Mar 9
There's this thing that happens a lot in American and adjacent media, that I absolutely hate. I think of it as "the false martyr" where a fucking meal is made of a scene where a character sacrifices themself to save others and the soundtrack builds poignantly and crescendos and then the sacrifice is just sort of yoinked away by plot and saved, but they're sort of given undue credit (sometimes within the fiction and sometimes in the fandom) for having intended to sacrifice themselves when it didn't end up happening. I think it appeals to the very culturally christian bent of the anglosphere, and it is just so unbelievably overused.