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To Absent Friends
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Two or more heroes gather to grieve for a dead comrade, with a toast or without a formalized structure. They reminiscence about the fallen, how much he will be missed—or has been missed. An actual wake is possible, as the bereaved can talk and drink without a ceremony to go through. Or they may meet somewhere, and talk about what A True Hero their friend had been. (They may not even intend to grieve, but they end up doing so.) A bar is likely, because the wake often involves alcohol—so often that it generally does not appear only if it is impossible. Expect the dead to be toasted and honored. (Drowning My Sorrows may convert into this if the drinker bumps into another friend.) Sometimes the drink is poured on the ground as a Libation for the Dead. Sometimes the absent friends are represented by empty chairs. Soldiers on a mission may start to talk, and lead to this, if they are waiting for something and have lost a comrade. (The situation in which alcohol is least likely to feature. But the Military Moonshiner may have some.) The informal equivalent of a Meaningful Funeral. Possibly it immediately precedes or follows it, although that is unlikely, because the two scenes concentrate on the same emotions, and so are likely to duplicate. Also compare Personal Effects Reveal. May also feature long after the death (or deaths) as characters remember all their dead and tell stories of them. The toast is often "To absent friends." This can overlap with Tell Me About My Father. Suitable for a Bittersweet Ending or a Downer Ending, but can happen anywhere in a story—even as a Framing Device at the very beginning of a work that Starts with Their Funeral. Remembering the sacrifice may inspire characters to fight on, lest it have been a Senseless Sacrifice. Contrast Forgotten Fallen Friend, Dead Guy Junior. Death Trope. Spoilers follow. |
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Watchmen: This trope is the title to Chapter II, showing the funeral of the Comedian and how his attending colleagues remember him. Many of the flashbacks turn out to be important to the plot and the events surrounding his death. It is specifically a quote of the Elvis Costello song listed below. | |
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The Star Trek Online Literary Challenge 68 fanfics "Remembrance of the Fallen" and "To Absent Friends" both deal with the Day of Remembrance, a minor Bajoran holy day dedicated to remembering the dead (it's based on the Latin American Day of the Dead). You leave food offerings of the deceased's favorites at their graveside and share stories about them with your friends and family. The latter fic also has the trope name as a toast offered to the forty-five names on the USS Bajor's memorial wall. | |
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In Eagle's Fall, the toast is used word for word by the surviving officers of Frank Company as the official surrender takes effect. | |
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Some NPCs in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. will occasionally be heard toasting fallen comrades. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the surviving members of the Order of the Phoenix drink a toast to Mad-Eye Moody when they hear that he was killed while moving Harry from Privet Drive to The Burrow. | |
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The Mighty Thor: The army of Asgard (led by Thor and Balder) invade the underworld domain of Hela to free mortal souls imprisoned there. With the hordes of Hel in hot pursuit, it becomes clear that someone must stay behind to delay Hela's forces long enough for Thor's army to escape. Skurge the Executioner settles whether he or Thor will say You Shall Not Pass! (by knocking out Thor), and Skurge asks Balder to remember him with a toast when he and Thor return to Asgard. Later, when Thor and Skurge meet in Hel, Skurge asks if he and Balder had that drink, and Thor is grieved to have to tell him that crises have kept them too busy to do so. They later do. | |
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The final scene of Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter has the three surviving friends raising a toast to the memories of Friedhelm and Greta. | |
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Fifty Fifty (1992): Subverted hilariously at the end of the movie. At the end of the climactic battle, Jake and Sam are both very badly wounded, but the crowds storming the palace are preventing Sprue from reaching them. The next scene is at an outdoor cafe in Rome, where Sprue, alone, has purchased three glasses of champagne. He lifts one and toasts Jake and Sam, saying "sorry you couldn't make it." Just as he's about to drink, Jake yells from off camera "Sprue, you rummy! You couldn't even wait for us?" He and Sam walk up, bandaged and on crutches, but otherwise fine. It turns out Sprue did wait for them, but they were forty-five minutes late. Played straight later in that same scene, of course, when Jake and Sam remember Suleta, who really did die in the war. |
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In Dark Rendezvous, Yoda loses both of the Jedi Knights traveling with him to an ambush, forcing their Padawans to continue the mission alone with him. As soon as they get a moment of peace, Yoda arranges a meal and a (non-alcoholic) toast in honor of the fallen Knights. | |
