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* The finale of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' had Ichigo's team [[We Are Team Cannon Fodder|expend themselves]] so she could face off with Deep Blue.
* Likewise, the finale of the first season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' has each Senshi holding off a group of youma to give Usagi a chance to face the [[Big Bad]]. Their deaths were rather gruesome, and censored from the English dub, which took out half the two-part episode -- the remainder was merged into one.
* Deliberately pushed to ridiculous extremes in the ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' episode "Menchi's Great Adventure", where the members of Menchi's group rapidly sacrifice themselves in succession until only Menchi is left.
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': It happened fairly often:
** An example taken from the original manga. Kouji has been cornered by several [[Robeast|Mechanical Beasts]], but Sayaka shows up with Aphrodite-A to give him time to reach Mazinger-Z: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140523064629/http://www.mangareader.net/735-34820-64/mazinger-z/chapter-2.html
** Episode 6: A Mechanical Beast is trashing one city to keep Mazinger-Z and Aphrodite-A busy as a second Beast and a squad of [[Mook|Iron Masks]] take over the [[Home Base|Photon Atomic Research Institute]]. Kouji tells he will deal with the first Beast to let Sayaka go to protect the Institute.
** Another example taken from episode 74: A Mechanical Beast was completely trashing Mazinger-Z around. Sayaka -as piloting Aphrodite-A- stepped between both and stood in the way of the Beast to protect Kouji, receiving all its attacks to prevent it from killing Kouji and destroying Mazinger-Z even though it meant
** Episode 92: Kouji is hurt and can not fight, so
** Chapter 6 from ''[[Shin Mazinger Zero]]'': Three assassins [[Robot Girl
* ''[[Naruto]]'':
** Each member of the Sound 5 and the Sasuke retrieval team (except Naruto who goes to get Sasuke personally) does this.
** Shikamaru does earlier on when he plays decoy in order to let Naruto and Sakura catch up with Sasuke and Gaara. When he suggested the idea to Naruto and Sakura the expressions alone showed that it was a suicide mission. [[Subverted Trope|He just happened to be saved by Asuma before he could be killed.]]
** It was shown in a flashback that a team led by
* Saito single handedly takes on an entire army of swordsmen, archers, mages, dragons, and whatnot at the end of the second season of ''[[
** Not wins as much as succeeds. Sure, the [[You Shall Not Pass]] worked perfectly, delaying the entire army of 70,000 for days, easily long enough for the retreating forces to escape. However, he also
* In ''[[Gash Bell]]'', [[Badass|Won Lei]] does this against the massively more powerful than him Unko Tintin during the Faudo Arc.
* Both exemplified and inverted in ''[[Saint Seiya]]''. Not only are the Gold Saints tasked with barring the heroes' progress through the Sanctuary's Twelve Zodiac Houses, but whenever two or more of said heroes arrive at each House, one of them will invariably stay and fight to let the other one (usually Seiya) press onwards instead of fighting the single enemy as a team. During the Hades story arc, when the Gold Saints are allies to the heroes, they repeat their feat by holding back the spectral forces of the dead, risen to invade the Sanctuary and kill Athena. Taurus Gold Saint Aldebaran takes this to the extreme, with his body continuing to protect his House long after he has been killed.
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* C.C. pulls this in the first season finale of ''[[Code Geass]]'', sacrificing herself to deal with the [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|disoriented and crazed]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Jeremiah Gottwald]] in the nigh-invincible [[Humongous Mecha]], dragging said mecha and her own mecha into the ocean so Lelouch can hurry on ahead to rescue his sister. Since C.C. has already proven herself immortal (surviving a headshot in the ''first episode''), however, the element of danger and loss is lessened.
** In R2 Episode 2, Urabe of the Four Holy Swords pulls a [[Taking You with Me]] with his Knightmare's [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] to hold off the seemingly invincible Vincent KMF. When Lelouch tries to stop him by saying that he can't build the future on the bodies of the fallen, Urabe goes ahead with it but tells Kallen to stick with Lelouch, since that the response just proves he's a man worth following. [[Senseless Sacrifice|Sadly, the Vincent is completely unharmed.]]
** In R2 Episode 10, Li Xingke says this to Zero, who had
* Villain example: Cinque performs this against a [[Unstoppable Rage|berserk Subaru]] to allow her sisters to escape with their captive in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]''. She barely survives the beatdown, but she is effectively out of commission for the rest of the season.
** Also, to note, indeed, "You shall not pass!" is also what she says to Subaru before her final attempt at killing her... and it also counts as practically the last thing Cinque says all season.
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** Previous to that, Haji does his damnedest to perform a [[You Shall Not Pass]] in episode 21 against the [[Secret Project Refugee Family|Schiff]] -- ''all'' of them. It doesn't quite work, but it's still pretty [[Badass]].
* Tasuki attempts one of these in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. His fight with brainwashed Tamahome is already [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|rapidly going downhill]] when Nakago arrives to finish things. At this point, having already suffered a savage beating from Tamahome and barely able to stand up straight, Tasuki continues to throw himself into battle against both men, hoping to keep them preoccupied long enough for Chichiri and Miaka to get to safety. Definitely his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMoA]].
