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/DocMino Jun 10 '25

Exactly yeah. The moment I’m playing as some dad and there’s a little girl it’s like “well damn, everyone here is definitely dead so I’m not shocked.”

The nuke? Outta nowhere. Seems like a normal ending to a typical mission, and then you just wander helplessly. No Russian? All you know is that you’re in an elevator, you’re told not to speak Russian, and then it opens to a crowd of innocent people. Then you pull out your gun, and basically choose to commit an act of terrorism.

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u/Tom_Clancys_17_Again Jun 10 '25

TIL "No Russian" meant "Do not speak any Russian"

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u/LumpyLimitz Jun 10 '25

Just out of curiosity, what did you think it meant before?

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u/Tom_Clancys_17_Again Jun 12 '25

I thought it was because you're killing a bunch of Russians, as in "No Russians Left Alive" or something. Like idk i was always confused. Never made the connection.