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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Orihime is regretful that the last time she spoke to her brother Sora before he died, they fought, and she let him go off to work without saying goodbye. In fact, when she finally gets a chance to see Sora's spirit one last time, at the proper moment of goodbye she tells him "Have a nice day," like she always did except for ''that'' day. Cue the [[Tear Jerker]].
** At some point, Yoruichi Shihouin ran away from Soul Society after her best friend, [[Mad Scientist]] Kisuke Urahara, was exiled. That did NOT suit Yoruichi's [[The Lancer|Lancer]] and pupil, Soi Fon, who grew [[Broken Bird|embittered and cold]] after her idol left. When they finally met again and Yoruichi defeated Soi Fon, the normally [[Emotionless Girl|stoic]] Soi Fon broke down in tears, hysterically begging her mentor to explain why she abandoned her without asking her to come along or even saying goodbye.
* In ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'', {{spoiler|Rain had to immediately leave her university when her dad called her back to Neo-Japan due to the incident involving Domon's family. She was getting ready for a meeting with a classmate of hers, Saette, who had something important to tell her. (He had feelings for her but the full nature of their relationship is never stated.) Regardless, he mistook this as a sign of rejection. She never returned due to getting caught up with Domon and his situation and when they met each other again, Saette was the Gundam Fighter for Neo Turkey. [[It Got Worse]].}}
* Subverted in the first ''[[Black Jack]]'' OAV, where {{spoiler|Crossword, a mortally ill man, just before going down to his laboratory for an experiment during the disease attack he knows to be final, remembers that he forgot to say "Good morning" to his wife. He then notably dismisses this as unimportant, as "Upsetting myself would only dull your scalpel". He just says "Good morning, Sayuri" out loud instead of coming back up to talk to her.}}
* Narrowly averted with [[Twice Shy|Yoshiko Fujisawa and Hikaru Matsuyama]] in [[Captain Tsubasa]]. {{spoiler|She didn't want to either distract him from the Furano v/s Nankatsu match and [[Trying Not to Cry|cry in front of him]], so she left to the airport without a word when the match was barely over... but Matsuyama learnt about it and raced against the clock to catch her before her flight to the USA took off. He succeeded, so cue the mix of [[Tear Jerker]] and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]}}.
** A non-romantic example is played straight in the first part, with Roberto and a 12-year-old Tsubasa. {{spoiler|Roberto left without saying a word to not separate Tsubasa from his friends and family and to not stunt his growth as a player.}} Cue to a [[Tear Jerker]] as Tsubasa has an Heroic BSOD.
** Also played straight in the manga, with {{spoiler|Hyuga recalling how he was not being able to say goodbye to his dad, since Hyuga Sr. died in a road accident in his way home, when Hyuga himself was 10. The kicker? He recalls it when his ''mom'' is seriously ill and in the verge of death.}} [[Tear Jerker|Sob!]]
* ''[[Clannad]]'' [[Clannad/Tear Jerker|milks it for all it's worth]] and then some with {{spoiler|Kotomi Ichinose and her dead parents.}}
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* The ''[[Nineteen Eighty Three 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.}}
* In the [[Katawa Shoujo]] fanfic [http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=5600#p80479 Reconciliation], which takes place after Hanako's bad ending {{spoiler|Hanako}} regrets {{spoiler|her}} actions, only to {{spoiler|find out that Hisao has died of a heart attack}}. The trope name is used more literally when {{spoiler|Lilly talks about how Hisao died before she could reach the hospital}}.
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* Played straight in [[The Tomorrow Series]], when Ellie finds {{spoiler|Corrie's}} grave and realizes that she never got to say goodbye.
* Severus Snape to Lily Evans in ''[[Harry Potter]]''. He broke down when he found out what'd happened.
** And it's even worse in the film {{spoiler|because of the added scene to his memories that shows him cradling Lily's dead body whilst crying in anguish}}.
** Harry never got the chance to say goodbye to Sirius. It got worse when he realised he could have talked to Sirius the whole time and prevented his death.
** Subverted in ''Goblet of Fire'' - when Mrs. Weasley reads about the Dark Mark being cast at the Quidditch World Cup, she goes into hysterics, not just out of fear for her family, but because the last thing she had said to Fred and George before they left was that they hadn't gotten enough OWLs.
* In [[Devon Monk]]'s [[Allie Beckstrom]] novel ''Magic to the Bone'', Allie sees her father for the first time in years and tells him she hates him just before his death. Well, she does hate him, for reason, but it still unnerves her.
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** And Ivanova has similar regrets regarding Marcus. Marcus however did get to say "I love you" to a dying Ivanova, leading to the touching yet funny line, "I thought: God really does have an English accent, just like in those old movies."
* It both appears ''and'' is averted ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Rose and the Doctor are separated, each stuck in a different parallel world. The Doctor manages to use the power of a supernova to get a goodbye message to Rose. She tells him that she loves him... he starts to respond, only able to say "Rose Tyler - " before the connection is severed forever {{spoiler|Or so they think...}} and the scene cuts to a weeping Doctor. Also, Sarah Jane Smith calls him on never properly saying goodbye to her face, something the Doctor was notorious for doing in regards to his companions, but when she leaves in "School Reunion", she makes him say goodbye so that she can have closure.
** This also arguably applied to {{spoiler|Donna}} at the end of season 4. Since {{spoiler|all her memories of her time with the Doctor were wiped, when he turns and says a final goodbye to her, she says a very perfunctory 'Yeah, see ya' to the man she thinks she has just met.}}
** Averted in the case of River Song - just before her [[Heroic Sacrifice]], she recalls the last time she met the Doctor, and realises he was saying goodbye to her because [[Tearjerkerhe|knew she was going to her death]], even if he couldn't tell her directly.
*** '''River:''' The last time I saw you, the real you, the future you, I mean, you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit. You took me to Darillium to see the singing towers. Oh, what a night that was! The towers sang, and you cried. You wouldn't tell me why, but I suppose you knew it was time. My time.
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** 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 ''[[MASH]]'', Hawkeye becomes quite upset because he was on leave at the time and never got to say goodbye. This comes up again in the finale, when Hawkeye becomes angry at BJ's refusal to actually ''say'' goodbye, saying he's still hurt that Trapper didn't.
* 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."
'''Eric:''' ...Dad, the last thing I said to Grandma was "It wouldn't kill you to be nice once in a while." But I guess it did, because then she died. }}
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== [[Music]] ==
* One of the songs on [[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
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