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Competent non-white men putting incompetent white men in their place seems like agenda pushing. At least naively, a competent white man dying for someone else seems like it should be glorifying white men -- it just doesn't feel that way from your examples, since that's clearly not the goal of the creators of the movies.
But also I don't think A Man Called Otto is a very good example, since he's not choosing to save her and/or secede the future to her -- he just dies from heart failure. If he explicitly gave her his house and went on living, then I think you'd have a case for "Hollywood is trying to convince white people to just surrender everything to nonwhites". But in this case I think the point was just to give a touching ending that was somewhat faithful to the original story.
An example of a non-white savior saving a white person is Lee Everett from The Walking Dead, who altruistically protects Clementine with his life; Clementine then goes on to be Lee's successor (in both a narrative sense, and in the sense that you literally play as her, so she's literally making making the choices that Lee would have made).
(I also want to give Uncle Tom's Cabin as an example, but I haven't actually read it so I'll let somebody else make that case and/or tell me why that's wrong).
No, but he's still making way for her (and her children), in a more literal as well as a figurative sense. I think maybe part of what I'm tracking here is "white savior" characters who... aren't? Like, they kind of maybe look that way, but really their successor restores their humanity in some way, and then they see that the human thing to do is give everything to/for their successor.
It occurs to me that Pixar's Up could be this if Carl had died to get Russell home, and could also be this if there were a post-credit scene where Carl left an inheritance for Russell. But maybe I've made a problem for myself by focusing on dead men, maybe there are more clear examples where the men aren't shown to die but the implication is still that they are "making way."
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