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In the Maiden Rose Wheel of Fortune doujinshi Taki and Klaus go out into town to "mourn like soldiers" after the death of four of their comrades, although the focus is concentrated on Taki's personal reaction to the deaths rather than the fallen themselves. | |
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In Monster, Grimmer's grave gets a visit. | |
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Rescue Me does this fairly frequently (particularly the transition from Drowning My Sorrows), especially with respect to the firemen lost on 9/11 (a recurring theme, if not the central one of the show). | |
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In Angel season 5, when Cordelia returns, she and Angel watch Doyle's video and talk about him. | |
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CSI: NY has done this twice, first for Aidan Burn near the end of the second season, and then for Jessica Angell at the end of the fifth season. | |
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"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Wish You Were Here" are all about Syd Barrett's absence and departure from Pink Floyd, and how they miss him. | |
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Théoden's heartfelt "Hail to the victorious dead!" speech in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, as the Rohirrim remember their fallen brethren after the Battle of Helm's Deep. | |
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Lieutenant Harsmith, the main character of Invasion of Kzarch, performs this ritual twice, once in memory of his lost platoon seargent, and another one later for all the men he had lost. | |
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Seen on the Justice League animated series, "Hereafter", when Superman apparently dies. After the Meaningful Funeral, the League gathers on the Watchtower, laughing and drinking, uh, orange juice, while wearing black armbands and sharing stories. Then Lobo shows up. | |
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In a few of his Callahan's Crosstime Saloon books, Jake and the gang deliver what they call the "All-Purpose Toast"; "Here's to all those who weren't as lucky." | |
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The Flash: The Rogues do this after one of their own is killed. They then have a "Rogue's Wake." | |
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Scott Pilgrim. Played with, as Wallace toasts the trope name not because anyone is dead but because Scott's friends stood him up. | |
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Locke Lamora practices the Camorri tradition of "pouring a glass to air," setting out a drink for a friend who's gone—whether that means dead, or simply long absent. | |
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In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Varric and the Inquisitor will do this after the end of the Grey Warden arc, though it's played the most straight if Hawke was the one killed, with a devastated Varric recounting an amusing story reflecting that Hawke's personality—all while trying to hold himself together. | |
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When Wolfwood dies in the Trigun manga, he and Vash share a final drink while he goes in what effectively is his wake. Then, when Livio wakes up from healing the fight damage, Vash has made a vast quantity of spaghetti, and their spaghetti-eating is several symbolic things, including affirmation of life, signal of Vash's willingness to accept Livio, and meal in honor of Wolfwood. It is the saddest spaghetti ever. Vash also pours a bottle of whiskey off an observation platform in the anime version of Inepril. Not even clear just who he's honoring, but it's probably the dead. He has a lot of them. |
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The Pacific does this as well in episode 3, with Basilone and Morgan ordering about a dozen different drinks and toasting their dead friend Rodriguez, and even getting into a fight with another patron who makes a tactless comment. | |
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Halo: Glasslands has an early scene where a pair of UNSC Marines travel to Sydney, Australia to have a drink in memory of a friend who died in the Covenant War. They find that the bar they'd planned to meet at took a direct hit during the fighting on Earth, and end up borrowing some booze from the construction workers clearing the debris. | |
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Sesame Street. While explaining Mr. Hooper's death, and what it means, to Big Bird, the adult characters share stories through tears about who he was and what he meant to them. | |
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In Moriarty the Patriot, Mycroft Holmes and Louis James Moriarty discuss their lost brothers at the end of The Final Problem, although Louis insists he believes William to be alive somewhere. And he turns out to be right. | |
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In the Total Drama story, Legacy, the final chapter has this mood after Heather reveals her gesture of remembrance. | |
