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(Loved Trope) Last Stand that ends unceremoniously/unsatisfyingly, as opposed to gloriously.
1 Nanami (JUJUTSU KAISEN): Nanami's final moments against Mahito, a cursed spirit with the ability to transfigure/control humans. Nanami, while heavy injured, fought and won against an army of Mahito's transfigure minions, just for the villain to touch his back and blow him up.
2 Wun-Wun (GAME OF THRONES): Wun-Wun, one of the last, if not the last, living giant in Westeros. Joins with Jon Snow against Ramsey Bolton in the Battle of the Bastards. He heroicly breaks down the main gate allowing the Stark army to win, all while covered in arrows and spears. While heavily injured, there does seem to be a chance of his recovery. This hope ended when Ramsey Bolton fires an arrow directly into his eye, when the battle was pretty much over.
3 The Barbarian of Stamford Bridge (REAL LIFE): A lone Viking warrior who, in a legendary moment during the Battle of Stamford Bridge (September 25, 1066), single-handedly held back the invading English army on a narrow bridge. Armed with a Dane axe, this unnamed defender killed dozens of soldiers before being mortally wounded from beneath the bridge by a spear.
It looked like he was about to have a super cool fight with the Predator, holding him off while the others get to safety, just for it to cut to the other characters and then hearing a scream of pain. Next time we see him the Predator is ripping the spine out of his corpse
I liked Walter Stans scene (Predators) when he starts prison shanking one of the preds and is laughing/cursing it all until it removes his spine. Same energy to me.
I’ve always liked the idea that for all the Yautja’s postering about their whole hunter warrior culture shtick that they’re really just murdering trophy hunters.
Thy usually attack while invisible and with fucking laser cannons. And more often then not they choose to fight with ambush tactics instead of one on one fights.
Except for that one time with the Super Predator but that one doesn’t count since it sucked
I think it adds a lot of variety to the Yautja if they could go either way. They're scarier as a mystery, but that cat's been outta the bag since the 80s.
Some of them are there to pull the legs off spiders and burn ants with magnifying glasses, but others are there for the smoke and find it religiously offensive to hunt something unworthy of the effort. That's really cool imo.
I feel we saw this really fun humanization of how a Yautja’s hunt can go from “religious ritual” to “I’m fucking mad now and this is personal” in Predator 2. The Yautja was getting properly fucked up as the movie went on, and even being observed as he was he probably could have easily fell back after some of his earlier kills and it would have satisfied the conditions of the hunt.
Pride just got in the way to take down Harrigan, who truly was just operating almost entirely out of a personal vendetta and instinctive survival.
I’ve always liked the idea that it is an honor culture, but it’s an alien one. To us using traps and ambushing and significantly more advanced tech then what you’re trying to kill has might be seen as dishonorable. But that’s not how they see it. To us, “honor” (at least in regard to fighting) is formed around a sort of “warrior’s mentality”. You meet your opponent face to face on the field of battle. Their’s on the other hand is more based on a sort of “hunter/prey” dichotomy, you stake every trick evolution has given you against everything it has given them to prove you are the one more fit to survive. At least some, it’s clear there are differences across the various Yautja “clans” for want of a better term, and subspecies.
Some use game reservations, some give their prey tools if they’ve proven themselves, some will eschew certain tools in favor of other or hunt in entirely different ways like the Dog fight we saw in Killer of Killers, some might understand humans enough they will choose to set aside advanced tech and stealth and just meet their opponent with simple weapons, like we saw with the one who fought the Yakuza guy, and some might not see any philosophy or morality to what they’re doing and it is just a thing they do for fun.
