History Main / NeverGotToSayGoodbye

* Done ''[[KickTheDog brutally]]'' by Megabyte in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. Megabyte is going to dissect Frisket to get a MacGuffin in his stomach and tells his henchmen to take Enzo away so he doesn't see it. Then we get this exchange:

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Old Money", Grandpa Abe [[IHaveNoSon gets mad at Homer]] when he learns his new girlfriend Beatrice died while [[TheDragAlong Abe was being dragged along on a disappointing family trip]]. What makes it worse is that [[DeathByDespair she died of a broken heart from thinking Abe didn't keep his promise to spend her birthday with her]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', "Cyborg the Barbarian": Cyborg is summoned back in time to help fight a war against monsters and grows close to a warrior named Sarasim, only for his friends to pull him back to the present during the final battle. He demands that they [[SendMeBack send him back]], but Raven admits her spell was a one-way deal. With no idea what happened to Sarasim and her people, all Cyborg can manage is "I didn't even get to say goodbye." [[spoiler:To his relief, Raven finds a history book showing the tribe's victory.]]

* This turns out to be a major part of Barley's motivation in ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'' to see his dad again. As a child, he panicked upon seeing his dad hooked up to life support machinery and fled the room shortly before his father's passing.

** Similarly, Prince Harry was on a plane trying to make his way to see [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII his grandmother]] on her deathbed when he found out, through looking at the news, that she'd died. [[note]] This actually applied to everyone except King Charles, Queen Camilla, and Princess Anne, who were the only ones at her bedside when she passed while everyone was still en route. Harry was the only one who didn't make it to Balmoral before the official announcement was made. [[/note]] Because he had a similar experience with his mother's death, he recalled in his memoir ''Spare'' that he essentially forced himself to sit by her body so that he could somewhat avert this trope.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', it's rather ironic that both Eva and Ocelot [[spoiler:never managed to see Big Boss one last time before dying, despite their whole purpose and plan being to revive him]].

This is a DeathTrope, so '''SPOILERS AHEAD'''.

* ''Series/FamilyTies'': The Season 3 finale, "Remembrances of Things Past," sees Steven summoned home to handle the final affairs surrounding his father's sudden death several months earlier. It is strongly implied throughout the show that Jake Keaton had died of a terminal illness (referring back to a Season 1 episode), but more importantly, the trope kicks into effect in that Steven – who had quarreled with his father – never had a true chance to make peace with him before his death.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Hilary's long-term boyfriend Trevor dies in a bungee accident and she laments the fact that she never got to say goodbye, [[TearJerker with Will telling her that it's never too late to say goodbye and that Trevor is still there in her heart. After Will leaves, Hilary stops for a moment to say to the stars "Goodbye, Trevor."]] After that, she's rarely seen with other men for the remainder of the series.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** John Sheridan has a monologue where he laments the fact that he was rushed the day of the last phone call with his wife Anna, and forgot to say "I love you" before she headed out on the expedition that claimed her life. Of course, the real reason he couldn't let go is that he [[ItsAllMyFault blamed himself]] for her joining the expedition in the first place. His sister Lizzie eventually gives him Anna's last communication to ''her'', which reveals that Anna was going to go on the expedition anyway, and also shows Anna expressing her love of John in the ways he wished he'd expressed for her. It's somewhat painful for him to watch, but it helps him to move on.
** Ivanova has similar regrets regarding Marcus. Marcus, however, did get to say "I love you" to a dying Ivanova, leading to the touching yet funny line, "I thought: God really does have an English accent, just like in those old movies."
* It both appears ''and'' is averted ''Series/DoctorWho''. Rose and the Doctor are separated, each stuck in a different parallel world. The Doctor manages to use the power of a supernova to get a goodbye message to Rose. She tells him that she loves him... he starts to respond, only able to say "Rose Tyler - " before the connection is severed forever [[spoiler:Or so they think...]] and the scene cuts to a weeping Doctor. Also, Sarah Jane Smith calls him on never properly saying goodbye to her face, something the Doctor was notorious for doing in regards to his companions, but when she leaves in "School Reunion", she makes him say goodbye so that she can have closure.
** This also arguably applied to [[spoiler:Donna]] at the end of season 4. Since [[spoiler:all her memories of her time with the Doctor were wiped, when he turns and says a final goodbye to her, she says a very perfunctory 'Yeah, see ya' to the man she thinks she has just met.]]
** Averted in the case of River Song - just before her HeroicSacrifice, she recalls the last time she met the Doctor and realizes he was saying goodbye to her because [[{{Tearjerker}} he knew she was going to her death]], even if he couldn't tell her directly.
--->'''River:''' The last time I saw you, the real you, the future you, I mean, you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit. You took me to Darillium to see the singing towers. Oh, what a night that was! The towers sang, and you cried. You wouldn't tell me why, but I suppose you knew it was time. My time.
* Lampshaded in ''Series/DeadLikeMe'': The main (female) character [[TomboyishName George]] is reluctant to start her new job, and complains that the clothes her mother has picked out for her look like funeral clothes. Her mother responds with "There's going to ''be'' a funeral if you don't get your ass out of bed!" The audience suddenly hears a voiceover from George: "Those are the last words my mother will ever say to me. Boy, is ''she'' gonna be sorry." [[spoiler:George is later killed by a [[ItMakesSenseInContext space toilet seat re-entering Earth's orbit]] that very same day.]]
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
** While [[spoiler:[[AdventuresInComaLand she was shot and dying]] by the [=UnSub=] of that episode and hallucinating that her dead father was visiting her]], Elle in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' revealed that the last words she said to her father was "I hate you!"
** Done again later on in the series. Spencer said these ''exact'' words when he and the rest of the team discovered that [[spoiler:Emily Prentiss had died after she was stabbed in the torso]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead she faked her death]] and left the country.]]
* In ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'', Ianto dies in Jack's arms, having already told him that he loves him. Jack has plenty of time to say it back, but he's in such denial about it that he can't.
** Jack (and the fans) finally get closure over Ianto's death in the ''Radio/TorchwoodTheLostFiles'' radio play "The House of the Dead", when Jack gets to tell [[spoiler:Ghost!]]Ianto that he loves him.

