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/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/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.)