Big Damn Heroes/Fanfic


 * Ichigo sure thinks he's one when he arrives moments before Orihime's kidnapping is completed . Then  shuts him down, hard. Makes sense, she is the Primera, after all.
 * "I hate playing the Big Damn Hero." (Emphasis and Capitalisation Academia Nut's)
 * Forward uses this extensively, but being a Firefly fanfic, that's no surprise, and its lampshaded and subverted as often as it is played straight.
 * Tiberium Wars has an epic moment when the GDI Marines appear at the Langley AFB battle.
 * Renegade: Kaidan Alenko
 * Enemy of My Enemy has two good ones: Vtan & Zerat, and later.
 * Raccoon City Mosh Pit invokes this trope for a Crowning Moment of Awesome. appears out of nowhere to  at the Clock Tower. The best part? They even say the dialogue, with  as Mal and Kate as Zoe. Plus the chapter is titled 'Written by Joss Whedon'.
 * In The Sun Soul, there are more than a few moments when the heroes swoop in to save the day at the last possible second. Although the author seems to like making them pay for their constant heroics.
 * The beginning of the "Big Damn Heroes" moment in chapter 20 of Warhammer40000 fanfic ToyHammer starts off with the main character running over a Daemonhost (an Eldritch Abomination that has been summoned from a Negative Space Wedgie to possess an already unlikeable Complete Monster) with a battered pickup truck. Then offloading the elite of the Warhammer40000 universe's armies (who have been miniaturized).
 * Semi-subverted in that he still gets his ass handed to him about five minutes later, giving way to a second Big Damn Heroes moment in the same chapter by a 10 year old girl (who has the unmodifiable psychic 'fingerprint' of ).
 * With a name like Kyon: Big Damn Hero you'd expect Kyon pulls this trope often. You'd be right: saving Tsuruya from a some Yakuza twice, Kanae from an upperclassman a few days later or to Sasaki when she was being kidnapped he can certainly do the titular trope.
 * In Open Battle Arc IV, Nonoko and Shamisen have one such moment.
 * Respawn of the Dead gives us rushing in whacking the, when the latter had the Engineer and Sniper at both gun and knifepoint, and had just before been suggesting that.
 * The Man with No Name crosses over Firefly and Doctor Who. It would be weird if Big Damn Heroes didn't apply.
 * In Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns, Sten gets one and
 * A more recent chapter has not just Sten, but also Alim Surana (the elven mage Warden) and Leliana doing something quite similar, although, in this case, they have to
 * In the Pony POV Series,
 * In Turnabout Storm, Ace Attorney/My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic crossover, this gets pulled out by , of all people, who manages to save Phoenix just in time from.
 * In Point of Succession when Beyond Birthday has the rookie Matt cornered in the basement of a creepy abandoned building and is about to start cutting him up-cue Light Yagami making his guns-blazing Dynamic Entry.
 * Happens several times in Inner Demons:
 * First,  Apple Bloom, Lezard, and Spike save Applejack from a group of Neo Canterlot soldiers that have captured her.
 * Likewise, Fluttershy saving Rainbow Dash from another group of soldiers about to finish her off.
 * Shortly after, it looks like 's forces are going to finish off the remaining protagonists, only for , which is followed by destroying the soldiers and sending   running.
 * Applejack breaks Rarity out of the dungeon and as they're escaping they're cornered by, who begins to wipe the floor with them before the other Element bearers burst through a window, and turn the situation into a successful fighting retreat.
 * The Element bearers confront Queen!Twilight in Fillydelphia just before she -- in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown -- can execute Cadence in an incestuous, jealous rage.
 * Applejack breaks Rarity out of the dungeon and as they're escaping they're cornered by, who begins to wipe the floor with them before the other Element bearers burst through a window, and turn the situation into a successful fighting retreat.
 * The Element bearers confront Queen!Twilight in Fillydelphia just before she -- in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown -- can execute Cadence in an incestuous, jealous rage.