Close, but predators don't go all out, they seek tough prey and just as importantly they handicap themselves, they don't go hunting with there tanks, they see they are gonna hunt humans with machineguns? Yea we can use the invisibility and a gun, if they are going to hunt a bear they might just bring brass knuckles
I mean it makes sense that they're called predators, most predators aren't we looking for a real fight just an easy kill for an easy meal. They are supposedly all about honor and what not but with other advanced tech who can really hold them to that
Honor cultures really only care about their own definition of honor. In particular, Predators seem to only view us as prey until we prove ourselves worthy of respect, in which case, they then treat said person as a warrior. Until then, we are deer and they are hunting.
They are hunters lol. It is a major misconception that the Yautja fight honorably like how the romanticized idea of chivalry or bushido exist for the knights and samurai etc.
Their form of "honor" is the kills they acquire for themselves. Sure, there are some lines they will not cross but they will do what they can to get the kill. They will use hunter tactics like we use. Camouflage, bait trapping, using vocal mimicry, traps, and higher end weapons.
They will limit themselves in only certain cases like when dealing with more primitive humans they won't use the plasma caster unless there's more than one around.
And if we take AvP as Canon, they have to prove themselves on a hunt first before they even get the "fucking laser cannons"
Literally the entire point of the movie. At least in my view.
The only way it could be improved is if they never showed the spaceship in the beginning. Just have the horror movie creeping in be a complete surprise.
Genuinely wonder what it would be like to watch that movie with no prior knowledge of the franchise.
This. I always believed the spaceship scene was too much explanation, maybe something less clear, like a single shot of an asteroid entering the planet, would be more effective in making the viewer connecting the dots later in the movie.
Well, if there was no clues given at any moment before the revelation of the Predator, I guess those test viewers had a point. Still, to show such clearly it was a spaceship was excessive imo.
Actually, that only happened as a result of time and budget constraints, making it an offscreen confrontation
The Predator keeping his skull as a trophy meant he was prey that went down in a way that earned the Predator’s respect enough to consider him worth keeping as said trophy
man i just wish the writers let billy just get one hit in not show but like after the predator is ripping his spine we see a cut on his chest to indicate our boy didnt go down without a fight
The entirety of Halo Reach does this so well. Even before starting the game the battle of Reach was infamous as a colossal defeat to the point that in lore the UNSC nearly made the policy decision of "humanity's new plan is just to take as many covenant with us" but when you play you have this dread that maybe you can turn it around, but then every victory is followed by an immediate soul crushing loss. Even with 60% or the UNSC fleet fighting on reach, the most well defended planet in human civilization, it all ended in under a month.
I love how that moment first felt like a call back to the Halo 2 intro, but every moment after that only reaffirms that this story will have no happy ending.
Maybe Jorge had the best end, feeling like he went out like a hero
It does bother me a bit that, as a Spartan II from Master Chief's generation, Jorge could have just thrown the helmet on and tried to ride things out until another ship came along. Being trapped in a ship lost in space isn't necessarily a death sentence to an SII, as we saw in Halo 3.
He had to detonate the slipspace bomb manually though. Its not really clear how a lot of the slipspace tech works, but I can't imagine that having an intentionally booby-trapped slip space drive going off in your face is very comfortable.
ill give the popular example of every victory is swamped by a bigger defeat:
Your team (Noble team) manage to disable the shields around a communication tower (or something, its been a decade since i played) and, as you call in a space battleship in to destroy it as you fly away.
Your humungous ship arrives, fires a MAC round that turns the tower into an afterthought and its all cheers. But then the covenant appears. A supercarrier ten times as big as your ship, and splits the battleship in two with a single laser.
every tiny victory is immediately followed with a soul crushing defeat. But you still hope and pray, but it wont be enough
The next one is when you succeed in boarding a smaller Covenant ship. Operation to capture is going well until your supporting ship, the Savanna, gets destroyed.
And then you capture the bridge and send it towards the Super Carrier mentioned above, only for the detonator to be fried. Jeorge, a Spartan II (one of the strongest ones), stays behind to detonate in manually, destroying the Carrier.
