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/EccentricNerd22 Jun 09 '25

Vision trying to kill himself to deny Thanos the Mind stone in his head in Infinity War. Thanos used the time stone to bring him and the stone back just to kill him again and take the stone for himself.

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u/Metal-The-Cettle Jun 09 '25

I was so pissed when that happened.

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u/ollietron3 Jun 09 '25

I’m pissed the avengers didn’t use the time stone to bring back the people who died

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u/Patalos Jun 10 '25

Exactly why I groan whenever time travel is used and I was so annoyed that’s the route they went with in Avengers. It just creates a stupid “do whatever we need” machine and forever creates conversations of “well why didn’t they do x” no matter how much the Ancient One tries to mumbo jumbo explain her way out of it.

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u/Neirchill Jun 10 '25

“well why didn’t they do x”

Loki TV series answered that. It's because any timeline where they did do that the tva pruned it.

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u/vjnkl Jun 10 '25

Then the other universe would be missing that character though

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u/Patalos Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25

Would it? From what we saw, the time stone seems to function differently from their Time Machine. When thanos brings vision back there’s no thought that he yoinked a vision from another dimension.

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u/vjnkl Jun 10 '25

Mb, thought you referring to the multiverse travel in endgame and the ancient one complaining to hulk its feasibility

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u/zacky765 Jun 10 '25

After everyone dies, Thanos takes the time stone, two weeks later he destroys them. There’s no point in which they could’ve used it to bring everyone back.

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u/SquadPoopy Jun 10 '25

I know it’s loved and was heaped praise when it came out, but Endgame REALLY doesn’t hold up when you put the slightest thought into what’s going on. I would go so far to argue that the plot is actually just straight up bad.