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== Anime & Manga ==

* Marik Ishtar from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series]]'' has to following evil monologue:

** He also likes Joey, who will be killed last.

** Evil Bakura quotes the ''[[Commando (film)|Commando]]'' exchange with Pegasus.

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' fic ''[[A Cure for Love]]'' Light says the following to L [[Open Mouth, Insert Foot|without really thinking about what he said]] [[Murder Is the Best Solution|because killing people who annoy him has almost become an automatic response]]:

'''L''': I'm not doing anything stupid, Light. Apart from speaking to you.<br />

'''Light''': [[Kill You Last|Good, because I would hate to kill you.]]<br />

** Becomes a major plot point in the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon|third film]]. {{spoiler|Carly's boss Dylan, and some of his associates, are the descendents of humans who worked for NASA when the ''Ark'' was discovered on the moon. To ensure that no other human learned of this, Soundwave and Laserbeak forced NASA's employees to keep quiet about the discovery, lest they be killed off. Dylan turns out to be one of the few humans chosen to be spared after the Decepticons enslave humanity, possibly to work as a liaison between the 'Cons and the human slaves. It's also revealed that the various deaths in history related to NASA were Soundwave and Laserbeak getting rid of "loose ends."}}

* Col. John Matrix ([[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]) tells this to one of the villains in ''[[Commando (film)|Commando]]''. Later, [[High Altitude Interrogation|he's hanging him over a long drop]] by his leg:

'''Matrix''': [[I Lied]]. ''(Drops Sully to his death.)'' }}

* [[Anti-Hero]]-ic version in ''[[Blade|Blade 2]]''. Blade gets information out of a Vampire Mook, saying, "Tell me what I want to know, and I'll consider you as a loose end." The Mook spills the beans, and Blade actually lets him get away, even when he runs into him again later on. Of course, [[Brick Joke|at the very end]], Blade catches up to the guy in a sleazy porn theater about three countries away: "Well you didn't think I forgot about you did you? <Brain-stab>"

* In ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'', Rasputin says "It will be quick" to Professor Bruttenholm right before he kills him. It appears to be true.

* During a flashback in ''[[Secondhand Lions]]'', Hub has The Sheik, who has tried to kill him on several occasions, defenseless, and at his mercy. He decides to spare him, and leaves him with this.

* ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' has the "I'll kill you last" version.

 

 

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has [[Foe Yay|Sylar informing Mohinder]] "I wasn't begging for my life... I was offering you yours."

* Because they had an unwitting hand in his genesis, a [[Big Bad]] tells the [[Lexx]] crew that they will be [[Omnicidal Maniac|the last in the universe to die]].

* On ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', the demons assisting Lucifer will be killed as soon as Lucifer is finished with the humans and angels if not sooner. Any demon caught assisting Team Free Will will be granted [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|immortality]] [[And I Must Scream|instead]].

* ''[[Lost]]'' inverts the "I'll kill you last" variety. Said by Ethan to Charlie, this is a ''threat'': Charlie will see all his friends die before he's killed.

* In ''[[PvP (webcomic)|Pv P]]'', after horrifying him by [[Story-Boarding the Apocalypse]], Scratch reassures a quivering Skull that ''his'' death will be painless.

* ''[[VG Cats]]'' plays with this [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=199 here] with the [[Path of Inspiration|The Church Of The]] [[One-Winged Angel]] [[Final Fantasy|Of Latter-Day Summons]].

''"Oh no, you'll still die...but '''faster.'''"'' }}

* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' uses this when Snow Song is thinking about how she'll destroy the town in a restaurant, but then the waitress gives her some chocolate cake on the house:

* In ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Sarda shows mercy to the [[Affably Evil]] Dark Warriors:

** Also, upon stumbling upon the Dark Warriors trying to steal the [[Cosmic Keystone|Cosmic Keystones]] to defeat him and gain ultimate power, Sarda asks them if they even know how to use them. Bikke tosses his keystone at Sarda, becoming the first person in the series to land any sort of hit on him:

* [[Cuanta Vida|"You're a crazy bastard, yes? You, I like. I'll kill you last."]] Though considering the speaker's ''[[Fate Worse Than Death|modus operandi]]'', this is probably of no consolation to the guy who ''really'' doesn't like seeing his friends killed.

* [[Bob and George]] [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/041121c For being entertaining opponents]

* [http://buttersafe.com/2009/02/12/children/ This] Buttersafe.

* [[Girl Genius]]:

** Castle Heterodyne eventually uses the "I will kill you quickly" line on {{spoiler|Professor Tiktoffen, while crushing him to death.}}

* A posthumous variant is employed in ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'', in which {{spoiler|Mr. Blank}} states that he made {{spoiler|Mr. Black}}'s death as quick and painless as possible because the person in question "had earned it"... [[To the Pain|But the person he's talking to is]] ''[[To the Pain|not]]'' [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|going to be in for the same treatment]].

* ''[[Futurama]]:'' Bender has said he might spare Fry when he kills all humans.

** At Fry's funeral (don't worry, [[All Just a Dream|he gets better]]):

** As of "Lethal Inspection", Hermes has been added to the list of humans to not kill.

** Robot Santa proclaimed his intention to kill the entire Planet Express team ... except Zoidberg, who hadn't been naughty and got a pogo stick instead.

* This line from Dr. Robotnik in an episode of ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]''...

* The [[Justice League Unlimited]] episode ''Alive'' offers Darkseid's take:

* In the fourth episode of ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', Amon ambushes Korra and has a golden opportunity to {{spoiler|take her bending away}}, but doesn't take it because {{spoiler|that would make her a martyr}}. Instead he gives a [[Breaking Speech]] explaining that he'll save her for last.

 

* On ''[[LOLcats|I Can Has Cheezburger?]]'': [http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/08/12/funny-pictures-i-eets-yoo-last/ A promise made by a cute little tiger cub.]

* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', [[Big Bad]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]] Omega discussing his plans to conquer the universe with [[Mission Control]] Vic.

* In ''[[The Onion]]''`s "Our Dumb Century", this is the Nazis' response when (as the headline says) ''Non-white Japan allies with White Supremacist Nazi Germany in Well-Thought Out Scheme''.

* Dane Cook has a stand-up act about [[Because You Were Nice to Me|befriending]] the [[Loners Are Freaks|creepy loner]] in your office so that this happens when he inevitably snaps and goes on a rampage with a shotgun.