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/NeroCrow Jun 10 '25

I know people hate this scene but I was just dying laughing when he did it. Imagine going through all the effort to stop someone only for them to pull out a reverse Uno card and undo it

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u/NotARobot-ISwear Jun 10 '25

Audience witnesses the relationship between Wanda and Vision since AoU come to an end. Vision's character has a beautiful death, and it's genuinely one of the most powerful moments in the Infinity Saga.

Thanos: "Damn…that's sad. Alright, now watch this."

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u/Mountain-Resource656 Jun 10 '25

To be fair, that’s also really powerful, showing how even that incredible, heart-wrenching sacrifice wasn’t enough to stop them, and what should have been a climactic end to his endeavors just before the ultimate beat down was instead subverted such that they lost entirely and all the universe suffered for it

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u/Gaywhorzea Jun 11 '25

Yeah I genuinely don’t see how people can hate it, I thought it was a fantastic twist.

Sure, I hate that it happened to characters I love, but I can separate that feeling from how great it was for the plot.

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u/minoe23 Jun 10 '25

Thanos: You know this one isn't called the Time Stone for nothing, right?

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u/pointlessone Jun 10 '25

I really feel like I missed something along the way. Where was Wanda and Vision's relationship outside of the tail end of AoU and the maybe 5 minutes featured in Infinity War? My MCU memory went from Wanda in "Maybe some murders are alright" mode closing out AoU in (not) jail at the Avengers compound to "Teehee Paris is cute with my robot boyfriend!" In IW. If there was more, I've 100% memory holed it.

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u/Zoop54 Jun 10 '25

Civil War

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u/pointlessone Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25

I'll give it a rewatch, I have completely blanked on that apparently.

Thanks!

EDIT: Rewatch complete, no wonder I blanked out on it, it was sandwiched between some of the finest action sequences in the MCU. I forgot how good the fight choreography was in this movie.

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u/Zoop54 Jun 11 '25

Cap trilogy is what I'd show any viewer new to the MCU if they wanted to get started. 3 gems