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At the end of Torchwood episode "Captain Jack Harkness", Jack and Tosh have a toast "To Captain Jack" in honor of the war hero whose identity Jack appropriated. | |
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The end of Guilty Crown has this for Hare, who died seven episodes earlier. The final episode features the surviving cast sitting together at a table with a cake that says "Happy Birthday Hare" with an empty seat in front of it. | |
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Subverted in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Frank proposes a toast "to absent friends." Unbeknownst to everyone but Frank (and possibly Riff-Raff and Magenta), they're dining on Eddie, whose remains are under the table. The line was later used in the booklet included with the 25th Anniversary DVD edition as a tribute to actor Charles Gray (The Criminologist), the only non-surviving cast member at the time of that release. | |
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The Gravedancers: After the wake, Harris, Kira and Sid adjourn to a bar to remember Devon privately and celebrate his life. | |
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Star Trek Novel 'Verse: Upon the return of the Enterprise from her 5-year mission, the crew begins to applaud Kirk. He stops it with the admonition, "Not for me. For those who didn't make it back with us," and leads the crew in a round of solemn applause. | |
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Both named and unnamed characters will participate in a small but significant battle in Dragon Age: Origins. The cut scene which follows will vary according to which named characters fell in the battle. | |
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves: Every year at Christmas the main characters toast to absent friends. They say those exact words in English, though the rest of the dialogue is in Swedish. | |
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During the V-E Day celebration scene in Captain America: The First Avenger, while most of London is celebrating the end of the war, the Howling Commandos are gathered in a pub. One says, "To the Captain," and they all solemnly drink to their (presumed) fallen comrade. | |
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Played straight in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Kirk drops the trope name in a toast to Spock at the beginning of the scene in his apartment. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the episode "The Sound of Her Voice", the crew of the Defiant holds a wake for Lisa Cusak, which ends with Miles O'Brien making a speech. Made even more moving by the fact that this is the very end of the episode before Jadzia's death, arguably the first true main cast kill outside of the films. Done more lightheartedly when Julian and O'Brien come off the holodeck dressed as Spitfire pilots, and raise a pint of bitter "To Clive!" In "Once More Unto the Breach" Martok despised Kor for decades because Kor struck him from an officer candidate list. If not for his heroic actions as a civilian laborer on a General's ship during battle, he never would have become a General as he had received a battlefield commission for his actions. By the Dominion War Kor was beginning to suffer from cognitive issues due to his age. Kor sacrifices himself to save Martok's task force from the Jem'Hadar, finally earning Martok's respect. Martok then offers a toast to Kor, with Worf and all the bridge crew taking part in drinking to Kor's memory. "Strange Bedfellows" features a sarcastic one after Weyoun 7 is killed: Damar (who always hated him) toasts him when Weyoun 8 shows up, while making jokes about his death. |
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Fairly common amongst New Republic fighter pilots, especially the Rogue and Wraith squadrons of the X-Wing Series. Notably, whenever the Wraiths do it, somebody is obliged to make a smartass remark. For example, the end of Iron Fist, after Face has been released from the medical ward: | |
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Inverted at the end of Max Manus when the title character has an Imagine Spot of his fallen comrades in La Résistance drinking a toast to him. As they're not there, he goes on a bender instead until his Love Interest arrives to snap him out of it. | |
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Halo: Halo: Glasslands has an early scene where a pair of UNSC Marines travel to Sydney, Australia to have a drink in memory of a friend who died in the Covenant War. They find that the bar they'd planned to meet at took a direct hit during the fighting on Earth, and end up borrowing some booze from the construction workers clearing the debris. In Halo: New Blood, Buck asks Jun to drink with him in memory of the Rookie. |
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Assassination: As the Korean government-in-exile guys celebrate the Japanese surrender in 1945, Provisional President of Korea Kim Koo and his lieutenant light some ceremonial shots and then share a toast to the resistance fighters who died fighting against Japan, 1910-1945. | |
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The closing scene of "The Breaking Point" in Band of Brothers has Sgt. Lipton narrating while he and the rest of Easy Company are resting in a church. He begins listing off the casualties they suffered over the course of the Battle of the Bulge and the corresponding soldiers start fading away until the church looks far emptier than it did before. It's a particularly heart-rending scene. | |
