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He's dead. His body is just twitching a bit. And yet, he doesn't fall, his muscles so perfectly conditioned they can continue to function without any signals from his brain. So he just stands there like a morbid practice dummy. He's died standing up.
This is a device used when a character is so utterly badass that even in death they refuse to accept utter defeat. The body continues to strive for victory even when its driving will has been extinguished. This goes hand in hand with a Badass Normal or any other absurdly strong character, especially one with a Charles Atlas Superpower. It may be mixed with Taken for Granite, when a villain's magical body has No Ontological Inertia and turns to stone at the moment of death. Despite the description above, this can happen to both heroic and villainous characters. In addition, this trope for some reason often tends to be paired with Off with His Head!, and scenes where the body waves its arms around looking for the head, or walks around for a while before collapsing are common.
This is technically possible in Real Life (especially with the help of rigor mortis, but see Real Life, below), though absurdly unlikely, and in any case a corpse's lack of balance control will cause it to topple sooner or later. The realms of fiction simply contrive to end the scene before this happens.
In deference to gravity, falling to one's knees also counts, so long as the final plunge into a prone state doesn't follow. Taking another step forward despite being clearly dead also counts. Related to You Are Already Dead. Compare to Fell Asleep Standing Up.
As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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Sengoku Basara:
Muneshige Tachibana, the resident chainsaw wielding samurai, has a defeat animation where he drops his chainsaws and slouches over while standing. He isn't actually dead unless you are playing as a character who outright kills their opponent instead of defeating them.
Takeda Shingen's animation had him put down his weapon and do a Badass Arm-Fold, standing proud before he keels over a moment later.
Several characters have defeat animations in which they attempt to get back on their feet only to fall over.
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: At the end of the Final Boss battle, Ganondorf is left lying on the ground when you finish him, but in the cutscene, he's standing, meaning he didn't just die on his back, he stood back up after you ran him through.
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Danganronpa: Komm Susser Tod: The culprit of Chapter 4, Tetsuo Garcia, dies on his feet after fending off a horde of robotic assailants.
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K. Roth from The Living Wake dies standing up in his already-prepared coffin. Mid-musical number.
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, this happens to Sarah Connor. Soon after a giant atomic bomb drops nearby, the power of the flames tears the skin and muscle off her bones as she grasps onto a chain-link fence. Fortunately for her, this is all just a nightmare.
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Golden Swallow: Silver Roc's fate, succumbing to his injuries after fighting an entire legion of enemies. His corpse stood upright in the middle of a valley littered with more than 60 of his dead enemies.
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Bleach:
Captain-Commander Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, though only his legs and about half his torso stay standing. The rest is sliced to pieces by Juhabach.
Before Yamamoto, Nnoitra invoked this trope by dying as his knees reached the ground, more or less exactly as he wanted.
Nianzol Weizol remained standing after being fatally impaled. His corpse collapsed on a pool of his own blood shortly afterwards, however.
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DEATH BATTLE! has the loser of Guts vs. Dimitri go out this way: Guts dies during a final, maddened charge towards Dimitri, even managing to cut Areadbhar in half, but dies just before he can land a deathblow, having bled out, leaving his corpse just standing there mid-swing.
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Happens in a Black Jack story. A young doctor who has lost his entire family to cancer and is now dying of it himself vows to treat one cancer patient before he dies. He completes the operation, but when the other doctors go to congratulate him, they find he has died on his feet. Weirder still, a post-mortem reveals that his heart had already stopped a few minutes into the operation. Just another example of determination overcoming the laws of biology.
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Ben dies this way when you defeat him in Brave Fencer Musashi, after some final words.
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A variation happens near the end of The 13th Warrior where after barely defeating the enemy, Buliwyf is seen to plunge his sword into the ground and sit down on a log at the base of the defensive wall, watching their retreat. Moments later the other men realize that he has finally died of the poison he was inflicted with earlier and is sitting there, staring into the distance.
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In H.P. Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear, two men are trapped in a cabin by a thunderstorm. When they hear lightning strike nearby, one of them leans out the window to assess the damage, and dies without a sound when something chews his face off.
