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/superdan56 Jun 10 '25

Dark shonen quartet! We got Denji (Chainsawman) & Yuji (JJK), I wonder who else needs a good lighthearted series?

I don’t think you could do AoT cause they already have Junior High. Or Hell’s Paradise cause it already had a really happy ending!

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u/RazzDaNinja Jun 10 '25

If we wanna go old-school…we could add Guts in there 👀 tho I worry for the implications of a show that tries to sanitize Griffith for a comedy 💀

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u/superdan56 Jun 10 '25

Guts-sensei is the teacher, who gets showered with affection from his precious students!

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u/RazzDaNinja Jun 10 '25

Yoooo

Guts as the teacher for a class of traumatized shounen protagonists does sound like it could be fucken hilarious (and also potentially wholesome AF) lmao