sacrificing one's self to stop a contagion theme
A character does a self-sacrificial thing in order to contain a highly infectious disease.
Examples
Spock sacrificed his eyesight in order to defeat the neural parasites in tos1x29 "Operation -- Annihilate!", though it turned out he had second eyelids that in fact saved him.
6 total · 2 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Alien 3 (1992) | major | Ripley threw herself into molten lead to prevent the Weyland-Yutani corporation executives from getting their avaricious hands the dangerous alien queen that was paraticizing her. |
| tos1x29 | major | Spock risked his life to in an effort to prevent the neural parasites from spreading around the galaxy. |
| ent4x11 | minor | Tucker stopped Hoshi from spreading the virus throughout the entire ship by dragging her back to quarantine. |
| futurama6x24 | minor | Fry agreed to be chopped into mush in order to stop the pandemic. |
| movie: Prometheus (2012) | minor | An Alien infected Charlie begged Vickers to use her flame thrower on him, and she did so without hesitation. |
| rd1988e7x07 | minor | Lister was going to blow himself up in order to destroy the Epideme virus. We briefly though Kochanski severed her own arm for the same reason. |