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An '''Ending Trope''', so unhidden '''''spoilers''''' abound.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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{{quote| "[[Famous Last Words|Bang]]."}}
** [[Word of God|He was]] [[He's Just Hiding|just tired.]] [[Shrug of God|Maybe.]]
* ''[[Shadow Skill]]'': After [[Incurable Cough of Death|years of sickness]] from fighting in [[Forbidden Zone|places where even Sevalles fear to wage war]], [[Almighty Janitor|Diaz Ragu]] {{spoiler|faces off against [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Darkness]] to save Gau from being [[Curb Stomp Battle|slaughtered]] by [[Badass Longcoat|him]]. Despite his [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|legs being crushed]] and [[Blind Without
* ''[[Burst Angel]]'', Jo goes even more [[The Unfettered|unfettered]] than usual, having no regard for equipment or ammo in her assault on RAPT HQ. The extent of her farewell to Meg is leaving her jacket behind (after punching Meg out to make sure she wouldn't follow).
* Nearly all of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' is eventually revealed to be winding down to the antagonist's Last Dance; aware that he is soon going to die from {{spoiler|complications of the imperfect cloning process that created him}}, he's resentful and despairing enough to [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|try to take all of society with him]]. {{spoiler|Being a [[Magnificent Bastard]], the plan almost works, too.}}
** In ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' we meet his another clone of the same line, {{spoiler|Rey Za Burrel}}. Aware that he will be dead before the year is out, {{spoiler|Rey}} decides he needs to leave a positive legacy behind and serves as [[The Dragon]] to the series [[Big Bad]] who's out to [[Well
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': Kamina. He comes back to life to do it, anyway. Kittan and Lordgenome too.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'': In season 1 the [[Big Bad]] Precia Testarossa is desperate for the Jewel Seeds because she's dying and she doesn't have long before she has to complete her [[Evil Plan]]. She's still a [[Complete Monster]], just turned [[Up to Eleven]].
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* This is the premise of Marvel MAX's ''Destroyer'': after discovering that his heart will give out soon, the titular elderly superhero sets out to kill as many villains as he can.
* In [[Spider Man]], the Vulture stops holding back when he finds out he has cancer.
* A Senate Guard in [[Star Wars]] named Venco Autem was fired for blatant corruption. After years of wandering the galaxy, immersed in shady dealings, he learned that he had a terminal illness. Autem undergoes a change of heart and wants to die having done some good in his life. He believes that, as the Galactic Republic is hopelessly corrupt and evil, [[Well
* [[The Joker]] is told he has cancer. Granted the doctor was lying but what does he do? Start a [[Crisis Crossover]] fittingly called The Last Laugh. [[Batman]] has even said Joker is much more dangerous when backed into a corner.
* In Walt Simonson's run on ''[[The Mighty Thor]]'', Skurge the Executioner does this, defending the bridge at Gjallerbru so Thor, Balder and their allies can make their escape.
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* Ripley in ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]³''. "You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else."
** The convicts qualify as well, as profoundly stated by Dillon.
{{quote| '''Dillon:''' You're all gonna die. The only question is how you check out. Do you want it on your feet? Or on your fuckin' knees... begging? I ain't much for begging! Nobody ever gave me nothing! So I say [[Precision F
* ''[[Joe Versus the Volcano]]''. The reason Joe agrees to jump into a live volcano - he'll die as a man rather than from dying from a brain disease.
* In the novel ''Jericho Falls'' the Vietnam veteran helicopter pilot realizes he is going to die and recalls a Vietnamese captive who almost killed him because the captive had no fear of death. So now he takes his own knowledge of his impending death and uses it against his enemies.
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* An early example of this was in the [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]] novel ''Curtain: Poirot's Last Case'', which was released in 1975 but written in the late 1930s. In it, Poirot, {{spoiler|dying of natural causes and dealing with a murderer he could not bring to justice through proof, kills the man himself and then accelerates his own death through medications}}.
