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* Named for Gandalf's big scene against the Balrog (no, not [[Street Fighter|THAT]] Balrog, or [[Cave Story (Video Game)|THAT]] Balrog) of Moria in [[JRR Tolkien (Creator)|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.
** In the book, however, [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|Gandalf's line was "You cannot pass"]]. It is said in the movie, just before the above quote - just not as loud. However, in the book he does "cry aloud" while smiting the bridge.
*** Also, in the book he does it twice. The second time, he prevents the Witch-king from riding into Minas Tirith when the main gate is breached, with a completely still "You cannot enter here." This doesn't culminate in a duel however since just at this moment, the Rohan reinforcements arrive. A similar scene is included in the extended version of the ''Return of the King'' film.
*** Thrice. Just prior to the bridge scene he had stayed behind briefly to magically seal a door. The Balrog broke the spell but collapsed the roof, forcing it to go the long way to catch up.
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** ''[[Death Star]]'' has the Force-Sensitive stormtrooper Nova Stihl repeatedly [[Dreaming of Things to Come]], and one dream is of he and one other fighting off his fellow stormtroopers, and dying, while trying to buy time for others. He manages to avoid something from another dream, but for this one, he goes along with it and delays the other stormtroopers long enough that his little cell of Imperials going through a [[Heel Realization]] can escape.
* In the ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'' novels having Harrington go into battle in a seriously outmatched ship with practically no possibility of victory and massive casualties happened frequently enough in the early books that an "Honor Death-Ride" has become cliche (and to be fair, is noted by various characters in the books themselves such as in ''Honor Among Enemies'' when several crewmen, upon finding out who's commanding their new ship, immediately begin figuring out how to desert before the inevitable catastrophic battle).
** Of course, the ones doing that are dirtbags that their former commanders couldn't wait to be rid of. Their eventual fate was a rather more literal variety of [[Laser
** Edward Saganami's [[You Shall Not Pass]] moment got Manticore's version of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis named after him. They also show his final battle to the graduating class every year.
** Honor's armsmen ''live'' (or rather, die) for this trope. Given the number of people that try to kill her, Honor gets through rather a lot of them, much to her regret.
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