Taking You with Me/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Someone uses their last bit of strength to attempt to kill others.

• Straight: When Bob has Joe dying at his feet, Joe presses a self-destruct button to destroy the base and kill Bob.
• Exaggerated: At the very start of the battle, Joe presses a button to have an several nukes be fired at the base to completely ensure Bob's death.
  • Up to Eleven: Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum motivated by Revenge
• Justified: Bob is on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and if he isn't stopped, a lot more will be destroyed than Joe's base.
  • Alternatively, Joe knows that Bob is more powerful/influential than Joe, so his boss benefits more from Bob's death and the base was just a decoy to lure Bob into Joe's trap.
• Inverted: Bob was on a suicidal mission, and presses the button himself.
  • You Are Worth Hell: I'm going with you.
• Subverted: Joe promises not to press the button...
• Double Subverted: ...but when Bob has his back turned, Joe presses the button anyway.
• Parodied: Joe nobly presses the button. It's not working.
• Deconstructed: Joe killing himself would have destroyed Bob, but it'd have opened the way for a bigger danger to appear which wouldn't be able to be stopped because Joe was dead.
• Reconstructed: Joe manages to kill himself and destroy Bob in a way that makes any latent danger unable to appear.
• Zig Zagged: Joe is about to push the button when Bob presents a thoughtful Patrick Stewart Speech on the meaninglessness of such a gesture, a noble person who cared about his fellow man would never use his last bit of life to spread more destruction. Does Joe really want his legacy to be that of a Complete Monster who destroyed that which he could not beat? Of course, if Joe believes himself to be such a monster, then, well, Bob admits he sealed his own fate just by defeating him, so, with finger over the button, what kind of person are you, Joe?
• Averted: Joe dies without doing anything.
  • No one dies.
  • Joe doesn't die. Bob on the other hand...
• Enforced: "Bob and Joe are lowering our show's ratings. Let's have them fight, and both be destroyed by Joe in the end!"
• Lampshaded: "Just watch. Just when we think he's dead, Joe is going to try to take us out in an explosion."
• Invoked: "You think you may have won Bob... but like all good villains, I'm Taking You with Me!"
• Defied: "Don't worry, Joe can't do anything. There's no way he can reach the button before he dies."
• Discussed: "Haven't you noticed how whenever the villain is dying, he attempts to kill the hero in a blaze of glory?"
• Conversed: "Did you see that explosion from Joe's base? He must have been trying to take Bob with him!"

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I'm dying...I can't help that...but I'm Taking You with Me!