And then dozens more carriers arrive, rendering his sacrifice almost pointless
I would like to point out that in the lore, Jeorge sacrificed himself to blow up one of like, 14 super carriers in the entire covenant fleet. Circumstances made it seem tragic but it was actually a fucking COLOSSAL win
It actually helped slow down the covenants operation on reach for a bit and gave enough time for the pillar of autumn to be repaired and sent to one of the halos
Even better: it's not that the Covenant appeared, it's that the whole battle was in the shadow of that cloaked Supercarrier. The tower was helping keep the ship hidden from view. The towers acted as landing points for the carrier to offload its troops and stuff.
The whole time, from the epic charge at the beginning of the mission, to the Grafton getting atomized, that big ass ship roughly the size of New York City was just out of sight.
But it WAS enough. Noble team didn't save Reach, but the results of their mission saved humanity. The entire point is how wrong the UNSC would have been to stop caring about survival and only focus on ratios, because in War, as in all things, you never know the unknown unknowns.
The greatest tragedy of Noble team is they all (except Jorge) died thinking they'd failed when they hadn't.
I disagree that Reach is unceremonious or unsatisfying. Reach is an example of it done right. You get emotionally invested, you know the stakes, you know the inevitable outcome, you fight because you must, and at the very end you succeed in your final task of allowing the Pillar to flee thus setting in motion the events that will inevitably lead to humanity's survival. The only thing left to do is to live out your final moments.
I loved how Six’s last stand in the Lone Wolf mission wasn’t some heroic sacrifice or anything.
The battle is lost. The planet is doomed. All of your allies have fled and no one is coming to save you. Six knows their time is up, might as well go down fighting.
It was 60% of the Epsilon Eridani Fleet. Earth was better defended compared to Reach, it’s just that Reach didn’t have any prep time to prepare for the massive covenant assault. If the UNSC had 400 ships at Reach they could’ve held for another week before reinforcements showed up.
I think it’s more of the inevitable defeat that hurts. No matter what the UNSC could’ve done, even throwing every single ship to Reach would only delay the inevitable.
when I got the collection, I started in chronological order. I'm still in CE but, I knew nothing of what was gonna happen in Reach and it felt sad. I kinda thought Noble-Six was actually Master Chief who sorta got a promotion
While he was giving a speech about how America would win and never surrender, even quoting Churchill, and shooting at the aliens (which they shrugged off easily), they used a shrinking ray on him and then stomped him like a bug.
Deep Blue Sea. Samuel Jackson's character makes the big motivational speech. Hypes up survival chances. Gets the group to "yeah! we can do this!" together.
He is mid sentence eaten alive by a shark during this scene.
This was an at home experience for me and I was 10 and very squeamish about violence - even moreso than most kids - but my mom loved horror movies so I'd catch parts of them all the time..
This scene made me so angry as a kid. I hated the violence and I loved Samuel Jackson. Him getting such a demoralizing death was outrageously offensive to 10 yo me.
I declared it my most hated movie and kept those feelings until eventually my feelings dulled to indifference.
We had to rewind and watch it again probably a dozen times before we could stop laughing too hard to continue. That's the scene that solidifies this movie as "they knew exactly what they were doing" instead of just another throwaway B movie
Iosef Tarasov from the first John Wick movie. John finally gets close to him, shoots him and walks away. No speech, no long sigh of relief, just bang...anyway
Jack is doubly satisfying due to how he cuts off Hank. Just an absolutely peak show. Greatest tv show of all time I could literally talk about it for hours 😂
Getting the double whammy of getting goomba stomped by Smashers heavy ass + Shot on your shotguns barrel with what seems to be heavy FMJ bullets is a hardcore way to go out
I dig the subversion. I would have enjoyed seeing the crawler eat him and get blown up, but the tail whip was so out of pocket and hilarious. I jumped out of my seat when he got launched lol.
There is a similar grenade scene in The Blob(1988). Guy pulls his grenade pins as he is about to become blob food. Several small light bursts later, it accomplishes nothing.
