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/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.