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"Unconscious" variation in the Street Fighter Alpha manga, Sakura Ganbaru! After a glorious two-on-one match against Cammy and Sakura, a defeated Zangief staggers on the edge of consciousness, but, having dedicated his skills and his body to proud Mother Russia, he cannot afford to let it fall, much less in view of his beloved comrades. So he wills himself back up, into his victory pose, and stays that way even after blacking out. Cammy, Sakura, and all spectators acknowledge his defeat, but they are awed by his devotion even more, making it a symbolic victory.
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Ususama Myo-oh Mayuri in Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato. Actually a Justified Trope: not only he was turned into a Human Pincushion, but he was Impaled with Extreme Prejudice and the lance to the gut that he had taken "supported" the dying Mayuri on his feet.
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Every Fire Emblem up to Path of Radiance, including the DS games, uses this as the death animation.
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Happens a lot in The Expanse, since people typically wear magnetic boots in zero-g. So when someone is shot, they look like they're about to float away, but the boots keep them firmly rooted to the floor.
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Custer in Son of the Morning Star tries to invoke this when he realizes all is lost at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Already gravely wounded, he defiantly rises up from cover, fully exposing himself while firing several shots from his revolver, before being shot dead.
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In Zombieland Saga, Ai Mizuno died when she was struck by lightning during one of her concerts. She's shown standing upright immediately afterwards, burnt to a crisp and still pointing straight up at the sky.
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When Lordgenome was killed in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, he was able to stay standing for a time, and even talk for a bit. Impressive, since the hole in his chest was big enough that he wouldn't have had lungs, let alone a functional spine. Meh spiral energy.
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Another non-fatal version occurs in Naruto. During the preliminary exams, Rock Lee seeks to prove that, despite his lack of ninjutsu and genjutsu, he has become a splendid ninja through hard work alone. Unfortunately, his opponent is Gaara of the Desert. After a long and grueling fight, Gaara breaks Lee's left arm and left leg, crippling Lee. However, before Gaara can be declared the winner, Lee suddenly stands up and enters a fighting position. Initally, everyone assumes he is still conscious, but it's only when Lee's teacher, Might Guy, looks closer that everyone realizes that Lee is out cold, his body standing up through sheer willpower alone.
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ANNO: Mutationem: Subverted when The Varanus possesses the inability to be killed. Even after Ann impales it through the head, it remains in place standing before regaining consciousness and tries to move while stuck.
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Several times in Fist of the North Star, being an epic manga, many characters receive an epic death where their body keep standing:
The most iconic death in the manga and the Trope Codifier in the manga industry: Raoh's corpse stays frozen, his fist gloriously clenched upwards, after he literally sends his soul to Heaven to bring Light and Hope to The World. This scene is so iconic that any instance of this trope played in a manga afterward is very likely a reference to his death scene.
As well, Toki dies this way after Kenshiro's fight with Ryuga, through a combination of radiation poisoning and sacrificing himself so that Kenshiro will use the sorrow from his death to unlock the ability of Muso Tensei.
And then Juuza, immediately after falling gets back on his feet and keeps fighting Raoh for another minute and a half, despite being already dead, being able to wound a shocked Raoh with one last punch before falling down and bleeding out. This after having previously bashed heads with Raoh the day before. Raoh is so humbled by this that he immediately orders his men to give Juza a respectable funeral, out of respect for his fallen adversary. Considering the hellacious beating Juuza takes leading to his death and post-mortem fight, this might qualify as a Rasputinian Death as well.
The giant twins Raiga and Fuga meet this end as they are killed while holding up a massive block of stone that threatened to seal the exit out of the then-crumbling Cassandra prison. Also a Dying Moment of Awesome given that they struggled to hold it up while alive, yet even while dead they continued to hold it up.
Even Kokuoh, Raoh's (and later Kenshiro's) massive horse dies in this way towards the end of the series, dying a peaceful death in the middle of a thunderstorm.
At the end of the final battle of the Anime, Kaioh and Hyoh, Raoh and Kenshiro's brothers, respectively, die this way, courtesy of a jet of lava erupting from the ground, solidifying the both of them into a statue in which the former is cradling the latter.
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In Dawn of War:
Some units, when killed, don't go into their "dead" animation, instead remaining standing. Especially annoying when you run into these and think you're about to be attacked.
Invoked by General Sturnn in Winter Assault in the closing stages of the Imperial Guard Missions. See above quote.
