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'''[[Number Two|Zoe]]:''' What, and risk my ship?

'''Mal:''' I mean it. It's cold, and I don't wanna get left. }}

* One Episode of ''[[Star Trek: ~~Deep Space Nine|Star Trek~~ Deep Space Nine]]'' has Jadzia borrowing Worf's prized collection of Klingon operas as the latter left for a dangerous mission, threatening to "misplace" them if he didn't hurry and come back alive.

* One Episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' has Jadzia borrowing Worf's prized collection of Klingon operas as the latter left for a dangerous mission, threatening to "misplace" them if he didn't hurry and come back alive.

* In ''[[Farscape]]'', Rygel goes so far as to give Crichton what seems to be the Hynerian version of the last rites, declare him dead, and claim all his possessions for himself.

** Later on inverted: about to go on a suicide mission, John tells Rygel he can have all his stuff. "You're a material guy, Rygel. Have some material." The tone of this is quite hurtful, and Rygel is surprisingly affected.

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(''Ducky is attempting to stealthily return the stapler when he's spotted'')

'''Ducky:''' My dear fellow, I never believed it for a moment. Welcome home. }}

* ''[[~~Myth Busters~~]]''. The Build Team tests the myth that you can stop a car by throwing it into reverse (they are using walkie-talkies):

* ''[[MythBusters]]''. The Build Team tests the myth that you can stop a car by throwing it into reverse (they are using walkie-talkies):

{{quote|'''Tory:''' Hey, uh...just in case this doesn't work, and the car spirals out of control and you crash and die...can I have your robot?

'''Grant:''' I want the robot to be buried next to me, over.

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* As noted in one of the page quotes, likely to happen both in and out of character in role-playing games, regardless of characters' supposed morals. In extreme cases, and due to the freedom of most such games, particularly vicious players—the kind whose group you leave and hope to never see again—might even plot to kill another player's character and divvy the stuff up if they have particularly good loot. Can also lead to conflicts of interest where a good roleplayer wants the stuff but has to play a character who would do anything to get their friend back.

** Also a rule in [[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]], actually the only penalty for dying as your new character is the same level, class, race, as your old one.

** A potential rules exploit, as new PCs start with magic items in 3rd and 4th edition [[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons|D&D]] as replacement characters usually start the same level as their previous character with loot appropriate to their character level. The party gets to keep the old character's loot while the new character brings in new loot.

** A potential rules exploit, as new PCs start with magic items in 3rd and 4th edition [[Dungeons & Dragons|D&D]] as replacement characters usually start the same level as their previous character with loot appropriate to their character level. The party gets to keep the old character's loot while the new character brings in new loot.

* Bizarrely, [[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]], the RPG most infamous for having players kill each other, averts this, largely to make all the dying everyone does less bad. (There's is indeed plenty of "stuff", but [[Made of Explodium|you probably don't want to take it]].)

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* ''[[Beast Wars]]: [[Transformers]]''

{{quote|'''Rattrap:''' [to Optimus] Uh...just in case you don't come back...can I have your quarters?}}

** Then Primal does die, and then comes [[Back ~~From~~ the Dead]] at the start of the next season. At the end of the episode he returns in, he states that one of the things he has to do is "[[Brick Joke|have Rattrap move all his junk out of my quarters!]]"

** Then Primal does die, and then comes [[Back from the Dead]] at the start of the next season. At the end of the episode he returns in, he states that one of the things he has to do is "[[Brick Joke|have Rattrap move all his junk out of my quarters!]]"

* In one gag in ''[[Futurama]]'', Professor Farnsworth presents his new invention - a clock that can tell how long anyone has to live - by testing it on Fry. We never see what the clock says, but the other characters bow their heads in sadness while Bender calls dibs on his stuff.

** Bender himself also [[Defied Trope|defied]] this trope. When he goes on a vacation to the Galapagos Islands, even after learning that it's all a trick by [[Richard Nixon]] to get all the world's robots together and [[Kill'Em All]], he tells the Planet Express crew not to touch his stuff; it's all booby-trapped.

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* A Yogi Bear cartoon has Yogi in a runaway helicopter. Throughout the cartoon, Boo Boo is continually pestering Yogi about wanting Yogi's Pogo Stick if Yogi dies.

* In the TV movie ''[[Garfield]] in Paradise'', Garfield says to Jon, when they are surrounded by vicious-looking natives, "Assuming I get out of this and you don't, can I have your bunny slippers?" (The natives turn out to be friendly.)

* On [[~~Sixteen|~~6teen]] two of the [[Dumb Blonde]] clones are discussing a contest:

* On [[6teen]] two of the [[Dumb Blonde]] clones are discussing a contest:

{{quote|'''First Clone''': So, if you win and you die of pride, can I have your halter top collection?

'''Second Clone''': Oh, of course you can! }}

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