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* The Summoning Dark in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Thud}}''. A demon of vengeance summoned by a dwarf mine sign scrawled by a dying miner, it attempts to possess Samuel Vimes as its instrument for getting revenge on the dwarfs responsible for the death of the miner... which [[HeroicWillpower proved to be its first mistake]].

* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': While being burned alive, Abinadi cries out to his executioners, promising that they will be hunted by their enemies, plagued with diseases, and that the king will ultimately die by fire as well.

* In ''Rigoletto'', Count Monterone curses Rigoletto with his final words.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Everway}}'' supplement ''Spherewalker Sourcebook''. When Rasmadahan (the Dragon of Fire) died, the sword used to kill him gained magical power and became known as the Dragonbane Sword. Rasmadahan laid a dying curse on the sword that caused anyone wielding it to suffer from the ravages of old age even if they were still young. The curse can cause the sword's user to die of old age while in their twenties.
* As part of its GothicHorror ClicheStorm style, the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' set ''Innistrad'' includes a new Enchantment subtype called "Curses". One of these, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=227075 Curse of Death's Hold]], has flavor text that fits here:
-->"May you and all your kin waste and wither until your clan is no more!"

* After he accidentally gets into the middle of the ongoing Montague-Capulet feud and is fatally wounded by Tybalt, Mercutio in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' curses both families up and down. He also makes a {{Pun}} or two in the process.

* The whole plot of ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'' comes about because a [[BurnTheWitch burning witch]] cursed the whole line of the Baronets of Ruddigore. Heck, the [[EitherOrTitle subtitle]] is ''The Witch's Curse''.

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManZero4'', when the final boss Dr. Weil is defeated by Zero, he expresses shock at being defeated by a "puppet" like Zero. Then he calls for Zero to perish forever. Weil [[BittersweetEnding did get his wish]], as Zero died along with Weil.
-->'''Dr. Weil''': I... I have been defeated... By a mere puppet! Perish! Burn in the fires of Hell! (この・・・ワシが・・・人形ごときに・・・滅べぇ！滅んでしまえぇー！)

* ''Videogame/{{Bayonetta}}'': Each of the Four Cardinal Vitrues screams "May Jubileus, The Creator, grace you!" at Bayonetta as they die. This may sound benevolent, but Jubileus is a being they want to awaken in order to destroy the world, so their asking her to "grace" Bayonetta is their own way of telling the one who killed them to go to hell.

* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'', the first major plot event sees the townspeople capture a gypsy on the (false) accusation of murder. If you fail to either clear his name or break him out of jail within a couple of days, the gypsy is burned at the stake. With his dying breath, he curses the town to share his fate, and you get a HaveANiceDeath screen saying that his curse came true. In the backstory (as read in the logbook in the Adventurer's Guild), it turns out that Erana [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu did this to the Dark One as well]].

* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'':
** The plot of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'' centers around a curse like this uttered by Dracula when he met his end from Trevor Belmont, in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse''.
** He does it again on both Transylvania and Simon himself in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'', setting the stage for ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest''.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** From ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': "CURSE YOU, SAGES! CURSE YOU, ZELDA!! CURSE YOU... LINK!!"
** Before his transformation into Ganon and the aforementioned quote, the human Ganondorf uses his "last breath" to bring the house down on Link... [[CollapsingLair literally]].
** Ganondorf's very ''existence'' is due to one of these by [[spoiler:the demon king Demise, who cursed the very first Link and Zelda in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' so that [[ThePowerOfHate an incarnation of his hatred]] will antagonize their descendants for all eternity.]]
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Kohga throws one on Link before he's cast into the abyss by his own spiked ball. [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration It integrates into the game]] as his underlings being more likely to disguise as travelers in the overworld. It emerges in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom the direct sequel]] that he didn't actually die, however.

