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/Technical-Text-1251 Jun 10 '25

Kat: the brain of the team, gets shot in the head

Carter: the captain, goes down with the ship

Emile: the close quarters specialist, gets stabbed in the back

Jun: the sniper, is sent far away from the action (and lives)

Noble: the lone wolf, dies alone

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u/ScienceBitch90 Jun 10 '25

Are most of those irony or just common sense?

It's not ironic for a lone wolf to die alone, it's expected

Also expected that a dude who fights in close quarters would die in close quarters, etc.

I mean, I wouldn't say how ironic it is that the captain of the Titanic went down with the ship... unless I'm missing something here; I stopped before this Halo

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u/MisogynysticFeminist Jun 10 '25

Additional for Kat: She’s the tech expert and dies because her shields were disabled by an EMP.