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* ''[[Film/TheMatrix The Matrix: Revolutions]]''

** In spite of the fact that she's been impaled, Trinity manages to keep talking... and talking... and talking... and talking. Mostly about how she's really glad she gets to give a speech ''this'' time. Half the speech is lead-up to TheReveal that she is impaled (Neo [[spoiler:being blind]], he didn't notice at first).

* In ''Film/Schindler'sList'':

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': Before succumbing to his battlefield wounds at the end of Season 2, a half-delirious Jaro Tapal delivers one such speech to Mace Windu as he lays dying before him, serving as a mix of BreakTheHaughty and VaguenessIsComing.

* A variation of this features in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6191084/1/Careful-What-You-Wish-For Careful What You Wish For]]". When Angela Weber (turned into a vampire two decades ago to save her life) comes to visit her father on his deathbed, her father has been left crippled by a stroke so that he cannot talk directly, but Edward uses his telepathy to tell Angela what her father is thinking as he dies, allowing Reverend Webber to tell Angela that he’s glad to see her and is proud to learn what she’s accomplished.

* Parodied in ''Film/TheMask'', where after a shootout, The Mask stumbles over to the man that shot him, and dramatically enacts several death scenes one after another, while the shooter blubbers.

** Then, the silhouette of an audience suddenly appears to gives a standing ovation, and the Mask immediately gets up to accept an acting award handed from out of frame ("You love me! You really love me!") and the bad guys surrounding him are at loss at what is going on. At least one of them actually starts ''applauding''.
* In ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' movie, after the Professor has been mortally wounded, he ponders the meaning of what he was doing in the first place with Bourne, exchanges notes on their condition, and ends with a lament.

** Bourne himself paraphrases this in the third film [[spoiler:which prompts the other Treadstone/Blackbriar 'asset' to let him go]].

*** This is, of course, after surviving through several minutes of Darth Maul Vs. Obi-Wan
** Subverted in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''--after Zam Wesell is hit by a saber dart loaded with an exceptionally virulent poison that will kill her in seconds, she isn't even able to intelligibly finish her sentence which would have informed the heroes who TheDragon of the man in front of [[TheManBehindTheMan the man ]]''[[TheManBehindTheMan behind ]]''[[TheManBehindTheMan the man]] was (get all that?)...though, to her credit, she tries.
*** In the same film, Shimi's last words sort of play with this trope: She does manage to say a few things to Anakin, but she eventually [[KilledMidSentence dies mid-phrase]] as she's saying "Anakin, I lo--".

*** That, and that there's still some good in Anakin.
** Episode IV gives Obi-Wan a rare ''post-death'' Final Speech: "Run, [[strike:Forrest]] Luke! Run!"
** As mentioned above, in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Yoda tells Luke that death is the way of all things, confirms that Vader is his father, that he won't be a Jedi until he defeats Vader, and that he has a long-lost family member (but by that point is too weak to say what kind or who it is). Cheery. This is somewhat more believable in that he's dying of old age, not an injury. Also, Darth Vader, after his suit is damaged to the point it can't sustain him anymore, asks Luke to take his helmet off so he can look at his son's face with his own eyes, then tells him to leave him behind. ([[NoOneGetsLeftBehind Luke doesn't]].) At Luke's protestations, Anakin tells him that he's already ''been'' saved, and he should tell his sister he was right--that there was ''some'' good left.

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** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'': [[spoiler:Talia al Ghul taunts the heroes with her dying words.]] A terser final speech from [[spoiler:Batman himself, reminding Catwoman and Gordon of their inner morality before flying a bomb away from the city to his death.]] [[spoiler:Presumably.]]

* Subverted in ''Film/TheWayOfTheGun'', where a dying man delivers a tedious final speech and refuses to die on cue, to the obvious frustration of his partner, who wants to continue his mission. Eventually the dying man says that he'd rather be alone anyway and lets his partner go.

* "Everything's goin' dark..." (A favorite of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, and it's been used elsewhere too, in which the dying person remarks how dark everything's getting.)

->''"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."''
-->-- '''Ed Gardner'''

* [[spoiler:Asakura Ryoko]] dying at Yuki's hands in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. While slowly being disintegrated, she delivers this speech:

* ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}''. [[spoiler:Togame]] takes a good fifteen minutes to finally die. Her killer admits that he deliberately missed her vitals specifically for this reason.

** All the way back in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'', when ice-skater-Secret Service-defector-bodyguard (yes, really) Natasha Markova is ''hit with a missile'' and still finds time to deliver lines like:

** 'VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'': This is the only game in the series to downplay this. All the bosses hardly get more than a sentence or two before [[DefeatEqualsExplosion exploding for no valid reason]]. [[spoiler:Played straight with The Boss, on the other hand.]]

* A lamentation of death, such as: "Courage man, the hurt can not be much." "'Twill serve. [[IncrediblyLamePun Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man]]. A plague o' both your houses. They have made worms meat of me. A plague on both your houses! Why the devil did you come between us? I was hurt under your arm." "I thought all for the best." "A Plague o' both your houses."

