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A major character doesn't just get killed straight away. Oh, no. They've got to deliver a speech before dying. They can do this because Talking Is a Free Action. It can run the full gamut from Narm to some of the most touching and memorable scenes in media. This speech usually goes along the lines of the following: "Tell Agnes I love her..." The dying man's friend will often respond with "Tell her yourself!" (See Other Stock Phrases.) "Hey, we did good, didn't we? Nice knowing you, pal." Related to the above two: "I always loved you, Carol... (cough) Steve, you'd better take care of her..." (See also Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends.) "I would like to have seen Montana." (See Retirony.) "Manchester... you've got to go to Manchester. That's where you'll find the truth..." (See also Almost Dead Guy.) "The secret that you've been desperately trying to find out is...." (dies) (See also The Unreveal and Killed Mid-Sentence.) Seemingly random non-sequitur that the heroes need to decode. Classic examples are Citizen Kane's "Rosebud" and Star Wars' "There is another Sky... walk... er..." A lamentation of death, such as: "Courage man, the hurt cannot be much." "'Twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. A plague o' both your houses. They have made worms meat of me. A plague on both your houses! Why the devil did you come between us? I was hurt under your arm." "I thought all for the best." "A Plague o' both your houses." A lament about their untimely death. "Everything's goin' dark..." (A favorite of Bugs Bunny, and it's been used elsewhere too, in which the dying person remarks how dark everything's getting.) A final, casual conversation between friends: "See you tomorrow, bud..." "Yeah... see you tomorrow." (See Planning for the Future Before the End) Some characters may use this as a chance for them to give "The Reason You Suck" Speech if they're dying as the result of another character; bonus if it's involved a long-standing vendetta between them. In some cases, the speech goes on, and on, and on, and on... (May lead to Killed Mid-Sentence, see also Inverse Dialogue/Death Rule) In Real Life, as long as the heart, lungs, major arteries, and brain remain inviolate a person is well more than capable of carrying on a conversation. However, given that losing a certain amount of blood causes the mind to be flooded with first a sense of panic and doom, then confusion and fear, and finally lethargy, these conversations aren't exceptionally enlightening or deep. They do tend to ask for water a lot. Dying makes you thirsty. Last Words is where they keep it brief. Killed Mid-Sentence is the ultimate inversion, and Distracted from Death is usually an aversion where the person dies and someone who is right near them or was just with them doesn't notice. This is a Death Trope. Expect unmarked spoilers ahead. |
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Subverted heavily in Sengoku Basara II in Nobunaga's campaign, where Hideyoshi attempts to make a final speech. While he's doing so, Nobunaga calmly walks up to him and finishes him off with a slash, preventing him from finishing. | |
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In Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, Fenrich has quite a long, emotional conversation with Valvatorez after Taking the Bullet for him, pleading for the vampire to drink his blood to restore his power... And then when Valvatorez refuses, he gets right back up, dusts himself off, and admits he was just faking in hopes of getting Val to break his vow of blood abstinence. The rest of the party is not amused. | |
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In The Bourne Identity movie, after the Professor has been mortally wounded, he ponders the meaning of what he was doing in the first place with Bourne, exchanges notes on their condition, and ends with a lament. Bourne himself paraphrases it in the third film which prompts the other Treadstone/Blackbriar 'asset' to let him go. | |
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In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Madoka managed this every time she made a Heroic Sacrifice, also double as Tear Jerker. Sayaka, right before she crosses the Despair Event Horizon and becomes a witch. |
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In the original Wicker Man, Sgt. Howie gives an absolutely badass one, predicting divine punishment for the villagers, singing a bit of the 23rd Psalm, and finally reciting the last words of Walter Raleigh. Oddly enough, it's justified - he's being burned alive in the Wicker Man, so until the fire gets to him he has plenty of time to talk. | |
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Romeo × Juliet loves this trope. Pretty much every character who dies on-screen gets some variant of this, whether it's the heroes or the ill boy. | |
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Kayto gives a lengthy one at the end of Sunrider Liberation Day as he prepares to ram the crippled Sunrider into the Alliance flagship to stop them from destroying his home planet Cera. Subverted, as he loses consciousness after delivering the speech and is dragged to an escape pod by Lynn. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): In issue #168, Antoine's father dies, but gets to tell mon filsnote Translation: "my son" how proud he is of him, and also urges him to stay together with Bunnie. |
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The Song of Roland: While secondary characters just get cleaved in two and drop dead, mortally wounded heroes will have time to say goodbye to their comrades, deliver final monologues, pray God for forgiveness, and arrange themselves in aesthetically pleasing positions before finally dying. Archbishop Turpin also takes the time to bless the corpses of the previously fallen. And all that, of course, only comes after they did one or two final charges against the enemy to take as many of them with them as possible... while already mortally wounded. | |
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In The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance tenth episode, the Mystic Archer gives one before jumping off a cliff killing off his Skeksis counterpart Hunter. | |
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Bleach: Subverted with Kariya in the Bount Arc: He starts up a speech but turns into a cloud of dust after letting out about a sentence and a half. | |
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In Ancient Domains of Mystery, the dying sage Khelavaster blocks the stairs down from floor 16 of the main dungeon, forcing you to hear his speech about the source of The Corruption plaguing the game's world before you can continue. You can give him an Amulet of Life Saving first, in which case he will reward you with several goodies. This is required to achieve an ultra ending. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, Axel delivers one of these to Sora after his Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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In Aventures, when Seb's character, Shin, is gravely wounded he acts as he is making this with actually good roleplaying, then the whole group decides to milk it for all it's worth and tries to cram as many cliché they can find. | |
