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'''Gibbs:''' Or Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush".<br />
'''Tony:''' How did he die?<br />
'''Gibbs:''' Silently.|''[[
{{quote|''Climb to the top of the world<br />
And as you stand tall you will see<br />
That when you fall<br />
You will fall from a height most men have never reached.''|'''[[
{{quote|''Shot down in a blaze of glory<br />
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'Cause I'm going down in a blaze of glory''|'''[[Bon Jovi]]''', "Blaze of Glory"}}
{{quote|''"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place. Now you just have to find it."''|'''Gold Roger''', setting off the entire plot of ''[[
{{quote|''"Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, 'You can't kill him.' And I said, 'Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.'"''|'''Nicholas Meyer''', Director of [[Star Trek II:
{{quote| "Now to be honest, I'm actually really against character death in general. Why take away the ability to tell stories about them? But if you're going to kill a character, here's a tip. If you '''really''' must kill a character, you make sure it's their [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. The instant where the readership looks at that character and says 'Oh that is the most badass thing I've ever seen!'.}}
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{{quote| Here are two examples.}}
{{quote| First, there's the pre-Crisis Supergirl. When [[Crisis
{{quote| Get this: The Anti-Monitor, the [[Big Bad|biggest bad guy of them all]], is ready to [[Omnicidal Maniac|blow up all of reality]]. So what does Supergirl do? She punches him. And punches him, and punches, and punches and punches and just whales on the guy until one lucky blast from the Anti-Monitor kills her. But her death had meaning. It had soul. It showed a character dying to save lives. She wasn't just some [[Stuffed in The Fridge|victim or shock death]]. She forced the heavily-injured Anti-Monitor to retreat.}}
{{quote| Or hell ... how about [[Spider
{{quote|Bottom line, if a character's going to die, they'd better go out swingin'!"|'''[[Atop the Fourth Wall
{{quote|"There is one way to never see your country come to ruin, and that is to die in the last ditch".|King William III of England (the origin of the phrase 'last-ditch').}}
{{quote|''[[The Flash]] bursts into flames, which is pretty harsh, but don't pretend that isn't the most badass way to go out. When you get to heaven after dying by way of exploding from going too fast, you get a high-five from God.''|[[Cracked
{{quote|"BEST. DEATH. EVAH!"|[[
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