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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the [[Tannhauser Gate|Tannhäuser Gate]]. All those moments will be lost in time, like... tears... in rain. Time... to die."''
|'''Roy Batty''', ''[[Blade Runner]]''}}
So, there's a villain. Right. Murdering, world-conquering type. The series is ending, so it's time to get rid of him. So he goes out with...a final touching quote and a [[One-Woman Wail]]?
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' with Maria, a cloneblade. After failing to get the Witchblade from Masane, she is stabbed by her. While dying, she sees a hallucination of her biological mother Reina Soho, and asks her "mother" to tell her that she loves her.
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== [[Fan
* Though rare, it is not unheard of for this to happen with Voldemort in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fanfic. One such fanfic used a spell to make Voldemort revert back to the boy he was before he became evil ([[Hand Wave|hand waving]] the fact that in canon, young Mr. Riddle was pretty much
* Pretty thoroughly invoked in ''Go Not Gently''...somehow.
* Of all the villain deaths in ''[[Ponies Make War]]'', the only one that earns any audience sympathy is [[Royal Brat|Empyrean]]. He's only a villain because [[Big Bad|Titan]] forces him to, and [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|isn't even all that good at it]]. His mini-[[Villainous Breakdown]] when the Mane Six [[Storming the Castle|break into his throne room]] and [[Brought Down to Normal|strip him of his power]] is pathetic, and it's hard not to feel sorry for him when Titan shows up, [[You Have Failed Me...|decides he's useless without his powers]], and kills him while he begs his father for mercy.
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