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Nearly every named character in Fire Emblem. They range from something as short as another character's name to a full paragraph in size. This was actually subverted at one point in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. When Ilyana dies, all that comes up in the text box is Visible Silence. In the sequel, Radiant Dawn, she has a more standard death quote. |
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In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly the final words of soldier Bill Carson provide The Ugly with the cemetery's location and The Good with the name on the tombstone (each individually) where $200,000 is buried. This forces the two to work together and sets up the rest of the movie. The film in general contains a handful of final speeches of otherwise unimportant soldiers of the American Civil War. note The film's plot of buried treasure runs parallel to the civil war, and the meaningless deaths of young soldiers, imprisonment in a POW camp, showdown in a military cemetery, and other plot points symbolise death in all its forms Being a Western, the speeches are often very short and contain more body language than words. |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: Captain Archer gets one when he flies off to destroy the Xindi superweapon, knowing he'll most likely die in the attempt. | |
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In lonelygirl15, Bree leaves one of these as a voicemail message. | |
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Naruto: The Abridged Series gives us this when Sasuke 'dies'. | |
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Frank gives one to Rizza in The Escapist. Rizza is quite surprised by this and none too pleased. And stabs him. | |
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Winx Club: Nabu gives one to Aisha in Episode 424 when he uses up all his energy to close the abyss taking away all magic, resulting in him passing on. | |
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Bobby Strong from Urinetown gets a whole song for his Final speech, called Tell Her I Love Her Though it's delivered by another character, and partly delirious, and Lampshaded: "He started fading in and out for a while. It was a miracle he was alive at all..." |
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In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, bosses have the tendency to give a long speech before dying... But special mention goes to Shekinah/Three Wise Men in Redux: | |
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The Phantom Menace shows Qui-Gon Jinn pleading with Obi-Wan to train Anakin, no matter what the Jedi Council says, as he is certain Anakin is the prophesied Chosen One will bring balance. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: As with many other things, this trope is taken to extremes. The Spiral King, Lord Genome gives his final speech with a basketball-sized hole in his chest, while the Anti-Spiral delivers his with a hole in him that's wider than he is. "Believe in yourself. Not you, who believes in me. Not me who believes in you. Believe in you, who believes in yourself!" ~Kamina to Simon shortly before he kicks uber ass, then dies. Gently parodied here, in that Kamina gives his final speech in an Obi-Wan Moment... followed by an In the Name of the Moon speech... followed by some Hot-Blooded shouting... followed by a second Obi-Wan Moment... followed by screaming the name of his signature move... followed by whispering "Farewell, my friends" as he dies in the cockpit. He really milks the final speech for all it's worth, but considering this is Kamina we're talking about, that should come as no surprise. He really does become more powerful than anyone could ever imagine, through Simon. Kamina actually subverts the trope in that his final speech wasn't all that final and he gets another one(complete with appearing dramatically from nowhere with his characteristic ham,,calling Simon out on his pathetic acceptance of the fake reality, and reminding Simon where his drill really is) from beyond the grave. After which of course he returns to the afterlife surrounded by all of Team Gurren who have died. |
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Naruto. Kisame's last words are one whole Dying Moment of Awesome Naruto loves this trope. When we flash back to Kushina and Minato's death, the former gives a freaking monologue of advice for her son — all ranging from mundane tasks to what woman to marry — and then lampshades it with "Sorry I'm such a chatterbox." The latter's Final Speech is much shorter: "Yeah, everything she said." |
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V for Vendetta: The man known as V, despite being riddled with bullets, actually manages to walk for several minutes in order to give one of these. (In the graphic novel, he manages to get back to his lair, but is dead by the time Evie arrives.) Of course, it's implied he's not exactly limited to human norms... | |
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Darkwing Duck There is a death speech in the episode "The Secret Origins of Darkwing Duck". This jaunt into the future has Darkwing telling a slightly exaggerated tale of his origins to a couple of kids from the future, and involves a Passing The Torch moment from the Mysterious Masked Avenger of Evil after she dies from falling into a soda vat. Avenger (played by Gosalyn) gives a long speech about how Darkwing should take up the mantle of fighting Evil, then falls silent. Then gasps and says more, then falls silent. Then gives one last monologue. In "Dead Duck", Darkwing is killed when he drives into a wall without wearing his helmet. He manages to get one more hour to say goodbye to his family before going to the afterlife. It was All Just a Dream. |
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Trigun Has one of the most heart-rending final speeches in all of anime, delivered by Wolfwood. As a confession. Part of the reason it's so memorable is that the tone of it shifts back and forth from happy to delirious to optimistic to desperate. And it ends on desperate. | |
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Antonio gets one in The Merchant of Venice as he prepares to face Shylock's knife. Subverted in that he doesn't end up dying at all. | |
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The Dark Knight Rises: Talia al Ghul taunts the heroes with her dying words. A terser final speech from Batman himself, reminding Catwoman and Gordon of their inner morality before flying a bomb away from the city to his death. Presumably. | |