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Commander Shepard can do this in Mass Effect 2 when drinking with Doctor Chakwas. | |
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In Mass Effect 3, several characters do this as the body count climbs. | |
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The quiet reflection in Tia Dalma's hut in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, wherein the crew of the Black Pearl contemplate the death of Captain Jack Sparrow and the destruction of his ship due to the Kraken. | |
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Mass Effect: Commander Shepard can do this in Mass Effect 2 when drinking with Doctor Chakwas. In Mass Effect 3, several characters do this as the body count climbs. Tali actually gets plastered while mourning Miranda, if the latter doesn't survive Sanctuary. This happens even if she does survive, in which case Tali drowns her sorrows regarding their different sorts of Daddy Issues. (Dialog suggests this is the real reason even if the other is dead; toasting her was just something Tali thought of while highly drunk. They weren't on the best of terms.) |
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Star Trek: Played straight in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Kirk drops the trope name in a toast to Spock at the beginning of the scene in his apartment. Also played straight in Star Trek: Nemesis after Data is killed while destroying the Scimitar to save the Enterprise. Happens twice in Star Trek Beyond. First, the film begins a few days before Kirk's birthday, and McCoy pours himself and Kirk shots, and a third, representing Kirk's lost father who was killed saving him as he was born. They tap their shot glasses to the extra glass, then to each others'. Then, towards the end, at his surprise birthday party, Kirk offers the toast, "To the Enterprise. And to absent friends." |
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Kingdom Come: The epilogue shows Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman catching up on current events in a gaudy superhero themed restaurant called "Planet Krypton". At one point they toast their comrades who have passed on, with various drinking vessels evoking Green Lantern, The Flash, and Captain Marvel. | |
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There is a scene in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) where Maes Hughes' widow comes to visit the grave, only to discover that someone else has already left flowers. Yes, Roy Mustang, we're looking at you. | |
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In Shakespeare's Macbeth, this trope is subverted as in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Macbeth proposes a toast to everyone's "general joy" and "to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss; Would he were here!" Unbeknownst to the guests, Banquo has been murdered and his ghost has returned to haunt Macbeth. | |
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In Death Note when the real L, the Hero Antagonist dies, Light laughs on his grave, subverting this trope. | |
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In one episode of M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter acts oddly. At the end, he reveals that he and some comrades had found some cognac in an abandoned French chateau during World War I, saved the last bottle, and declared that the last survivor would drink a toast to the rest. Potter is now that last survivor, and invites the MASH staff to hear his story and share the bottle. In another episode, Potter believes his pet mare Sophie has run away for good. He pours a drink for Radar and himself, then offers up the trope-naming toast. |
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The Freddie Frinton sketch Dinner for One, which is shown every New Year's Eve on German, Austrian and Swiss TV. | |
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In the end of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders after Jotaro and Joseph place the recently defeated DIO in the sunlight to disintegrate, Jotaro looks up to the sky and gives a small tribute as images of Kakyoin, Avdol and Iggy appear in the sky. | |
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The songs "Drink With Me" and "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" in Les Misérables fall into this trope. In the first, the students at the barricade are toasting each other's impending fate the night before the penultimate battle; in the second, Marius is reminiscing about those who fell at the barricade. | |
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Elvis Costello alludes to this trope in his song "The Comedians" (Roy Orbison's version might be better known for some): | |
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NewsRadio had one of these episodes for Phil Hartman's character after Phil's real-life death. Despite the attempts of the writers to inject some humor into the scene, it fell painfully flat, as the cast was barely holding it together. | |
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Futurama: "Leela, we may not have much time left, so let's spend all of it reminiscing about Bender. He was like a big computer that ran on magic." | |