* In ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', after John describes the events of ''The Reichenbach Fall'' to his therapist, she asks him to tell her everything he wishes he'd said to Sherlock before [[spoiler:he died]]. John admits to there being things he'd left unsaid that he can't bring himself to tell her, though his later spiel at Sherlock's grave is likely an indication of his getting this particular load off his chest and starting to move towards (relative) normalcy.
* In ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'': After Compo dies, poor Clegg is left heartbroken, with his biggest regret having not said "goodbye". After many attempts that feel inadequate, Truly helps him by arranging for hundreds of people to stand on a hill in painter's white overalls, spelling out a message: "SEE YA, COMPO". Clegg is touched.
* In one episode of ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'', the only request an old restaurant owner makes of the woman who shot his son - and has just been released from prison - is that she always tells her daughter she loves her before they separate. The last thing he ever said to his son was about paper plates.
* Parodied in a ''Series/MrShow'' sketch. Two friends leaving a night out end up constantly running into each other and saying goodbye again and again. When one of them dies the next day, at his funeral, a woman tearfully says, "I never got to say goodbye", to which the other man replies, "I did".
* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by the cast in the last episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
-->'''Buffy:''' Dawn -
-->'''Dawn:''' ''No.'' Anything you say is going to sound like "goodbye." ''[walks off without another word]''
* In the first episode of ''Series/QueenSugar'' Charley flies home from L.A. after hearing that her father is seriously ill and might not make it through the night. She arrives at the hospital just after he passes away. When she sees the rest of the family walking out the hospital room dejected, she realizes that she was too late and breaks down in tears.
* In ''[[Series/{{Arrow}} Arrow]]'', ''none'' of Laurel's family got to say goodbye, or were even present when she died. Her mother, a character who only occasionally appears anyway, was in another city and might not have even heard she was injured, her sister [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow was traveling through time]] missing her death ''and'' funeral, and her father, despite rushing to the hospital as soon as he heard she was injured, arrived literally [[TearJerker seconds after her death]].
** Played with for Oliver, Felicity, Diggle, and Thea who while present, had just been told by the doctors she would be fine making it more a case of "didn't know we needed to say goodbye". Oliver, in particular, was the last one to talk to Laurel, receiving a DyingDeclarationOfLove, but didn't get a chance to respond to her, which leaves him a lot of baggage in Season Five in regards to her death. [[spoiler:He does get to say goodbye to an apparition of her in the Dominators' LotusEaterMachine, telling this "Laurel" all the things he couldn't say to his Laurel (the most important being that [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove he loved her too]]), which finally allows him to move on from her death]].
** In Season 8, it's revealed Earth-2!Laurel was carrying a weight of conscience for never saying goodbye to Quentin when [[HeroicSacrifice he died protecting her]] in the Season 6 finale. [[PhysicalGod The Monitor]] has her undergo a SecretTestOfCharacter in the advent of the incoming ''[[Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019 Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'', and when she passes, he rewards her with a chance to finally say goodbye to Quentin and make peace with it.
* ''Series/{{Sense8}}'''s resident BrokenBird Riley, in the aptly titled episode "Death Doesn't Let You Say Goodbye", is revealed to have lost her mother as a child as well as her [[TheLostLenore husband Magnus]] and [[OutlivingOnesOffspring baby daughter Luna]], and couldn't bring herself to attend the funerals of the latter two.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In the season 3 finale, as Wilson Fisk is being taken back into custody by [[FriendOnTheForce Brett Mahoney]], he begs to say goodbye to Vanessa one last time. Too bad for Fisk, his crimes up to that point have been so atrocious that Brett refuses to grant him that request, even reminding him of how he never let [[ForcedIntoEvil Ray Nadeem]]'s family get that chance.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", Gus Rosenthal visits his old hometown and finds himself in the past. During that time, he meets his father Lou. Not telling him who he is, he says that his father was always angry and he never got the chance to tell him that he loved him.
* A non-lethal version in ''Series/FullHouse'' episode "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night". Michelle, DJ, and Stephanie return to their summer camp site to return a rabbit Michelle originally stowed away in her bag home back to the forest, but they find out the rabbit escaped, making Michelle say the trope word-for-word. Later subverted, when their father Danny arrives and reveals the rabbit escaped even before the girls left house, so Michelle is able to properly say goodbye.

