History Main / BigHeroicRun

* ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'' has Munakata dashing to [[spoiler:try to save and apologize to Juzo when he starts shutting down the Power Room of the Deadly Game]], the scene is incredibly touching and verges on [[spoiler:RaceForYourLove, due to [[UnrequitedTragicMaiden Juzo's feelings]]]]. It turns out to be a TearJerker when [[spoiler:he reaches the power room seconds too late and sees Juzo's body who had already bled out to death after turning off the game]].

* ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' Does this trope well with Miles Morales.[[/folder]]

** The Eleventh Doctor tries to run across Upper Leadworth in "Amy's Choice", but the Dream Lord makes him fall asleep.

* Subverted twice in the original ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' pilot. Simon has just been told by Mal that Kaylee has died (meaning he's failed to save her after he [[spoiler: let her get shot]]), and he takes off at a dead run to the infirmary. When he gets there, instead of a dead Kaylee, he finds her alive and giggling at something Book's just said. Simon angrily calls Mal "psychotic". Irony cut to Mal, Zoe, Jayne, and Wash on the bridge, laughing their asses off at the prank and Wash calling Mal "psychotic".

* Used in the season 2 finale of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', when Buffy realises that she's been chasing a RedHerring and takes off running at full clip... and the fact that she's still too late to save [[spoiler: Kendra]] is underscored by the camera slamming into [[{{Overcrank}} slow motion]] as she gets back to the school.

* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': Creator/LyndaCarter could be credited with inventing the ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' run for some of her lingering slow-motion running shots, such as in "Amazon Hot Wax". In character, this was best shown in "Death in Disguise" when she ran over 700 mph to thwart the evil plan.

** Another, lesser known version of the story was that Pheidippides's waa tasked with the mission to gain Spartan help for the Battle of Marathon but failed, because the Spartans refused to help the Athenians in time. But he managed to get all the way to Sparta and back to Athens in time to warn the Athenians they'd get no help ''and'' to participate in the battle himself. Of course, in this version he also drops dead.

* The most famous Big Heroic Run is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#History the original Marathon run]]. Pheidippides's mission to gain Spartan help for the Battle of Marathon failed, because the Spartans refused to help the Athenians in time. But he managed to get all the way to Sparta and back to Athens in time to warn the Athenians they'd get no help ''and'' to participate in the battle himself. The tale [[AlmostDeadGuy that he fell dead]] after delivering his message was a later garbling of the story.
++ Following the battle, the entire Athenian army made their own run back to Athens because part of the Persian navy had gone off and was sailing around Cape Sounion. They arrived back in the late afternoon, just in time to see the Persian ships turn away from Athens.

* ''Film/RunLolaRun''.

* ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' pulls off one with lots of symbolism.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' season two finale, [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally West's]] run ''around the goddamn planet'' to build up enough momentum to punch through [[spoiler:the merged Luthor-Brainiac being]]'s armor. Bonus points for doing it multiple times and [[spoiler:being nearly permanently sucked into the Speed Force as a result]].

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': When Boromir is attacked by the Uruk-Hai at Amon Hen, he runs from them and blows the Horn of Gondor, causing Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli to all run toward him.
** A better example is the heroic run that Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli do to try to rescue Pippin and Merry. They run for ''days'' after the orcs, only to get intercepted by the exiled Rohirrim.

* ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' Does this this trope well with Miles Morales.[[/folder]]

* ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' Does this this trope well with Miles Morales.

* ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' Does this this trope well with Miles Morales

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* A particularly awesome example during the climax of ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'', when Ethan (Tom Cruise) needs to sprint about 16 blocks to save his wife. No stunts or SFX, just several straight minutes of Cruise flooring it at stunning speeds down busy streets and across rooftops on his own.

* ''Film/StarTrek'': Chekov is the only one who can operate the transporter well enough to save Kirk and Sulu when they fall off Nero's drill, so he runs through the Enterprise, shouting "I can do that!" at the top of his lungs.

* Combined with LeParkour in 3 Doors Down's video for "Not My Time", in which a man runs across half a city district to stop a mother and daughter from driving into an intersection, which would've put them in the path of an oncoming truck.

* Combined with LaParkour in 3 Doors Down's video for "Not My Time", in which a man runs across half a city district to stop a mother and daughter from driving into an intersection, which would've put them in the path of an oncoming truck.

* In ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', Music/TheBeatles do one when they have to rush to the police station and save [[RingoStarr Ringo]] before their concert starts. It's set to an epic reprise of "Can't Buy Me Love."