10 Most GutWrenching Heroic Sacrifices

10 Most Gut-Wrenching Heroic Sacrifices

There is nothing more emotional that a sacrifice done within a movie. These moments five us all the feels as he respect the altruism of the character.

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Cinema is built on creating emotional, visceral reactions in its audience and a definitive way to accomplish this is with a heroic sacrifice. Characters we’ve loved taking one for the team. Giving up their futures in the hopes of securing something meaningful. It can bring an audience more into the world of the film than anything else they’ve sat through. These are the sacrifices that would have even the steeliest heart feeling and the driest eye shedding a tear.

10 Yondu – Guardians Of The Galaxy 2

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was all about fathers and the damage they can do to their children. Gamora and Nebula’s issues with Thanos, the entire squad dealing with ‘kid’ Groot, but nothing more intense than Peter’s dealings with Ego and Yondu. When Yondu makes the ultimate sacrifice to save the child he saved from Ego all over again, it all comes together in a heartbreaking way. As Peter claws at his own chest to try to somehow give Yondu his breathing apparatus, this sci-fi, superhero comedy got more tears than the sappiest oscar-bait could dream of.

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9 Boromir – LotR: The Fellowship Of the Ring

Sean Bean has made a brand out of dying in movies and this may still be his most impactful end. Mere minutes after The Ring had him attacking Frodo he redeems himself by coming to Merry and Pippin’s aid. It’s all for naught though, as arrow after Uruk-Hai arrow pierces his torso until he falls to his knees. When Aragorn momentarily saves him but can’t save the Hobbits, Borimir’s last words cement the purpose of his sacrifice as noble. His words propel Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli to continue the Fellowship even as it splinters into separate paths and goals.

8 Harry Stamper – Armageddon

A big, Michael Bay-Jerry Bruckheimer action romp on an asteroid manages to have a really good sacrifice to button the whole thing. With the fate of Earth hanging in the balance, Harry takes it upon himself to blow up the impending asteroid. To do so he has to trick the man dating his daughter out of the opportunity. As Harry shoves Ben Affleck’s A.J back into the ship so he can walk the last walk of his life, he does everything we’d hope someone in that position was capable of doing for the right reasons, and that literally means the world.

7 T-800 – Terminator 2

There’s something to be said for a machine becoming the central emotional figure in a story but that’s what happens in this excellent sequel. Kyle Reese gave his life in the original for Sarah Conner and the future to survive, and the T-800 sacrifices itself for that ideal to live on. Say what you will about the sequels but they can’t touch this sacrifice and its importance. When the antagonistic T-1000 meets its end we take a breath only for Arnie to reveal his own need to die. The entire journey with Sarah and John feels bleakly morbid but for the hope this death will kindle. Best ‘thumbs up’ in cinema history. For the record, Sean Connery’s Mason in The Rock has the second best.

6 Ken – In Bruges

A bad man saving another bad man from a worse third man. In Bruges is a curious little story and it’s ending, with Ken managing to throw himself off of a tower to warn Ray, meant everything. Ray’s suicidal tendencies came from the same place as the order for his death but showing remorse, damage, and regret got under Ken’s skin enough to want to save the kid. Hilarious, morbid, beautiful, all these things you can say about In Bruges apply to Ken’s sacrifice as well.

5 Nux – Mad Max: Fury Road

For someone who thought he’d glimpsed paradise and ‘Valhalla’ so many times to come so close to happiness wrenches at your heartstrings. The War Boy Nux has his world upended by moments of kindness amid a whirlwind chase that he effectively ends on his terms. Overturning the War Rig to collapse the passage back to The Citadel brings Nux’ journey full circle. He wanted to throw his life away on ‘Fury Road’ for Immortan Joe but ultimately gave it for those Joe oppressed. Thus, he likely became that legend he mistakenly sought to be. He was Witnessed after all.

4 Tony Stark – Avengers: Endgame

The one in 14 million futures dictated that for trillions of lives around the galaxy, Tony Stark must give his own. Infinity War and Endgame wrenched at our hearts for nearly 6 cumulative hours but it was Tony’s final finger-snap that brought a decade’s worth of tears. The Avenger who nearly sacrificed himself in the original team-up found himself at the critical moment and stepped up to the plate. Knowing what it surely meant, knowing that it had to be done, knowing he couldn’t hesitate or waver, Tony defied any personal preservation for the sake of everything else. Surely, a ‘Mjolnir worthy’ act if ever there was one.

3 Spock: Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Kahn

It’s iconic and immortal lines like this that made Leonard Nimoy’s Spock an untouchable character. Even here, in his ‘supposed’ death, he framed a tragedy in his irrepressible logic in service of the good. It is somehow comforting to have a force of unflinching moral and ethical balance making life and death decisions, and so equally appalling to see them pay the cost of it.

2 Everybody – Star Wars: Rogue One

We know ‘many Bothans died’ to bring the plans for the second Death Star to the Rebel Alliance, but this tale of the first Death Star’s plans gives us a harrowing sacrifice all its own. Ever since the original Star Wars movie we didn’t know how close Vader had come to snaring those plans. With Jyn, Cassian, K-2S0, and Chirrut & Baze laying down their lives, let alone their accompanying Rebel forces lives, it puts the Rebel’s precarious existence into starker context. When Jyn and Cassian embrace as the world around them bursts into light their fall hits as hard as any in the Saga.

1 Creasy – Man On Fire

John Creasy had given up on life, himself, everything. Until he met little Lupita Ramos and she gave him something to live for. Throughout Man On Fire, Creasy extracts the kind of revenge seen only in nightmares to avenge Lupita’s supposed death. When he learns she is alive, he doesn’t hesitate to hand himself over to the kidnappers in exchange for her life. His brutality and determination were John Wick-levels of focused and they knew if they didn’t give her up for him, he’d end them, and soon. Brutal beauty from Denzel Washington and a sacrifice that will make you feel all the feelings.

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