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'Allo 'Allo!. Played for laughs when Rene lights a candle in memory of his mistress Maria Recamier, only to unceremoniously blow it out seconds later. In fairness she had been accidentally mailed to Switzerland rather than being killed. | |
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The West Wing episode "Requiem" combines this with the Meaningful Funeral to provide a heartfelt (and Tear Jerker) send-off to Leo McGarry and, by extension, his actor John Spencer. Combined very effectively with the Meaningful Funeral at the beginning of the episode; the funeral is presented so as to mourn Leo's death (and Spencer's), whereas the wake is about celebrating his life and how much his friends loved him. | |
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In Halo: New Blood, Buck asks Jun to drink with him in memory of the Rookie. | |
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Grumpy Old Men: John Gustafason is devastated by the loss of his good friend and local bait shop owner Chuch. During a dinner with his new neighbor Ariel John admits that he's grieving the loss of Chuck. Ariel responds that she understands and that as Chuck's friends they should be grateful for knowing him. Similarly, in Grumpier Old Men Max makes peace with John after the death of Grandpa Gustafason while at his favorite lakeside fishing spot. Meeting John at that fishing spot, Max tells him that he knew John's father longer than he knew his own father, and while it wasn't always obvious Grandpa had always been fond of Max. The two decide to celebrate Grandpa's life by opening up some cans of beer and getting drunk. |
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At the end of Jak II, Samos toasts to the members of the Underground who died in order to help save the city. | |
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The first book of the Invasion cycle in the Magic: The Gathering books ends with this. The united forces of Dominaria have dealt a mighty defeat to the invading Phyrexians, and there's a massive celebration. But three men sit apart: Urza, who lost longtime friend Barrin, Gerrard, who lost his love Hanna, and Agnate, who dealt a Mercy Kill to his "brother" and comrade Thaddeus. | |
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Similarly, in Grumpier Old Men Max makes peace with John after the death of Grandpa Gustafason while at his favorite lakeside fishing spot. Meeting John at that fishing spot, Max tells him that he knew John's father longer than he knew his own father, and while it wasn't always obvious Grandpa had always been fond of Max. The two decide to celebrate Grandpa's life by opening up some cans of beer and getting drunk. | |
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle has the Kingsman organization's Doomsday Protocol, where all remaining agents (in the context of the movie, Eggsy and Merlin) proceed to a certain location and retrieve... a bottle of Statesman whiskey. Eggsy and Merlin take it as a morbid joke and proceed to enact this trope. Then they realize that the whiskey is really good, and repeat it for every Kingsman they knew personally. | |
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Garrison Keillor describes one of these on his show, A Prairie Home Companion. The old coots go out for the opening day of duck hunting season. There they are in the blind, and they have a toast for fallen comrades. The guy only gets a few names into the list before he breaks down. The unspoken sentiment is that there are now so many names, and it'd be disrespectful to forget any, so maybe it's time to give up on listing them all. | |
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Referenced by the revolutionary soldiers in Hamilton: "We're gonna fly a lot of flags half-mast (Raise a glass!)" And then the Dark Reprise of "The Story of Tonight", "Tomorrow There'll Be More Of Us", is John Laurens doing this to himself as the Hamiltons read the letter containing the news of his death. The beginning of the finale, "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" is this for Hamilton, as Jefferson and Madison list his accomplishments. It quickly expands into the other fallen members of the cast as Eliza tells how she plans to honor Hamilton's legacy: recording the stories of revolutionary soldiers (upon which Laurens and Mulligan reappear), she commissions the Washington monument to honor George Washington (who is also dead by this point), she fights for abolition (carrying on the work of Hamilton and Laurens), and she founds an orphanage for orphans like Hamilton himself. |
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Used twice in Young Justice in the wake of Artemis's "death." Many of the male members of the Team find themselves at a tribute for fallen heroes, including the first Blue Beetle, Aquagirl, and the second Robin. Meanwhile, the female members go to a bridal shower, which becomes bitter-sweet due to the empty seat. They even toast "To absent friends!" | |
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Warhammer 40,000 Space Wolf series: In William King's novel Ragnar's Claw, after Ragnar is gravely injured and Lars killed, Ragnar is too ill to attend the funeral. When he is well enough to stand, the other young Space Marine gather, and their first words are "To Lars." In Lee Lightner's Wolf's Honour, Ragnar and Torin talk of Haegr at their last meeting. |
