You Shall Not Pass/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* 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.

** This is actually a repeat of an earlier gag in the anime, where Natsu, Take and Ume, the three elders of the [[Martial Arts and Crafts|Daimonji School of Martial Arts Tea Ceremony]] (and anime-only characters) try to bar the desperate charge of Akane, who is attempting to save Ranma from being "sacrificed", only to be knocked out of the way by the [[Foe-Tossing Charge]] of her uncontrolled horse.

* 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.