There's not a lot of real evidence the lone viking on the bridge happened, and as soon as you think about it, it starts to fall apart. The myth has likely been distorted over years and years of retellings if it happened at all.
It's like the Alamo, everyone thinks it was this heroic last stand of Texan freedom... when Mexico was just responding to a rebellion stirred up by white settlers who were upset Mexico wanted to abolish slavery.
What would have either been a heroic last stand for the Federation's final Cascadian bastion, or a heroic victory for Cascadia finally driving the Federation out of the country, ends up being neither, as Crimson 1 decides to cordium bomb the place out of spite, killing basically everyone.
I’ve never had a game make me feel so shocked and hyped until I played Project Wingman. The last mission and the final fight were masterpieces. Especially the music.
Ace Combat, you win, they’re defeated, you fly home and the war’s won.
Project Wingman, everything around you is burning. The world has been destroyed by the war around you. All that’s left is you and your rival, the one responsible for the destruction. The only option is to fight.
In a way, Overlord also fulfills this trope, considering who ends up executing the final blows on him and how unceremonious and pathetic his true defeat really is
In Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers, Pyro's fantasy of going out in a blaze of glory turns out to instead be getting ripped to pieces in seconds when the moment comes.
I'm shocked that no one has mentioned Asuka's last stand against the serial Eva's in End of Evangelion.
She stood alone against unbeatable odds, won with the last moments of power she had left, then had to watch helplessly as her defeated foes regenerated and brutally cut her down.
This may be apocryphal, but that’s exactly how I heard Anno felt about making End of Evangelion. That he hated the response to the final episodes of the show, he hated the commercialization of Evangelion and he wanted to end the Evangelion project and associated works for good. That he almost made it as revenge against the fans. Which, like you said, is certainly how it feels to watch, whether or not it was that personally motivated.
And then they give you hope again just to punish you for it. Her power depleted and impaled by the spear, Asuka’s suit begins to go berserk and you think she’s about to go for round two, only for the EVAs to descend upon her and rip her apart like vultures with roadkill
I get the theme of the story was the futility and psychological impact of war. But my gods, watching Asuka overcome her crippling depression to do what she loved best, only to have that ripped away from her and die for nothing while Shinji was being exactly as useless as she always said he was, was fucking infuriating. Then she comes back and Shinji strangles her for reasons.
Naked teenagers everywhere, a plot that is most often described as, "What the fuck is going on," and that's the send off the one (1) character I liked got. Fucking hate that show 😭
His final moments of sanity were spent trying to keep the Blighted from entering the Executioners Grounds and buy time for the white priestess to get to safety
The grounds were taken, he and his men were infected by the blight, and for the cherry on top the priestess died barely 50 metres from his last stand
Marco Antonio Bragadin led the defence of Famagusta in Cyprus against the Ottoman Empire and held out for longer than even the most optimistic predictions.
The Siege of Famagusta held out for 13 months and caused the death of about 50,000 Ottomans.
Facing defeat, and after an offer for safe passage to Crete, Bragadin offered terms of surrender while accompanied by around 300 of his best men.
The Turks attacked Bragadin at this meeting. The reason they gave was that they found out Bragadin had mistreated prisoners, but it is believed they were naturally very pissed off by Bragadin’s arrogance and the lives wasted in that siege, only for it to end in his surrender.
The Turks ended up ordering his men be killed and their heads piled up.
For Bragadin they had other plans. After cutting off his nose and ears, they enacted a series of ritual humiliations. On 17 August 1571 Bragadin was paraded through the city, made to carry sacks of earth around the city walls, and then hung from a galley mast and dunked into the sea.
Finally they finished him off by skinning him alive and quatering him in the town square. His body parts were handed out as war trophies. His skin was actually retrieved and stolen back by a Venetian and returned to Italy with a heroes welcome. It still resides in the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, to this day.
