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* Tigerhawk's sacrifice to slow down the warship ''Nemesis'' in the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars]]''.
{{quote|'''Optimus Primal:''' You can't stop that thing alone!
'''Tigerhawk:''' Perhaps... but it is my destiny to try. I will hold the line here. Go! }}
** Then again in the Grand Finale of ''[[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.
{{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.
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'''Vector Prime:''' Tachyon shield! }}
** Megatron collides with the shield, and is stopped cold. Soon enough, he recovers slightly and begins trying to break through. Vector Prime responds with a [[Chest Blaster|laser blast from his chest orb]]. Optimus follows up by [[Transforming Mecha|transforming]] to [[Super Mode]] and blasting Megatron as well. Megatron's shoulder badly damaged, he and Starscream [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|retreat]].
* Dug in the fantastic Disney/Pixar movie ''[[Up]]'' attempts one of these when Carl and Russel are
* Parodied in the new [[Comedy Central]] series ''[[Ugly Americans]]'' with
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' did this several times.
** Iroh [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|broke out of his restraints and fought off]]
** Mai and Ty Lee
* ''[[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|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 ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', Ratchet, Bumblebee and Bulkhead pull this on Megatron to prevent him from
* In ''[[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
{{quote|'''Kilowog''': ''It may only be a matter of time but I'm not gonna make it easy for you poozers!"}}
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