* Subverted in the first ''Manga/BlackJack'' OVA, where [[spoiler: Crossword, a mortally ill man, just before going down to his laboratory for an experiment during the disease attack he knows to be final, remembers that he forgot to say "Good morning" to his wife. He then notably dismisses this as unimportant, as "Upsetting myself would only dull your scalpel". He just says "Good morning, Sayuri" out loud instead of coming back up to talk to her.]]

* Narrowly averted with [[TwiceShy Yoshiko Fujisawa and Hikaru Matsuyama]] in ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa''. [[spoiler: She didn't want to either distract him from the Furano v/s Nankatsu match and [[TryingNotToCry cry in front of him]], so she left to the airport without a word when the match was barely over... but Matsuyama learnt about it and raced against the clock to catch her before her flight to the USA took off. He succeeded]].
** A non-romantic example is played straight in the first part, with Roberto and a 12-year-old Tsubasa. [[spoiler: Roberto left without saying a word to not separate Tsubasa from his friends and family and to not stunt his growth as a player.]] Cue to a TearJerker as Tsubasa has a HeroicBSOD.

%%* ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'' [[TearJerker/{{CLANNAD}} milks it for all it's worth]] and then some with [[spoiler: Kotomi Ichinose and her dead parents.]]

** Depending on the route, either Yukitsuki or Tsukasa give Kyoichi a scathing lecture about how, knowing that [[spoiler: he's terminally ill]], he needs to provide more happy memories to Shizuku before [[spoiler: his death]], or else she will succumb to despair due to not having such a chance.
** It's implied that in the original, unaltered timeline, Yukitsuki experienced this when she tried to interact with Kyoichi. [[spoiler: It's also the core reason why Kazuha went back in time in the first place.]]