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In the finale for Space: Above and Beyond, Wang gives one of these, listing every Wildcard to die during the show's run, as part of the Battle Cry that he gives during his Last Stand to cover the escape of the ship carrying the rescued colonists. | |
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Happens twice in Star Trek Beyond. First, the film begins a few days before Kirk's birthday, and McCoy pours himself and Kirk shots, and a third, representing Kirk's lost father who was killed saving him as he was born. They tap their shot glasses to the extra glass, then to each others'. Then, towards the end, at his surprise birthday party, Kirk offers the toast, "To the Enterprise. And to absent friends." | |
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Used in Final Fantasy V. The music track playing in the following scene after the final battle, regardless of any deaths or who survived, is called "Dear Friends." "To My Dearest Friend" is a fan translation of the song, and what helps it fit. Subverted at the end, though, as the dead princesses and Bartz all come back to life. Galuf remains dead, though. | |
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This Bites!: Just before the utter shitshow that they know is coming at Marineford, the Marine members of the New World Masons' leadership meet to discuss strategy and raise a toast to Cross for setting things in motion by reminding them what it means to be a decent Marine. While Cross isn't dead, he is at this point MIA because Kuma has banished him to the World Nobles' private Hellhole Prison. | |
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Sealab 2021: The episode "Dearly Beloved Seed" begins with Shanks mourning the tragic deaths of all his brothers, which leads him to realize it's up to him to carry on the Shanks name, kicking off the plot. | |
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In The Stand (1994) Nadine toasts "To new acquaintances," and Harold replies "And absent friends." It's just after the end of the world, so that description includes a lot of people. | |
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A toast is drunk to the deceased tenth Earl of Strathcairn in Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea. The villagers have great respect for him, and the digging of his grave unearthed the treasure that allowed to islanders to not only save their community, but also prosper there. | |
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The ending cinematic for Legend of Dragoon shows Dart placing a mug next to a picture of Lavitz. | |
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In Boardwalk Empire Jimmy and Richard, both WW1 veterans, share a toast "To the lost". | |
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Person of Interest. At the end of "Provenance", Team Machine are sitting round a table having a drink. Reese pours an extra glass for Joss Carter. | |
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In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Days Of Auld Lang Smurf", Papa Smurf makes a toast to the future on New Year's Eve and to his fellow Smurfs who were briefly "resurrected" for a time (though they were actually hallucinations brought upon them by a spell cast on them by Chlorhydris) until they vanished at the stroke of midnight. | |
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Die Hard with a Vengeance: When the bad guys are celebrating the successful theft, they're toasting to several things and then one says along the lines of "auf gefallen kameraden," which translates something like "for fallen comrades." There is a moment of silence and then they all toast in honor of their lost brethren. | |
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The Hunger Games: The book that Katniss, Peeta and Haymitch create at the end of Mockingjay. Also the "We Remember" propo series. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): This trope, like many others, is perfected to an art form. It's played quite frequently in the Viper rec room, especially. Apollo's retirement toast is an awesome example of the trope, involving five shots of a potent drink—quite possibly eau de flight deck. There's a great one in the season two episode "Scar," where Starbuck (at the celebration of the new "top gun" pilot that unseated her) tries to toast all the deceased pilots by name/callsign. This one is especially moving given that she had earlier claimed that she didn't remember any of their names and didn't care to because they were dead and gone so who cares… |
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In The Alice Network, Cameron and Eve meet up again after the war over a drink and reminisce about dead friends. Cameron talks about his recruits who have died. | |
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OMORI: On the last day before Sunny moves, he and his childhood friends can meet together at Mari's grave and the spot behind his house where her body was found. The game even offers the player the opportunity to have a picnic "with Mari" in front of her grave. | |
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At the end of The Deer Hunter, after Nick's funeral, the group of friends goes back to the bar to have breakfast. They sing "God Bless America" in unison, then they raise their glasses, and Michael says, "Here's to Nick." | |
