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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"'I love you.'" I didn't say it. I wanted to. ''We'' wanted to. It's wrong that these moments pass you by, with no warning. There should be a feeling at the time... some kind of sign. Something that ''stops'' you... that makes you realize you'll ''never'' get the chance again."''
|'''Wedge Antilles''', ''[[Star Wars Tales]]''}}
Alice has been [[Killed Off for Real]] or spirited away. Normally, this would be cause enough for Bob to stress, but the angst level is upped when he remembers that he forgot to give Alice that [[Dying Declaration of Love|one last "Goodbye" or "I love you" just before she disappeared for good]].
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{{deathtrope}}
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* There's a comic, not actually part of the ''[[X Wing Series]]'' but still focusing on Wedge Antilles, where he thinks back to the girlfriend he had before he joined the Rebellion. She was killed while he was out. He ''did'' [http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8980/blz51.jpg say goodbye], so he doesn't have to regret ''that'', but instead he wishes that he'd told her he loved her.
* Subverted in the ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' parody of
* In [[Peanuts]], Schroeder says this verbatim about Lucy when Lucy and Linus (temporarily) move away: when she had tried to tell him that her family was moving, he had assumed it was hypothetical, more of her usual attempts to pester him into saying he likes her. Although Schroeder is genuinely upset, Charlie Brown criticizes him for whining since he never seemed to like her anyway.▼
▲* Subverted in the [[Mad Magazine]] parody of E.R., in which a boy cries after hearing that his father died of a heart attack because he never said he loved him, but then finds out that the man who died was not his father.
* In one strip of [[The Boondocks]], Huey tells Caesar that a friend from back home died, and he never got to say goodbye, [[Single Tear|shedding a tear as he mentions this trope]].
== [[Fan
* The ''[[1983 Doomsday Stories]]'' for ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has this happening to Austria, who's initially found still waiting for Hungary, hoping that she made it out of the [[After the End|nuclear war]] alive. By that point, however, she's been {{spoiler|dead for over 20 years}}. It's eventually revealed that he never really had a chance to even say goodbye before the bombs fell.
* ''[[The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds]]'': Megan never got to say goodbye to her friends before the Rainbow Bridge collapsed. 20 years later, when a new portal is opened, she finds that time in the two worlds fell out of sync when the bridge was lost. {{spoiler|For the world where Equestria lies, it has been 1500 years.}}
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* In ''[[Torchwood]]: Children of Earth'', Ianto dies in Jack's arms, having already told him that he loves him. Jack has plenty of time to say it back, but he's in such denial about it that he can't.
** Jack (and the fans) finally get closure over Ianto's death in the ''[[Torchwood: The Lost Files]]'' radio play "The House of the Dead", when Jack gets to tell {{spoiler|Ghost!}}Ianto that he loves him.
* When Trapper was discharged from the army in ''[[
* In ''[[That '70s Show]]'', Red's mother dies as Eric is driving her home. Because she was being a heartless crow (like usual), no one had anything good to say about her, but were still heartbroken when she was gone.
{{quote|'''Red:''' I didn't say "I love you," or even "See you later." No, the last thing I said to her was "Show me tail lights."
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== [[Music]] ==
* One of the songs on the website ''[[Songs to Wear Pants To]]'', [http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/never-extended/ "Never"], says this verbatim. "I never got to say goodbye, baby, goodbye/ I've never moved on..."
* "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D. has this from the dead person's point of view.
{{quote|''Last day of the rest of my life
''Wish I would have known 'cause I didn't kiss my momma goodbye
''Never told her that I loved her, how much I cared
''Or thank my pops for all the talks and the wisdom he shared }}
* The ending of [[Blake Shelton]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BEvvp1YZG8&ob=av2e ''The Baby''] quotes the trope name.
{{quote|''[[Big Sleep|She looked like she was sleepin']], and my family had been weepin',
''by the time that I got to her side, and I knew that she'd been taken,
''My heart it was achin', I never got to say goodbye }}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
▲* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', Schroeder says this verbatim about Lucy when Lucy and Linus (temporarily) move away: when she had tried to tell him that her family was moving, he had assumed it was hypothetical, more of her usual attempts to pester him into saying he likes her. Although Schroeder is genuinely upset, Charlie Brown criticizes him for whining since he never seemed to like her anyway.
== [[Radio]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* This is essentially what torments Angron in the
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In [[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|the Disney version of
* ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]''. The ending and the end credits song.
* Subverted in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Tweek vs. Craig", in which the shop teacher constantly says this about his dead fiancée. When her ghost appears to him and he finally gets to say it, he realizes it didn't make him feel better at all.
{{quote|'''Fiancée''': [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Saying good-bye doesn't mean anything. It's the time that we spent together that really matters, not how we left it.]] }}
* ''[[Jem and The Holograms
* Played straight and for laughs, interestingly enough, in [[Pixar]]'s ''[[Cars]]'', where Mater is upset that he never got to say goodbye to his new friend Lightning McQueen after he is suddenly whisked away to a big race. The next time they meet, Mater greets McQueen by saying "goodbye."
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', "Cyborg the Barbarian": Cyborg is summoned back in time to help fight a war against monsters and grows close to a warrior named Sarasim, only for his friends to pull him back to the present during the final battle. With no idea what happened to her and her people, all he can do is say "I didn't even get to say goodbye." {{spoiler|To his relief, Raven finds a history book showing the tribe's victory.}}
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