* In ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' during TSR, this is pretty much the thing that [[spoiler: Gauron]] takes drastic measures and an incredible amount of planning to prevent from happening to himself with Sousuke. It wouldn't be too far off to assume that the only thing that probably was sustaining him and keeping him alive was his desire to see Sousuke for one last time, and he even goes so far as to order the complete destruction of a city just so he could lure Sousuke and have some last words with him. Sousuke, on the other hand, [[WhyWontYouDie could have done without seeing him again...]]

** In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', [[spoiler: Rain had to immediately leave her university when her dad called her back to Neo-Japan due to the incident involving Domon's family. She was getting ready for a meeting with Saette, a classmate of hers who had something important to tell her. (He had feelings for her but the full nature of their relationship is never stated.) Regardless, he mistook this as a sign of rejection. She never returned due to getting caught up with Domon and his situation and when they met each other again, Saette was the Gundam Fighter for Neo Turkey. [[FromBadToWorse It got worse]].]]

* Non-lethal, but no less heart-wrenching example in ''Anime/HyperdimensionNeptuniaTheAnimation''. [[BrattyHalfPint Peashy]] is kidnapped after a fight with her surrogate mother Neptune, and when they next meet, is brainwashed to the point she doesn't remember her. Even when she's rescued, Peashy's memory is gone, leaving Neptune unable to apologize before Peashy is taken to her home dimension permanently. [[spoiler: Just to pour salt into the wound, Peashy DOES remember Neptune... at literally the last second before she vanishes forever.]]

* In ''Manga/SummerTimeRendering'', Shinpei left the island to attend a cooking school in Tokyo, but he and Ushio never bade each other goodbye out of spite over a heated argument they had earlier that year. Both of them come to deeply regret it, as Ushio spent her final moments wanting to see him one last time while Shinpei lives with the fact that he never set things right before her passing. [[spoiler: Ushio doesn't die in the timeline where the shadows don't exist, so Shinpei is able to see her again and finally make amends with her.]]

* A big part of the reason why Rinne had [[UsedToBeASweetKid a change of personality]] in ''Anime/VividStrike'' was because she couldn't be there when her adoptive grandfather died [[spoiler: due to a group of bullies knocking her unconscious when her mother was trying to call her. [[BewareTheQuietOnes Needless to say]], [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the bullies would come to regret it]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', "Cyborg the Barbarian": Cyborg is summoned back in time to help fight a war against monsters and grows close to a warrior named Sarasim, only for his friends to pull him back to the present during the final battle. He demands that they [[SendMeBack send him back]], but Raven admits her spell was a one-way deal. With no idea what happened to Sarasim and her people, all Cyborg can manage is "I didn't even get to say goodbye." [[spoiler: To his relief, Raven finds a history book showing the tribe's victory.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Game of Tones," Fry realizes that although his life in the 20th century was pretty crappy, he convinced himself it was way worse than it actually was because that was easier than coping with the fact he never got to tell his loved ones goodbye before being sent to the future. [[spoiler:He gets his opportunity to at the end of the episode.]]. Another example comes from the episode, “The Late Phillip J. Fry,” where Fry gets stuck around 7000 years in the future when [[TheProfessor Professor Farnsworth]] has him and Bender help test his new time machine that can only travel forwards. This leaves Leela alone on a date, believing that Fry stood her up to go to a bachelor party where he had died due to [[ItMakesSenseInContext a robot hooker having a nuclear meltdown.]] Years later, she finds out the truth about the time travel incident, so she finds a way to leave Fry a message he’ll be able to see in the future. The message reads [[spoiler:”Dear Fry, our time together was short, but it was the best time of my life.”]]

** Averted in the case of River Song - just before her HeroicSacrifice, she recalls the last time she met the Doctor and realises he was saying goodbye to her because [[{{Tearjerker}}he knew she was going to her death]], even if he couldn't tell her directly.

* Bilbo with Bombur. in ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'', as in this version of the battle, Bilbo ran away before the battle started. Bombur went in with energy and a smile...and then we next see him in the montage, looking very afraid. And then we see him stumbling up the hill. Bilbo realizes he's hurt, but Bombur won't tell him anything (maybe not wanting to worry his friend?) but dies before Bilbo can understand what's happening. The last frame before it cuts to Gandalf learning that Bombur is "gone" is Bilbo rushing with a look of shock, and distress, implying he truly didn't understand that the wounds Bombur had sustained over the course of the battle were fatal (until Bombur's death made it clear) or was in denial about it.

* ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'': Megan never got to say goodbye to her friends before the Rainbow Bridge collapsed. 20 years later, when a new portal is opened, she finds that time in the two worlds fell out of sync when the bridge was lost. [[spoiler: For the world where Equestria lies, it has been 1500 years. She eventually was able to say goodbye to them while briefly in the afterlife after defeating Tirac for good.]]

** ''Fanfic/RuinedWithYou'' is another case of the heroes being forced to give up the Miraculous to the Guardian to allow their kwamis to hibernate, but here Adrien gives it up at the first opportunity instead of waiting for Ladybug, again out of shame about his father. As such, Marinette doesn't have quite as much trouble moving on with her life, since she knows for sure that she won't be seeing Chat again. [[spoiler: That said, when she does find out who he is, she's pretty furious that he never tried to contact her through the Guardian in two years. She later feels guilty about lashing out at him, after she has time to process the implications about his father.]]

* ''Fanfic/UniverseFalls'': The Author is disheartened to learn that Rose passed away while he was stuck between dimensions and never got to tell her how sorry he was abut the portal.

* Madea's grandniece Kimberly in ''Film/MadeasBigHappyFamily'' [[{{Jerkass}} spent the entire movie antagonizing and belittling her family]], especially her SecretlyDying mother [[spoiler: due to her never properly recovering from the trauma of being raped by an uncle and holding it against the rest of them]]. As a result, she arrives at the hospital too late to make amends and emotionally breaks down.

* In ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', despite the rift between Tim and his father and not seeing his father for ten years, Tim believed his father was still alive. It was after [[spoiler: Tim watched the video footage of Harry's car accident that killed him]] that he realized how unfairly he had treated his father [[spoiler: after his mother's sudden death and how he refused to live with his father in Ryme City despite Harry wanting them to be a family again]]. Tim now regretted never taking that chance to reconcile with his father.

* In ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant White Gold Wielder]]'', Linden Avery bemoans the fact she never got to say goodbye to Tom or her father after Tom's HeroicSacrifice. [[spoiler: Tom does return briefly as a ghost.]]

* [[Franchise/StarWars Tahiri]] in the latter half of the [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse New Jedi Order series]] regrets [[spoiler: holding off on a last kiss for Anakin, telling him he could have it after they won. [[HeroicSacrifice Anakin, of course, doesn't make it back]].]] Subverted in an internal monologue (dialogue?) sequence, when an implanted personality tells her that her guilt is actually because she's moved on with her life. In the Legacy of the Force novels, [[spoiler: she and Jacen "flow-walk" back to the time of the mission and Tahiri literally physically forces her past self and Anakin together. She has to leave before she can see what, if anything, happened, and [[TimeyWimeyBall since this Verse doesn't usually have time travel]] nobody's ''quite'' sure what did.]]

* ''Literature/MaximumRide'' has this from [[MadScientist Jeb]] [[TheWoobie Batchelder]] to his son Ari when [[spoiler: Ari dies at seven. Jeb is about two minutes too late to apologize to his son for all the bad things that have happened to him. Cue Jeb cradling his son in his arms and repeating [[HeroicBSOD "I'm so sorry"]] until Max, [[{{Jerkass}} as]] [[SociopathicHero usual]], interrupts...]]

* Played straight in ''Literature/TheTomorrowSeries'', when Ellie finds [[spoiler: Corrie]]'s grave and realizes that she never got to say goodbye.

** Severus Snape to Lily Evans. He broke down when he found out what'd happened, especially because [[spoiler: he has a big responsibility in her death.]] And it's even worse in the film [[spoiler: because of the added scene to his memories that shows him cradling Lily's dead body whilst crying in anguish]].

** PlayedWith in the 3rd season finale, "Abyssinia, Henry". All the characters do have the opportunity to say goodbye to Henry, who has gotten his orders to be transferred stateside. [[spoiler: However, Henry is killed on his way home - the characters said goodbye, but they thought they were saying goodbye to someone who was leaving Korea, not leaving life.]]

