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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has [[spoiler:Ashley]] doing this if she is shot protecting Udina.
--> '''[[spoiler:Ashley:]]''' I hope the Reapers... send you to ''Hell.''

%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "With my last breath, I curse ZOIDBEEERRRGG!!!"

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
-->'''Farnsworth:''' With my last breath, I curse [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Zoidberg]]!

** 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.
--->'''[[spoiler:Nena:]]''' DAMN YOU, YOU ''BITCH!''

** 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]] -- by the claws of Louise's Regnant.]] It comes across as just her acting like a SoreLoser.

** In Episode 46 of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', [[spoiler:[[DarkChick Nena Trinity]] uses her last breath to curse her murderer, [[BrokenBird Louise]] [[AntiVillain Halevy]], despite being [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled]] -- [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe almost completely in half]] -- by the claws of Louise's Regnant.]]

* There is a legend surrounding Sarah Good, one of the victims of the [[BurnTheWitch Salem Witch Trials]]: before she was hanged, Minister Nicholas Noyes gave her one last chance to confess. She replied, "You are a liar. I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink." Years later, Noyes suffered from an internal hemorrhage and choked to death on his own blood.

* At the end of ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', Paptimus Scirocco dies after being rammed by the Zeta Gundam. As he goes, he screams, "I won't die alone... I'll drag your soul to Hell with me... Kamille Bidan!" Since both characters are Newtypes with strong PsychicPowers, this sends Kamille into a practically vegetative state, [[spoiler: though he recovers some time later]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

* Each of the Four Cardinal Vitrues in ''Videogame/{{Bayonetta}}'' 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.
** WORSE. [[spoiler:It's inverted. Each of the Virtues realizes that Bayonetta's fate is FAR worse than what a sociopathic hero deserves. They're basically praying to Jubileus not to drive her to omnicidal madness - that's Jubileus' job. Note that they're busy praying for mercy for Bayonetta just before she REALLY gets serious in the torture / murder spree]].

** The third game has [[spoiler:Ashley]] doing this if she is shot protecting Udina.

* 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]].

** Harry's mother Margaret Dresden pulled an impressive one against [[spoiler: Lord Raith, King of the [[HornyDevils White Court]] of vampires, after he mortally wounded her with an entropy curse. Knowing that he'd just be replaced by another vampire if she managed to kill him, she instead used her Death Curse to take away his ability to feed, effectively rendering him powerless and crippling the entire White Court as Raith had to give up his expansionist agenda to conceal his new weakness from his numerous [[TheStarscream Starscreams]]. Raith managed to keep the curse's effect secret for nearly three decades, but after Harry found out about it, he exposed it to Raith's eldest daughter Lara, who promptly betrayed him and took control of the White Court for herself, keeping her father as a PuppetKing controlled through incest. {{Squick}}.]]

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' it's actually done quite frequently. Mostly 'Son of a Bitch'.

-->[[DefiantToTheEnd Mi go haunt you for the rest of yuh days]]. You go eat, but yuh won't taste. Yuh go sleep, but you won't rest! ''[[PyrrhicVillainy Everyting yuh love, yuh go lose!]]'' Yuh hear mi? YUH HEAR MI? '' '''YUH HEAR MI?!''' ''

* ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' ends it's infamous two-parter, the Nackle invasion arc, with Jack finally defeating Alien Nackle by breaking Nackle's skull, 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.

* A policeman asked the mortally-wounded Music/TupacShakur to name his shooter. Tupac's reply (and dying words)? "[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you]]."[[http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/23/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/tupac-last-words-rs/index.html]]"

** Nearly four months later, Robespierre met his end.

* The Master of Knights Templar [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Molay Jacques de Molay]] was burned alive in March 1314 and cursed the engineers of his chapter's demise -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_IV_of_France King Philip IV of France]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_V Pope Clement V]] -- from his pyre, reportedly saying he'd meet them both in God's presence before the year was out, and cursing Philip's house. Sure enough, Clement died ''one month later'', and Philip followed him to the grave that November--and his three sons all died cruel deaths and did not leave surviving male issue. (''Literature/TheAccursedKings'', mentioned above, is a fictionalized retelling of this history.)

* When Shaka of the Zulu was assassinated by his half brother Dingaan he told Dingaan that the white people, not he, would rule.
** Dingaan did rule for twelve years though, and was overthrown by another half-brother (who admittedly had British backing) not directly conquered. That happened later.

** He does it again on both Transylvania and Simon himself in VideoGame/CastlevaniaI, setting the stage for VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest.
* From ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': "CURSE YOU, SAGES! CURSE YOU, ZELDA!! CURSE YOU... LINK!!"

* 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''.

* Possibly the most ridiculous use of this trope in the trashy action film, ''Film/FinalScore1986''; the hero forces a carload of mooks to be [[RailroadTracksOfDoom stuck upon a railroad]], just as a train comes approaching. All four mooks then said "Son of a bitch!" in unison moments before the train hits.

* In ''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.

-->"Your love will be hopeless for all eternity."
** 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 the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story "The Four Fates" (aka "The Curse of the Four Fates"), a dying [[MagicalNativeAmerican Indian mystic]] predicts the deaths of the four criminals who kill him in a robbery attempt. Each comes true in [[ProphecyTwist an unexpected fashion]]. For example, the one who is told "water will be your downfall" heads to the desert, several kilometers from any body of water -- and dies of dehydration.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', The Corinthian is ''very'' careful not to kill Loki because of this trope, instead just choosing to mutilate him, noting that "the death curse of a god is an evil thing".
* In ''[[Comicbook/GrantMorrisonsBatman The Return of Bruce Wayne]]'', Bruce Wayne's ancestor Nathaniel Wayne judged a woman named Annie to be a witch and hanged her (she ''was'' a witch, but she wasn't evil). Right before she died, she angrily cursed Nathaniel and his entire bloodline, implying this is one of the reasons why Bruce's life sucks so much. For extra irony and tragedy, Annie had been in a relationship with a time-displaced Bruce at the time, but since he arrived with amnesia, she named him Mordecai and had no idea he was a Wayne.

* 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.