History Main / IronicLastWords

As a DeathTrope, '''spoilers are unmarked'''.

** [[http://magiccards.info/mr/en/265.html Elixir of Vitality]], a HealingPotion, has the post-mortem words of a potion peddler promising "eternal life or your money back.

** [[http://magiccards.info/mr/en/265.html Elixir of Vitality]], a HealingPotion, has the post-mortem words of a potion peddler promising "eternal life or your money back."

Subtrope to LastWords. It is a Sister trope to SedgwickSpeech, a rousing speech given before being abruptly killed, the irony of which is directly proportional to how optimistic it is. Heavily overlaps with ThisCannotBe, in that many villains will declare their death impossible while dying. Often a form of TemptingFate. Happens often during EvilGloating. Can also overlap with InstantlyProvenWrong. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong and NothingCanStopUsNow are often examples when involving death.

* ''Fanfic/FFSIBelieveInYou'': In ''FFS, What Now?'', Uisdean's last words are an angry rant at the heroes and the resistance about how he's not defeated yet and a pledge to return to kill them all, which is interrupted when Jabu Orkú emerges from the ocean and bites him in half.
-->''"This isn't over!" Uisdean screamed over his shoulder once he'd made a fair distance. "I'll be back! I'll be back to kill you all! Then you'll-"''

** ''Film/Scream4'': [[spoiler:Kate]] says "Tell Jill I'm sorry" (her daughter). Presumably unbeknownst to her, [[spoiler:Jill was the Ghostface, and may even have been the one who killed her.]]

* ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}'': After his boss is killed in the destruction of his base, Boris Grishenko, having managed to survive, proudly shouts out his {{Catchphrase}}: "Yes! I am invincible!" But straight after, three tanks of freon burst behind him and freeze him solid, ensuring that he ''isn’t'' invincible.

** [[https://scryfall.com/card/fem/30b/vodalian-mage Vodalian Mage]]'s flavor text is the last words of a goblin flotilla commander exhorting his desertion troops to come back and fight, since everyone knows that merfolk can't wield magic -- implicitly before being killed by a magic-wielding merfolk.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': After Helen (as Elastagirl) catches Jack-Jack, Syndrome calls out, "This isn't the end of it! I ''will'' get your son eventually! I'll get your son!" Right after he says that, Bob (as Mr. Incredible) makes sure that it's the end of it by throwing a car at him, sending him into a [[TurbineBlender jet turbine]].

* The page quote contains the alleged last words of Creator/KarlMarx. Definitely ironic that he mocks the idea of Famous Last Words only to have that be the last thing he says.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2'': After Chester V bounces out of the food grinder by [[TurtlePower tucking himself into his vest like a turtle]], he says smugly, "I saved myself!" [[JustDesserts The Cheespider proceeds to eat him alive]], so he did not save himself.

-->-- '''Creator/KarlMarx's''' (alleged) last words

'''Pike''': And now, you're a coat rack.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': During Frollo's VillainousBreakdown, he's about to slash Quasimodo and Esmeralda with his sword, declaring, "And [[{{God}} He]] shall smite the wicked, and plunge them into the fiery pit!" He then [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death into the flames below]]. Considering all he had done to that point, [[KarmicDeath God definitely plunged]] ''[[KarmicDeath him]]'' [[KarmicDeath into a fiery pit]].