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The Last Hurrah: Defeated mayoral candidate Frank Skeffington more-or-less reconciles with the Roman Catholic Cardinal on his deathbed. As Skeffington fades off into death, Roger Sugrue (a longtime nemesis of Skeffington and self-appointed arbiter of acceptable Roman Catholic behavior) suggests that Skeffington would do everything differently, if he had it to do over again. Skeffington then summons the energy to say one last thing before he dies: "Like hell I would!" | |
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Upon a successful assassination in Assassin's Creed, the game fades to the surreal Animus background while the victim gives an implausibly long death speech. Since the frame narrative is Desmond reliving his ancestor's memories through an admittedly not perfect machine, note it is kind of stated that the Animus can not show every possible detail , the implication is that the final speeches Desmond/the player encounters are really conversations Altaïr had with his victims after cornering them and before delivering the killing blow. | |
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Half the fun of Engine Sentai Go-onger fights are the monsters' dramatic orations made after the Finishing Move but before going spoom. | |
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Yamauchi-sensei's last words in Greek Ninja, were the reason Sasha set off on a dangerous journey to Delphi and ultimately, the start of the story. | |
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In Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! in Mayucchi's route Matsukaze "dies", though she uses the speech as an opportunity to finally accept another part of herself. | |
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Subverted in verismo operas that strived towards realism. In Tosca, the only one to sing after getting killed is Scarpia, and it's not so much of a speech as cries for help. | |
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist: "Watch out for his song about big butts... he beats you up while he plays it!" | |
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Endlessly parodied in The Chosen Four, where it seems like even the most minute enemies relate their tearful life story after getting beat up by the heroes. | |
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Nature of Nature's Art. Every single antagonist in Lycosa. | |
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Averted in Final Fantasy VII. Really, Aeris had the perfect opportunity for one, and think of everything she could have said... and then be thankful she didn't because it probably wouldn't have been half as dramatic as it ended up being. | |
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Maskerade takes the page quote and runs with it. The villain reveals that he absolutely hates opera. After being stabbed by a fake sword, no less, on an opera stage - this being Discworld, Narrative Causality determines that he dies anyway he spends a good two pages ranting about how terrible opera is, including how long!!!! people!!!! take!!!! to!!!!! die. | |
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The Man Who Would be King: Sean Connery's Daniel Dravott, having posed as a god, is condemned to walk out to the middle of the bridge built in his own honor, and wait while it is cut, as his last friend watches. He goes out onto the bridge, stands there a moment looking out to the horizon, then yells to his captors, "Can't you ———s cut?!" Then, to pass the time, he sings "The Minstrel Boy," paired with the words of a Protestant hymn. Peachey joins him from the cliff's side in song, their voices combining into a ballad of courage and faith. And then the bridge is cut, and "like a penny-whirligig... it took him half an hour to fall." | |
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In Return of the Jedi, Yoda tells Luke that death is the way of all things, confirms that Vader is his father, that he won't be a Jedi until he defeats Vader, and that he has a long-lost family member (but by that point is too weak to say what kind or who it is). Cheery. This is somewhat more believable in that he's dying of old age, not an injury. Also, Darth Vader, after his suit is damaged to the point it can't sustain him anymore, asks Luke to take his helmet off so he can look at his son's face with his own eyes, then tells him to leave him behind. (Luke doesn't.) At Luke's protestations, Anakin tells him that he's already been saved, and he should tell his sister he was right—that there was some good left. | |
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Katanagatari. Togame takes a good fifteen minutes to finally die. Her killer admits that he deliberately missed her vitals specifically for this reason. | |
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Early in EarthBound (1994), when Buzz Buzz dies, it tells a long story instructing Ness what to do. Furthermore asking if you need it repeated. | |
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The Order of the Stick Parodied. Haley is about to declare her love for Elan as she dies, only for Durkon to show up and cast Cure Serious Wounds. She's incredibly embarrassed and changes course mid-sentence. Redcloak and Xykon are having one of these when Miko destroys the gate, causing the happy force spirit paladins to lose the ability to kill them. |
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Used so often, so lengthily and so absolutely ludicrously in the Metal Gear series that it became a trademark of the series that all the bosses tell their entire life story before dying, and everyone complained when the enemies in the third game merely repeated their codenames a few times and then exploded. The fourth game has it both ways. Upon defeating the Beauty and the Beast Corps, they shed their armor, and freak out at you before you shoot'em dead. Then a supporting character calls you up and tells you their (invariably horrific) life stories. All the way back in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, when ice-skater-Secret Service-defector-bodyguard Natasha Markova is hit with a missile and still finds time to deliver lines like: Perhaps the worst example in the entire series though comes from the first Metal Gear Solid where Sniper Wolf specifically tells you that she was just shot in the lung, and then delivers the longest Final Speech out of the entire Mini-boss Squad. In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Big Boss has one of the longest death speeches of any character clocking in at over ten minutes. 'Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'': This is the only game in the series to downplay this. All the bosses hardly get more than a sentence or two before exploding due to their microbombs. Played straight with The Boss, on the other hand. |