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Several of Connor's deaths in Detroit: Become Human involve him being shot while standing up, causing him to fall to his knees as the camera lingers on him. Justfied in that he's an android, not a human.
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Enjolras in Les Misérables, although he had a wall behind him and Grantaire at his feet, which could logically prop him up.
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The first Battle Wolf in Toriko. After giving birth to her child, dispatched a serpent rumoured to be its competitor in ancient days effortlessly, and being shot through by a laser, she still died on her feet, a proud image of the Battle Wolf it was cloned from; a Battle Wolf that had averted global extinction in ancient times.
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"Old Wen" from Eat Drink Man Woman, who gets winded after returning to his kitchen, sits down, and dies.
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In the historical fiction tale, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it's said that this is how Cao Cao's bodyguard, Dian Wei, died, blocking a gate so that the assassins sent to kill his lord couldn't go after him. His valor terrified the assassins, and made Cao Cao's other enemies begin to revere the man. Also counts as a Dying Moment of Awesome.
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In Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest, a non-fatal version occurs in the Moon Dragon God arc when Lucy's opponent, Mimi, refuses to keel over and actually manages to stand up after taking Lucy's Urano Metria, which gives Lucy a shock at first because she was about ready to collapse herself by that point, until she realizes Mimi passed out in the process of standing and stayed ram-rod straight up. Not for nothing is Mimi called "The Immovable".
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Stone Ocean: Jotaro in the final battle is instantly killed when his face is split in half, causing him to stand dead right where he was before his body falls over.
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In Asura's Wrath, this is how Yasha dies. This trope gets subverted in Lost Episode 2, however, as when Asura and Akuma fought each other, they eventually turned into stone. The subversion is that they Start moving again and fight once more, still looking like stone statues!
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In Space Battleship Yamato, this is how Hajime Saitou dies. His friends even call out to the guy as they see him on his feet, believing he's still alive, and then he falls on his back...
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Fate of the Clans: At the end of Cú Chulainn's first life, he tied himself to a rock using his own intestines in order to ensure that he'd die on his feet, killing any enemies that got too close. Even after he died, he still cut the hand of the one who'd fatally injured him.
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Hot Fuzz: Tim Messenger has his head and the upper half of his torso smashed in by a chunk of stone, but still takes a few steps towards Nick before falling to the ground.
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In X-Men: First Class, Darwin stays standing after being killed by Sebastian Shaw.
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War of the Biju: Onoki goes out this way, earning them the respect of Edo Madara in the process.
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James Bond:
You Only Live Twice. A British intelligence contact in Japan is standing by a wall telling Bond what he knows about missing Russian and American space missions when he just suddenly stops talking. Bond grabs him, to find him stabbed in the back through the thin Japanese paper wall. It was like the knife through the wall was holding his dead body up. Counts also as Dies Wide Open, since it looks like he was just turned off.
Similarly in The Man with the Golden Gun, Bond has a rendevous at a Thai boxing match with Scaramanga's girlfriend so she can hand over the McGuffin that she stole from him. He sits down next to her and starts talking, only to realise she's staring straight ahead and not responding. Then he notices the bullethole over her heart. Scaramanga then appears and says it was a particularly difficult shot even for him; as well as the Conspicuously Public Assassination, perhaps he also meant the need to inflict spinal damage to keep her body in that position.
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An alien race in Schlock Mercenary can do this as a quirk of their biology caused by locking tendons and large feet.
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In Lu Bu's historical ending in Dynasty Warriors: Xtreme Legends 8, Lu Bu dies standing after he attempts to struggle and go after Cao Cao, only to be cut down. Guan Yu does this in the same game.
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The Saga of the Faroe Islanders: As Sigurd Thorlaksson tries to get away from the ambush on Skufoy, Leif Ossurson reaches him and gives him a wound in the vitals, yet Sigurd jumps into the boat and escapes. Thord asks Sigurd whether his wound is serious, but Sigurd does not give a clear answer. When they reach Streymoy, Sigurd leans against the boatshed wall and keeps standing there while his companions clear the boat. When they are finished, they notice that Sigurd is dead and stiff, still leaning against the boatshed wall.