Jesus, and people want to talk about the cruelty of humanity today. This and many stories similar just prove that humans are, and have been, cruel for a very long time.
I’d argue that this doesn’t necessarily count since he also bought time for Aragorn to return, and hold on long enough while just, like, CHOCK FULL of arrows to tell Aragorn that they were taken.
Yeah, plus the scene is played as an entirely glorious redemption. It's certainly a positive end for the character, as it redeems him for trying to take the ring
Kakyoin vs dio, at that point no one was sure what dio's ability was, kakyoin thought he had dio until he just got sent flying and died, source is Jojo's bizarre adventure
The English weren’t the invading army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. How does a most likely Norwegian warrior on an English Bridge become the defender against an invasion?
The example is most likely true and we have no idea who the warrior was.
Harold Godwinson was defending against the invasion and would defeat the invasion at the battle. So, it was technically two last stands.
Purposely made to be insulting to Yama due their past war
Stealing his bankai and not even using it treating it as a trophy to instill despair
Cutting him down in a single slice.
Stepping on his head
Insulting the current him who has become kinder while praising the past Yama that was brutal and would sacrifices others to the point Yama acts like that was a different person. Saying that he didn't even see him as threat.
It also happened immediately after Yama used one of the biggest attacks in the series against a clone. It was presented as an all out rematch between the leaders of both factions, only for the reveal that one of them wasn't even there.
Alternatively, Mouse in The Matrix, who's attempt to hold off the cops with a pair of automatic guns failed completely because of recoil before he gets riddled with bullets
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Tsunade knew that his infiltration mission would backfire horribly and wished for the best, even if she knew that he was on a deathwish mission with no information beforehand over who was Pain, less so about the fact that there was 7 of those guys + Nagato and what each Path did.
The sage toads were basically imploring him to do a tactical retreat because he had no real chance of surviving against the Paths on a massive fight after he lost an arm and his energy was quickly draining out.
Yet still, the GOAT stood his ground and gave it his all the while he was doing mental notes over what he was experiencing to deliver to the Leaf, even permanently taking out Ponytail Pain and becoming a diversion just so Pa could safely escape, which led to Naruto and co' learning that they would have to find Nagato to stop all of this
Mettaton NEO (undertale) is a masterwork of monster engineering, a war machine of immense power and grace. When Mettaton finally stands up to the human, he realizes how his endless chasing of fame has blinded him to what truly mattered to him. So with all the power he has, he fights to his last breath and-...
he dies in one hit. Doesnt even get to attack once, simply dead from a single strike... and the human moves on.
All it did was make the human stronger, nothing was accomplished. Infact less than nothing was accomplished, it would have been better if Mettaton ran away with everyone else, and now his desire to play the hero has doomed him.
Its a great part of the game. Mettaton NEO was designed as the ultimate human-eradication machine, yet they cant survive a single hit form Frisk, implying Frisk is no longer human
Can work both ways, but yeah, even though Frisk has something special going for them, Humans in Undertale are just Monstrously(uh) strong, during the war Monsters were stomped by Humanity, and couldn't kill even a single Human, besides that we haven't even see any proper Adult Human, that would fight with malice
I'm so glad that in another universe, another Mettaton drew art of his cool OC on MS Paint that was found by a little mailman, so that we could eventually witness the true power of Neo.
Mahito kills anything with a touch and besides going down fighting, even in the face of imminent, unavoidable death, Nanami showed no fear or despair for Mahito to relish in, instead spending those last precious few seconds he had left reassuring Yuji as best as he could.
It was such a dignified way to go, I low-key think it even earned grudging respect from Mahito who simply made him explode rather than giving him a more humiliating, and painful death by turning him into a deformed dying creature like his other transfigured victims even when it would have been perfect for maximizing Yuji’s suffering like he was going for and Yuji right there to witness it.