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In Yes! Pretty Cure 5 The Movie, Dark Dream echoes the "it's because I love" speech that converted her to the side of good, showing that redemption really does equal death. | |
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In Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's advisor Hanbei, knowing that he's about to die of illness, gives him a long Dare to Be Badass speech, telling him that he, Nobunaga, and Ieyasu all have their separate roles to play in bringing unity to Japan. | |
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Professor Gerald Robotnik gives one to Gun (Which is later shown on the airwaves to all of humanity in a cutscene in the "Last Story") prior to being executed in Sonic Adventure 2 which outlines the Colony Drop and pointing out his Disproportionate Retribution (If Maria's death has any indication). | |
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Parodied in #DramaQueen from DC Super Hero Girls. Mortimer has a lengthy death speech that turns out to be an act in a play. The audience and Oliver praise it despite its melodrama. | |
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Claves' death in Eternal Sonata. It takes ten minutes, during which she monologues and flashes back to a conversation she just had half a minute ago. | |
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In Neverwinter Nights 2, if the player is bored by Zeeairee's long ominous final speech, he can snap her neck to skip it. | |
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Lampshaded by Sebastian in episode 12 of Black Butler II, upon Claude's death. | |
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Subverted in The Dark Knight, where Rachel Dawes is killed about half a word into hers. | |
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In Cave Story, if you go talk to Professor Booster after he falls down the pit in the labyrinth, he gives a speech, hands you an item, and dies. If you don't go talk to him, then he lives and escapes. While there are some plausible explanations for why this happens, the funniest is that Booster couldn't die until he delivered his dying speech—so with no audience at all, he survived long enough to recover. | |
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Justified, at least partly, as Paolo Albiani deliberately chose a slow-acting poison, but the titular character in Simon Boccanegra breaks records, righting the wrongs for almost two acts while dying. Among other things, he finally sends Albiani to the gallows. | |
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In Resident Evil 2, one scenario has Annette Birkin lament that she was a poor mother after being mortally wounded. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Big Boss has one of the longest death speeches of any character clocking in at over ten minutes. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony This is discussed this in "The Cheesen One". Rainbow Dash claims that her mom had some profound words for her, but Twilight doesn't believe the story. In "The Best Episode Ever", the cast put on a play, complete with a dramatic scene of three characters about to die together: |
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Subverted in Captain America: The First Avenger, when after Dr. Erskine is fatally wounded by an assassin, he is unable to draw up enough strength to speak. Instead, he points to Cap's heart, recalling a conversation the day before when he had told him, "No matter what happens, stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier... but a good man." | |
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Subverted in Phantom Brave: Ash gives a long speech in preparation for his Heroic Sacrifice. Walnut cuts him off, and sacrifices himself in Ash's place. | |
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In The Prestige, when Angier is shot by Borden, he stays around long enough to have a looooong conversation, just long enough to have The Reveal thoroughly explained to him before finally dying. | |
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Fallout 3 has a few of these, such as the holotape to Sydney from her Disappeared Dad, and Marcella's final instructions to the player in Point Lookout. | |
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In the first Yakuza game, Fuma gives one to Kazuma as he is dying. Despite being hit by a damn grenade, he finds the strength to reveal several important plot details to Kazuma, then, just before dying, revealing that he was the one who killed his parents. | |
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Hansel in Black Lagoon delivers a truly epically creepy dying speech, bleeding away on the pavement of Roanapur. Not only is the content truly Ax-Crazy, but midway in, the voice starts switching from Hansel to Gretel... and finally to both speaking in chorus with each other. The speech's response is a cold-blooded dismissal of all the dying person stands for by Balalaika. | |
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Well deserved ending for such a beloved character, but Zhaan's final speech in Farscape is surprisingly lengthy, especially considering that she's about to perform a time-sensitive Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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This was actually subverted at one point in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. When Ilyana dies, all that comes up in the text box is Visible Silence. In the sequel, Radiant Dawn, she has a more standard death quote. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Funnily enough, when Damar died, the original script had him die without saying anything. Casey Biggs, who played Damar, lobbied not to go down without a word. So they gave him approval to ad-lib something. He gave the single word "Keep..." and admits that he has no idea how he would have finished the line. Keevan in the episode "The Magnificent Ferengi" gets a short and quite funny one after being shot by Quark's cousin: "I hate Ferengi." |
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Time Lord RPG (based on Doctor Who), supplement Journies. A Player Character can use "The Li H’sen Chang Effect" to make a mortally wounded Non-Player Character live long enough to pass on an important message. | |
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Asakura Ryoko dying at Yuki's hands in Haruhi Suzumiya. While slowly being disintegrated, she delivers this speech: | |
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Mass Effect 2 does this with the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC. Apparently, rogue Spectre Tela Vasir's own self-righteousness is enough to keep her alive long enough to chastise Commander Shepard for working with Cerberus, a terrorist organisation, before telling Shepard not to judge her. This is after a high-speed car crash and being shot several hundred times. | |
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Twin Peaks had a great one, when Cooper thought he was dying: | |
