A Senseless Sacrifice is a downer counterpart to a Heroic Sacrifice, because rather than kill the bad guy, fulfill the prophecy, or allow the other survivors to ...

If the sacrifice is stupid because it didn't accomplish what it was supposed to but was still the logical choice, that's Senseless Sacrifice, not this trope.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying.

Basic Trope: A Heroic Sacrifice that ends up being All for Nothing. Straight: Bob attempts to pull a Heroic Sacrifice to stop the Big Bad, Emperor Evulz, ...

After Yusake ends up dying after jumping in the way of a speeding car to save a kid, he learns from Botan that not only was the move unnecessary, but he ended ...

Senseless Sacrifice: The heroic sacrifice doesn't accomplish anything. Stupid Sacrifice: A character sacrifices themselves when they had no reason to. Saturday Morning Breakfast... · Written by the Winners · Taking the Bullet

This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed. Working Title: Senseless Sacrifice: From YKTTW.

... Death Is Just the Beginning, Senseless Sacrifice, Suicide Mission and Stupid Sacrifice. This is the Super-Trope to the following tropes: Cut the Safety Rope.

13 февр. 2013 г. · If the sacrifice doesn't accomplish what it was supposed to, but proves to possess unintended benefits at some later date, ...

24 мая 2021 г. · A character does something incredibly brave and is killed, maimed, or otherwise irrevocably harmed doing it.