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** Also pulled by Luffy in his fight against Rob Lucci, in a way, as this trope was pretty much the entire point behind their fight, as Luffy could not let him leave his sight, as he'd go on to kill his Nakama.
** Happens again, with another villain, when
** Beautifully done by
* Happened to Jubei in ''[[Yaiba]]'' during their quest for the Orb of the Dragon God, taking down thousands of mummies with him.
* Maggie does this to hold back Wong in the climax of the Dokusensha arc of ''[[ROD the TV Series]]''. She even cuts down a bridge to cause him to fall down. You'd think she'd have read ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and be expecting the paper whip slap up to pull her down after him.
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Rei Ayanami reverses Unit 00's AT Field and absorbs Armisael so that she can hit the self destruct and take it out.
*
* In ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' Sorcerymon does this to hold off the bad guys giving the kids just enough time to escape.
** Piximon did the same thing in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' against the Dark Masters. [[Dying Moment of Awesome|Yes, all four Dark Masters at once.]]
* Team Rocket of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' has an impressive one in the ''Pokémon: Advanced'' episode "A Poached Ego." In it, they go up against a ''Tyranitar'' - BAREHANDED - in order to
** [[Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns|Mewtwo Returns]]: Misty, Brock and the superclones face off Giovanni so Ash can deliver Mewtwo to the spring. We sadly don't get to see the battle ever start.
* Subverted in ''[[Berserk]]''. When Guts and Casca are seperated from the Band of the Hawk and surrounded by 100 enemy mercs, Guts tells Casca to run and bring back help while he deals with them. Everything about this scene would suggest a heroic sacrifice, and Casca knows it, but can do nothing but try to get back with help as fast as she can. When she does arrive with the rest of the band, all they can hope for is that somehow Guts has managed to hold on, and it's a slim hope at best. And then they arrive,
* Even though Shoichi Irie from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' wasn't one of the good guys at the time, he really put up a fight against Tsuna when Tsuna is on the way to the laboratory. Some traps on the side and the final obstacle of the strange-eyebrow Genkishi was tough enough for Tsuna, but Shoichi attempt to stop Tsuna failed.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]'' features a pair of examples in which ''villains'' do this against the heroes (although the series has [[Grey and Gray Morality]] so they aren't really bad people), first with a few members of a squad sacrificing themselves to save the rest and then with
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'':
* In ''[[The Legend of the Legendary Heroes]]'', when
* ''[[Bleach]]'' anime.
** In episode 54 Ichigo faces off against three Soul Reaper lieutenants and Captain Kuchiki so Renji can get away with Rukia.
** In episode 154 the Arrancar Dordonii repays a debt of honor to Ichigo by fighting Rudbornn Chelute and the Exequias to give Ichigo and Nel time to escape.
* Tien does it against Semi-Perfect Cell in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' by spamming his [[Cast From HP|life-draining]] Neo Tri-Beam to allow Android 18 to escape and therefore prevent the seemingly unstoppable Cell from achieving his perfect form. The attacks didn't hurt Cell (who was probably thousands of times more powerful than Tien), but they kept him pinned down, and considering that Tien had been [[Overshadowed by Awesome]], it was both very unexpected and very [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesome.]] Cell was going to kill him for his interference, but Goku intervened.
* This happens near the end of Minagoroshi-Hen in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.
* ''Kimblee'' of all people pulls this in the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga and second anime. Just as
* ''[[The End of Evangelion]]'' has Misato doing this... and blowing herself up so they don't pass.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Kaede, Kotarou, Asakura, Makie and Yue all attempt to stop [[Shock and Awe|Quintum]] from reaching Natsumi, Nodoka and Great Grandmaster's Key. [[Hopeless Boss Fight|They]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|don't]] [[Total Party Kill|succeed]], but stall him long enough for [[The Dragon|Tertium]]'s [[Villainous Rescue]].
* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' combines this with [[Let's Get Dangerous]], when [[Sibling Yin-Yang|Karen, Noel]] and Coco finally get to do something for once!
* The ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' episode "Big Zam's Last Stand'' is one giant [[You Shall Not Pass]] on the part of [[Anti-Villain]] [[One-Man Army|Dozle Zabi]], who holds [[The Federation]] back long enough with the titular [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|Big Zam]] for his troops to escape, and after the Big Zam is destroyed, pulls out an assault rifle and keeps right on shooting at the Gundam.
* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' plays this straight with Banba. It was due to his efforts that his quarterback is the first (and only) quarterback to survive the onslaught from the beastly Gaou.
* In the final battle of ''[[Girls und Panzer]]'', to overcome ridiculous odds Miho has to fight Maho one tank to one tank. Kuromorimine isn't interested in being [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen|sporting]] about it, though, and will definitely swarm her. So she races through a tunnel that's the only entrance to a courtyard, Maho chases her in ... and the Leopon then '''backs''' partway into the tunnel to hold the position and [[Locked Out of the Fight|'''keep''' the deciding fight one on one]]. They clobber several Kuromorimine tanks before being taken out; when the sub-commander orders her people to drag the Leopon out of the way, its crew laugh and say, "Take your time!"
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