[ OT ] SatChat : What is your favorite literary trope or cliche ?

I like heroic moments, not so much in terms of awesome displays of strength ( though those are great too ), but more in terms of strength of convictions. 
 
 `` Defiant to the End'' is probably the best definition I could use from `` TV Tropes.'' 
 
 http: //tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DefiantToTheEnd 
 
 Last Stands are similar. I like the idea of people fighting their damndest for a cause, at the cost of their own lives. 
 One of my all-time heroes is Ben Saloman, a field surgeon at the Battle of Saipan whose hospital was stormed by Japanese soldiers. This made Saloman really angry, so he set himself at the head of the tent, and when the Americans found his body a few days later, there were dozens of bullets and bayonets wounds in it, and ninety six dead enemy soldiers. 
 
 http: //tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LastStand 
 

