Basic Trope: Shielding someone else with your own body. Usually fatal. * Straight: Charlie shoots Alice but her friend Bob jumps between them and is shot instead. * Exaggerated: Bob stops a laser beam with his body after making a ten-meter leap. In slow motion. Accompanied by the biggest Big No ever. * Justified: Charlie shoots Alice in the back and Bob is the only one who sees him aim. Also, Bob is wearing a bulletproof vest. * And/or Alice is a MacGuffin, or Bob is her bodyguard, so he has to protect her. * Inverted: Bob shoots Charlie first. * Alternatively: Charlie attempts to body slam Alice and is shot (shielding someone from a body with your own bullet). * Also, the rather unlikely scenario where one character tries to shove another into the path of a bul