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Similarly in The Man with the Golden Gun, Bond has a rendevous at a Thai boxing match with Scaramanga's girlfriend so she can hand over the McGuffin that she stole from him. He sits down next to her and starts talking, only to realise she's staring straight ahead and not responding. Then he notices the bullethole over her heart. Scaramanga then appears and says it was a particularly difficult shot even for him; as well as the Conspicuously Public Assassination, perhaps he also meant the need to inflict spinal damage to keep her body in that position.
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In the first Harry Potter movie, Professor Quirrell stumbles a few steps before finally crumbing to ash.
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Edward Scissorhands: The Inventor died of a heart attack while still standing up to present Edward with his new hands. Zigzagged since while he did technically die while standing up, his body fell over afterward.
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In Soldier of Fortune II, Mullins suddenly dies standing up if an NPC is killed (or he disobeys orders on a certain mission).
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A non-badass version in Let's Go Play at the Adams'. The only reason Barbara does this is because of how she is tied up when she dies.
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In Berserk's hellish Eclipse arc, Guts runs up to resident badass Pippin, thinking he's still alive. The next panel reveals his corpse has actually been hollowed out from the back.
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The Legend of Zelda: This happens to Ganondorf twice.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Ganondorf turns to stone after being stabbed in the head by the Master Sword, and stands up while this happens.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: At the end of the Final Boss battle, Ganondorf is left lying on the ground when you finish him, but in the cutscene, he's standing, meaning he didn't just die on his back, he stood back up after you ran him through.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: Weissman's fate has him shot by Kevin Graham with a Salt Bolt, a dangerous material that turns people into granite the moment contact is made, leaving Weissman standing dead after his body has been turned to stone.
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Hound: Cú Cullan dies tying himself to a stone with a blanket given by his uncle.
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A subversion in the comedy western City Slickers: Curly the leather-tough cowboy dies upright.. while peacefully smoking a cigarette.
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The Punisher MAX has a crazy mobster henchman who, after having one of his eyes pulled out, getting cut, beaten, shot, impaled on an iron spiked fence and having Frank blow his head in half with a shotgun, still takes two more steps, making even Frank panic a little.
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The appendices to The Lord of the Rings include the story of Helm Hammerhand, an ancient King of Rohan who was besieged in the Hornburg during a very bad winter by the Dunlendings and their allies. A soothsayer gave Helm the omen that if he never killed anyone by using a weapon, he himself could never be killed by a weapon: thus he took to leading night-time sorties against the besiegers, killing men with his bare hands. Keep in mind that Helm was large and strong enough that this whole war started when he killed a half-Dunlending lord with a single mighty punch. Helm worked up such a kill count than the enemy feared him as if he were a snow troll stalking through their camps. Then one night during a particularly bad blizzard he didn't return, and that morning the enemy found him outside standing upright, but dead and frozen: no weapon killed him.
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The Heroic Ones have this as the fate of Shih Ching-tsu after fighting wave after wave of enemies, killing a handful of Elite Mooks (suffering an Agonizing Stomach Wound in the process, which he remedies by shoving his shirt into his stomach hole and continue fighting), before dying upright with both eyes still open.
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The beginning of the film-noir parody The Cheap Detective has the detective inspecting several corpses that are frozen in upright positions, killed so fast that they didn't have time to react.
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In Shadow of the Colossus, Malus, the 16th and last Colossus, is basically unable to fall down as his feet are magically bound to the ground and his stone skirt and stone armor are as flexible as, you guessed it, rock.
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In Vinland Saga, Thors remains standing up even as he's shot repeatedly with arrows and killed, and remains in a standing position afterwards.
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Q from Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, if defeated by a light attack, will start convulsing and stretching out his arms to try and grab the opponent, but ultimately shut down like a robot, still standing and with his arms still up. This further adds to the question of whether or not he's human.
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A character from Universal Compass fades away (dies) while standing up.
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Egil's Saga: The morning after he has sunk his money into a swamp, Skallagrim is found dead sitting upright on the edge of his bed. The people of the farm are creeped out, and their behavior shows they are afraid that Skallagrim may turn a revenant.
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A non-fatal villainous variant occurs in My Hero Academia. Stain, heavily injured after his fight against Izuku, Shoto, and Iida, escapes his bonds and rescues a heavily-injured Izuku from a noumu. He proceeds to turn to the assembled pro heroes, which includes Endeavor, and takes a few steps while releasing a Killing Intent so strong it freezes all of them in place. He then stands still, and it takes them several nervous seconds to realize that's because he passed out standing up.
