Go Out with a Smile: Difference between revisions

 

{{examples}}

== Anime and Manga ==

* The final episode of ''[[Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day]]'' has Meiko Honma aka "Menma" doing this during their final goodbyes. More exactly, she's already dead and a [[Cute Ghost Girl]], but stuck around due to having [[Ghostly Goals]] and these only were fulfilled by said final episode.

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Before Akane's eyes close completely, signifying her death, she smiles at Ranma, then lets herself go. It's followed shortly by an [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] from Ranma. [[Disney Death|Of course she wakes up 5 minutes later, but...]]

* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Parodied by Ami when she has to leave for an interview and left her sister to take care of finding out who stole the [[It Makes Sense in Context|pudding from the freezer.]]

 

== Comic Books ==

'''Parademon:''' HAHAHA! See? I told you you were funny... }}

** Made even sadder later when Ragdoll says Parademon was his best friend.

 

== Fan Works ==

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Carrot Top'''}}: Smile, Derpy... I don’t want... to see... to remember your face... being sad... when I will sleep... [[Tear Jerker|Please..... smile]].}}

 

* {{spoiler|Ray the firefly}} in ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''.

* Surprisingly perhaps, the titular individual in ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' qualifies. Although it turns out he is [[Not Quite Dead|able to reassemble himself]].

** In the censored version, Joker dies via electrocution, and it's mentioned that he did indeed have a smile on his face.

** On the other hand he does laugh hysterically when the titular character of ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]'' prevents his escaping a massive explosion. He survives, of course, thanks to [[Joker Immunity]], but at the moment it didn't seem like he had any means to get out alive.

* ''[[GoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]''. When Bond finds the Canadian admiral, he's in rigor mortis with a gigantic grin thanks to [[Famke Janssen]]'s [[Murderous Thighs]].

{{quote|'''[http://www.empireonline.com/features/movie-finishing-moves/default.asp?m{{=}}12 Empire Magazine]''': There can't be too many gentlemen of a heterosexual persuasion who, if asked how they'd want to die, wouldn't tick the box marked 'crushed to death between Famke Janssen's thighs'.}}

* In the 1962 movie version of ''[[Billy Budd]]'', you get this for the villain, but it's definitely not the "sniff sniff" version. The SOB dies with ''a smile of victory'', knowing the hero who pwn'd him is doomed. Add that said character is played by Robert Ryan. The guy was really creepy.

* In the 2010 version of ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'', this happens when [[Cynical Mentor]] Draco aids Perseus in his climactic battle with Medusa. He knowingly sacrifices himself to stall her by impaling her tail with a stalactite. As she turns her petrifying gaze towards him, he calmly tells the hero to tell all that "men did this," before smiling smugly as he is turned to stone. An enraged Medusa shatters his petrified form afterward.

* ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'': "It was... ''fun.'' Oh my..."

* In ''[[The Fountain]]'', Tom the space traveler finally achieves peace with death moments before the nearby star goes nova. He's smiling as he's vaporized.

* In ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', Malcolm, after chapter upon chapter of getting angry at Hammond's ignorance and scientists in general, dies with a smile. {{spoiler|He gets better, though.}}

 

* Subverted in the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "No Rest For The Wicked". Dean might have smiled at his crying brother but it's one of those smiles that you do when you're trying to be brave, trying not to throw up from fear and trying not to cry yourself. And then he sees the Hellhound come to kill him, freaks and runs into another room with Sam and Ruby, and is torn apart in there a few minutes later while Sam watches helplessly.

* In ''[[Smallville]]'', right before Jonathan Kent succumbs to his heart attack, he attempts to smile one last time to his family and tell them "I love you." [[Tear Jerker|Oh geeze]]...

* {{spoiler|Philip}} in ''[[Kamen Rider Double|Kamen Rider W]]''. Large portions of the episode are devoted to the characters wanting to make sure he does so, rather than go out in pain.

* {{spoiler|H.G. Wells}} in ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' does this for {{spoiler|Myka after safely sealing her and Pete and Artie in a force field to protect them from an impending explosion but leaves her unprotected to be hit full force by the blast.}}

 

== Music ==

''I'm never giving in''

''On with the show!'' }}

 

== Video Games ==

** Also in ''Mass Effect 3'': {{spoiler|Anderson dies with a peaceful smile after telling Shepard how proud he is of her/him. Shepard seems just about ready to do the same before a call from Hackett and an intervention from the Catalyst pull her/him out of it.}}

 

* In ''[[Ribbon of Green]]'', the Good ending has {{spoiler|Hanyuan fade away with a smile}}. Subverted as she is [[Dead All Along]].

* In ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'', both the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works' scenarios endings. {{spoiler|Archer}}'s death in UBW is perhaps made more poignant by the fact that {{spoiler|he knows very well that he's going back to his own Special Hell where he'll see the evils of humanity over and over again}}, but still smiles and reassures his ex-partner that he'll be fine.

* ''[[Tsukihime]]'' plays it straight in {{spoiler|Hisui's True Ending with Akiha}}. It then completely subverts this when {{spoiler|Kohaku [[Driven to Suicide|kills herself]]; Kohaku dies smiling, but she just revealed that [[Emotionless Girl|she can't feel anything]].}}

* Cruelly played with in one of the ''[[School Days]]'' bad endings. [[Yandere|Kotonoha]] has an insane, lifeless smile on her lips when she [[Driven to Suicide|throws herself off a building]], after Makoto picks her love rival Sekai over her. They end up traumatised forever and split up after some time.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Pauline from ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'' dies this way, probably because she knows she will be able to be with her husband and son who were murdered some time before.

* {{spoiler|1=[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061215 Lars]}} from ''[[Girl Genius]]''. Although she wasn't in love with him, Agatha did not [[Heroic BSOD|take it]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|well.]]

 

== Web Original ==

** Craig Hoyle pulls one of these off as well, causing quite a bit of pain for his accidental killer, Nik Kronwall.

* {{spoiler|Irv}} in ''[[The Kingdom (web original)|The Kingdom]]'' AU ''Shadows Prove The Sunshine''

 

== Western Animation ==

* In the ''[[American Dad]]'' episode "Rapture's Delight" {{spoiler|Stan}} takes a shot meant for {{spoiler|Jesus}} and also sets off a time bomb meant to destroy the lair of the Anti-Christ. While he is offered the chance of being raptured to Heaven {{spoiler|Stan}} turns it down because the bomb will go off before {{spoiler|Jesus}} can perform the spell. After kissing Francine {{spoiler|Stan}} is left alone with a cigar and a grin just as the bomb goes off, promptly killing him.

* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', "Jack and the Lava Monster" - '''FREE'''.

 

== Real Life ==

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Death Tropes]]

[[Category:Smile Tropes]]

[[Category:Tear Jerker Tropes]]