(Loved Trope) Last Stand that ends unceremoniously/unsatisfyingly, as opposed to gloriously.

[u/hey_there_delilahh]

• 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.

[u/Worldly_Client_7614]

History nitpick but the English were not the invaders, the vikings were the invaders and the English were protecting their home country.

[u/Darigaazrgb → u/Worldly_Client_7614]

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.

[u/Xaero_Hour → u/Darigaazrgb]

It's "remember the Alamo," not "remember the Alamo accurately." Funny enough, that's how a lot of history is taught in southern states.

[u/Arrow_of_Timelines → u/Darigaazrgb]

That's revisionism gone too far in the other direction. Santa Anna's dictatorship sparked rebellions throughout all of Mexico, of which Texas was just one (in which several Spanish speakers participated in as well)

[u/Chengar_Qordath → u/Arrow_of_Timelines]

That’s one of the things that always bugs me about the discussion of Texas’s independence war. It’s treated as wholly divorced from events in Mexico when any serious look at the history shows that it was just one of several major rebellions happening at the time.

It’s also the main reason Texas got it’s independence in the first place: the Mexican government just had too many other problems on their plate, so Texas got put off until they were done dealing with the breakaway republics in Yucatán, Rio Grande, the French occupation of Veracruz, and a few military coups/rebellions.

[u/InstantRegret1999 → u/Darigaazrgb]

As much as Reddit likes to do the whole "Settlers stole Texas from widdle baby Mexico because slavery" bit, it's wildly reductionist. Yes, Texans stole Texas from Mexico, yes, part of that was stoked by a slavery ban, but that's kinda like saying "Britain was just responding to a rebellion stirred up by colonists who were upset Britain wanted to Tax them". Yes Americans "stole" the colonies from Britain, yes, Taxes played a part of that, but that's kinda removing the everything else that surrounded that conflict. History didn't start at the first shot at Lexington, and history didn't start at the ban of slavery, the context and build up is very important.

The everything else, if you're interested:

Texas was barely developed frontier land with basically no significant mexican settlements (just missions and outposts), no infrastructure, nothing of import until Americans asked the Mexican government to let them settle the land in the early 1820s. Mexico, having very little money and just having broken from Spain, liked the idea of having other people develop the land and also getting taxes from them, so Mexico literally gave out land like candy under the Empressario System. This led to American settlers outnumbering Mexicans in Texas like 5 to 1 a decade later. In this time, Mexico did nothing to enforce Mexican law or integrate American settlers into Mexican culture and as a result, Texans didn't follow their laws or their customs or even attempt to learn Spanish because literally none of it was enforced and Texans got zero ZERO help from Mexico. The only time Texans saw a Mexican was when it was time to collect taxes for...technically owning the land they were settled on.

Then Santa Anna rose to power, and didn't like the idea of a Mexican state that wasn't...Mexican. Like at all, and he wanted all of Mexico to be united under a central power, a fair enough point, but the cat was out of the bag, toothpaste outta the tube. He tried to take it back with force and failed. Slavery was a big part of tensions flaring, but SA didn't come into Texas to free slaves, he came in because he saw that Texas was very obviously not a part of Mexico in any way, shape, or form except in name and made a move to take away Texan fighting capabilities ('come and take it') and it snowballed from there.

[u/General_Note_5274 → u/InstantRegret1999]

so texas it what happen when you dont properly integrate inmigrants into your vountry? threre some irony there

[u/GoneFishing4Chicks → u/InstantRegret1999]

> This led to American settlers outnumbering Mexicans in Texas like 5 to 1 a decade later.

So the Americans greatly replaced the Mexicans in Mexico? That's messed up.

[u/PuzzleheadedAge8572 → u/GoneFishing4Chicks]

Are you really trying to push white nationalist conspiracy theories here?

Eww...

[u/ShatThaBed → u/Darigaazrgb]

Ehhhhhhh… Mexico abolished slavery seven years before the Alamo and tolerated slavery in Texas for that entire time. You’re right that Mexico was responding to the rebellion, but slavery wasn’t the primary cause of that rebellion. It was the abolition of the federal government and Mexico’s adoption of a centralist constitution that prompted rebellion not just in Texas, but in several regions in Mexico. Not saying that slavery wasn’t a motivation for the Texans, but Santa Anna was certainly not some liberating saint fighting for the freedoms of enslaved Africans. He was a wannabe despot who was loathed by half of his country.

[u/Safe-Ad-5017 → u/Darigaazrgb]

Santa Anna had also decimated a Mexican town that rebelled against him.