* Shiro Tagachi's death wail in ''VideoGame/GuildWars Factions'' might as well have been one...I mean, it bloody ''petrified an entire forest'', and ''turned an entire sea to Jade''.
* In ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil,'' the dying [[TheDragon General Kheck]] uses his final breath to deliver a final insult, right in Jade's face -- she's doomed to fail, she will be consumed by the EldritchAbomination who has been looking for her soul for ''centuries,'' and even if she ''does'' succeed, it will be meaningless because [[EverybodysDeadDave everyone she ever loved is already dead]]. She stares him down fearlessly, though -- not only because she's a PluckyGirl, but because she still has the two most steadfast members of her TrueCompanions with her, and for the rest, well, [[BackFromTheDead now death is a minor technicality]].
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, Lachdanan and his knights are cursed to eternal damnation by King Leoric, who they were forced to slay to put an end to his madness.
-->'''King Leoric:''' Traitors! Even in death, the armies of Khanduras will still obey their king! Even if you will not...
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The moves Grudge and Destiny Bond are appropriately Ghost-type and activate when a Pokémon uses it and then [[NonLethalKO faints]] from a direct enemy attack. Grudge drops the PP of the attacking move to zero, while Destiny Bond [[TakingYouWithMe causes the attacker to faint]].
* In ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'', if you decide to kill [[spoiler:Mr. House]], he might have this as his last words.
-->"May there be... A hell for you! A Tartarus! Bleak... Unending..."
* [[spoiler: The Great Will]]'s last words in both the Neutral and Chaos Paths of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' are both a DyingDeclarationOfHate (Aleph, his killer, was ''supposed'' to be the Messiah) and an extremely cruel example of this trope. [[spoiler:It's implied in ''Nocturne'' said curse leashed the guy to a ''horrifying'' GroundhogDayLoop for eternity until he finished recording the entirety of the war between Law and Chaos by being reborn over and over in each world, having no way to ever change any of their destinies as they fell one by one to their doom.]]
* ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics'' has a non-supernatural example: Hee'la's LastWords if she dies in battle are "Choke on...my blood..."
* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': After defeating Azazel, when you load up the Task Manager, you see one of the processes is him, cursing.
* In the backstory of the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' game, as Princess Artemis of Archanea fell victim to DeathByChildbirth, she cursed the Fire Emblem itself and called it "the end of war, but also the end of love". This, plus an apparent curse she ''actually'' put on the Emblem to try directing the war's course, would cause quite the calamities to the descendants of Artemis' StarCrossedLover Anri, [[StarCrossedLovers for they could never]] [[LoveHurts really find love]] if the Emblem was involved. [[spoiler: The curse rears itself in the head when Artemis' descendant Nyna found herself trapped in a loveless marriage with Hardin when her actual lover is the Grustian Knight Camus, which caused Hardin to fall into despair and then had his soul consumed into darkness, causing the events of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'', where Nyna blamed herself for it. Since the curse mostly affected the Archanean royalty, Nyna decided to not burden Marth (Anri's descendant) with it, handed over the Archanean Kingdom to him and his wife Caeda, and then vanished. By the time [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening the continent became Ylisse]], Artemis' curse would no longer be in play (though it fell into another kind of trouble that required a ScrewDestiny to solve it).]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Heretic}} Heretic 2]]'' it turns out that D'Sparil, the BigBad of the first game, used his dying breath to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpyQmtRvCVc curse Corvus to wander some hellish dimension]] when he stepped through the portal out of the villain's lair, rather than going home. It also seems to have caused Corvus to have to fight though some DLC for the first game as well.
* In ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2ThouShaltNotDie'', Shinnosuke Yamazaki curses Tokyo after he gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by the Demon King at the end of chapter 1.
* ''VideoGame/SwordOfPaladin'': [[spoiler:Anguis killed Eurydike, who turned into a cursed sword, Miasma Stella, in order to torment her killer forever. This backfires when he gains complete control over the sword and uses it to drain the life energy of countless universes.]]
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' delivers this as you defeat him in his home base, suitably accompanied by 'The Curse' BGM. [[spoiler:The reality is [[TakingYouWithMe more mundane]], although [[MacrossMissileMassacre a whole lot]] [[FantasticNuke more destructive]].]]
-->''"For all [[spoiler:Agarthans]]... Let there be light!"''
* ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'': Upon being defeated, Malifor curses everybody on the player's side, expecially the leader Tallin, cursing him for so long that Tallin is tired of hearing it.