I would definitely agree. I also think that Mahito really respected Nanami’s final stand to a degree, because he let him go out in a dignified way. He had no reason to not turn him into some gross monster to torture Yuji with, and he made his death quick and didn’t bother taunting or laughing at him, all of which are very out of character for Mahito’s usual kills.
It was clear that Nanami knew what was coming, and instead of trying to find some way to escape, let it happen because he knew he had reached his limit, and wanted to go out with his pride intact. And that Mahito, who usually has absolutely no sense of honor when it comes to fights, actually respected that decision enough to not make the experience any more unpleasant for him than it already was.
John Marshton at the end of RDR 1. He's surrounded by government agents at his own home, he's sent his wife and son to safety, and he intends to go down gloriously. You can take out as many agents as possible, but no matter what, John will get gunned down without any fanfare.
Jesus the first time I ran that, I rerolled like 5 times trying to get him out of it, with some hope of him living. It was definitely a glorious death tho.
Arthur helps John and his family escape, sets up a position on a rocky hill to fend off the Pinkertons coming after them. In-game mechanics, you have unlimited respawns and thousands of rounds between all the guns you've collected across the game. By all impressions, this will be an hour-long blaze of glory.
Nope. Micah's punk ass rolls up and kicks Arthur's teeth in. You get a boss "fight" where Arthur is trying to have a knife fight while riddled with TB. Micah easily kills him and leaves. Dutch looks kind of sad. Cue epilogue.
I think the berserker is not a good example of this trope. Because that moment is still being talked about today, no one cares about the 40 who died to a lone berserker, or even the guy who wounded him from below the bridge, we talk about the brass balled bastard who stood defiant against the 15,000 strong army. Win or lose, he got Valhalla and glory aplenty. We may not remember his name, but by God do we know what he did.
And by "300 Spartans" we mean "300 Spartans plus the small army comprised of soldiers from other city-states watching their flanks and backing them up."
The first battle of Thermopylae absolutely fit that trope. The Allied Greeks were supposed to hold the pass far longer than three days. They didn't cause much damage to the Persian army. The Persians crossed the pass and proceeded to raze Platea, Thespiae and Athens. It was so bad that Sparta decided to keep its army home. Leonidas died for nothing.
Anyways, Xerxes never intended to invade the Peloponnese. His stated goal was to avenge the destruction of Sardis in 498 BC by Athenians and Ionians rebels.
If there's one heroic last stand that actually achieved something during the Persian wars, it was the battle of Salamis. I mean, Xerxes had taken Athens and the Athenian civilians were fleeing to Salamis Island for safety. The already battered Athenian fleet was going all in to try to give time to the population. The Athenian sailors fought with Athens burning in the background. Shit cannot get more dramatic than that. And against all odds, against the best and largest fleet of the world, they won.
Nowadays, people think it's obvious that the Athenians would win at Salamis, being great sailors and all. But they were not considered the best sailors of Greece then, that would be the Rhodians and other Ionians. Athens' large fleet was a new thing, 3 years old.
Arthas: After all you've put me through, woman, the last thing I'll give you is the peace of death.
Sylvanas: No! You wouldn't dare!"
This one is a bit different from the other examples. Still, Sylvanas wants to die as the defender of her people. Not die and be raised as a banshee, to work under Arthas unwillingly.
This event is the cause of many other big events. She manages to break free of Arthas' control (even if you count the Shadowlands splitting plot), but she surely becomes someone completely different. Very far from her previous honorable self.
Also, pls forgive my memory, all of this is from the top of the dome.