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In one The Three Investigators book, the boys wind up exploring a cave that was the hideout of a famous outlaw, and which he disappeared into after being wounded in a robbery, never to be found or seen again afterward. They eventually find a secret area and the outlaw's body leaning against a cave wall, gun pointed at the only entrance in, apparently having died in the middle of waiting to make a Last Stand that never happened.
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JoJolion: Kei receives a fatal Eye Scream in the last fight, managing to pass a phone to Josuke before she died standing and slumps.
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In an episode of Case Closed, the victim had just finished an exacting workout and her muscles were tense enough to throw off her time of death after being murdered. Conan recognizes this after seeing a statue of a legendary Japanese warrior who had died on their feet in a battle. (See Benkei, below) However, since the people involved were old friends of Kogoro, Conan allowed Kogoro time to figure it out for himself with the help of his subtle hints—and in a rare for the time occurrence, he did.
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One of the teenage victims in Jeepers Creepers 2 goes out this way. A tense moment after a wing of the seemingly dead Creeper falls limp, the one sent to investigate finds himself trapped in the wing, struggling to free himself. When the wing retracts, the headless body continues flailing around for a hot second before dropping to the ground.
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In The Elder Scrolls, primarily Oblivion, can have issues with corpses that remain standing with their arms straight out at their sides. This is usually after loading a cell where multiple deaths have occurred at a previous time, and the game simply can't handle all the requests being made of it, and as such forgets to apply Havoc to them. There's actually a must have Mod called streamline that has the option to 'Kill Corpses', whenever you enter a cell, to make sure they stay down.
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One Piece:
Whitebeard dies standing, after going through a downright insane◊ Rasputinian Death and proclaiming to the entire world that the One Piece exists (and thus giving a gigantic middle finger to the World Government). Considering how he was probably the most badass character to ever exist in One Piece, he clearly could not have died any other way. As a kicker, his Badass Longcoat falls off immediately after, revealing that despite being shot, stabbed, slashed, and blown to hell pretty much everywhere else, his back didn't have so much as a scar;note Minus one that was the result of a sword coming from the front THROUGH his back in his entire life, he never retreated from an enemy, not even One. Single. Time. Additionally, Whitebeard's death, including how much punishment he took before dying, seems to be based on Benkei's death (see below), right down to still holding his weapon (bonus points on Whitebeard also wielding a polearm/spear-type weapon). This event serves as the page image for this very trope.
While not actually a death, Zoro definitely tried to invoke this, and came damn near close to dying, when he let Kuma transfer all of the pain and fatigue Luffy suffered during his fights on Thriller Bark to him. Keep in mind that Luffy is able to withstand more damage than a normal human can (and he's a Rubber Man to boot, raising his damage tolerance). The next morning, Zoro is standing perfectly still, saying that "he's fine" while both he and the ground around him are covered in his blood. It is this very event that is now the trope image for Made of Iron.
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In Lone Wolf and Cub, the hero dies this way, and apparently the Big Bad as well.
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Record of Ragnarok:
At the end of the battle between Adam and Zeus, it's revealed that Adam died in the climax of the battle, yet still continued to trade blows with Zeus. By the time everyone realizes what happened, Adam's body continues to stand.
The battle between Raiden Tameemon and Shiva. Not once does Raiden ever fall during the entire battle, and when Shiva finally kills him with a Deva Loka to the head, Raiden's body continues to stand straight.
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Possibly parodied in Mother 3 when a pigmask watches you get in a horrible hovercraft accident. If you examine him afterwards, it is revealed that he has passed out, presumably from fright, yet he's still standing up. With his arm raised.
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Ganondorf turns to stone after being stabbed in the head by the Master Sword, and stands up while this happens.
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Jujutsu Kaisen: Toji Fushiguro met his end after Satoru Gojo blew half of his torso with Hollow Purple. After imparting his last words, he passed away firmly standing on his feet.
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In Lord Marksman and Vanadis, Roland is murdered when he is trapped in a room with a swarm of bees. Later, after clearing the bees away, his killers comment on how Roland's body didn't fall over.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic. Caused by a bug. It seems to happen when the NPC is already occupied with certain ongoing animations, such as Status Effects, and therefore doesn't process the cue to start its death animation properly.