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In Bubblegum Crisis episode 5, Sylvie manages to give a final speech after falling out of the mecha she was killed in. Especially silly since the plot is that she has to be dead before the mecha would even stop. | |
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The villain in Ben Hur gives one. | |
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In Fable II, Lucien delivers one of these while chastising you for interfering with his Well-Intentioned Extremist-ism. However, considering that this man is responsible for every bad thing that's happened to you over your whole life, it's better to Just Shoot Him, before Reaver beats you to the punch. | |
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Subverted in The Way of the Gun, where a dying man delivers a tedious final speech and refuses to die on cue, to the obvious frustration of his partner, who wants to continue his mission. Eventually the dying man says that he'd rather be alone anyway and lets his partner go. The director said that he dislikes the Final Speech trope, so he decided to have a character who would not shut up as he lay dying. | |
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Romeo and Juliet. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings, while both Boromir and Theoden had some last dying words in the book, they really spice it up in the films, especially with Boromir's last line to Aragorn: My brother, my captain, my king. | |
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Attack of the Clones: After Zam Wesell is hit by a saber dart loaded with an exceptionally virulent poison that will kill her in seconds, she isn't even able to intelligibly finish her sentence which would have informed the heroes who The Dragon of the man in front of the man behind the man was (get all that?)...though, to her credit, she tries. Shmi does manage to say a few things to Anakin, but she eventually dies mid-phrase as she's saying "Anakin, I lo—". |
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In Schindler's List: | |
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As far back as Final Fantasy II for the NES, a dying prince manages a straightforward "Tell her I love her" to the party — then recants and orders them to not say anything. She's still young, tying her to a dead man would be no kindness. | |
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In Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, Chikane's death speech makes up all of the last episode. AFTER having been run through by a katana. Really. | |
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It's common for Bugs Bunny to give a fake Final Speech after Elmer Fudd supposedly shoots him, like the one from his first official short A Wild Hare. | |
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A New Hope gives Obi-Wan a rare post-death Final Speech: "Run, Luke! Run!" | |
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In Animorphs, Hirac delest is an Andalite term for one's last thoughts or final words. It is a fairly common practice among Andalite warriors to record it just before their demise. In The Andalite Chronicles, the entire text actually serves as Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul's hirac delest. | |
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Killer7: Subverted: an assassin/organ dealer attempts to deliver a final speech, only to have his killer yell, "Trying to die in style?" "Give me a break you sick old man!" and shoots the lever to a nearby machine that eviscerates the assassin, cutting the speech short. | |
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Ouran High School Host Club hung a big lampshade on this trope - when Haruhi was kidnapped by the Zuka club and roped into taking part in their School Play, Benibara's character gave a long speech while he lay dying in the arms of Haruhi's character. Haruhi spent the entire time wondering why somebody who was supposed to be dying could carry on for so long, and whether it might make more sense to call for a doctor or something. | |
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During a host segment of Mystery Science Theater 3000: Red Zone Cuba, Dr. Forrester is at death's door. He says, "Frank, I'm... dead... No, wait, now I'm dead... No... now..." And then he decides he wants to live after all, gets up, and starts walking around. | |
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Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan gets a dying dialogue with Kirk after receiving a fatal dose of radiation while fixing the Enterprise's engines. And Khan gets one too, as he watches the crippled Enterprise try to flee the coming detonation of the Genesis Device. Inverted in Star Trek Into Darkness, where it's Kirk who is irradiated while saving the ship (Like Spock in the above example, he gets better). |
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In the musical version of Les Misérables, Eponine gets a whole damn song with Marius after getting shot. | |
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In God of War II, Athena manages to keep talking for a good few minutes after Kratos accidentally stabbed her. Subverted in all three games by Kratos himself: The first time, he doesn't have the strength to talk before he kicks it (of course, there was no one around to talk to), the second, he gets out a single sentence (and it sounds like he struggled to get out that much), and the third and possibly final time, he doesn't say anything at all. | |
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One Piece: Dr. Hiluluk combined awesome and heartwarming in his Final Speech. Done by Portgas D. Ace and Whitebeard, Ace his entire torso, inside and out, was burnt by Admiral Akainu's magma yet he was still able to tell everyone on the battlefield that he was grateful for being loved by them. Whitebeard had been slashed 267 times, was hit by 152 bullets, withstood 46 cannonballs, had been in bad health for quite a while, and had half his face blown off by Akainu (seeing a pattern here?). Despite all this, he was still able to shout his last words across the entire island loud enough that it was broadcast over the entire world. Ace points out late in his speech that he knows his voice is going and his words won't be able to reach anyone except Luffy. In the anime, he's talking as loudly as he can for his final declaration of gratitude toward those who loved him, and it's still not as loud as his normal speaking voice. |
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Futurama Parodied. When His Neutralness (the king of a Planet of Hats whose "hat" is absolute neutrality) says "If I don't make it, tell my wife 'hello.'" Also parodied when the cast fake gender-swapped Bender's soap-opera-style death in order to get her out of marrying Calculon: "Coilette" gives a very long speech before finally "dying." |