* [[http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=177 Parodied]] in an early Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal, with the seldom-used emoticon for "Your mother was just crushed to death in a trash compactor and cursed your name with her dying breath". Its "][>:~+".

* In ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', Anna Vaan to Lenny Priestly (one of a pair of twins).
-->'''Anna:''' My mother's dead, and so's my sister, just like yours is gonna be at the end of this goddamn GAME!

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Both Aunghadhail and The Kodiak make vows to see the Bastard defeated as they were being destroyed in [[TheMagicGoesAway The Sundering]]. These oaths have unfortunate consequences for their {{Reincarnation}}s (Fey and Kodiak) during their time at Whateley, acting as a {{Geas}} on them both (especially Kodiak).

* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "Alive", [[EvilSorceror Tala]], after a failed attempt to turn on Lex Luthor, is used as a LivingBattery to reassemble Brainiac, a process that ends up killing her. She invokes this trope in a different sense by tampering with the process and bringing back Darkseid instead as a final middle finger to Lex.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. When the Professor is about to drown, he screams: "With my last breath, I curse [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Zoidberg]]!"

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** During the annihilation of Ishval, Roy Mustang corners the injured leader of the Ishvallans. Mustang asks if he has something to say and, surrounded by his destroyed city, the old man answers smiling: "I curse you." Then Mustang incinerates him.
** Both Lust and Envy spend their last breaths to tell their killers that they're still going to lose (though the latter's is undermined by the rest of the scene). "I look forward...[[ForeShadowing to the day when those eyes will be wide with agony. It's coming...it's coming]]." and "How much further will that simplistic outlook take you?" respectively.

* In ''Manga/FutureDiary'', [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Ouji Kosaka]] combines this with TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards Yukiteru.
* ''Literature/{{Inukami}}'': The GreaterScopeVillain gave one to Kaoru after being outwitted and vanishing.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Sayaka. It's cursing herself that ''causes'' her [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie transformation into a Witch]] (which is the equivalent of death), as it marks her final descent past the DespairEventHorizon.
--> '''Sayaka:''' (To Kyoko, broken) I was stupid... so stupid.
* In the flashback arc of ''Manga/DuskMaidenOfAmnesia'', Yuuko dies [[DyingDeclarationOfHate swearing revenge on the people who sacrificed her]], and offers her life to the malevolent god she was sacrificed to in exchange for an opportunity to make good on it.

* Suzu's [[{{Reincarnation}} past life]] in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' did not vocalize any resent for becoming a HumanSacrifice, as she was generally very peaceful and [[BornAgainImmortality used to dying]]. However, ''internally'' she was momentarily wishing for the world of humans to be destroyed, and her powers [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor thus created]] an EvilDoppelganger [[GhostlyGoals dedicated to that exact task]].
* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': When Laios manages to finally defeat the Winged Lion by consuming its desire, the Winged Lion, rather than being grateful it will never want for anything or hunger anymore, curses Laios right before dissipating, telling him his greatest desire will never be granted. Laios is scared this means his sister's resurrection will fail, but in reality his "greatest desire" was to be surrounded by monsters. Every monster keeps several miles away from him afterwards, [[CursedWithAwesome something that is a boon to everyone else in the Golden Kingdom]], since they never have to worry about monster attack and the monsters around the borders keep the kingdom safe from invaders.

* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'' has a flashback where a [[UsefulNotes/TheTeutonicKnights Teutonic knight]] is slain in combat by Orthodox Russians and just before dying, he vows to return in another life to plague them again. He ''does'' just that when he reincarnates as a Nazi who would later kill countless Soviet soldiers in the Eastern Front.
* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Haazheel Thorne's last action when Wismerhill finally slays him in battle is to curse the entire world for his defeat, using his magic to ensure that [[ColonyDrop the moon will crash into the planet]] and exterminate all life.

