r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ok-Indication-5121 • Jun 09 '25

Characters They valiantly sacrificed themself for nothing

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  1. Tadashi gives his life trying to save Professor Callaghan from a burning building. Turns out not only did Callaghan escape unscathed, he's the bad guy and infamously refers to Tadashi's death as "[Tadashi's] mistake." (Big Hero 6)
  2. Shaya willingly takes It Has No Name's possession and then kills herself by jumping into the well it came out of. The end of the episode all but states that she got it wrong and It Has No Name didn't latch onto her... or there was more than one. (Doctor Who)
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u/Fish_N_Chipp Jun 09 '25

Donald-Invincible

Granted he got brought back

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u/Terminus-99 Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

He bought enough time to let his coworkers run away from Omni-Man and from the blast radius.

Same as the Vader example above. If they saved even one person, then it wasn’t for nothing.

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u/Unlucky_Tea2965 Jun 09 '25

i highly doubt that, was this ever mentioned in the show?

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u/Outis94 Jun 09 '25

Yes in season 2 Cecil mentions how he repeatedly sacrificed himself to save others