Best TV/Movie Self Sacrifice

[coppernorks]

Dying nobly so others could live.

Gene Hackman's character in The Poseidon Adventure [ original ]

Vasquez and Gorman in Aliens

Titus Oates in Scott of the Antarctic .

Isador Strauss in Titanic [ offered a seat in a lifeboat with his wife but refused saying he will not go before the other men.]

[ozzuk]

Man on Fire (though he was already dying, but could likely have been saved).

[Radec]

Arnie in T2

[Ivo Shandor]

coppernorks said:

Dying nobly so others could live.

Gene Hackman's character in The Poseidon Adventure [ original ]

Vasquez and Gorman in Aliens

Titus Oates in Scott of the Antarctic .

Isador Strauss in Titanic [ offered a seat in a lifeboat with his wife but refused saying he will not go before the other men.]

A nice idea. Those sorts of sacrifices really get to me.
Rather reeling off a list, can we have one per post, with an succinct explanation of why you like it, if it moves you? I'd like to know a bit more if I don't know the character, and the reasoning, it may be different to mine.
I have a few in mind, I'm cogitating on them.
I remember the Isador Strauss scene, it contrasts heavily with the owner who nips on quick.

[generationx]

Bruce Willis in Armageddon.

Saved a fair few lives there...

[StoutBench]

Iron Man in End Game. He had the perfect life already but gave it all up knowing the outcome to save billions.

[Radec]

StoutBench said:

Iron Man in End Game. He had the perfect life already but gave it all up knowing the outcome to save billions.

Can't believe I forgot about this.
Never heard a cinema erupt in cheers so much when this happened, well I did just before when Cap lifts Mjolnir and then before that when he says Avengers Assemble.
But yes it was one if the best cinema going experiences I've ever had and a massive sacrifice for him, even though he made one in a previous film taking the nuke into the portal.

[JoshSm]

Iron Giant - 'Superman!'

[Scrump]

Spock in The Wrath of Khan

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.

[Ivo Shandor]

StoutBench said:

Iron Man in End Game. He had the perfect life already but gave it all up knowing the outcome to save billions.

Great moment.

[Dracoro]

Spoiler alert - by now everyone knows anyway..

James Bond - to save his other half & kid.

[cuprabob]

Clint in Gran Torino.

[A Winner Is You]

Billy in Predator

[DodgyGeezer]

Happens a lot in Chinese action films. Bloke sacrifices himself for the country/team/society etc

[miniman]

[Murph7355]

3.5hrs in and not a single mention of True Romance.

I give up

[DodgyGeezer]

miniman said:

Oh great shout

[essayer]

Wolff in Tintin: Explorers on the Moon

[jayemm89]

Radec said:

Arnie in T2

It's awfully dusty in here

[miniman]

DodgyGeezer said:

miniman said:

Oh great shout

I have been meaning to re-watch it for a long time, maybe this weekend is the time!