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* In ''Film/{{Star Trek II|The Wrath of Khan}}'', Khan echoes Captain Ahab's last words, directing them at Kirk, as he sets off the Genesis Device.
* In ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'', Samantha Caine tells the villain who had put her and her daughter into a DeathTrap, "You're going to die screaming. Look in my eyes. Tell me if I'm lying." She escapes, and makes the statement come true.

* In ''Film/{{Hercules|2014}}'', when the bad guys sentence Ergenia to death and say they will kill her son next, she angrily starts screaming things like, "I curse you! The gods will punish you! Stay away from my son!" Hercules steps in before the executioner can take her head.
* In ''Film/HeartOfDarkness1958'', [[spoiler:the Queen]] has one for the absent Kurtz: "Die, you devil. Die, you cur. Die, before you drag that sweet boy down into the hell you made here."

* ''Literature/MobyDick'': Captain Ahab's curse "from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee" turns out to be a dying curse, as moments later the line of the harpoon he has struck into Moby Dick gets wrapped around his neck and pulls him overboard, never to be seen again.

* In Creator/MarionZimmerBradley's ''[[Literature/{{Darkover}} Stormqueen!]]'', a traitorous household servant curses Lord Aldaran with sterility before dying. It turns out that he indeed becomes sterile, but it is unclear whether the curse actually did it.
* The Summoning Dark in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Thud}}''. A demon of vengeance summoned by a dwarf mine sign scrawled by a dying miner, it attempts to possess Samuel Vimes as its instrument for getting revenge on the dwarfs responsible for the death of the miner... which [[HeroicWillpower proved to be its first mistake]].

* In ''Literature/DragonsOfRequiem'', Shedah the witch uses her last ounce of energy to curse Issari after she stabs her. Apparently it worked, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain because Issari ends up getting "cursed" with the Vir Requis magic]].

* ''Literature/TheAeneid'': Immediately before Queen Dido of Carthage commits suicide [[WomanScorned because Aeneas left her]], she prays to the gods that Aeneas' mission may fail, and that the Carthaginians may forever be enemies to the descendants of Aeneas' Trojans and may one day avenge her. While part of the curse comes true, it ultimately fails: Aeneas succeeds despite many obstacles, and although Carthage came close to defeating Rome in the [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Second Punic War]], in the end Rome turned out victorious.
* In ''Literature/WatershipDown'', it's mentioned that Vervain of Efrafa has received many such curses from prisoners he executed, without being fazed or believing that they held any power. Then he faces [[WaifProphet Fiver]] and his expectations (and the trope) are [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] three times over: First, Fiver isn't cursing Vervain, but genuinely pitying him for his eventual death; second, this unnerves Vervain enough that he chickens out of finishing off Fiver; third, Fiver's prediction comes true, and Vervain dies mere days later.
* In the French series of historical novels ''Literature/TheAccursedKings'', [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Templar Grand Master]] Jacques de Molay curses the King of France, his minister of Justice and the Pope from his execution pyre. His words : "King Phillipe, Knight Guillaume, Pope Clement, by the end of the year I summon you to appear before the tribunal of God to receive your just chastisement! Cursed! Cursed! You will all be cursed to the thirteenth generation of your race!"