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In Danganronpa: Last Hurrah, most of the mastermind's execution involves the person in question giving a long speech expressing the hope that his plans will continue after he is dead, complete with a Title Drop, before he's executed. | |
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Code Geass: Kosetsu Urabe of the Four Holy Swords gives one to Lelouch vi Britannia a.k.a. Zero right before attempting a Taking You with Me on Rolo Haliburton, all to allow his comrades an opportunity to escape. Shirley Fenette gives out one of these after being shot point-blank by Rolo; after being found by a shocked and grief-stricken Lelouch, she uses the opportunity to tell him that she regained her memories, and gives him a Dying Declaration of Love. Lelouch tries to will her into surviving using his Geass, but Shirley dies regardless. Lelouch himself gets one as the Zero Requiem comes to pass and whispers one to Suzaku after the latter fatally stabs him. |
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The Iliad: Sarpedon and Patroclus both get rather lengthy ones. When the latter kills the former, he politely waits for him to finish his speech before pulling his lungs out with a spear. | |
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Hellsing has an amazing one for The Major. On the ground, missing his left arm and leg, faced by Sir Integra and Seras, he still manages to give a speech both entirely true and giving The Major the moral high ground when facing the protagonists of the story. keep in mind, he's a Nazi, so that is saying something. | |
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Perhaps the worst example in the entire series though comes from the first Metal Gear Solid where Sniper Wolf specifically tells you that she was just shot in the lung, and then delivers the longest Final Speech out of the entire Mini-boss Squad. | |
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In Mega Man X4, Magma Dragoon gets special mention here for being the only animal Maverick that does this. Granted, he does tell his reasons why he betrayed the hunters by joining Sigma and bringing down the Sky Lagoon. | |
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Final Fantasy: As far back as Final Fantasy II for the NES, a dying prince manages a straightforward "Tell her I love her" to the party — then recants and orders them to not say anything. She's still young, tying her to a dead man would be no kindness. Gilgamesh from Final Fantasy V gets one heck of a speech when he comes in to perform Heroic Sacrifice for the heroes. He first tells a character that her grandfather was "a pretty strong guy" as a compliment, then tells the cross-dressing pirate to "fall in love, or something". Then he tells the Princess Classic to keep her pure spirit and the main hero that he'd have liked to fight him one more time. When the enemy boss standing three feet away, listening to the whole spectacle, tells it's time for him to die, Gilgamesh snorts and exclaims "I think that's my line!" before self-detonating. He will be missed dearly. Averted in Final Fantasy VII. Really, Aeris had the perfect opportunity for one, and think of everything she could have said... and then be thankful she didn't because it probably wouldn't have been half as dramatic as it ended up being. |
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Strays. The man Feral was hunted knows Meela from the past — which she was too young to remember — and tells her to flee Feral. | |
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In From Fake Dreams, a Fate/stay night fanfic, Gilgamesh gives one before he lets himself fade away. | |
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In Serenity, a dying Shepherd says to Mal, "Hey. I don't care what you believe. Just believe it. Whatever you..." | |
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L.A. Confidential: Jack Vincennes' last words are "Rollo Tomasi", and his killer winds up outing himself by repeating them. Jack has remarkable presence of mind in his last moments. | |
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Very nearly done straight (it is, at any rate, a "final" speech) in the last episode of X-Men: The Animated Series, where a mortally wounded Professor Xavier - just recently brought out of a coma as a side effect of trying to contact an alien race that might still be able to help him - delivers an individual poignant goodbye to every one of the X-Men present from what appears to be his deathbed. | |
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Raziel from Legacy of Kain gives one before he is absorbed by the Reaver. | |
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Inverted in Star Trek Into Darkness, where it's Kirk who is irradiated while saving the ship (Like Spock in the above example, he gets better). | |
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In The Blues Brothers, as they are falling to their death in a car, one Illinois Nazi says to the other (the leader), "I've always loved you." | |
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'Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'': This is the only game in the series to downplay this. All the bosses hardly get more than a sentence or two before exploding due to their microbombs. Played straight with The Boss, on the other hand. | |
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In Signs, the wife offers advice for her husband, children, and brother-in-law. That advice turns out to be prophetic. | |
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The Core had a self-sacrificing character making a final speech into a recorder, stop, then begin laughing at himself because no one would ever hear it. | |
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Parodied in The Mask, where after a shootout, The Mask stumbles over to the man that shot him, and dramatically enacts several death scenes one after another, while the shooter blubbers. Then, the silhouette of an audience suddenly appears to gives a standing ovation, and the Mask immediately gets up to accept an acting award handed from out of frame ("You love me! You really love me!") and the bad guys surrounding him are at loss at what is going on. At least one of them actually starts applauding. | |
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Mikau's death in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. A guitarist of a popular band, he explains the situation and what he wants the player to do for him by hopping up, going into a song and dance routine, and when he finishes, immediately flopping right back down, to die soon after. | |
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Dans Une Galaxie Près De Chez Vous plays it straight in the movie with Flavien's death scene. "It was fun, the mission. But it was over so quickly", * thud* . Doubles as a Tear Jerker. | |
