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* In the music video for "[[{{Nightwish}} The Islander]]", an old ship captain turned lighthouse keeper commits suicide by tying an anchor to his legs and then pushing said anchor off a very high ledge (in the song itself, it's meant to be a ship out on the water). He's smiling just before being dragged to his death.
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** It's difficult to tell if it's because [[spoiler: he's glad that Gamzee is finally taking his place in the hemospectrum]], or [[spoiler: his submission fetish]] or just that [[TechnicallyASmile his facial muscles are]] [[NightmareFuel tensing due to asphyxiation]]
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* [[TheThrawnTrilogy Thrawn]], after he is finally defeated and then [[BodyguardBetrayal stabbed by his bodyguard]], smiles and tells Pellaeon "[[FamousLastWords But... it was so artistically done.]]" before [[LightsOffTheirEyes his eyes go out]].

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* [[TheThrawnTrilogy Thrawn]], after he is finally defeated and then [[BodyguardBetrayal stabbed by his bodyguard]], smiles and tells Pellaeon "[[FamousLastWords But... it was so artistically done.]]" before [[LightsOffTheirEyes [[EyeLightsOut his eyes go out]].

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* Played with in ''{{Naruto}}'', by Kakashi before being sliced up, only to reveal that it was just a log he [[DecoyGetaway substituted in place of himself]].

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* Played with in ''{{Naruto}}'', by Kakashi before being sliced up, only to reveal that it was just [[NinjaLog a log he [[DecoyGetaway substituted in place of himself]].



** After Hinata [[spoiler:confesses her love to Naruto]], she give a smile and proceeds to [[spoiler:supposedly]] [[BerserkButton die at the hands of Pain]].
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** In the final scenes of the game, [[spoiler:the sociopath Takaya limps up to the top of Tartarus to laugh in the party's face as, despite all their efforts, Nyx is still coming to end all life. Even though the heroes ''hadn't'' injured him fatally, he collapses on his back and smiles to welcome the end, thinking of his (dead) partner Jin, implying that he ''willed'' himself to die as reward for fulfilling their plans]].
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No one said he DIDN\'T go out with a smile.


*** Zack, however, ''did'' go out with a smile, partially because he knew he wouldn't be forgotten, but mostly because he'd managed to achieve his dream: in saving Cloud, he'd finally become a hero.

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* In ''GGundam'', Schwarz Brudder and [[spoiler:Domon's brother Kyouji, who he is robot replica of]] smile as Domon destroys the core of the Devil Gundam.

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* In ''GGundam'', Schwarz Brudder and [[spoiler:Domon's brother Kyouji, who he is robot replica of]] of,]] smile as Domon destroys the core of the Devil Gundam.Gundam.
* In ''GundamUnicorn'', [[spoiler:Daguza Mackle enacts a plan that traps the Sinanju and gives Banagher an opportunity to activate the [=NT-D=]. After successfully trapping it in wth Banagher (if only for a short while) and damaging its Search Eye, Full Frontal retaliates with a his shield-mounted beam saber, and Daguza uses what time he has left to turn to Banagher with a salute and a smile.]]



* In ''GundamUnicorn'', [[spoiler:Daguza Mackle enacts a plan that traps the Sinanju and gives Banagher an opportunity to activate the [=NT-D=]. After successfully trapping it in wth Banagher (if only for a short while) and damaging its Search Eye, Full Frontal retaliates with a his shield-mounted beam saber, and Daguza uses what time he has left to turn to Banagher with a salute and a smile.]]
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* In ''GundamUnicorn'', [[spoiler:Daguza Mackle enacts a plan that traps the Sinanju and gives Banagher an opportunity to activate the [=NT-D=]. After successfully trapping it in wth Banagher (if only for a short while) and damaging its Search Eye, Full Frontal retaliates with a his shield-mounted beam saber, and Daguza uses what time he has left to turn to Banagher with a salute and a smile.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:Sorry, but... I'm dead!]]
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* In ''DragonAgeII'' [[spoiler:Leandra, [[PlayerCharacter Hawke's]] mother, dies smiling in her child's arms after telling him/her [[SoProudOfYou how proud she is of him/her.]]]]
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** Wilfred Owen's "S.I.W." ends similarly, but with a stark difference--[[spoiler:S.I.W. stands for "[[DrivenToSuicide self-inflicted wound]]," a deliberate choice to escape an [[WarIsHell incomprehensible hell]]. Tim's comrades bury the gun with him, and all they tell his mother is that he died smiling.]]
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* Beautifully done in {{Farscape}} After absorbing a lethal amount of radiation the clone of John Kryton smiles at Aeryn Sun and delivers one of the most heartbreaking lines in the series. "Don't worry about me, I've never felt better."

