss door.
** At the beginning of ''Zero 4'', the Caravan of humans that are fleeing from Neo Arcadia are being chased by Weil's forces, and just as the [[Mook|mooks]] descend on the Caravan, Zero arrives to save the day.
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** ...he becomes defensive later, when he misinterprets Uther's admiration as disbelief that he was good enough to hold out so long.
*** Also in [[Defense of the Ancients]], a gank noticed by teammates close enough can very much become this. Can actually [[The Power of Friendship|happen quite frequently]].
* In ''[[
** I believe it was Griggs who said it best:
{{quote| '''Griggs:''' Jesus! I've never seen the Vorts this PISSED!}}
** Alyx gets a fine moment of her own in ''[[
*** It's made even more awesome when you hear snapping and the high-pitched whine from dead Metrocops.
** And it decisively shifted the Vortigaunt's personality from fugly alien [[Magic Negro|Magic Negros]] to definite [[Badass|badasses]].
*** Half-Life 2 had its fair share of [[Big Damn Heroes]] moments like right before the climax of the game when {{spoiler|Dog kills a squad of Combine soldiers using an APC as a weapon then goes flying through the air wrestling a Combine Dropship.}}
**** You think ''that's'' Dog's Big Damn Hero moment? [[You Fool!]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kSdHbHQ50 ''THIS'' is Dog's Big Damn Hero moment!]
* ''[[
* [[Earthbound
** And in the endgame, {{spoiler|[[Anyone You Know|you, the player fill this role.]] }}
** What, no mention of {{spoiler|Lucas showing up to rescue Kumatora, Wess, and Salsa when they were surrounded by a bunch of pigmasks and Fassad? He showed up with a baby drago(dinosaur like thing). The baddies laughed at him. The baby dragon made a noise. MOTHER drago showed up. [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Awesomeness ensued.]]}}
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** The [[Trope Namers]] is actually referenced in one Task Force. The badge you get for defending the city's dam from three different groups of enemies? [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Big Dam Hero]]
* There's two in fairly close succession at the beginning of ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', the first where Welkin saves his adopted sisters life by clubbing an imperial soldier about to shoot her with a fence-post, the second moments later when the siblings get their dad's old tank up and running and perform a proper rescue of the town watch in Bruhl. Alicia even mentions 'Now you're my hero' to Welkin afterwards.
* Lancer of ''[[Fate/stay
** Gilgamesh subverts it by turning into the next baddie. Archer zigzags on the 'hero' bit.
** Rider does an unexpected one in ''Heaven's Feel'', showing she's [[Not So Harmless|not as weak]] as she was [[Demoted to Extra|in other routes]].
* Tragically subverted in ''[[
** Later played straight in the {{spoiler|final, good ending, where you and Curly Brace are nearly crushed to death by a set of moving walls before Balrog the flying toaster, of all people, swoops in to save you.}}
* In the last mission of ''[[Battalion Wars]] 2'', {{spoiler|Pierce}} has no fewer than 3 [[Big Damn Heroes]] moments: providing {{spoiler|3 Fighters to combat the air force}}; {{spoiler|shooting down Kaiser Vlad's escape transport, rendering his obtaining the staff useless, at least until the next game}}; and {{spoiler|giving Betty a ride on his personal Fighter to rescue her from being nuked by Vlad's usage of the staff used to call the satellite weapon}}.
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** Icecrown Citadel makes {{spoiler|Tirion Fordring}} one. {{spoiler|You think you're doing just fine, beating Arthas to pulp, but then, he just [[Curb Stomp Battle|wipes the raid in an instant]]. Cue Fordring getting out of his ice block saving the day.}}
** In the post-Cataclysm Eastern Plaguelands, there's a quest chain where you travel the Plaguelands with a caravan consisting of a merchant, two would-be Paladins, and others. When one of the would-be Paladins runs off and gets himself captured, it becomes your job to track him down and, upon doing so, you see a cutscene where everyone you recruited into the Caravan at that point will show up for the rescue.
* In ''[[Resident Evil 3 Nemesis]]'', If Nicholai gets away with the helicopter (or you destroy it), {{spoiler|Barry shows up with a helicopter and saves Jill and Carlos just before the nuke hits.}}
** Later on, in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', Chris and Sheva are being attacked by Ganados on dirt-bikes, and are just abrely holding them off - until Captain Stone and Delta Squad arrive to save the day in a thoroughly badass instance.
* Subverted all the time in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'': Ramza tries to storm the castle he thinks Princess Ovelia is held in, except he runs into Agrias, who managed to escape by herself; a subsequent rescue attempt turns out to be a trap. Throughout the plot, Ramza pretty much either stumbles into rescue missions by accident or arrives [[You Are Too Late|too late to do anything]].
** Depending on how much [[Level Grinding]] you did prior to fighting [[That One Boss|Wiegraf]], the moment when your allies show up to reinforce you in the second stage of the battle, followed by Weigraf summoning his own monsters to even the score can be either a "awesome, cue the [[No Kill Like Overkill|overkill]]" or [[Oh Crap]] moment.
* ''[[Ace Combat]] 6'', Mission 12: The [[Player Character]] and his Wingman saved their hometown from a [[Doomed Hometown|WMD attack]], and must now make it back to base. However, the Estovakians start to send in entire fighter squadrons (including a jammer and 2 AWACS in) to kill you. Just when you think you're about to die, cue every friend you ever helped to come and save your rear.
* In ''[[
* Damas from ''[[Jak 3]]'' [[Awesome Moments|drives ''through a wall'']] and into a bunch of Dark Maker satellites, making them explode nicely.
