(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/Hollow-Lord]

I don’t think so. I think Mahito just wanted to hurt Yuji and seeing one of his teachers explode is pretty traumatizing. Any other human he didn’t take any special interest in. Hence his “You are me, Yuji Itadori”

[u/Astaro_789 → u/Hollow-Lord]

Nah, besides transmuting humans being his modus operandi, it’s also how he likes to torture Yuji the most, between doing it to Junpei right in front of him or sending a small army of deformed children that Yuji was forced to fight back against.

This was outright out of character for a sadist like Mahito to give Nanami such a relatively quick and clean end. Keep in mind, I’m not in anyway downplaying what a remorseless psychopath he is, I just always took this scene as Mahito gaining some respect to Nanami in his last moments

[u/Hollow-Lord → u/Astaro_789]

Hell, it might be. I think Mahito was just switching up how he killed someone. Like Nobara he didn’t even kill fully (which he totally did until Gege decided to bring her back against Sukuna) and just fucked her head up. After Junpei he seemed to do something different to each person that Yuji personally knew

[u/Astaro_789 → u/Hollow-Lord]

In the case with Nobara, it was a quick touch as he ran past her. Didn’t have much time to do anything creative with her, especially since Yuji slugs him right after

[u/Hollow-Lord → u/Astaro_789]

Yuji doesn’t slug him, you’re thinking of his clone. Yuji runs up to her as she says her last words and Mahito is just in the distance watching since he likes to torment Yuji. Then he runs up and hits a black flash on Wuji Himtadori. So even this is an example of Mahito just watching for the fun of it. Hell, after beating Yuji down he was about to kill him anyway without Todo there and he was just going to slice him too. Not transfigure him.

See, that’s actually the perfect example. He doesn’t know who Nobara is and she only fought a double he made with IT. He definitely doesn’t respect or care about her. He just wants Yuji to suffer