* Lampshaded in ''Series/DeadLikeMe'': The main (female) character [[TomboyishName George]] is reluctant to start her new job, and complains that the clothes her mother has picked out for her look like funeral clothes. Her mother responds with "There's going to ''be'' a funeral if you don't get your ass out of bed!" The audience suddenly hears a voiceover from George: "Those are the last words my mother will ever say to me. Boy, is ''she'' gonna be sorry." [[spoiler: George is later killed by a [[ItMakesSenseInContext space toilet seat re-entering Earth's orbit]] that very same day.]]

** While [[spoiler: [[AdventuresInComaLand she was shot and dying]] by the [=UnSub=] of that episode and hallucinating that her dead father was visiting her]], Elle in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' revealed that the last words she said to her father was "I hate you!"
** Done again later on in the series. Spencer said these ''exact'' words when he and the rest of the team discovered that [[spoiler: Emily Prentiss had died after she was stabbed in the torso.]] It turns out that [[spoiler: [[NotQuiteDead she faked her death]] and left the country.]]

* In ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', after John describes the events of ''The Reichenbach Fall'' to his therapist, she asks him to tell her everything he wishes he'd said to Sherlock before [[spoiler: he died]]. John admits to there being things he'd left unsaid that he can't bring himself to tell her, though his later spiel at Sherlock's grave is likely an indication of his getting this particular load off his chest and starting to move towards (relative) normalcy.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', it's rather ironic that both Eva and Ocelot [[spoiler: never managed to see Big Boss one last time before dying, despite their whole purpose and plan being to revive him]].

** Invoked in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'', when the hero thinks it would be for the better to not say goodbye to everyone and sneak away, having been led to believe that they'd all forget about them once they return to their world anyways, and reasoning it would just make them sad. It ends up being subverted when [[spoiler: Hydreigon]] decides he's not going to have any of that and records the goodbyes in a Frism without the hero's knowledge, then gives it to them as a gift before their departure.

* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', [[spoiler: Diego Armando]] is in a coma when Mia Fey is killed. When he wakes up, he blames Phoenix for not being able to save Mia, but in reality, [[spoiler: Diego was just blaming Phoenix because he couldn't admit that he blamed ''himself'' for her death.]]

** During the climax of Episode 2, Lily's father [[AssholeVictim Larry]] has a heart attack while the survivors are trapped inside a meat locker by the cannibalistic St. John family, and never regains consciousness. Wether or not Lee agrees with Kenny to crush Larry's skull before he can turn into a Walker, Lily furiously brings this up after Larry's death.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', you can meet a mad vagrant named Narfi who laments that, unlike the rest of his deceased family, he never got to say goodbye to his sister before she disappeared. If you investigate, you will learn that [[spoiler: she is dead, and you will have the option of giving him the bad news or lying to give him hope.]]
* If you play the good path of ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'', Torque's family will understand that [[spoiler: he never killed them. His older son, Cory says that although he understands his father couldn't save him... well, you see where this is going.]] It is one of the most heartbreaking examples.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}'', the final post-game chapter "Farewell" involves Madeline suffering a relapse of her depression after Granny passes away and she isn't able to say goodbye to her. This causes her to miss Granny's funeral and become a shut-in while she has obsessive dreams and visions about chasing Granny's bird and bringing her back to life. [[spoiler: At the end of the chapter, Madeline manages to reach the top of her dream and get the chance to say goodbye to Granny, with the magical nature of Celeste mountain it's implied that it's actually her as well, allowing Madeline to finally move past her baggage and guilt.]]

* Horribly, HORRIBLY subverted in ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. [[spoiler: Agent Texas whispers goodbye during her HeroicSacrifice but no one can hear her say it.]]
** An incredibly depressing example when with vicious satisfaction, Temple brutally forces [[spoiler: Caboose to accept that despite Church coming back before, he's won't be this time]]. Caboose realizes that he'll never have the chance now to say "good-bye" or [[spoiler: thank Church for being his friend]].