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Occasionally a near-death scene will be faked, in order to get someone to agree to something; most often played for comedy.
Tends to be called a Dying Wish if you're lying around and dying slowly. Compare [[Last Dance]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Belphegor offers this to Rudolf in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]''. He asks for a [[Ten Paces and Turn|duel]]. {{spoiler|He wins}}.
* Gren from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. He knows he'll be dead by before the end of the episode, so he asks Spike to fulfill his dying wish by towing his ship into orbit and letting him float off in the direction of Titan, the moon he wished to see one last time.
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* [[Bleach]]: A dying Hisana Kuchiki asks her husband Byakuya to find her sister Rukia and adopt her into his family 50 years before the story begins.
* In a late episode of ''[[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]]'', Ennil El pretends that Dr. Tex Farzenberg is her lover and ask their captors for one last moment of intimacy. When she unzips her shirt, it reveals a set of flashbang grenades, which they use to escape.
* In ''[[Overlord]]'', Philip Dayton L'Eyre Montserrat (a minor noble of the Re-Estize Kingdom) was so despised by his subjects, that the last request made ''by his own father'' to Albedo (before his execution) was to make sure his son suffered. Albedo had up to that point been considering sparing some of Philip’s accomplices so she could let them kill him (and they certainly would have) but decided to honor the elder Montserrat’s request, handing Philip over to Momonga’s [[Torture Technician]] for use as a practice dummy for “information gathering techniques”. She ''certainly'' honored ''that'' Last Request...
== [[Comics]] ==
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* On ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'', Letitia requests that Geraldine take over her role as the easter bunny, secretly delivering chocolate eggs to people on the night before Easter, dressed in a rabbit suit. On her way around the village, Geraldine {{spoiler|is surprised to run into another easter bunny, quickly converses with him and arranges to do different parts of the village, before running into a veritable throng of people in rabbit suits whom Letitia has pulled one final prank upon.}}
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' : In "Armageddon's Game", representatives of the T'Lani and Kellerun arrive in the abandoned town where O'Brien and Bashir are holed up, intending to kill them, as [[He Knows Too Much|They Know Too Much]] about the harvester viruses. O'Brien has a request that's rather simple - let Bashir help him stand up, as he doesn't want to be shot lying down. (He's been infected with the virus, and is too weak to stand on his own.) They let him do so, and fortunately for them, this brief delay gives Sisko and Dax enough time to beam them to safety.
* A dark example occurs in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Fool For Love" where Spike relates to Buffy the first time he killed a Slayer, during the Boxer Rebellion in China. Her last words before he killed her were, in Mandarin: "Tell my mother I'm sorry." Unfortunately, Spike could not understand the language.
== [[Theater]] ==
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Pibgorn]] [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2003/10/23/ Have you any last requests?]
* In ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'', the [[Show Within a Show]] ''Rebel Cry'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20120520101736/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00678.html our hero get a free meal per the last wishes of the founder].
* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20131107152205/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/allfur-01/#.T2-1_dm6SuJ the dying queen asks for a promise not to marry anyone less beautiful than she is, and gets it.]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Parodied in ''[[Venture Bros]]'' when Brock non-fatally stabs a Guild Henchman. The Henchman still thinks he's going to die and requests Brock sing to him the technotronic song "Move This".
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' used this in "Cape Feare": to stall for time, Bart's last request to Sideshow Bob is to perform the entire score of ''[[Gilbert and Sullivan|HMS Pinafore]]''. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|He does]], and it works.
* In the ''[[Harley Quinn]]'' series, Harley combines this with [[Gallows Humor]] before attempting to use a device to get by the laser grid trap that just turned their [[It Makes Sense In Context| mouse-commando-accomplice]] into [[Ludicrous Gibs]], telling her crew, “Okay guys, you know, if my body gets diced up by lasers here, I dunno, do something fun with it, like mail my ear to a random family and say, ‘We have your daughter!’ you know, something like that.” (The lady has been judged criminally insane for a reason.) Fortunately, she manages to avoid the trap and survive.
== Webseries ==
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