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== Film ==
* In the prologue of ''[[Twister]]'', the man sacrificed himself trying to hold the cellar door shut to protect his family from the tornado, getting sucked into the storm when the doors gave way. But even after the twister forced the cellar open, his family remained unharmed. So was it really necessary?
* In ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', was Data's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] even necessary? Did he have to fire the phaser himself, instead of setting the phaser to overload and beaming out? [[Character Aged with the Actor|Brent Spiner felt that he could no longer convincingly play an ageless character and demanded that Data "die" in]] ''[[Character Aged with the Actor|Nemesis]]''. Curiously, they still introduced an identical twin, who is left alive. And gets all of Data's memories.<br /><br />To add an extra layer of stupidity, this was the last TNG film and so the problem of Spiner being too old to play Data any more was not exactly germane. The series actually ''did'' address the issue of Data being ageless, while Spiner obviously wasn't. Data once [[Handwaved]] it by saying he developed a means to appear as if he was aging (making it apart of his quest to understand humanity). May not have been airtight, but most fans were likely not to nitpick this particular issue all things considered.
** Awesomely skewered [http://www.stardestroyer.net/Nemesis/Pictorial-4.html here]:
{{quote|'''Data:''' The transporters conveniently failed after sending Picard, so I'm going to leap across space to get to Shinzon's ship.
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*** Foon's is even less necessary, but at least there you can make a case that she didn't want to live without her husband. Still, given Bannakaffalatta's (legitimate) [[Heroic Sacrifice]], they [[Kill'Em All|began to pile up in that episode]].
** Adric in ''Earthshock''. He tries to pull a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], never realizing that the Earth had already been saved.
** Also, "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S4 /E10 Midnight|Midnight]]". The hostess opens the airlock and then...just stands there for a few seconds with the creature before both being sucked out, rather than, you know, pushing the thing and getting the hell away.
** The end of "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E6/E06 The Almost People|The Almost People]]" too. There was no need to let their anti-Ganger weapon be used by Gangers when there were the originals around too. Plus, the creature was not really that speedy and there was no real need to hold the door down when it's just five meters running to the TARDIS.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' lampshades then averts this, thanks to the [[Genre Savvy]] O'Neill. After successfully destroying the shield system on an invading Goa'uld motherships, they ponder their next move. The following dialogue occurs:
{{quote|'''O'Neill:''' Now what?
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