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{{quote|'''Tony:''' Definitely didn't picture my demise like this. I'd always figured going out like Cagney in "White Heat"; fiery explosion. Or Redford and Newman in "Butch Cassidy"; hail of bullets!<br />
'''Gibbs:''' Or Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush".<br />
'''Tony:''' How did he die?<br />
'''Gibbs:''' Silently.|''[[NCIS]]''}}
 
{{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.''|'''[[The Protomen]]''', "The Fall"}}
 
{{quote|''Shot down in a blaze of glory<br />
Take me now but know the truth<br />
'Cause I'm going down in a blaze of glory''|'''[[Bon Jovi]]''', "Blaze of Glory"}}
 
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{{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: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]] }}
 
{{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!'.}}
 
{{quote| Here are two examples.}}
 
{{quote| First, there's the pre-Crisis Supergirl. When [[Crisis on Infinite Earths]] was being written, it was decided that Superman had too much baggage from Krypton. He had Kryptonian enemies, allies, Kryptonian cats, dogs, horses, monkeys. They wanted Superman to be the last son of Krypton so that meant killing off or just ignoring these things.}}
 
{{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-Man|Doctor Octopus]]? Yeah, he died once too. He returned, but when they decided to kill him off, they knew he shouldn't [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|go out like a pansy]]. They spent half the issue with him fighting and scoring a few good hits before he died, because the writers knew you had to honor the legacy of the character. }}
 
{{quote|Bottom line, if a character's going to die, they'd better go out swingin'!"|'''[[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]]''', describing this trope (and inspiring this trope page)}}
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