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In the Blade Runner game, the expy of Roy Batty can be found lying on his cot, and greets the player with his Final Speech - quoting William Blake, about the only time any of the poems he's been spouting fits the context. The player can purposely subvert this by having Ray shoot him, to which Ray would remark "I never did like poetry." | |
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In Dancer in the Dark, shortly after getting hung, Selma sings a Final Song, which is cut short when the executioner pulls the gallows' lever. | |
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Kyrie gives quite a long one in Sands of Destruction while lying in Morte's arms. It's one-half "No More Holding Back" Speech and one-half Dying Declaration of Love, and 100% proof that he's Not Quite Human: Naja just punched his claws through his chest (at his request, of course), so his heart and lungs should really look like sloppy joes and make saying anything really difficult - but he manages to get out several sentences before he finally Disappears into Light. | |
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The Matrix Revolutions: After being massively lacerated by attacking Sentinels, Captain Mifune lives long enough to tell the Kid to open the gate so the Hammer can enter the Dock. Despite been impaled, Trinity manages to keep talking for a while. Mostly about how she's really glad she gets to give a speech this time. Half the speech is lead-up to The Reveal that she is impaled (Neo being blind, didn't notice at first). |
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In Doctor Who, "The Satan Pit", one character gets a Final speech version of a "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner. Likewise, the Eleventh Doctor closes out with one before regenerating. Nine also got to say goodbye before regenerating into Ten: He also has a pre-recorded one, just in case he is forced to send Rose and the TARDIS away: The Twelfth Doctor gets one before he regenerates at last, addressed to his next self. Given that this Doctor was particularly good at speeches, this is fitting. |
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Men in Black. After his Mobile-Suit Human is "killed", the Arquillian prince manages to live long enough to pass on vital (though somewhat misleading) information to J before dying. | |
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In Shaun of the Dead, Shaun's stepfather Philip, dying of a zombie bite, tells Shaun that he always loved him, and to look after his mother. | |
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In Crusader, after you kill Doctor Gregor Hoffman, he gets off a speech in classic Mad Scientist Large Ham style. It's really quite entertaining. | |
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Horatio Hornblower: Has several rather poignant moments when important characters are dying. When Mr Nice Guy Clayton is on his deathbed, he's sorry that he's dying, and his world goes black. He asks Horatio whether it's evening. When Lt. Eccleston dies after they've successfully boarded and taken a French ship, he gives Horatio a command over another midshipman who was Horatio's senior, but not officially assigned as the Indefatigable's officer. Moreover, a few moments ago, Horatio accused him of attempted murder, and Eccleston has reasons to trust Hornblower over Simpson. Eccleston asks Horatio to take the ship and crew safely to the Indy. Finch was a lower-deck character who once saved Horatio's life. When he's dying, he has a fever. He keeps asking whether they are in England yet, despite the fact that their ship was not headed there. Poor man. Mr Wellard has a sad death scene when he's shot by the Spaniards who have taken Renown. He's a young Plucky Middie, nearly broken in spirit. He tells Gunner Hobbs that his Captain, who died before him, assured him that he was brave. Hobbs reassures him as well. Archie and Horatio have a gut-wrenching scene together when Archie is dying of his mortal wound. They talk about Archie's heroic sacrifice, his taking the sole blame in the trial, how he has always been prone to panic, but Horatio assures him that he's the bravest man he knows. |
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Subverted in The Cape where Max gives the traditional inspiring speech given by any mentor who just got killed helping out the middle-class white dude he met earlier that episode - then realizes he's not dying, laments wasting a good speech, and gets up. | |
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A whole lot of characters in Survival of the Fittest. Specifically, v1 runner-up Jack O'Connor manages one despite having been shot in the chest several times, and Bobby Jacks rants to the cameras before he commits suicide. More in tune with the speech nature, Sarah Atwell lets loose with one after being mortally wounded: |
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In Legend of the Galactic Heroes, after Reinhard von Lohengramm's fleets completely surrounded the Alliance fleet led by Alexandre Bewcock during the Battle of Mar-Adetta, he ordered a temporary ceasefire to give Bewcock a chance to surrender. The latter refused politely and gave a Final speech instead. And of course, Yang Wenli died of blood loss after being shot in the leg, alone. |
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All the way back in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, when ice-skater-Secret Service-defector-bodyguard Natasha Markova is hit with a missile and still finds time to deliver lines like: | |
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Several characters get this in the Grand Finale of Robin Hood: Guy of Gisborne after being stabbed by his sister: Robin himself, after being poisoned, says goodbye to his best friend before going off to die in the woods: |
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Violetta from La Traviata may be dying from consumption, but this doesn't stop her singing the entire final act. | |
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The Beast Wars episode "Code of Hero" ends with Dinobot, mortally fatigued due to power drain, giving a dying speech to his Maximal comrades, saying that he had no regrets in saving humanity and Earth's future from the machinations of the Predacons, trading one last set of barbs with Rattrap, and finishing with some of the most poignant words you'll ever hear a Transforming Mecha give. | |
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A variation of this features in the Twilight fic "Careful What You Wish For". When Angela Weber (turned into a vampire two decades ago to save her life) comes to visit her father on his deathbed, her father has been left crippled by a stroke so that he cannot talk directly, but Edward uses his telepathy to tell Angela what her father is thinking as he dies, allowing Reverend Webber to tell Angela that he’s glad to see her and is proud to learn what she’s accomplished. | |