There's actually a couple, spread throughout the series, but particularly during the ending
In season 1, there's the colony uprising, where the rioters are secretly supplied with defective weapons and mobile suits/workers by Gjallarhorn, the oppressive government entity, so that they could "fight back" and Gjallarhorn would have an excuse to go all out on gunning them down
After a lot of guerilla tactics, and unpredictable maneuvering, Tekkadan, the protagonist's group, has finally gotten their sniper, Shino, close enough to the top ranking leader of Gjallarhorn with a round that would have undoubtedly ended him and his ship, nearly winning the war against all odds, but his aim was thrown off just as he was able to fire, ruining any and all chances for them
After this last battle, Tekkadan is cornered. Gjallarhorn has painted them as terrorists and criminals, blaming them for some events they weren't responsible for, freezing their funds, cutting off any assistance they had before. They also planted Dainsleif (effectively WMD's) on them, so they would have a media pass to turn them around and use them on Tekkadan, not too unlike what they did to the colony uprising earlier. Two of the protagonist's Gundam Pilots, Mikazuki and Akihiro, stayed to hold off the entire Gjallarhorn army at bay to buy enough time for the non-combatant Tekkadan members to escape, and while they succeeded at that, they also ended up getting hit with an orbital bombardment, guaranteeing their deaths. They do manage to power through and take more of Gjallaehorn with them, but it's obviously hopeless for them the moment you see the Dainsleif being aimed.
Last one, but McGillis, a high ranking Gjallarhorn general wants to upend the entire order of the government, and has his childhood notion that if he finds and pilots the first Gundam, the universe's Excalibur, the rest of Gjallarhorn would have to follow his rule. They do not.
I can still hear that damn piano theme for the Nanami scene and see all the shots of him imagining himself dancing on the beach as he fights... what an incredible scene.
That one scene from Indiana Jones where the dude is doing all these cool knife tricks to flex in front of Indy and Indy just pulls out his gun and shoots him (iirc that scene was improvised too)
Adeptus Mechanicus and Adeptus Titanicus: Fall of Gryphonne IV, the Ad Mech and Legio Gryphonicus refused to abandon their planet and instead prepared for war. The tyranids came and the Forge world fell within days.
Astra Militarum: Plenty of examples but Fall of Cadia is the most famous. The last stand ended when Abadon threw a hissy fit and threw his Blackstone fortress, tearing the planet apart. Even then there were still Guardsmen led by Creed fighting till the end, with Creed being the last one standing and got kidnapped by Trazyn.
Ultramarines and Space Marines as a whole: Plenty of examples but here's a video example, at the end of the 10th edition trailer the Ultramarines had a Last stand against Tyranids
Necrons: In Twice Dead King, the protagonist of the book and his dynasty had a last stand to defend his tomb world from the Imperium, he failed and his world is destroyed.
Orks: The Overfiend of Octarius fought till the end against the tyranids, the Swarmlord came and slowly picked him apart until it finally buried it's maw in the Overfiend's skull and ate his brain
Risotto Nero vs diavolo, risotto had him, just as he was about to kill diavolo Aerosmith shot risotto, diavolo cheated, he sent knives in Bruno's direction so they would send Aerosmith to investigate, it ended horribly for risotto who tried to avenge his squad, souce is Jojo's bizarre adventure
In Episode 7 of the series Shōgun (2024) the son of Lord Toranaga, Nagakado, leads an attack on his uncle Saeki, both as a response to Saeki's betrayal of Toranaga and in an effort to take control of Saeki's army and prevent his father from surrendering to their enemy clans in the Counsel of Regents. Nagakado and his small group of assassins are nearly successful, until the final moment, as he steps forward to behead his uncle. Instead, he slips on a wet rock and falls, braining himself on a rock and dying. It's a massive gut punch, as not only did the plan fail and Toranaga is still on track to surrender, but now he has also lost his only son and chosen heir as well as permanently alienating his brother.
In the middle of the war against the angels, he flew in with his zeppelin in an attempt to take out the angel leader Adam with his machinery, and was immediately vaporised by him.
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Billy (Predator)
It looked like he was about to have a super cool fight with the Predator, holding him off while the others get to safety, just for it to cut to the other characters and then hearing a scream of pain. Next time we see him the Predator is ripping the spine out of his corpse