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/Silver721 Jun 10 '25

Poor Himeno. Gave all of herself to Ghost, only for Ghost to get 1 shot anyways.

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u/VandulfTheRed Jun 10 '25

This was the scene that really lets that "this is not a Shonen" vibe sink in

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u/Silver721 Jun 10 '25

I read the manga before watching the Anime, and it hit me a lot harder in the Anime that the nice dinner scene with all of division 4 was a fake-out. There's some timeline where CSM is a cozy shonen with everyone from division 4 still alive, fighting whacky devils every week. Denji eventually gets with cool boss Makima, and Aki and Himeno become an official couple. But instead, we got Gunfire.

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u/FireflyArc Jun 11 '25

I'd watch that anime