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* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Graveyard Shift" has [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward doing this as the Hash Slinging Slasher approaches them.

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* A story in ''Comicbook/GreenLantern'' 80th Anniversary special entitled "Last Will" has Hal Jordan crash in a desert on an unknown planet, with just enough ring charge to send three messages. He sends one to the Corps saying how proud he is to have served, one to Batman saying that he's secretly always envied him, and one to Carol Ferris with a DyingDeclarationOfLove. Then the ring charge gives out, and his life support stops ... which is the point at which he realises he's actually on Earth, in the Nevada desert. He then desperately asks his unresponsive ring if there's any way of recalling the messages.

* A story in ''Comicbook/GreenLantern'' 80th Anniversary special entitled "Last Will" has Hal Jordon crash in a desert on an unknown planet, with just enough ring charge to send three messages. He sends one to the Corps saying how proud he is to have served, one to Batman saying that he's secretly always envied him, and one to Carol Ferris with a DyingDeclarationOfLove. Then the ring charge gives out, and his life support stops ... which is the point at which he realises he's actually on Earth, in the Nevada desert. He then desperately asks his unresponsive ring if there's any way of recalling the messages.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'': In "Thornberry Island", when the family is trapped in a flooding cave, Nigel takes the opportunity to confess that he is not always fearless when it comes to standing next to a wild animal, Marianne admits that she is actually nervous when she acts like she is on top of things, and Debbie admits to Eliza that she thinks there are sister geekier than her out there. When Eliza is about to reveal that she can talk to animals, the water reaches all the way above their heads and they manage to swim out of the cave. At the end of the episode, Marianne asks Eliza what she was saying about animals.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0184.html has a variation]] which starts off as this trope but then switches to AbortedDeclarationOfLove as she is magically healed by the cleric midsentence. The page image for AbortedDeclarationOfLove is of this exact scene.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Graveyard Shift" has [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward doing this has the Hash Slinging Slasher approaches them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'': In "Thornberry Island", when the family is trapped in a flooding cave, Nigel takes the opportunity to confess that he is not always fearless when it comes to standing next to a wild animal, Marianne admits that she is actually nervous when she acts like she is on top of things, and Debbie admits to Eliza that she thinks there are sister geekier than her out there. When Eliza is about to reveal that she can talk to animals, the water reaches all the way above their heads and they manage to swim out of the cave. At the end of the episode, Marianne does ask Eliza what she was saying about animals.

* '''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'': In "Thornberry Island", when the family is trapped in a flooding cave, Nigel takes the opportunity to confess that he is not always fearless when it comes to standing next to a wild animal, Marianne admits that she is actually nervous when she acts like she is on top of things, and Debbie admits to Eliza that she thinks there are sister geekier than her out there. When Eliza is about to reveal that she can talk to animals, the water reaches all the way above their heads and they manage to swim out of the cave. At the end of the episode, Marianne does ask Eliza what she was saying about animals.

If someone is instead admitting something they've wanted to admit but couldn't and would rather survive the upcoming danger, it's IfWeGetThroughThis. Can be a subversion of many of the DeathTropes. Compare CrossingTheBurntBridge. See also AbortedDeclarationOfLove.

* In ''Literature/{{Gone}}'', [[spoiler: Dekka]] confesses her love for [[spoiler: Brianna]] while thinking that she is about to die, but Sam manages to save her by an impromptu surgery with [[HealingHands Lana's]] help.

* ComicBook/TheAuthority has two firemen about to die, one of them confesses to the other that he was the one responsible for all his little miseries at work (stealing food/equipment/money...), the other guy responds that it doesn't matter, since he fell in love with him the day he saw him. Then Swyft arrives to fly them to safety.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Kirito and Asuna, after dying in SAO believe they will be KilledOffForReal, and thus reveal their real-world names and ages. [[spoiler: Kirito wakes up realizing that while he "died" in game, the Nerve Gear did not kill him. He eventually finds Asuna in the real world.]]

--> '''Grif:''' It was me that stole your identity and ran up all those credit card charges at the pawn shops and peep shows. Sorry.

Often, but not always, a comedy trope. When PlayedForComedy, the more embarrassing the secret, the higher the probability that you'll survive.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Pawprints}}'', Blake and Weiss deliver an AnguishedConfessionOfLove to one another while Weiss is bleeding out from a wolf attack. Weiss survives her attack through IntimateHealing (namely, Blake using her aura combined with Blake extracting the blood from Weiss' mouth with kisses).

* In the second ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', as the main characters are in a plane falling, Alex confesses that he was the one who broke Marty's iPod, which Marty doesn't take well. [[DyingDeclarationOfLove Melman confesses his love for Gloria]], who isn't listening because she's fast asleep.

* In the Dutch comic series ''Sjors en Sjimmie'', one story the 2 protagonists and several important people (including a general) are on a plane that becomes the target of a terrorist attack. As the plane crashes down, everyone on board begins to confess embarrassing or even outright illegal things they have done. Due to a DeusExMachina, the plane still manages to land safely and all on board survive, but their reputations are damaged beyond repair due to the confessions they made in what they believed to be their final moments, thus the terorists [[XanatosGambit still consider it a huge succes]].

* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Lord Guru thinks he's about to die, so he confesses that he drank enough water to send the planet into a drought, and blamed it on the albino Namekians, which led to a global genocide. Then he doesn't die, so the rest of the (now enraged) Namekians [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge eat]] [[ImAHumanitarian him]].

* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Poison Ivy seduces Robin in her lair and finally manages to [[KissOfDeath kiss him]] after she gains his trust by [[JustBetweenYouAndMe telling him what she and Freeze were planning]]. Immediately after the kiss she reveals her true colors, saying goodbye to “her love” in mock sadness by telling him it is time to die. But Robin reveals he was [[CrazyPrepared wearing rubber lips]] that protected him from her poison, thus learning her plan, discovering she was lying about loving him, and [[TestKiss managing]] to [[TakeThatKiss steal]] one kiss from [[DatingCatwoman his crush]].

* In the ''Literature/{{Belgariad}}'', Adara is shot with an arrow and believes herself to be dying. When Hettar appears by her bedside, she confesses her love for him, only to be told soon afterwards that she's fine.

* In ''Literature/TheGodsAreBastards'', a schoolmate of the protagonists is attacked by a rare and powerful demon and calls [[TheHero Trissiny]] to her bedside to reveal her true feelings. Only afterwards is she informed that she'll be fine in the long run. Since Triss is straight, this leads to a certain amount of awkwardness.

* PlayedForDrama in ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire''. When it looks like they've been abandoned on the battlefield, Shuos Jedao admits to a fellow soldier who's received a fatal injury that he had been planning to overthrow the Hexarchate. Then it turns out they're going to be rescued after all, so Jedao has to murder his colleague on the spot so he can't tell anyone.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': In the first part of the two part finale, as the plane crashes, several secrets come out; most importantly, George cheated in The Contest.

** Something similar happens in "Projections". Fortunately the Doctor is in a DreamWithinADream and is spared the embarrassment that time.

* At least two cases from ''Series/LoisAndClark''. One is during the pilot , when Lois has earlier said she'd never sleep with a colleague, and later, when they are tied to an exploding bomb, tell of case when she did. In a later episode, Lois and Jimmy are tied to a mast when a DoomsdayDevice is about to be activated, and Jimmy tells Lois about a wet dream he had of her.

** Barry and Iris have this moment just before a supervillain inundates Central City with a tidal wave. [[spoiler: Not only does he reveal his secret identity to her, they also confess their feelings to each other and share TheBigDamnKiss.]] Another is given by Dr. Wells to Cisco, right when Cisco [[InternalReveal discovers Dr. Wells' identity]] as the Reverse-Flash. He tells Cisco that he's LikeASonToMe, and then that it's NothingPersonal--and then [[spoiler: ''puts a vibrating hand clean through his heart'']]. These seem like [[TheReveal game-changing reveals]], and they're treated as such InUniverse. The only thing that makes them this trope? [[spoiler: Barry accidentally travels back in time and [[CosmicRetcon undoes both of them.]]]]

** One episode features Smithers, thinking that an Apocalypse of some kind is coming, getting the nerve to kiss Mr Burns. They exchange a very awkward "see you in the office" after the Apocalypse turned out to be just a promotional gimmick by a Shopping Mall.

-->'''Smithers:''' There may never be another chance to say: I love you, sir.\\

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "Teacher of the Year", Danny and Tucker are playing an online game and fighting against another player called Chaos. After Chaos thows a bomb at their feet, Tucker takes a moment to confess that he accidentally killed Danny's gerbil in the third grade, despite the fact that they aren't really gonna die. Danny reacts in shock just before the bomb blows.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Voyage Of Tempation, when the Duchess Satine is being held at gunpoint by a traitorous member of her court, and confesses her undying love to Obi-wan Kenobi. He admits his own, although not without some reluctance.

* In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Anakin and Padme have been keeping their feelings for each other under wraps because of their duties to the Jedi Order and their government, respectively. However, when they're set to die in the GladiatorGames, they confess their feelings for each other and share [[BigDamnKiss a kiss]]...and then eventually escape the arena. They later end up in a SecretRelationship, which plays a role in [[FaceHeelTurn Anakin's descent into the dark side of the Force.]]

** Barry and Iris have this moment just before a supervillain inundates Central City with a tidal wave. [[spoiler: Not only does he reveal his secret identity to her, they also confess their feelings to each other and share a BigDamnKiss.]] Another is given by Dr. Wells to Cisco, right when Cisco [[InternalReveal discovers Dr. Wells' identity]] as the Reverse-Flash. He tells Cisco that he's LikeASonToMe, and then that it's NothingPersonal--and then [[spoiler: ''puts a vibrating hand clean through his heart'']]. These seem like [[TheReveal game-changing reveals]], and they're treated as such InUniverse. The only thing that makes them this trope? [[spoiler: Barry accidentally travels back in time and [[CosmicRetcon undoes both of them.]]]]
* In an episode of ''Series/Babylon5'', Delenn and Lennier are together on a ship when they are about to be hit by Centaur missiles. Lennier confesses, "I love you," to which Delenn responds, "I know." Cue BigDamnHero moment from Sheriden. Later, she simply states that in stressful times, sometimes it's hard to hear things.

When death is upon you, sometimes you have a burning need to get something off your chest. Something that embarrassment or social stigma has prevented you from saying. Perhaps you want to share a particularity cringeworthy secret, come out of the closet, or admit your undying love to the person you can never have, or rant about [[SurroundedByIdiots how stupid everyone around you is]]. Well, now is definitely the chance, you think; it is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ruffle all the feathers you'd ever want without having to sit through the fallout. Who cares what your friends and family would think? Certainly not you, seeing how you soon won't care about anything ever again. Regardless, no sooner do you make it known than you find out that, no, you're not going to die today.

* In an episode of ''Series/Babylon5'', Delenn and Lennier are together on a ship when they are about to be hit by Centaur missiles. Lennier confesses, "I love you," to which Delenn responds, "I kmow." Cue BigDamnHero moment from Sheriden. Later, she simply states that in stressful times, sometimes it's hard to heard things.