You Shall Not Pass/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* Tigerhawk's sacrifice to slow down the warship ''Nemesis'' in the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]''.

** Then again in the Grand Finale of ''[[Beast Machines (Animation)|Beast Machines]]''. All of the other Maximals have been defeated, leaving only Cheetor (who is surrounded by destroyed Veichons) preventing the Veichon Generals from entering the ship. Subverted in that they all just open fire on him, forcing him back into the ship. {{spoiler|Double Subverted, as he then (somehow) hurls two of them into outer space, and takes on the last one, before removing its spark.}}

* ''[[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.

* In the mid-1990s ''[[X-Men (Animation)|X-Men]]'' animated series, in the first season finale, [[Wolverine]] and Gambit are infiltrating a Sentinel production facility. Wolverine smells some, and so he herds Gambit to relative safety--then locks the door behind him and runs back to face them. Subverted in that Gambit blows the door open and comes to Logan's rescue. Near the end of the episode, Cyclops finds the two of them standing on a pile of destroyed Sentinels, Wolverine's shirt in tatters.

* Sort of inverted in the 1986 ''[[Transformers the Movie]]'', where Optimus Prime, as opposed to facing down a horde of enemies, charges them single-handedly to get to his target.

* 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.

* And parodied within a parody on ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'': in the "Petergeist" episode, Herbert the pedophiliac neighbor defends Chris from the carnivorous tree, "Hey skinny-britches! That there's ''my'' man! Why don'tcha pick on someone your ''own'' size!" He then declares, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" striking the earth with his walker and splitting open the ground beneath the tree - and himself. They plummet together toward the bottom of the chasm with Herbert [[See You in Hell|battling the tree with his walker the entire way down]].

* 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 (Franchise)/Awesome|He does it without dying]].

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' did this several times.

* In the ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' episode "Omens Part Two", during [[The Siege]] of their [[Doomed Hometown]], a wounded Jaga, announcing that "[[I Will Only Slow You Down]]", buys time for Lion-O, Tygra, Cheetara and Snarf to escape Mumm-Ra's invading forces.

* The [[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]] try this in the season 4 finale against Slade and his army of fire demons. Cyborg even shouts "No one's getting in here!" Unfortunately, against an immortal foe with an infinite supply of reinforcements, their defeat was pretty much inevitable.

* In ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'', Debbie and her Goth clique does this for Steve as he and his friends flee from the other school cliques (in a random homage to ''[[The Warriors (Film)|The Warriors]]''). Their strategy is to block the enemy's progress through dancing to Joy Division. It works.

* The situation is grime in [[Green Lantern the Animated Series (Animation)|Green Lantern the Animated Series]]. The [[Big Bad]] is on his way to massacre the Guardians with his armanada about to enter Guardian-Controlled space. Hal and Razer race to stop him while Kilowog stays behind to hold back the armada.