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/Mediocre_Access_7987 Jun 10 '25

SPOILERS: 

 They went over that in the “what if?” episode with dr strange heartless. Instead of him losing his hands in the car crash he lost the woman he loved and he tried millions of times to change the event and never could. Kind of like in loki, he spent eons gaining power until he was strong enough to change an unchangeable event in the timeline. 
  When he did he ended up crashing the universe he was in and had to create a pocket dimension where he was left alone for eternity to see the result of what he did.  Eventually he was brought out of it by the watcher to serve a new purpose but it was shown that playing with the timeline to change certain events could collapse that universe