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The Sandman (1989): The focus of the first half of volume ten (appropriately titled the Wake). Also invoked in "Season of Mists". | |
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As do Genesis, on their Nursery Cryme album. It is Phil Collins' lead vocal debut with Genesis, on the first record he recorded with the band, five years before he became the band's full-time lead singer. The Opeth song is actually named after the Genesis song. | |
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At the end of No Time to Die, M, Q, Moneypenny and Nomi gather to mourn a deceased James Bond, who sacrificed himself on Safin's island.]] They have a drink in his honor, and leave a glass full for him. | |
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The song "Alabanza" for Abuela Claudia in In the Heights. Just after Kevin begins spreading the news that she has passed, Usnavi, still reeling, delivers the coroner's report and an impromptu eulogy to the others in the barrio. They then join in raising her memory to God (because, as Usnavi points out, alabanza, her favorite word, means "to raise this thing to God's face"). It's very much a Tear Jerker moment. | |
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After the quest "All that Remains" in which Leandra dies in Dragon Age II, Aveline will ask how Hawke is feeling in her office. After recounting how her own father died, Aveline will offer a drink to Hawke. Hawke can propose a toast to those they have lost. | |
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The novelisation of Betrayal at Krondor ends with this in honour of Gorath, complete with a toast. | |
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Star Wars Legends: Fairly common amongst New Republic fighter pilots, especially the Rogue and Wraith squadrons of the X-Wing Series. Notably, whenever the Wraiths do it, somebody is obliged to make a smartass remark. For example, the end of Iron Fist, after Face has been released from the medical ward: In Dark Rendezvous, Yoda loses both of the Jedi Knights traveling with him to an ambush, forcing their Padawans to continue the mission alone with him. As soon as they get a moment of peace, Yoda arranges a meal and a (non-alcoholic) toast in honor of the fallen Knights. |
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This is the entire theme of Tomb Raider Chronicles, which consists of vignettes and flashbacks to Lara's exploits before her presumed death in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation. The game even ends with a toast and this quote. | |
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Crackle and Pop on Family Guy toast Snap, who fell in the Keebler Elves attack. | |
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The meal scene in Journey's End after Osbourne dies. Possibly a subversion in that they're trying to forget about it rather than remember him. | |
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In the final episode of Babylon 5 Sheridan invites his surviving friends to have dinner with him one last time. He then invokes the trope by name, and they name absent friends to toast to. Garibaldi names G'Kar, Vir names Londo, Delenn names Lennier, and Dr. Franklin and Ivanova name Marcus. | |
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Parodied somewhat in About Schmidt, when the emotional ex-husband of Warren Schmidt's daughter's fiance's mother gets up to give a speech at the restaurant table. "If only my parents were with us today... but they are really here... right now... hi, Mom... hiya, pop..." Most of the family watches him give his speech, while Warren's head rolls around in meds-induced ecstasy. | |
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In the ending credits of Hellsing OVA 5. Sir Irons walks to a grave at night with three cups, and a bottle of alcohol. It isn't quite Libation for the Dead, as he pours the three glasses at the head stone, and reminisces about the past (as a church choir sings), where he Pennington, and Arthur Hellsing were friends, and how they organized the fall of the Vampire oriented Nazi branch. He is alone because Pennington just died in the episode. In the end, the three glasses lie at the head stone, as the candle goes out (the only sound effect in the entire scene), revealing the headstone to be Arthur's. | |
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YuYu Hakusho. Raizen's old comrades-in-arms gather at his grave with lots of sake and flowers in Yusuke-the-ghost attending his own wake and witnesses this in the very first episode. |
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Also played straight in Star Trek: Nemesis after Data is killed while destroying the Scimitar to save the Enterprise. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Relics", the Enterprise crew finds Scotty preserved in a transporter beam for over seventy years. As the events of the episode wear down on Scotty, he takes a private moment alone in a holodeck simulation of the original Enterprise, where he toasts to his now-gone comrades. Picard then joins him and they share a toast, this time to absent ships—the original Enterprise for Scotty, and the Stargazer (his first assignment as a captain) for Picard. |
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