* A legend is related in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' - people murdered the son of a {{Necromancer}} and challenged her [[{{Necromantic}} to raise him]]; instead she spent the remainder of her life warning them not to disrespect the dead, and cursed them before dying herself. Their descendants don't seem to take the legend seriously, but they [[DueToTheDead treat the dead with great formality]] and, when [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies appear]], are quick to say that it's the curse responding to some offworlders poking about through graves.
** The zombies are actually a product of a visiting MadScientist, but the local CrustyCaretaker, helping him, is found dead of suspicious causes, allowing our heroes to put a stop to it. One speculates that ''that'' was the curse in effect.
* In Joseph Payne Brennan's "Canavan's Back Yard" one Goodie Larkins, accused of turning a child into a wild dog was cornered in a marsh and torn to bits by seven fierce dogs which had been deliberately starved for two weeks.
-->"''Let this lande I fall upon lye alle the way to Hell!''" she had screamed. "''And they who tarry here be as these beastes that rende me dead!''"
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfGrettirTheStrong'': Defeated and right before his (second and final) death at the hands of Grettir, the revenant Glámr curses Grettir to never grow any stronger, to never live in peace, to be outlawed, and to always see Glámr's dreadful eyes in the darkness before him.
* Subverted in "Fáfnismál" in the ''Literature/PoeticEdda'': After stabbing the dragon Fafnir to the heart, Sigurd initially conceals his name in his conversation with the dying monster, because he fears Fafnir could lay a curse on him with his dying breath. But when Fafnir taunts him for this, Sigurd ''does'' tell him his name; only for Fafnir to make no use of this--instead, he warns Sigurd (truthfully) that his treasure is cursed and that Regin will betray him.
-->''It was the belief in those times that the words of dying persons were of great power, if they cursed an enemy by his name.''
* In ''Literature/CoffinPrincessChaika'', among the many rumours surrounding Emperor Arthur Gaz is one that claims he placed a curse with his dying breath on the Eight Heroes who defeated him. By the time the series opens five years later, a majority of the eight are some combination of traumatized, destitute, or dead.
* A scene in ''Literature/FateApocrypha'' that didn't make it into the anime, in a flashback, [[spoiler:after Achilles defeated Penthesilea and accidentally made a note about her being beautiful, [[BerserkButton Penthesilea was extremely pissed]] that in her dying breath she cursed that Achilles would be using the spear that killed her to kill someone that he held dear. The curse ends up being fulfilled when Achilles used the spear to kill Atalanta, his friend and idol that he grew to love, in order to save her from the madness that she plunged herself into.]]
* In ''The House of the Seven Gables'' by Creator/NathanielHawthorne the title house and the Pynchon family, its inhabitants, are cursed because Colonel Pynchon built the house on land that he got by [[WitchHunt having his neighbor Matthew Maule hanged as a witch]]. The dying man's last words are a curse on Pynchon, telling him that God will give him blood to drink; soon after, he chokes on his own blood. Unfortunate fates continue to befall members of the family until the curse is broken by ThePowerOfLove.
* In ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire'', [[spoiler:Kujen's]] dying words are a curse on Jedao, "No one else will ever love you".
* In the third ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' book, Eragon refuses to parley with the last, dying Ra'zac, telling it that the information it gave isn't enough to be of value. It curses him, saying "May you leave Alagaësia and never return!" This chills him, since it had previously been predicted that he would leave Alagaësia forever, and indeed, at the end of the series it becomes true.
* Feyd Rautha Harkonnen receives one of these in ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. After killing a combat slave in the arena, his opponent's final words are "One day one of us will get you." Given that this fighter is not just a slave, but one of the soldiers from the army of the Harkonnen's blood enemies, the Atreides, this may be prophetic.
* ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': The Gods Below provide this benefit to villainous Named in general: when you're about to die, Below pays the [[VillainCred dues you've paid]] back in full. This gets used multiple times by dying villains:
** During Book 2, [[spoiler:when Catherine is stabbed in the heart by the Lone Swordsman, she successfully curses him to die the same day. (He already had a HeroicSacrifice planned, but Catherine interrupts him and kills him herself, while she herself is a zombie.)]]
** During Book 4, [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction Warlock]] deliberately calls upon his dues to Below, sacrificing an entire city to wipe out an attacking Ashuran fleet and save his son's life.]]
** During Book 5, [[spoiler: Tyrant uses his dues to slay the Age of Wonders.]]
** During Book 7, [[spoiler: Amadeus inverts the trope. Instead of using his dues to kill someone or something, he uses them to prevent Catherine from immediately taking [[ChildhoodFriends Malicia/Alaya's]] life as well.]]
* ''Literature/RobRoy'': As he lies dying, Rashleigh Osbaldistone reiterates how much he hates his cousin Francis. When Francis unflappably points out that he never did anything to earn his dying cousin's undying hatred, Rashleigh wastes his last breath cursing his cousin.
-->"Cousin Francis," he said, "draw near to me." I approached him as he requested.—"I wish you only to know that the pangs of death do not alter I one iota of my feelings towards you. I hate you!" he said, the expression of rage throwing a hideous glare into the eyes which were soon to be closed for ever—"I hate you with a hatred as intense, now while I lie bleeding and dying before you, as if my foot trode on your neck."\\
"I have given you no cause, sir," I replied,—"and for your own sake I could wish your mind in a better temper."\\
"You have given me cause," he rejoined. "In love, in ambition, in the paths of interest, you have crossed and blighted me at every turn. I was born to be the honour of my father's house—I have been its disgrace—and all owing to you. My very patrimony has become yours—Take it," he said, "and may the curse of a dying man cleave to it!"
* In ''Literature/TheMonsterMen'', one dying man curses the man who betrayed him.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** "Gods help you, Theon Greyjoy. Now you are truly lost." Ser Rodrik Cassel doesn't curse his killer so much as sympathize with him over the curse he is irrevocably drawing down upon himself. The curse comes into full effect when Theon loses his identity after being tortured and broken into a creature called "Reek".
** Rickard Karstark uses his LastWords to invoke the curse of the kinslayer on his executioner since Stark and Karstark are not only descendants of the First Men but also kin: "Kill me and be cursed. You are no king of mine!" Judging by the Red Wedding, it worked. In the books, Karstark are no more kin to the Starks than other houses the Starks intermarried with over the years since it's been centuries since they began as a minor cadet branch, and kinslaying applies mostly to immediate and second nearest family.
** Missandei's final words on the city walls of King's Landing, before being beheaded, is "Dracarys", the war cry that triggers the dragonflames. Daenerys and Grey Worm hear this and more than fulfill her wrath on the city of King's Landing the following day.
* ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' ends it's infamous two-parter, the Nackle invasion arc, with Jack finally defeating Alien Nackle by breaking Nackle's neck, only for the vile alien to gloat that his stolen weapon, Satan-Z, is still out there and will destroy Japan. But thankfully that didn't come to pass.
--> '''Nackle''': You think you've won. But soon everywhere in Tokyo will explode. Mwa-hahahahaha! [''[[DieLaughing dies mid-gloating]]'']
* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Rogue", Sam Phlean tells Lex to "Go to hell" as his last words as the latter demands to know Clark's secret.

* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One With The Screamer", a guest star utters the phrase. He's the director of a play that got bad reviews, where his girlfriend and Joey starred.
* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'', after the death of her son and the extinction of her political cause (partly due to Atia's machinations), Servilia goes to Atia's house with a knife and waits until Atia comes out. Then, with the full attention of everybody around, she curses Atia to have nothing but "bitterness and despair" for the rest of her life. To seal the deal, she then stabs herself. While Atia achieves the goal she's been aiming for the entire series, she finds it's LonelyAtTheTop.
* In the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episode "Outlaws", Sawyer hunts down and kills the man he thinks was responsible for causing his father's suicide and murder of his mother. He's wrong, and the guy's last words are, "It'll come round again."

* In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', Gina, the female Cylon spy whom Admiral Cain had ordered tortured and raped for months, comes after Cain following her escape to get revenge. Gina echoes the same words Cain used against her, and Cain tells her to go frack herself. Gina [[PreMortemOneLiner responds]] YoureNotMyType and shoots her.
* On an episode of ''Series/YesDear'', Greg gets a message on his answering machine about his sick aunt in the hospital who is on her deathbed and wanted to see him one last time. However, it was a wrong number and Greg doesn't even have an aunt with that name, but he uses the message as an excuse to get out of doing something he didn't want to do. After revealing this to Jimmy, Jimmy is appalled and makes him go visit the dying woman for real. The woman is quite old and can't see all that well, so she thinks Greg really is the nephew she called for. She tells him to come closer so she can say goodbye, [[MoodWhiplash then proceeds to browbeat him for being a no-good bum who has brought nothing but shame and disappointment to the entire family]], and lays a curse on him right before she dies. In TheTag, Greg tracks down the woman's actual nephew, and passes the curse onto its intended target.

