Famous Last Words/Comic Books/Marvel Comics

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Examples of Famous Last Words in Marvel Comics include:

  • Captain Britain
    • "Muzzn't zztop- urk - now!" The Junkheap That Walked Like A Man
    • "She left me behind. I loved her and she forgot about me. I loved her..." Dimples.
    • "Don't you fret, captain. Everything will turn out alright. Any minute now, Merlin will fix everything up j-just fine, you'll see... Any minute now, you'll s-s..." Jackdaw.
    • "WHY MERLIN? WHY DID YOU SEND ME HERE? WHY HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ABOUT ME?! Why Merlin? Why?" Captain Britain
    • "Well, let me see, you've got a... Oh God. Oh God, no..." Doctor Destiny.
    • "Fire missiles! Fire tanks! Troops attack! Bombs away! Launch-" Colonel Tusker
    • "No time to callibrate the destination accurately. Just have to hope for the best and-" Rick
    • "Well, Bob, I'd say that this is very much a trial of two halves. I'd say that we've seen a lot of disappointments so far, but SKREEEEEET!!!" Neil
    • "Neil? Sorry, I'm going to have cut you off there. Neil? Bob
    • "... Crowd." Legion.
    • "Aahwhutthufuh..." Oxo.
    • "Uh, Tony, pass me a neural grenade wouldja? This one looks like a bit'v an 'ardcase..." Beetle 1
    • "Oh, I dunno. You should try talkin' to it. You never know... p'raps it'll give up." Beetle 2
    • "Elizab-" Tom Lennox
    • "Now, I say, old horse. That simply isn't shuttlecock, is it? That isn't shuttlecock at all!" Mad Jim Jaspers, during the final battle with the Fury
    • "PLEASE STOP HURTING ME." Sidney Crumb.
    • "Come here... sister..." Kaptain Briton, while attempting to rape Elizabeth Braddock
    • "Fool! You have not the strength to kill..." The Slaymaster
    • "Terms and conditions apply. Here, General Eccentric, is there a place for silliness in your fascist dreamworld, sir? Got anything for me?" John the Skrull, before getting a 'no' response via a shot to the face.
  • Iron Man
    • "Papa..? I... am... cold". Titanium Man. [1]
  • Man-Thing
    • "Mike! What have I done to you- *uh-uhk*!" Foolkiller
    • "You're trying to use that infernal burning power on me, aren't you? But you can't! You've lost it!" F.A. Schist
    • "It's back from the dead! The thing that burned my hands!" Mad Viking
    • "I've come too far, worked too hard, endured too much to be cheated of victory. If I do nothing else creature...I will destroy you!" Thog the Netherspawn
  • New X-Men
    • "I think we seriously overestimated the threat." Cyclops, before Prodigy blows him up
    • "David, what's happened to you?" Moonstar, before being pumped full of poison by Prodigy's torture chair
    • "All clear. Security's down. Don't know for how long, but it should-" Tag, before being skewered by Quill's spikes
    • "AAAH! IT'S MAGMA!" Rockslide, as Magma melts him
    • "Fire beats rock every time." Magma, in response to the above death, before Wither turns her to dust
    • "...Done. You guys... ...Go." Icarus, after Sage crushes his neck
    • "You shouldn't... your telekinesis... your shield..." Wind Dancer to Hellion, on the latter's Stupid Sacrifice
    • I need you! Mercury, as Storm electrocutes her
    • "We will finish this." Storm, before being blown up by...
    • "No. You won't, Storm. I will." Hellion, who, riddled with bullets, incinerates himself, Storm, and Bishop in a telekinetic fireball
    • NO! You unbelievable-" Wither, before Prodigy snaps his neck
    • "I'm the smartest man in the world. You can't even touch me!" Prodigy
    • "I love you, David" Surge, before overloading her gloves, thereby destroying Prodigy and herself. Fortunately for all those involved, all of the previous turn out to be All Just a Telepathic Illusion
    • "H-hey... you're... pretty." DJ to his would-be rescuer, X-23. Notably, this is his one and only line in anything; he'd previously only appeared in crowd scenes, and was named by supplementary materials
    • "Josh, no." Wallflower
    • "BZZKaaaRRH!" Reverend Paul
    • "I didn't know..." Icarus, this time for real
    • "WAIT--!" Quill
    • "I will not fail you, Lord. I am your serv-- AAAAAAHHHHHH!" William Stryker, as Elixir gives him a well-deserved case of terminal cancer
  • The Punisher
    • Main series
      • "Together we can punish the guilty! We can clean up this city once and for all! In heaven's name, man! Isn't this exactly what you want?!" The Holy, from Welcome Back Frank, right before Frank mows him, Payback and Elite down
      • "Dosvidanja, big boy! The Russian really has to hand it to you!! HA HA HA HA HA HA!" The Russian in Army of One
    • Punisher MAX
      • "There ain't no god, fool! Look around you! There ain't no muthafuckin' god!! Angel from Born