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* Beautifully done in {{Farscape}} After absorbing a lethal amount of radiation the clone of John Kryton Crichton smiles at Aeryn Sun and delivers one of the most heartbreaking lines in the series. "Don't worry about me, I've never felt better."
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** I thought that it was one of his two allies that said Jet was going to be fine.
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* Archie Kennedy in the sixth instalment of the [[HoratioHornblower Horatio Hornblower]] mini-series, after saving Horatio's life and career. Albeit something of a tearful-looking smile, but still one that could light up a room.

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* Archie Kennedy in the sixth instalment of the [[HoratioHornblower Horatio Hornblower]] mini-series, after saving Horatio's life and career. Albeit something of a tearful-looking smile, smile (and largely there for Horatio's sake), but still one that could light up a room.
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* Archie Kennedy in the sixth instalment of the [[HoratioHornblower Horatio Hornblower]] mini-series, after saving Horatio's life and career. Albeit something of a tearful-looking smile, but still one that could light up a room.
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---> "It's alright. Really, Tosh, it's alright."

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---> --> [[spoiler: Owen]]: "It's alright. Really, Tosh, it's alright."
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** [[spoiler: Bruno isn't so lucky. Having declared that the loser of his duel against Yusei will disappear, he pushes his Delta Eagle to its limits just to get Yusei out the Black Hole they're in and back to the Arc Cradle. While Yusei calls out to him and reaches out, Bruno just smiles in the last shot we get of him.]]
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* [[GoldenEye [=GoldenEye=]]]. When Bond finds the Canadian admiral, he's in rigor mortis with a gigantic grin thanks to Famke Janssen's MurderousThighs.
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* In BattleRoyale, [[spoiler: Shogo's motivation for returning to another Battle Royale is to find out why Keiko was smiling when he killed her.]]
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* In most of the film adaptations of {{Ivanhoe}}, Bois-Guilbert dies this way. Especially present in the 1952 version, where his last act is to wish Rebecca well.
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* {{Homestuck}}: [[spoiler: Equius]] grins while he's being strangled to death. It's incredibly creepy.
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* in the manga of ''Hellsing'' most of the characters dies smiling, this is explained by the thing that all vampires(and a werewolf) as immortal beings held only one desire: to die.
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* In ''LesMiserables'' Enjolras gives one of these to Grantaire before they are killed.
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* In HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Part 1, Dobby goes out this way, [[TearJerker happy to be with his friends.]]


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* Beautifully done in "{{Farscape}}" After absorbing a lethal amount of radiation the clone of John Kryton smiles at Aeryn Sun and delivers one of the most heartbreaking lines in the series. "Don't worry about me, I've never felt better."

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* Beautifully done in "{{Farscape}}" {{Farscape}} After absorbing a lethal amount of radiation the clone of John Kryton smiles at Aeryn Sun and delivers one of the most heartbreaking lines in the series. "Don't worry about me, I've never felt better."
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* Narrowly {{averted}} in ''{{Merlin}}'' after Lancelot is captured and about to be executed after securing Guinevere's escape from a warlord's keep. When he's threatened with a slow and painful death, he only gives a beautific smile and tells them that that because Guinevere is safe, he dies happy. Only for the men to drag a recaptured Guinevere back into the arena. But then Prince Arthur saves them both anyway.

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* Narrowly {{averted}} in ''{{Merlin}}'' ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' after Lancelot is captured and about to be executed after securing Guinevere's escape from a warlord's keep. When he's threatened with a slow and painful death, he only gives a beautific smile and tells them that that because Guinevere is safe, he dies happy. Only for the men to drag a recaptured Guinevere back into the arena. But then Prince Arthur saves them both anyway.
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* [[spoiler: RED Spy]] in CuantaVida, after he [[spoiler: {{TakingTheBullet takes a bullet}} for BLU Sniper]].

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* [[spoiler: RED Spy]] in CuantaVida, after he [[spoiler: {{TakingTheBullet [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet}} bullet]] for BLU Sniper]].
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* [[spoiler: RED Spy]] in CuantaVida, after he [[spoiler: {{TakingTheBullet takes a bullet}} for BLU Sniper]].
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Death is rarely a cause for celebration, as it is a permanent (in this world, at least) goodbye to one whom you love.

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Death is rarely a cause for celebration, as it is a permanent (in this world, at least) goodbye to one whom the world you love.

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