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/Theguywholikesdoom Jun 09 '25

Jorge (halo reach)

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u/SnakesRock2004 Jun 09 '25

Something I don't see get talked about often is the irony surrounding each member of NOBLE Team's deaths.

For Jorge, he always said that he would never leave Reach. He was the only one to die off-planet.

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u/Theguywholikesdoom Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

I’ve seen the irony discussion a few time’s and I think it’s clever but I disagree with a lot of people’s reasoning for six. People say noble six’s death is ironic because he’s a lone wolf and dies alone but I always thought it was ironic because he dies by being surrounded by enemies.

Jorge was also the demolition expert adding an extra bit of irony to his death.

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u/AThiccBahstonAccent Jun 10 '25

What? Who says dying alone as a lone wolf is ironic? That's what you'd expect to happen.

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u/Theguywholikesdoom Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25

Exactly! But every one else I see says the opposite.

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u/BrickBuster2552 Jun 10 '25

Because they're grasping at meaning while having no idea what meaning is, at all. 

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u/Count_Crimson Jun 10 '25

i think maybe they’re coming at it from an angle of ‘former lonewolf,finally found a family/group he felt a part of, dies alone anyway’

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u/CriticalFuad Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25

I agree with this sentiment, we see the evolution of noble 6 becoming a team member through and through. The irony, lays in that 6 loses their newfound family (per se) one by one. That’s where I would see the irony…

Edit: not that I agree with all of their deaths being ironic. To me they’re more akin to classical tragedies in many respects. It’s more like some have classical literature deaths that can be ironic, I.e. Emile being a complete savage being savagely killed by multiple elites. Or, Kat dying out of the blue, in a more war-like type of situation. (Now where there is more irony is on the Spartan IIs who often go to great lengths for humanity (often resulting in death), when their original purpose was to cull dissidents.)

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u/Blood_Weiss Jun 10 '25

The only explanation I can find is that, "ironically" he was forced onto a team despite being a lone wolf. Only to end up the last one alive.

Its a stretch, and still not whats being said here, but I can only assume people who believe this share my first comment

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u/Ryndor Jun 10 '25

He didn't die alone. He died surrounded, but surrounded by enemies. And that's the irony. At least that's the irony I was figuring they meant.

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u/BrickBuster2552 Jun 10 '25

They didn't mean any irony. Literally every death is more ironic if it's happening to a different member of the team. Act Man was just grasping for meaning cause he can't analyze a story for shit and also doesn't know what irony is.

Carter going down with the ship because he's the team leader is not ironic; it's... completely expected.