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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[KonoKonoSuba: SubaGod's Blessing on This Wonderful World!]]'' starts with a [[Parodied Trope|parody]] of [[Heroic Sacrifice]], which ends up falling into this trope more than any other defined trope. It's a bit [[Zig Zagged Trope|zigzagged]] though. The main character pushes someone out of the way of a vehicle that was going to stop before it hit her. {{spoiler|After he pushed her out of the way, the vehicle stopped before hitting him, but he was so sure he was going to die, he got a heart attack and died.}}
* Played for laughs in Yang Young Soon, in which one escaped prisoner sits on the tracks to break the chain connecting him with friend. [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/71/14/dc/7114dc6ad551d05b030aa74384dd06f3.jpg]
* In the beginning of ''[[Code Geass|Code Geass R2]]'' Urabe impales his own Knightmare with his Katana to land a surprise attack on the Vincent which nobody can hit, blowing himself up. Not only does it only leave just a tiny scratch on the thing, but 10 seconds later, proves completely pointless. ''Especially' considering his ejection system wasn't even damaged.
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* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has at least one example of a self-admitted stupid sacrifice: {{spoiler|Lockon Stratos (Neil)}} towards the end of season 1. He is very much aware he is stupid and selfish and should NOT do what he does but does it anyways, quite ready to die in the process. In season 2 {{spoiler|Patrick pulls a rather heroic one throwing himself in front of a suicide MS instead of shooting at it. But being the Immortal Colasour be probably knew he was going to make it.}}
* A non-fatal example from ''[[The Familiar of Zero]]'' where Tabitha's mother realised that the glass of wine that had been handed to her daughter was poisoned with a poison that would make her insane, so she snatched it out of Tabitha's hands in the nick of time- and ''drank it!''
* Early on in ''[[Shinkon Gattai Godannar]]'', [[Token Loli|Lou]]'s father stays behind in his robot to fight a [[Monster of the Week|Memesis Beast]] who invaded their space station. According to him, it's his duty to protect the crew, who were almost certainly all dead or evacuated by then, and the station itself, which ends up crashing to Earth later on in the episode anyway. This later on inspires Lou to start a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against all of the species, putting herself into constant danger as a result. Great parenting, dude.
* Nuriko, unfortunately, did this in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. After getting seriously injured in his fight with Ashitare, Nuriko decided to move the boulder that had fallen over the entrance to where the Shentso-Pao was. Doing so, however, worsened his injuries and caused him to die...right as all his friends, including one ''who has healing powers'', arrive to see what happened. Miaka even laments "If only he'd have waited for Mitsukake to get here!". It obviously wasn't intended to be an example, but it was, in that he ''could'' have waited for his friends to get there before moving the boulder.
:It's also stupid for another reason: the boulder ''wasn't'' blocking the entrance. When the boulder is actually shown, there's clearly enough room for someone to walk around it. When the Seishi get inside, there are skeletons of dead thieves who were killed {{spoiler|by Hikitsu and Tomite}} who presumably did exactly that!
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** Some people theorize he ''did'' cut the handcuffs and was wearing the cast to conceal it on the plane. He probably got it through the metal detector using the rest of the pen.
** Of course, many fans forget something about Hannibal: genius he may be, he's also ''crazy''.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (film)|Harry Potter]] and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer's Stone]]'', Ron sacrifices himself as a chess piece so that they can win the magical game of chess and reach the stone. [[Adaptation-Induced Plothole|Noted by Hermione and Harry in the book]], where he himself is the knight, so he has to stand still and let the queen 'take' him. In the film he's sitting atop a massive stone horse, and many people have asked themselves why he just sat on that horse and watched as the queen approached, rather than jumping off... Granted, he doesn't die, but he could have. It's likely that Ron jumping off of the horse could have screwed up the game (that is, he only counts as the knight as long as he remains on the horse).
** Also Harry himself. Although he realises that he has little to no chances against the thief, be it Voldemort or Snape, he doesn't consider simply sending an owl to the absent Dumbledore until well into the "obstacle course". Neither does he heed McGonagall's assurances that the Stone was perfectly safe, which, big shock, it actually was.
* The 2007-version of ''[[I Am Legend]]'' has a particularly bad example of this, when the main character spontaneously decides to blow himself and all the vampires up while a perfectly fine escape route was available. Some times you can rewrite the script's ending at last minute without any ill effects. Other times, not so much.
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