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Naturally, this being a {{Death Trope|s}}, '''there are massive spoilers ahead.'''

* [[spoiler:Spike]] from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' after being fatally wounded goes out with a smile, a simple hand-gesture and a single word to the stunned onlookers: [[spoiler:"Bang!"]] [[ShrugOfGod Maybe.]]

** In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker]] does this. [[SubvertedTrope He is not killed by Kylo, though]]. Kylo ''attempts'' to kill him in the aftermath of the CurbStompBattle of Crait by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill vaporising him using his AT-AT's laser cannons]], and then when that apparently fails, he goes and confronts [[spoiler: Luke]] in person. After curb-stomping Kylo, [[spoiler: Luke eventually allows Kylo to stab him, and it is revealed that Luke isn't really there, and it is just a powerful astral projection. He tells Kylo that he is doomed to fail, the war is not won, and that he will not be [[TitleDrop the last Jedi]]. He then allows the projection to dissipate, and subsequently passes away from the effort of sustaining it.]]

* ''{{Film/Armageddon}}'': [[spoiler:After finding out that remote detonation was no longer an option, the astronauts draw straws on who will go out on the surface of the asteroid to detonate the warhead before it crashes into and destroys Earth, A.J. ends up getting the short straw and just before he embarks, Harry (another astronaut who was also previously his boss on a oil rig and see's himself as A.J.'s father figure) pushes him back into their spaceship and gives him his embroidered suit patch. Harry then makes his way to the warhead and after a brief struggle getting a hold of the detonator, thinks of his daughter as a child and her hypothetically getting married to A.J. to motivate himself to blow himself up, which he does with no hesitation.]]

* Music/JohannSebastianBach composed a cantata entitled "Come, Sweet Death". He also supposedly went out calmly surrounded by people he loved. Considering his influence on later composers, it's understandable that he could die confident that his legacy would live on.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': [[spoiler:Yondu]] give up his spacesuit generator to Peter after the heroes escape [[spoiler:Ego's implosion]]. Peter is stuck in RapidFireNo, but [[spoiler:Yondu]] is dissonantly calm about the whole thing, [[spoiler:even as he's freezing the death in vacuum, and his last words are in telling Peter that while Ego may have sired him, Yondu was proud to be Peter's adoptive dad.]]

* [[spoiler: Jack Rakan]] in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' spends his last moments apologizing to the KidHero for not being able to fix his generations problems, and then telling his killer that it was fun, and [[BloodKnight his killer should really learn to enjoy this sort of thing]].

* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', when [[spoiler:Owen Harper]] knows he's about to die, [[spoiler:and this time he can't come back]], he at first reacts with DoNotGoGentle, and taking the "rage against the dying of the light" bit UpToEleven. But he ends up this way. And then [[spoiler: Tosh]] who is talking to him over a radio communicator convinces him to go out this way, and that's while ''she's also dying'', and not long after, she also does her own version.

* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode 2'' [[spoiler: Eli Vance]] calmly reassures his daughter and tells her to look away as he is slowly and inevitably dragged towards the alien lifeform that captured them all and impaled. At least until [[spoiler:VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx applies SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong via TimeTravel at the cost of said daughter, leaving Eli in full RageAgainstTheHeavens mode instead]].

* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode 2'' [[spoiler: Eli Vance]] calmly reassures his daughter and tells her to look away as he is slowly and inevitably dragged towards the alien lifeform that captured them all and impaled. A [[TearJerker great]] [[DownerEnding ending]]. And there hasn't been [[LeftHanging another game to avenge him yet.]]

* In the Season 18 finale of ''Series/TheAmazingRace '', second place team Flight Time & Big Easy slowed down and enjoyed the scenery during their bike ride over the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys when they realized that sisters Jen & Kisha were too far ahead for them to catch and were going to win.

** Seemingly done to finalize the contrast between Father and [[spoiler:Van Hohenheim]] who father based his appearance from and whose actions and the opposite of each other's. While Father screams at his end and desperately tries to fight for survival before he is swallowed by the Truth, [[spoiler: Hohenheim simply collapses in front of his wife's grave with a smile on his face.]]

* At the end of ''Manga/AssassinatinoClassroom'', [[spoiler:[[WasOnceAMan Koro-]][[PersonOfMassDestruction sensei]]'s existence is leaked to the public and he acknowledges that the world will never allow something like him to exist. By this point Koro-sensei has long since accepted that he's doomed to die on March 13 and says he's honored to be assassinated by his students, allowing himself to die at their hands rather than someone else's machinations. There's also the implication that death is the only way he and [[PosthumousCharacter Aguri]] could ever be together]].