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The Saga of the People of Laxardal: At the marriage feast of her grandson Olaf, the old Unn the Deep-Minded transfers ownership of her farm to Olaf, then retires to her chamber. The next day, Olaf finds Unn dead sitting upright on her bed. This is met with admiration.
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Tung Fu Rue in the Fatal Fury OAV dies after showing Terry his ultimate attack, still in his fighting stance.
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Brutal Series: Shiran struggles to get back to his feet despite having an arrow jutting out of his leg specifically because he wants to go out in this fashion. He ultimately survives.
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Sir George is this in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien after being struck by Diagon's lightning, just before his body crumbles to dust.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
Diamond is Unbreakable: Subverted with Akira Otoishi when his Red Hot Chili Pepper got almost destroyed upon falling into water, he lived through all that even if he seemed like he died standing.
Stone Ocean: Jotaro in the final battle is instantly killed when his face is split in half, causing him to stand dead right where he was before his body falls over.
JoJolion: Kei receives a fatal Eye Scream in the last fight, managing to pass a phone to Josuke before she died standing and slumps.
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A bug in Neverwinter Nights can cause enemies to stay standing up instead of falling over dead, though they still count as dead and you can't interact with them, they just stand their doing their idle animations.
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Mr. Wu: Wu, who has been stabbed, dies holding a large scimitar that props him up when his body crumples. Mr. Muir the tutor then strolls in, slaps Wu on the back, and is shocked to see Wu tumble to the ground.
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In Final Destination, Billy gets his head taken off in mid-rant by a piece of shrapnel kicked up by the passing train that just took out Carter's car, and he stays on his feet for a Beat before keeling over.
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You Only Live Twice. A British intelligence contact in Japan is standing by a wall telling Bond what he knows about missing Russian and American space missions when he just suddenly stops talking. Bond grabs him, to find him stabbed in the back through the thin Japanese paper wall. It was like the knife through the wall was holding his dead body up. Counts also as Dies Wide Open, since it looks like he was just turned off.
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Super Sentai: In Uchu Sentai Kyuranger, one of original 88 warriors who fought the antagonist, Don Armage, alongside Houou Solider/Ohtori Tsurigi several centuries ago was the legendary Orion. When the Kyurangers travel to the past to find out how Don Armage managed to survive, they meet and fight alongside Orion against Don Armage and his forces. During the climactic battle, Orion succumbs to the fatal wound he received previously and died while kneeling with his weapon still in hand.
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Fairy Tail:
Makarov remains standing in place after performing a Heroic Sacrifice for the sake of his allies, by casting Fairy Law, a spell that is Cast from Lifespan, against an enormous enemy army—since Makarov was already a very old man and the cost varied based on how many targets were affected, he used up the rest of his life and died.
In Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest, a non-fatal version occurs in the Moon Dragon God arc when Lucy's opponent, Mimi, refuses to keel over and actually manages to stand up after taking Lucy's Urano Metria, which gives Lucy a shock at first because she was about ready to collapse herself by that point, until she realizes Mimi passed out in the process of standing and stayed ram-rod straight up. Not for nothing is Mimi called "The Immovable".
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Fate/stay night Berserker in all three routes, and Shirou in the Normal end of Heaven's Feel, after a Heroic Sacrifice. He died standing up before he completed his Heroic Sacrifice.. only to complete it after he died. Also, in the anime this happens to Archer (you never see that scene in the Visual Novel, so it's possible it happened offscreen there also). Very impressive as Berserker is perfectly capable of ripping apart buildings with the shockwave his insanely strong and fast attacks leave behind, and logically any single attack should have knocked Archer down, or at least backwards.
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In Glory, when Trip grasps the Union flag to rally the regiment after Col. Shaw is killed, he too is fatally shot. He slumps forward, but uses the flagpole to keep himself erect, dying while still up as his comrades finally surge forward. The moment is foreshadowed the night before when the regiment is prepping themselves spiritually for the battle.
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If you take the "let time do it" method to surpass The End in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Snake approaches him from behind and tries to hold him up only to discover The End died with his eye on the scope.
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Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?: Lex Luthor, controlled by Braniac's head on his cranium, fights from inside when he begs a superpowered Lana Lang to kill him. It doesn't do his body much good: Braniac controls his corpse like a macabre puppet. The Braniac-cap himself exhibits this trait once rigor mortis sets in — detaching himself and crawling on the ground, "powered only by malice", swearing to kill Superman even as he dies.
