[the Platinum Poppy]

For my own part I'm currently reading a collection of the first Legion of Superheroes comics. It's marvellous. The best thing is how they're all completely crazy about sacrificing their lives for one another. As soon as one legionnaire finds out that there's some kind of mortal danger ahead, his/her first impulse is always to say nothing to the rest of the bunch, so that he/she can go on a solo suicide mission unhindered by the others. When the legion learn that there's a way to revive a slain buddy, which involves one of the others dying instead, they're all manipulating and scheming like crazy since everyone wants to have the honour of sacrificing his/her life for this.
I'm completely amazed that this is an american comic book... you'd think it was japanese or something, from the WW2 era.