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* Tigerhawk's sacrifice to slow down the warship ''Nemesis'' in the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Transformers]]: [[
{{quote| '''Optimus Primal:''' You can't stop that thing alone!<br />
'''Tigerhawk:''' Perhaps... but it is my destiny to try. I will hold the line here. Go! }}
** Then again in the Grand Finale of ''[[
{{quote| '''Cheetor:''' Three or 300, you're not getting in.}}
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': Monty Uno, the legendary numbah zero with a restored memory, faces his father, a meglomaniacal super evil who wants the world to be like the good old days and almost completely has done so, and holds him from reaching the last shred of the world he hasn't turned Victorian, his brother's mansion.
{{quote| '''Monty Uno (Numbuh 0):''' I am not moving from this spot!}}
* In the mid-1990s ''[[X-Men (
{{quote| '''Wolverine:''' Next time I try ta save yer life, have sense enough ta let me ''do'' it.<br />
'''Gambit:''' What make you t'ink dere gon' ''be'' another time? }}
* Sort of inverted in the 1986 ''[[Transformers:
{{quote| '''Optimus Prime:''' Megatron must be stopped... no matter the cost.}}
* In ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'', Shaak Ti stays behind to fight off thirty-something Magnaguards, to give the other Jedi and the Chancellor time to escape. It's then subverted when the robots stop fighting and leave, and Shaak Ti realizes too late that they were a diversion.
* Happens every episode in the first season of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', as the usual plot involves the gang evenly matching (or being overwhelmed by) XANA's programs while Aelita gets to the [[Reset Button]].
* Parodied on ''[[Chowder]]'', when Mung and Shnitzel are guarding the fridge to keep Chowder from sleep-eating the entire kitchen. Mung even yells out "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" before Chowder (now a hairy, hulking thing) [[Just Eat Him|chews the two of them up and spits them out]].
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''(a dozen sixth-graders run him over)''<br />
'''Jimmy:''' ... Pass. }}
* And parodied within a parody on ''[[
* For a third ''Transformers'' example, in ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'''s second episode, Vector Prime does one of these to keep Megatron from discovering the location of the Autobots' base. [[Transformers
{{quote| '''Vector Prime:''' Hold, Megatron! You shall go no further!<br />
''(dark clouds temporarily fill the sky overhead; a swirl forms, and from it descends a streak of green light; the light enters the socket located below and in front of Vector Prime's chest orb, and becomes his [[Amplifier Artifact|Cyber Key]])''<br />
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* Dug in the fantastic Disney/Pixar movie ''[[Up]]'' attempts one of these when Carl and Russel are {{spoiler|fleeing the dogs}}. Dug being who he is though, his plan consists of planting himself in front of the oncoming horde and saying in a stern voice, {{spoiler|"Stop, you dogs!"}}. It doesn't work.
* Parodied in the new [[Comedy Central]] series ''[[Ugly Americans]]'' with {{spoiler|Gandalf the receptionist of the wizard's guild}}. You're free to pass, if you sign in first.
* ''[[
** Iroh [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|broke out of his restraints and fought off]] {{spoiler|[[Eviler Than Thou|Azula]], [[Like a Son to Me|Zuko]], and more than a dozen [[Secret Police|Dai Li]] so that Katara and Aang could escape}} in the second season finale.
** Mai and Ty Lee {{spoiler|hold off prison guards and finally [[The Dragon|Azula]]}} to allow {{spoiler|Zuko}} to escape The Boiling Rock.
* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' TOS episode "The Dragons of Ashida": Race Bannon volunteers to stay behind and distract the title dragons (sort of like huge monitor lizards) so the Quests could escape. He managed to take out both dragons through clever actions and escaped.
* In ''[[Scooby Doo]]: Abracadabra Doo'', Shaggy says this to the griffin.
* In the ''[[Thundercats 2011
* The [[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', Ratchet, Bumblebee and Bulkhead pull this on Megatron to prevent him from {{spoiler|getting through the space bridge while Arcee and Jack are retrieving Optimus' memories from Vector Sigma.}}
* In ''[[
* The situation is grime in [[
{{quote| '''Kilowog''': ''It may only be a matter of time but I'm not gonna make it easy for you poozers!"}}
** {{spoiler|He's joined by Saint Walker and Mogo.}}
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