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Dragon Ball Legends: In Part 7, Book 6, Chapter 5: "The Bonds of Friendship", after being defeated by Bardock, Super Saiyan 3 Shallot, & Super Saiyan 2 Gohan (Youth), Fusion Android #13 dies content with having fought for himself rather than simply following his programming and shuts down while standing with a smile on his face which even Bardock comments on and seemingly earns Shallot's respect. Unfortunately Super Buu (Gohan Absorbed) ruins the moment by blowing up Fusion Android #13's remains while mockingly referring to him as a mere "toy" and that he was just "cleaning up".
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In Drowtales, Lulianne had a Hope Spot when she found the remnants of the Dutan'vir's Last Stand and found one person still standing... only he wasn't actually alive in a technical sense, having been taken over by a demon, and the various blades in his body indicate that his fellow warriors had tried to kill him once he was possessed. Also a rather cruel twist on the Dutan'vir's sigil, which was a tower that represented stability.
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In Basilisk, the ninja duel between Muroga Hyouma and Chikuma Koshirou ends with the former dying while standing up, though he was leaning on his sword.
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Wolfwood barely managed a variant of this in the Trigun anime. He knelt in front of an altar to beg forgiveness and died in that position, propped up by his cross.
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The Legend of Dragoon: Emperor Doel, the Disc-One Final Boss, goes out this way (albeit leaning on the larger of his two blades) after urging the party to head west to Tiberoa and pursue Lloyd. For good measure, Albert, Doel's nephew, salutes him, recognizing that his uncle has finally come to his senses.
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No More Heroes: Holly Summers blows herself with a grenade after her defeat, with her body still standing despite the explosion.
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Jashugan, the Emperor of Motorball, from Battle Angel Alita manages to defeat the title character after taking a fatal blow and stays standing. A couple other characters also die standing up. Alita herself does the "knocked out and still moving" variation at one point.
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Pokémon: The Series:
Barry's Empoleon faints standing up after a brutal Thunder attack by Paul's Electivire during the Sinnoh League. It gives a pretty creepy glare while being attacked.
Ash's Incineroar ends up fainting this way after having a hard-fought battle against its rival and then evolving right after. It is declared unable to battle while it was frozen in its post-evolution roar.
A wild Galarian Farfetch'd faints this way after a grueling battle with Ash's Riolu. Ash doesn't take this chance to catch it...but it voluntarily joins his team anyway.
The same Farfetch'd, evolved into Sirfetch'd, has another moment like this after a Single-Stroke Battle with Cynthia's Garchomp.
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The Sandman (1989): The story "Facade" features Urania Blackwell, a.k.a. "Element Girl", who wants to die but can't. When she finally asks the sun god Ra to take away her "gift", her body is temporarily left as a standing, human-shaped figure of dust.
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Gin Minowa from Washio Sumi Is a Hero was found standing up dead in the middle of a road after driving back three Vertex by herself.
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In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the series legendary slayer Yoriichi Tsugikuni was a samurai whose skills seemed to be divine even though he remained human while his twin older brother became a demon in fear of death, Yoriichi kept slaying demons throughout his whole life till he grew to be 80 years old, he could no longer let his brother shaming himself by living as a demon, they battled to the death, as old as Yoriichi was he still seemed to be an otherworldly swordsman who his demon brother could not accept, a human who could be this strong was like the living proof that he became a demon out of fear, but Yoriichi's life couldn't go for any longer, he died standing up with his sword in the ready, before it could decapitate the demon.
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In Sword of the Stranger, Luo-Lang dies kneeling.
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The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter: Both loyalist General Yeung Yip and one of his 7 sons dies on their feet—the former after killing himself with a blow to the head, the latter when he is filled so full of arrows by Liao Dynasty archers that he is killed on the spot, but doesn't fall over.
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After the final cut in their duel in Highlander, The Kurgan smiles and reaches out before his head falls off, then his body makes a salute with his sword before falling.
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Occurs multiple times throughout the Tenchu series:
Genbu from Birth of the Stealth Assassins dies on his feet after being mortally wounded by Ayame during the climax. He drops his dual clubs to signify his the moment of his death.