* In Tolkien's ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Fëanor curses Morgoth three times before succumbing to his injuries.

-->"Your love will be hopeless for all eternity."\\
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The fun part is that Danburite, who was in love with her, intended to give a dying ''blessing''. Sailor V had always been torn between duty and love, and by making her realize [[MarriedToTheJob she should and would always choose duty over love]] and stating it out loud he was telling her how to avoid tormenting herself. It still had the effect of a dying curse, alongside the desired one.

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Kohga throws one on Link before he's crushed to death with his own spiked ball. [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration It integrates into the game]] as his underlings being more likely to disguise as travelers in the overworld.

* ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': Villains have the power to curse their killers with their last breath. When [[spoiler:Catherine]] is stabbed in the heart by the Lone Swordsman, [[spoiler:she]] sucessfully curses him to die the same day. (He already had a HeroicSacrifice planned, but [[spoiler:Catherine]] interupts him and kills him [[spoiler:herself, while she herself is a zombie]].)

!!'''As a DeathTrope, several if not all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

** In Episode 46 of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', [[spoiler:[[DarkChick Nena Trinity]]]] uses her last breath to curse her murderer, [[spoiler:[[BrokenBird Louise]] [[AntiVillain Halevy]]]], despite being [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled]] -- [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe almost completely in half]] -- [[spoiler:by the claws of Louise's Regnant.]] It comes across as just her acting like a SoreLoser, but [[AssholeVictim she totally had it coming]].

* In ''LightNovel/CoffinPrincessChaika'', among the many rumours surrounding Emperor Arthur Gaz is one that claims he placed a curse with his dying breath on the Eight Heroes who defeated him. By the time the series opens five years later, a majority of the eight are some combination of traumatized, destitute, or dead.
* A scene in ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' that didn't make it into the anime, in a flashback, [[spoiler:after Achilles defeated Penthesilea and accidentally made a note about her being beautiful, [[BerserkButton Penthesilea was extremely pissed]] that in her dying breath she cursed that Achilles would be using the spear that killed her to kill someone that he held dear. The curse ends up being fulfilled when Achilles used the spear to kill Atalanta, his friend and idol that he grew to love, in order to save her from the madness that she plunged herself into.]]

* ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'':

* ''LightNovel/{{Inukami}}'': The GreaterScopeVillain gave one to Kaoru after being outwitted and vanishing.

* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''Rogue'', Sam Phlean tells Lex to "Go to hell" as his last words as the latter demands to know Clark's secret.
* In the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "The Coming of Shadows", the Centauri Emperor's efforts at reconciliation with the Narn are ruined by the machinations of Londo Mollari and Lord Refa. Just before the Emperor dies, he says a few last words to Londo. Londo falsely tells everyone else that the Emperor had endorsed the launching of a war against the Narns... but privately admits to Refa that the Emperor ''really'' said that Londo and Refa were both damned. About a year later, Refa is beaten to death by a mob of Narns ...and compared to Londo's eventual fate, he got off lightly.

** In the episode "The Stolen Earth", Harriet Jones, Former Prime Minister foreshadows the destruction of the Daleks at the hands of ''two'' human-Time Lord hybrids this way.

'''Dalek:''' [[AC:[[RunningGag Yes, we know who you are.]]]]\\

** Later in "Journey's End", when this prophecy comes to pass, Davros has this to say:
--->'''Davros:''' Never forget, Doctor, ''you'' did this! I name you, forever! YOU ARE THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS!!!

* On one episode of ''Series/LukeCage2016'', Anansi drops a vicious one on Mariah after [[spoiler: her goons slaughter his family and friends and right before she [[MoralEventHorizon burns him alive.]]]]

* Zaros from ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' had one of these, and it was rather powerful, turning all humans involved with his assassination into [[AndIMustScream barely-perceptible spirits]]. Of course, Zaros is probably NotQuiteDead.