



He too Died Standing Up, in the middle of a bridge filled with dead enemies. The Deadly Duo: Hsiao's last stand has him holding off loads and loads of rebel soldiers with his Epic Flail at a harbour, so that Bao and the rescued prince can escape via boat.Frankie in Daybreakers redeems himself by holding back his former comrades so that the hero and heroine could get away.No, I don't know why they were all killed, but they were. remains in the truck at the end and then blows himself and all of the remaining zombies up. The remake of Dawn of the Dead (2004).Australia: The Drover's best friend against Japanese soldiers.Much less debatable is Dillon's moment at the end of Alien³, when he Throws Down the Gauntlet and fights the alien with his bare hands shouting " Come on! Come on! That's all you got?! Is that as hard as you fight, motherfucker?!" before both of them are buried in molten lead.Leonidas: This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! THIS IS WHERE THEY DIE!!! During the climax of Shrek 2, while Shrek and his allies are storming the castle to stop Prince Charming from kissing Fiona to make her fall in love with him via a magic potion, Puss hops off Donkey and insists that he and Shrek go on without him while he fends off a pack of knights.Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to stop Facilier from stepping on him and killing him. Ray the firefly in The Princess and the Frog put up a great fight against the evil shadows sent by Facilier, to give Tiana enough time to run away with the talisman.They fully expect to be slaughtered, as the rest of the army was, and without Mulan using their last cannon to trap the troops in an avalanche, they would have. Shang's troops, heavily outnumbered with almost no cannons, face the entire Hun army. Attempted earlier in the mountain pass scene.Attempted by General Shang against Shan-Yu.All the more delicious of course because the voice of Zebedee is that of Ian McKellen, who delivered the Trope Namer.In The Magic Roundabout (2005), Zebedee apparently sacrifices himself to prevent Zeebad from going after the rest of the group, to the point of creating a landslide when they try to go back and help him.This example ends up subverting the usual trope, since Timon and Pumbaa actually manage to defeat the hyenas. Timon and Pumbaa deliberately put themselves in danger to distract Scar's hyena Mooks in The Lion King (1994) just so Simba and Nala could pass by unseen.In the opening scene of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, the Jester (the heroic counterpart to the Joker) insists on remaining behind to cover Luthor's escape.Then, just before they go in, Hiccup and his friends arrive on dragons in a Big Damn Heroes moment.

When Stoick tells Gobber why he's doing it, Gobber joins him, to double the time. After the big dragon decides to kick everybody's ass, Stoick runs in to buy time for the retreating army, mainly because wiping out all the parents in the population isn't too healthy.
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In How to Train Your Dragon (2010) this trope is subverted, after being invoked, quickly subverted, then re-invoked: Stoick and Gobber see the Green Death, and together with the whole adult Viking population have a Mass "Oh, Crap!" moment.The Big Guy from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.In Epic (2013) Ronin allows himself to be swarmed by Boggans so that MK and Nod can escape.The fact that the character getting a You Shall Not Pass! is played by Christopher Lee, who played Saruman the White in the Lord of the Rings films, makes the scene even more delicious for those who recognize Lee's ultra-distinctive voice. They merely file past him, admonishing him for shouting in a church. The pastor stands at the doors of the church just before the climactic wedding, shouting at the Dead that they are not to enter the church. "Now go, you crazy kids, and save the world!"