      • "Kill him, Castle. Our world is bad, but we are soldiers. He is a parasite; he would make the world this way forever." General Zakharov in Man of Stone, referring to Rawlins
      • "It's too much... All the sadness, all the death, it's too much for anyone to carry with them. Anyone but you." Jenny Cesare from Widowmaker, right before she blows her brains out
      • "Fuck off you black cunt--" Yorkie Mitchell from Long Cold Dark, before Barracuda kills him
      • "I´m tha Kingpin" Kingpin before getting his brains blown out by the Punisher
      • "We are the last people left alive on earth. But we do have a bank of frozen embryos. And we do have the expertise to ensure their survival. We, and we alone, can save the human race. And that... well, that's all I wanted to say. Do what you will." the unnamed Corrupt Corporate Executive from The End
  • Runaways
    • "Oh, thank God. I thought I was dead." Lt Flores - and for once, he was right.
    • "This is my doing. I wanted to prove that I'm an adult now, too. I take full responsibility." Alex Wilder. The Gibborim appreciated his honesty.
    • "Chase Stein, I have always..." Gertrude Yorkes.
  • The Tomb of Dracula
    • "Sun gave me my life, gave me more than you ever did...and if he wants you dead, I'll be the one to kill you." Cliffton Graves
    • "You are far too great a risk to be left alive." Brand, turning against Dr. Sun
    • "Correction, fool. If Doctor Sun says you are his prisoner, you shall be his prisoner...or die!" Juno
    • "Vengeance gains nothing! Vengeance means nothing! Vengeance accomplishes nothing! Perhaps, in final death, I can find peace!" Faceless Fiend
    • "My face! You're crushing my face!" Anton Lupeski
    • "What?" Torgo
    • "Elizabeth! Edith! This is for you, my loves! Take care now, both of you... For I shall soon walk with you again!" Quincy Harker
  • Ultimate Marvel
    • "Don't you see...it's okay. I did it. I couldn't save him. Uncle Ben. I couldn't save him. No matter what I did. But I saved you. I did it. I did..." Ultimate Peter Parker/Spider-Man
  • X-Men: Second Coming
    • "Bastion... Help me..." Reverend William Stryker, before being sliced in half by Archangel's metal wings
    • "Oh, spit!" Ariel
    • "HODGE I'M CAMERON HODGE I'M THE RIGHT THE TRUTH THE LIFE -- YOU CAN'T -- *" Cameron Hodge as Warlock assimilates him
    • "Huhh... wuh... worth it... I... I believe in you." Nightcrawler, to Hope Summers after a Heroic Sacrifice to save her
    • "My girls... How'd Bastion know about my girls..." The Vanisher, after discovering his favorite brothel raided by and being machine-gunned by Steven Lang. Technically, the scene cuts away before he actually expires, but he hasn't been seen since then
    • "...So this is how it ends... surrounded by smoke and genetic filth. I can admit without shame that I am disappointed I won't be here to witness your extinction... but do not think I regret what I have sacrificed here today. Bastion comes for you -- and when he does, when you see the light of his future fire raining down on your benighted "race"—KNOW THAT HIS CLEANSING LIGHT BURNS WITH BUT A FRACTION OF MY PROFOUND HATRED FOR--" Donald Pierce. Cyclops shuts him up by blasting him in half
    • "Get your finger out of my-" Sack
    • "He'll be back in charge any second. I'm sorry. No time -- God bless you." Bolivar Trask, before shooting himself to keep Bastion from controlling his mind
    • "Never mind me. Check on Cypher." Cable. Not very climactic; his actual last action is a smile to his adoptive daughter Hope
    • "Don't you get it, Bastion? It's over! You failed! We have to get out of here and regroup... Lang... for the love of God, talk to it..." Graydon Creed
    • "Creed's right. Whatever they did, the Sentinels are down, our forces are scattered, and there are too many of them for--" Steven Lang. Bastion refuses to give up and transforms the both of them into mindless Killer Robots
    • "It is beyond out capacity to hate you. It is beyond our capacity to enjoy murdering you. We have grown beyond our capacity. Because we do hate you, and we will enjoy killing--" Bastion
  • Other
    • "They said my mother was insane." Kraven the Hunter, before committing suicide.
    • "Get ready for the shortest comeback in history" Bill Foster (Goliath, Black Goliath)
    • "I thought us friends. My mistake." Ares to Sentry
    • "I stole this one too ... From Kraven." Mysterio, before committing suicide.
    • "A billion to one... you think I'm afraid of that? YOU THINK I'M AFRAID OF THAT?! FLAME ON!" Johnny Storm, The Human Torch
    • "I CAST YOU OUT FOR ALL TIME!" Brother Voodoo, repelling an invasion by Agamotto

  1. Pretty poignant considering that he was one of the worst hardasses ever, a hard-line Soviet Communist who had actually never shown any emotion except anger before. Jury's still out on whether he got better.