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A dead character has a peaceful expression. Sometimes noble and dignified as well.
 
May follow [[Go Out with a Smile]], [[Obi-Wan Moment]], and [[Big Sleep]], but may also have died in visible misery and pain, with [[Dies Wide Open]]. May be part of [[This Was His True Form]], and result from [[Dying Asas Yourself]].
 
The mundane (or [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]) equivalent of [[Died Happily Ever After]].
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* How {{spoiler|the eponymous boxing legend}} dies in ''[[Ashita no Joe]]''. He seems to be peaceful, knowing he has won the match despite it costing his life.
** That scene has inspired countless homage, from the tearjerkingly straight such as {{spoiler|[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina]]}} to the ones played for laughs such as {{spoiler|[[Lucky Star|Animate Tenchou]]}}.
* {{spoiler|Grimmer}} in ''[[Monster (Animemanga)|Monster]]'', upon finally feeling emotion.
* {{spoiler|[[Mauve Shirt|Buccanneer]], [[Alas, Poor Villain|King]] [[Dissonant Serenity|Bradley]], and [[Big Good|Hohenheim]]}} all go out like this as [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] finally comes to a close. All three are smiling and lying on the ground very calmly and serenely.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' seems to say that anyone with the Will of D tend to go out like this. Look at {{spoiler|Ace}} and{{spoiler|his parents}} all smiling and at peace.
* {{spoiler|Babel}} from ''[[Saint Seiya]]''.
* {{spoiler|Togame}} in ''[[Katanagatari]]'' after her [[Dying Declaration of Love]].
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'', [[Creepy Child|Maria]] is found this way in the fourth arc. Battler notes that the murderer apparently went out of their way to make her look that way, and it actually looks pretty squicky, since she's lying so peacefully in the lap of her mother, whose face was half-blown off, surrounded by adults whose faces were half-blown off.
* In [[Naruto]], {{spoiler|Chiyo's brother Ebizo}} laments that she's not pretending to be dead, but notes how peaceful she looks.
 
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== Literature ==
* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] novel ''[[Blood Angels (Literature)|Deus Sanguinius]]'', when Rafen goes to [[Due to Thethe Dead|pay his respects to]] his dead mentor (and engage in [[Talking to Thethe Dead]]), he is struck by how peaceful he looks, unlike the contortion racking him, as he died [[Fighting From the Inside]] to warn Rafen.
* In the appendices of [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', it is said that Aragorn's face upon succumbing to death struck all who saw it as peaceful and noble.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Roads Must Roll]]'', a man is murdered while trying to negiotiate with the striking workers. The main character is struck by the nobility of his expression, seeing him dead.
* [[Discussed Trope]] in ''[[The Outsiders]]''. The kid who dies "Didn't look peaceful. He just looked dead."
* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables (Literature)|Anne of the Island]]'', Ruby Gillis finally admits to Anne that she is dying and confesses it terrifies: all she will lose in life, and she has not readied herself for [[Heaven]]. But after she dies that night, her face shows that Death brought a wisdom that years of experience might have earned her.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', {{spoiler|Tywin Lannister}} appears to have a faint smile while lying in state, and his children note how inappropriate the expression seems on him.
** Well he did {{spoiler|die while on the privy}} maybe it was just really THAT good.
* [[Dracula]], surprisingly enough for all those who first knew him through [[Popcultural Osmosis]].
* In ''[[All Quiet On the Western Front (Literature)|All Quiet Onon the Western Front]]'', when {{spoiler|Paul}} is killed, his facial expression is described as "calm, as though almost glad the end had come."
* In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ''The First Circle'', a character freezes to death in a cell, and when they took him out, he was smiling. (The readers know that he had come to the conclusion that he had done the right thing.)
* In ''Eragon'', Brom gets encased in a diamond tomb after he dies. Eragon comments that he looks so peaceful.
* In Teresa Frohock's ''[[Miserere: anAn Autumn Tale (Literature)|Miserere an Autumn Tale]]'', Rachael notes, on {{spoiler|Catarina's}} death that the woman doesn't look peaceful.
* In Angie Sage's ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Physik]]'', after {{spoiler|Alice}} takes a bullet for Jenna.
 
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[Street Scene (Theatre)|Street Scene]]'', Rose says of {{spoiler|her mother}}: "She looks so quiet and natural. You'd think she was asleep."
 
 
== Videogame ==
* The Boss in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]''. Hell, she was at peace with the idea that Snake would kill her for weeks and even comments that their fight together should be the best ten minutes of their lives.
 
 
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