Ganda from Wrath of Heaven dies this way.
Jyuzou from Fatal Shadows dies after being run through by Rin.
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Ocean Stars Falling: After witnessing Ace getting injured by Akainu's magma, Yugito loses control and descends upon the admiral in a hybrid jinchuuriki form. By the time she finishes ripping him to shreds, Kei suspects that her opponent is already dead.
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In Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Nolt Marcus of the Marcus Brothers does one of these after Benge the Shadow Manipulator kills him. He doesn't fall to his knees though. He's standing upright, perfectly still, blood dripping down his torso from his mouth and his chest. His death is made even more of a Tearjerker when he uses the last bit of strength he has to try and kill his murderer and warn his brothers to "Watch out... for the shadow".
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Parodied in Heaven's Lost Property during the Sumo Wrestling Tournament. Tomoki takes numerous Karate chops while being held against an electric fence. He stands back up, but the reffere holds up Sohara Masker Wrestler's hand in victory announcing that Tomoki is already dead. Later played straight with Yoshitsune.
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Arknights:
Patriot is The Juggernaut among the Reunion leaders, and is unbelievably durable and stubborn. He withstands a massive amount of damage from the best Operators that Rhodes Island can throw at him, and when his armor is finally breached and he suffers fatal wounds, he still pushes on until the last moment. When he finally dies, he remains standing, as unshakable in death as he was in life.
During Stultifera Navis, High Inquisitor Dario gives his life protecting the last Eye of Iberia from an endless horde of Sea Terrors. When Kal'tsit and Saint Carmen discover his body, they find him surrounded by the burning remains of thousands of Sea Terrors, still on his feet and with his sword planted firmly into the ground.
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In Weapon Brown, the Expy of the Phantom gets his head blown clean off. Not only does he die standing, but he also becomes the corpse that walks!
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Diamond is Unbreakable: Subverted with Akira Otoishi when his Red Hot Chili Pepper got almost destroyed upon falling into water, he lived through all that even if he seemed like he died standing.
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The wuxia film The Deadly Duo have this happening to The Lancer, Hsiao Pin-fu, who upon realizing he's been mortally wounded and Secretly Dying, pulls a You Shall Not Pass! on a bridge , fighting off wave after wave of enemy soldiers while the rest of his allies can escape via boat. At the end of the film he died standing upright on a pier littered with dead enemies, and plenty more corpses floating in the waters around him, to the extent that the enemy general ends up ordering his soldiers to retreat as a sign of respect.
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In The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Verroq the Mercenary has all of his flesh eaten off and continues to walk.
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Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?: After the final fight with Asagi in the alternate story mode, a bomb in her Prinny Costume (which she put in there, mind you) goes off when she's unable to get the costume off in time, due to a stuck zipper. The blast kills her, but she manages to remain on her feet, shocking Hero Prinny.
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In Rurouni Kenshin, The Big Guy of Shinomori Aoshi's first Quirky Miniboss Squad takes a fusillade of Gatling gun fire for his boss, falls to his knees, and dies balanced there, still shielding Aoshi in death.
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In the movie The Ice Harvest, Vic (Billy Bob Thorton) shoots a thug and states "You're dead, don't just stand there pretending you're not"
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Diaz Ragu of Shadow Skill. He took on the avatar of Death itself, tore his body apart from superhuman battle techniques, and was still standing when he actually managed to get it to concede the fight.
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City of Heroes will occasionally forget to animate the "defeat" of enemies who are beaten too quickly. Given the amount of damage necessary—a One-Hit Kill on a completely unaware enemy—and the infrequency of the occurence, it can be comedic or epic.
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Happens to Margaret White in Carrie (1976) after she is stabbed several times by Carrie.
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In Ginga Densetsu Weed, Tobē, who has been fatally injured, refuses to fall down and die. He was about to fall, but three other dogs who showed up at the last moment stood around him and propped him up until his body froze solid in a standing position, guaranteeing it would stay that way without support. The series, and its precursor, had a few examples of this.
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7 Man Army, a film depicting the Sino-Japanese war, have one of the titular seven Chinese soldiers getting shot to raise the Chinese flag, and in his dying moments, uses his upright body to prop the flag and prevent it from collapsing.
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Aldebaran Taurus in Saint Seiya.
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