** The only game in the series to ''mostly'' avert this is ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. All the bosses hardly get more than a sentence or two before [[DefeatEqualsExplosion exploding for no valid reason]]. [[spoiler:Played ''[[TearJerker painfully straight]]'' with The Boss, on the other hand.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Funnily enough, when Damar died, the original script had him die without saying anything. The writers decided that he was important enough to get a final "speech", which consisted of "Keep..."
** In context, he was probably trying to tell Garak to "keep going", leave him behind and accomplish the mission.
*** Actually credit goes to Casey Biggs, who played Damar, and lobbied not to go down without a word. So they gave him approval to ad-lib something. He admits that he has no idea how he would have finished the line.

* The ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' episode [[Recap/BeastWarsS2E9CodeOfHero "Code of Hero"]] ends with Dinobot, mortally fatigued due to power drain, giving a dying speech to his Maximal comrades, saying that [[IRegretNothing he had no regrets]] in saving humanity and Earth's future from the machinations of the Predacons, trading one last set of barbs with [[VitriolicBestBuds Rattrap]], and finishing with some of the most poignant words you'll ever hear a TransformingMecha give.
-->'''Dinobot:''' Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds, along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence.

* [[spoiler:Shirley]] from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has one of these after [[spoiler:being shot point-blank by Rolo]]:
-->[[spoiler:'''Shirley''': "You know... When my memories came back, I was so scared... a fake teacher... friends with no memories... Everyone was... lying to me. It was if... the whole world was watching me. Lulu, you've been fighting all by yourself... against this world. So that's why... I wanted... to become the one thing truthful to you."]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Lelouch''': "...Shirley."]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Shirley''': "I love you, Lulu. Even when I knew you killed my father... I couldn't... bring myself to hate you. Even when you tried to make me forget everything... I still fell... in love with you again. Even my memories were altered... I still fell in love again."]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Lelouch''': ''activates his geass'' "No! Don't die Shirley!"]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Shirley''': "No matter how many times I'm reborn... I'm sure... I'll fall in love with you again, Lulu. This is... fate, right?"]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Lelouch''': "Don't die, Shirley! Don't die! Don't die!"]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Shirley''': "So it's okay, right, Lulu? That I fall in love with you again when I'm reborn? No matter... how many times... I'll... fall in love... with you."]]
** Lelouch himself gets one as the Zero Requiem comes to pass and whispers one to Suzaku after the latter stabs him.
** Before either of these, Urabe gives one to Zero right before attempting a TakingYouWithMe on Rolo to allow his comrades an opportunity to escape.

* Very nearly done straight (it is, at any rate, a "final" speech) in the last episode of the '90s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' animated series, where a mortally wounded Professor Xavier - just recently brought out of a coma as a side effect of trying to contact an alien race that might still be able to help him - delivers an individual poignant goodbye to every one of the X-Men present from what appears to be his deathbed.

* ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'' ''loves'' this trope. Pretty much every character who dies on-screen gets some variant of this, whether it's [[spoiler: the heroes]] or the [[IllGirl Ill Boy]].

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* In ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', [[spoiler: after [[YoungConqueror Reinhard von Lohengramm]]'s fleets completely surrounded the Alliance fleet led by [[CoolOldGuy Alexandre Bewcock]] during the [[LastStand Battle of Mar-Adetta]], he ordered a temporary ceasefire to give Bewcock a chance to surrender.]] The latter refused politely and gave a Final speech instead.

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', ''Hirac delest'' is an Andalite term for one's last thoughts or final words. It is a fairly common practice among Andalite warriors to record it just before their demise. ''The Andalite Chronicles'' takes this concept UpToEleven, as the ''entire text'' actually serves as Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul's ''hirac delest''.

* Literature/TheSongOfRoland takes this UpToEleven. While secondary characters just get cleaved in two and drop dead, mortally wounded heroes will have time to say goodbye to their comrades, deliver final monologues, pray God for forgiveness, and arrange themselves in aesthetically pleasing positions before finally dying. Archbishop Turpin also takes the time to bless the corpses of the previously fallen. And all that, of course, only comes after they did [[DoNotGoGentle one or two final charges]] against the enemy to [[TakingYouWithMe take as many of them with them]] as possible... while already mortally wounded.

* Early in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'', when Buzz Buzz dies, it tells a long story instructing Ness what to do. Furthermore asking if you need it repeated.

* Seemingly random non-sequitur [[DyingClue that the heroes need to decode]]. Classic examples are ''Film/CitizenKane'''s "[[ItWasHisSled Rosebud]]" and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Star War's "There is another Sky... walk... er..."]]

* [[AvertedTrope Averted]] and PlayedForLaughs by those pesky [[WhiteMagic healers]] in [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2006-11-28 this]] Webcomic/DominicDeegan comic.

* Nearly every names character in ''Franchise/FireEmblem''. They range from something as short as another character's name to a full paragraph in size.

* Early in Earthbound, when Buzz Buzz dies, it tells a long story instructing Ness what to do. Furthermore asking if you need it repeated.