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]] [[Chain of Memories]]'', Sora is alone facing [[Ax Crazy|Larxene]] (having angrily told [[Donald Duck]] and Goofy to stay behind after they started questioning his trust in his memories), badly wounded after his fight with the Riku Replica. Just as she is about to attack him, Goofy's shield comes flying at her face, a spell heals Sora, and Goofy and Donald place themselves between Sora and Larxene, reminding Sora that they had promised to protect him and that they would always stick together. Cue [[Curb Stomp Battle|asskicking]].
** King Mickey does this so often through the series, if there was ever a need for seperate pages of this trope's examples, he could be the image for Video Games, with the caption of "[[Memetic Badass|Yes, really.]]"
* Towards the end of ''[[Lufia II]]'', an army of monsters appears to prevent your [[Global Airship]] from taking off for the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]. In comes {{spoiler|the [[Badass Normal]] Dekar, who had supposedly died in a Heroic Sacrifice much earlier in the game}}, ''riding a whale'' for no other reason than to [[Rule of Cool|make for a more epic entrance]].
* In ''[[
* At the end of the first ''[[
* At the end of ''[[Descent]] 3'', the Material Defender is in the clutches of a robot who is infected with a [[The Virus|computer virus]], while [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|the head of his former employer laughs and taunts him]]. Cut to the cute little [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Guidebot]] wandering in, realizing that his friend is in trouble, proceeds to spam [[Joke Item|low-level flares]] at the robot, distracting the it long enough for the Material Defender to destroy it. You think ol' Guidebot just saved the life of his friend, but no: [[Impaled
* In ''Justice League Heroes'', Superman is completely focused on breaking into {{spoiler|Darkseid's}} fortress while Wonder Woman defends him from attacking {{spoiler|parademons}}. Just as she's about to be overwhelmed, the rest of the League shows up and cleans house.
* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins''. City Elf origin has one where the hero is [[Rape
* Happens in ''[[
* A rare inversion - "[[Prince of Persia|All hail the Prince of Persia! A greater hero the land has never known! You have saved the people of this city, and we have come to repay the favor!]]" It's not often the ''crowd'' comes to rescue the hero.
* In ''[[
** ''Enter the amazing Guy!''
* The arrival of the line piece in ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** Their conversation just as they ran to turn the thing off
{{quote| ''Tiesal:Oh, here's the problem. Hey Tron! How do you stop this thing?''<br />
''Tron: Oh this? LIKE THIS! *kicks it turning it off*'' }}
* In ''[[
** Plot-wise, there was the time Altaïr was overwhelmed by enemies at Masyaf but they are scattered by a swarm of throwing knifes from Malik and three other assassins. Also of note, Ezio's first mission with the hidden gun. The thief says to stay back or he'll kill the courtesan because he mistakenly believes that a Master Assassin has to be near you to kill you.
* In ''[[Star Wars]] Bounty Hunter'', Jango Fett and Zam Wessel meet for the first time and partner up, only to part ways later over a misunderstanding. Near the end of the game, Fett is shackled to a table and being tortured by the Dark Jedi [[Big Bad]], only for Zam to arrive in an attempt to kill her. Her shot is deflected back into her, but before Zam can be finished off she fires a shot into one of Fett's cuffs, allowing him to drive off the villain and save both their lives.
* At the end of the first level in ''[[Singularity]]'', the [[Big Bad]] has the player at gunpoint, {{spoiler|just killed his partner}}, and things are looking grim. Then the British agent Kathryn [[Only One Name|Only-One-Name]] sends him and his men ducking under a hail of gunfire and directs the player along the path to safety as soldiers fire at his back. Later in the game, the player repays the favor by kicking open a door and shooting the two soldiers that have Kathryn at gunpoint.
* At the end of [[
* EP7 of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* In the last dungeon of ''[[Nie R]]'', {{spoiler|The Masked People show up just in time to save the heroes from being killed by a giant boar. They also have a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] when they hold off the Boar so the party can continue.}}
* ''[[
** ''[[
* Probably every one in three missions in ''[[Vanguard Bandits]]'' has one of these.
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]'': {{spoiler|Captain Qwark}} shows up to help during the final boss fight.
* In the 2010 remake of ''[[Splatterhouse]]'' {{spoiler|as Dr. West is about to sacrifice Jennifer to the Corrupted, he hear a nasty ripping noise. He turns around just in time to see an enraged Rick [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|holding West's severed arm and using it to pummel him away from his girlfriend.]] }}
* In ''[[
* Near the end of ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 5'', Larry's home flight starts plummeting from the sky due to the pilot's contract expiring, but being a former flight simulator salesman, he takes control and safely lands the plane.
* In [[Xenoblade Chronicles]] after re-locating Metal Face {{spoiler|he summons multiple copies of the Mechon you just busted your ass trying to beat, it looks hopeless... until your bailed out by Dunban and Dickson. The rescue however fails until your bailed out by another Big Damn Heroes by an unidentified man}}.
* In ''[[King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow]]'', {{spoiler|Caliphim and Allaria arrive to save Alexander from getting killed by Saladin on Cassima!Shamir's orders in the long path}}.
** {{spoiler|Also, Jollo arrives at the last moment to hand Shamir's lamp to Alexander just when Shamir is about to kill him. This only happens if you have befriended Jollo and handed him a replica of the blue lamp in the long path.}}
* In the fourth chapter of ''[[
** In the fifth chapter, when {{spoiler|1=Van Winslow attacks LeChuck's ship with an army of merfolk and saves Guybrush from being murdered by a demonic Elaine.}}
* Depending on choices made, the player can be this twice in the beginning of ''Fallout 3''. Once with Butch's mom, who's being chewed apart by radroaches, and again for the Lone Wanderer's close friend Amata, who's being interrogated by her father and the sadistic Officer Mack. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|And there's nothing quite so satisfying and blowing Mack's head off while his back is turned to you.]]
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