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The Book of Mormon: Lehi gathers his family around to give them some final counsel when he's old and knows he's about to die. Quite justified, since he had plenty of time to plan it. | |
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Assassin's Creed II does away with these. While the screen still falls away to the Animus background after a kill, the scenes within said background are much shorter, usually only enough time for Ezio to deliver final rites, a Post-Mortem One-Liner, or for the assassinated to say one or two sentences, and make for much more believable death scenes. One early target even lampshades the speeches in the first game; when Ezio asks him what he's up to and what his group is doing, the guy wimpily says "What were you expecting, a confession?" and promptly dies. The in-universe reason for the differences is that Rebecca Crane's Animus (A.K.A. "Baby") is better than Abstergo's. | |
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Parodied in Sam & Max: Freelance Police Season 1 with Max's fake death speech after Sam pretends to shoot him: | |
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Zero's best moment in Mega Man Zero 4 are his final words, a Kirk Summation, "No More Holding Back" Speech and sum up exactly what he really was to the world: A true hero, showing exactly what he's fighting for. All rolled into these 4 sentences: Here's another from the series: |
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Parodied in the South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft", where Randy's character is attacked by the griefer the boys are in battle with just after delivering the Infinity +1 Sword they need to finish him. Despite Randy's character being low level enough that it should have died instantly, it survives long enough for the boys to take the guy down just so Randy can give an in-character one of these to Stan afterwards. For added fun, at the very end, it shifts to Randy's POV, showing him perfectly fine at a computer groaning his "dying breaths" into his headset. | |
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Warrior Cats: Most main characters that get killed off. The award goes to Bluestar, who speaks to Firestar for about four pages before she dies. | |
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Mekton: Operation Rimfire has an exaggerated version of this trope. The villain says a twenty-seven-line speech before he dies, while his enemies, about ten or so mecha armed to the teeth surrounding him just standing still as he delivers it. And no, you can't pull a Shut Up, Hannibal!, it goes against the rails. | |
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Parodied in Casino Royale (1967) - SMERSH agent Mimi, after her Heel–Face Turn, gets a little bit of shrapnel in the chest and coughs out a big impassioned goodbye to Sir James, followed by a big kiss. | |
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Played straight in Our Little Adventure with Pauline, in the loving way she does: "Fix this world (Julie) or else I'll beat your ass when we do meet again." | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Played with in the Season 5 finale. Buffy whispers her Final speech into Dawn's ear before jumping into the portal. We hear it as a voiceover accompanying the visuals of Buffy's Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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In Heaven's Gate, a character trapped in a burning cabin writes a letter explaining that he was trapped in a burning cabin and giving farewells. He then puts the letter in his pocket and runs out of the cabin, where he meets his end. | |
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Dragon Ball Z provides one of the most memorable and iconic final speeches through Android 16: | |
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In Star Trek VI, the dying Gorkon begs Kirk to save the peace process. This convinces Kirk that Gorkon's desire for peace was genuine, and he spends the rest of the movie honoring Gorkon's dying wish. | |
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The other games play around with the concept, sometimes using it to full effect, sometimes not. As a game mechanic, they've never been taken out, and even got a kind of resurgence in length during Assassin's Creed III. | |
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Padme, in Revenge of the Sith, doesn't get much of one, just saying her children's names before she kicks off from being killed by the plot/script. | |
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The commander in Don Giovanni. Perhaps this explains why Leporello wasn't sure whether it was the old man or Giovanni who got killed. | |
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Assassin's Creed series. Upon a successful assassination in Assassin's Creed, the game fades to the surreal Animus background while the victim gives an implausibly long death speech. Since the frame narrative is Desmond reliving his ancestor's memories through an admittedly not perfect machine, note it is kind of stated that the Animus can not show every possible detail , the implication is that the final speeches Desmond/the player encounters are really conversations Altaïr had with his victims after cornering them and before delivering the killing blow. Assassin's Creed II does away with these. While the screen still falls away to the Animus background after a kill, the scenes within said background are much shorter, usually only enough time for Ezio to deliver final rites, a Post-Mortem One-Liner, or for the assassinated to say one or two sentences, and make for much more believable death scenes. One early target even lampshades the speeches in the first game; when Ezio asks him what he's up to and what his group is doing, the guy wimpily says "What were you expecting, a confession?" and promptly dies. The in-universe reason for the differences is that Rebecca Crane's Animus (A.K.A. "Baby") is better than Abstergo's. The other games play around with the concept, sometimes using it to full effect, sometimes not. As a game mechanic, they've never been taken out, and even got a kind of resurgence in length during Assassin's Creed III. |
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Captain Freedom, the costumed vigilante in the second season of Hill Street Blues gets a very nice exit speech. | |
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The Last Starfighter. Centauri's big death scene. | |
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Thorin in The Hobbit. | |
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The Asgardian God Warriors of Saint Seiya already peppered their duels with the heroes with angry, melancholy, or simply expository monologues of their life's stories (several of them depicting quite the Break the Cutie processes), but they saved the longest (and most dramatic) bits for their dying moments. | |
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