** Also the reason behind [[And Then There Were None]] . {{spoiler|A terminally ill [[Hanging Judge]] decides to have a go at a number of murderers who had avoided justice. }}
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty
{{quote| Under the spreading chestnut tree<br />
I sold you and you sold me }}
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{{quote| '''Illvin''': Arhys, no, this is too fey!<br />
'''Arhys''': Fey? Fey is a man who [[Death Seeker|looks forward to death]]. {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along|I look back on mine.]] [...] }} If this dy Lutez manages to die well tonight, let it complete the set so long left undone, and be you healed of the long wound another dy Lutez dealt you. }}
* Goes back as far as [[The Bible]], in which King Hezekiah once got prideful and showed ambassadors from Babylon all the treasures of Judah. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]], said God through the prophet Isaiah; you didn't tell them it was my favour that got you all that stuff. Now they'll come back to take it all, and your children too. Incredibly, Hezekiah was fine with this, thinking "After all, it won't happen in my lifetime." (And he was one of the good kings of Judah. See why God discouraged setting up a monarchy?) Note that this is the 2 Kings 20 account; the version in Chronicles is a bit different.
** Note that there's an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] here- he's not fine with it, but he's grateful that at least, his good acts earlier in his reign were enough for God not to have it happen now, and instead give Judah more time.
** Judges 16:23-31. Look it up.
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* An episode of ''[[Angel]]'' features a normal vampire mook deliberately going into this after Angel kills [[Unholy Matrimony|his girlfriend (another vampire, obviously)]]. He has a demon, who is basically a 'collector' of demonic organs, remove his heart. The procedure will kill him after a couple of hours, but in the meantime, he's invulnerable to all the traditional vampire weaknesses - from sunlight to staking - giving an otherwise-unremarkable mook a real shot at taking down Angel...
* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', {{spoiler|the Tenth Doctor himself, in the 2009 specials. At the end of ''Planet of the Dead'', a low-level psychic tells him he's going to die, so he spends the next episodes running around having as many adventures possible before his inevitable [[The Nth Doctor|regeneration]].}}
** {{spoiler|It occurs more literally in ''The End Of Time''; after receiving a fatal dose of radiation, the Doctor spends his last hours visiting the people he'd cared about during his tenth life and... well, not so much saying goodbye as helping them out from a distance and then staring sadly at them before wandering off. Except for Rose, whom [[Timey
** {{spoiler|And in "Closing Time", Eleven does it again in anticipation of getting [[Killed Off for Real]].}}
** Even before that, Eleven did it in "Let's Kill Hitler", after {{spoiler|being poisoned by River Song and told he was cut off from regenerations and would be dead in just over thirty minutes.}} The Doctor's response? {{spoiler|He takes the time to put on a nice tux, fabricate a Sonic Cane, and move the TARDIS to confront the Time Agents out to punish River for his murder.}}
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* Sir Aliste from the PSP remake of ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' masquerades as a villain and kidnaps the lover of his ally, Beowulf, so that they may duel with their lives on the line. The former was afflicted with some malady, was destined to die with the middle age's lack of medical care (apparently for some reason the commonplace ''magicall'' healing wouldn't work either), and refused to do so confined and wasting away in a sick bed. Aliste is defeated, and - with his dying breath - urges Beowulf to save his lover Reis.
* Prior to the events of ''[[Star Control|Star Control 2]]'', the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Shofixti]] cause their own sun to go nova to strike a final blow to the Ur-Quan. The news of the extinction of the Shofixti was a [[Despair Event Horizon]] to fellow [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race Guys]], the Yehat. {{spoiler|The player can track down the [[Adam and Eve Plot|last surviving Shofixti]] to recruit both the Shofixti and the Yehat to his side.}}
** Doubles as a [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] {{spoiler|- the Shofixti pretty much single-...um, single-sunnedly? ensured that the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za lose to their [[Omnicidial]] brethren, Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.}}
* Invoked in ''[[R Type|R-Type Final]]'' with Operation Last Dance, where all R-series models in existence gather to fire their respective [[Wave Motion Gun|Wave Motion Guns]] in unison to put a stop to the Bydo.
** Which in itself is referenced by the R-99 Last Dancer, one of the game's three ultimate ships.
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* In ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'', an erroneous diagnosis tells Baloo he's going to die soon. He decides to go out with a bang by braving the Bermuda Trapezoid.
* In ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'', Halcyon Renard, otherwise a man who had been defined by his insistence on personal accountability, justifies questionable actions in the episode "Golem" with his failing health. [[What the Hell, Hero?|Goliath was not pleased.]]
== Tabletop Games ==
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