* In ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', Roy Focker is mortally wounded by shrapnel. In supreme badass fashion Focker doesn't even see a medic, he just goes back to his quarters and plays some guitar before falling over dead.
* If you look very closely in the final episode of ''Anime/{{Noir}}'', [[spoiler:Altena]] briefly smiles up at [[spoiler:Kirika and Mireille, since the latter had just grabbed the former to keep her from falling as well]] as she's [[spoiler:falling to her death into a volcanic vent]], leading some to think that the finale of the series was actually deliberate on her part as part of a massive {{plan}}.
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
** Right before dying, [[spoiler:Kamina]] takes a moment to reassure Simon and [[spoiler:reverse his earlier message of "Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me, who believes in you!" to "Believe in yourself. Not in me, who believes in you, not in you, who believes in me. Believe in Simon, who believes in himself!"]].
** [[spoiler:Kittan]] stops a Spiral Power-neutralising trap using an attack up till that point exclusively used by Simon, and leaves by [[spoiler:laughing quietly to himself about how great Spiral Power is]] before being consumed by the explosion.
** [[spoiler:Nia]] decided not only to not force Simon into abusing Spiral Power to keep her alive but also to treasure her last moments with him rather than regretting the time they are not going to be able to spend together. Oh, they treasure them alright.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' is a skilled user of this trope, with many characters who die preferring to GoOutWithASmile. The Pirate King Gold Roger kicked off the series by smiling (on the execution platform, no less) and telling the world that whoever wants his treasure can have it if they can find it. The highlight though was the death of Nami and Nojiko's mother, Bellemere. Willingly sacrificing herself for the continued safety of her daughters, a gun pointed at her head, her final words to them before death were "Nojiko! Nami! I love you!"
** It becomes a defining trait of people who carry "The Will of D". When Luffy is about to be killed by Buggy the Clown he grins and apologizes to his friends that this looks like the end. While it isn't and Luffy is saved by DeusExMachina he had no way of knowing this. Smoker sees the resemblance between Luffy and Roger's actions. Likewise [[spoiler:Ace despite trying desperately to survive for his brother and crew is happy to die as he saved Luffy and dies with a smile on his face.]] This is one of the reasons that White Beard calls Black Beard out, saying that Black Beard fears death and isn't one of the people Roger waits for.
** Mr. 2 Bon Clay, despite having a tearful goodbye to Luffy and the inmates of Impel Down faces his certain death at the hands of Magellan with a grin on his face, telling the Warden that he has no regrets. [[spoiler: He didn't actually die, though]].
** [[spoiler: Whitebeard himself]] does this after taking down hundreds of Navy soldiers [[spoiler: despite having a giant hole in his chest]]. He definitely got the last laugh: His last words were [[spoiler: to reveal that One Piece exists to the world, thus jumpstarting the new age of pirates.]] His last thoughts were [[spoiler: to smile at the fact that he achieved his greatest treasure and dream in life: a loving family.]]
*** It's even better than his last word made absolutely certain that though his death (and [[spoiler:Portgas D. Ace's]]) spelled the end of the Golden Age of piracy just like the Marines wanted. His dying declaration made darn sure that the "New Era" would be three times worse than any of the others since Pirates now have the confirmation that One Piece is 100% real. Which makes all of the Marines sacrifices that day null and void.
* In the ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' manga, Wolfwood sits and shares one last drink with Vash in the rubble outside the orphanage he grew up in and just saved from destruction. The last thing he sees before he dies is confetti thrown by the children as they fly to safety welcoming him home.

* In ''Anime/SonicX'':
** E-102 Gamma in the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' adaptation, after getting mortally wounded by his defeated brethen E-101 Beta, he exclaims in horror as the fellow bot explodes, only to express relief when his animal battery emerges safe, before shutting down himself. Granted Gamma is a robot with limited sentience, but since his final emotion was "relief" it still counts.
-->'''Gamma:''' I'm relieved...Gamma: Mission Complete....
** In the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' adaptation, just before being ejected into space and blown up ([[DIsneyDeath not really]]) Sonic looks at his friends, says "hey, it's okay" before telling Tails to finish what he started. He's still smiling as he's blown out of the Space Station. Tails finishes what he started. Awesomely.
--> "For the first time, Sonic has asked me to do something for him... I won't give up! I won't let him down!"
* Done by Captain Falcon in the ''VideoGame/FZero'' anime, just before [[MemeticMutation its most]] [[MegatonPunch famous scene]].
* Nuriko in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' falls under this trope. He was smiling at the time he died.
** Emperor Hotohori as well. He spoke to all his friends (who happened to be in ''another world altogether'' at the time), reassuring them and also asking his love interest, [[spoiler:Miaka]], to 'be happy'.

* Sousuke's mother from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', as revealed from his [[PastExperienceNightmare nightmares]] and in his backstory. The plane he and she were on crashed in the middle of snowy mountains, and apparently all the rest of the passengers died. They were huddled together, and she protected him from the cold. During Kalinin's rescue mission, although they were able to take Sousuke out of the plane in time, the part of the plane Sousuke's mother was on crumbled, and she ended up falling to her death. She yells out to him, [[GoOutWithASmile with a sad smile on her face]], that he must live, never give up, and to fight. It certainly gives a bit of explanation as to why he's so bent on being CrazyPrepared and becoming the CrazySurvivalist he is today.
** [[spoiler: Gates]] from The Second Raid. As Sousuke uses his Lambda driver to disintegrate [[spoiler:Gates' Arm Slave]], the guy calmly looks at a strand of his hair and says "Look's like I need a haircut", and is subsequently [[spoiler:erased from existence]].

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has [[spoiler:General Grumman]]. His reaction to the [[spoiler:Amestris circle activating, ripping out his soul and countless others]] is to calmly say, "Drat. It's begun. Ashes...to...ashes..." [[spoiler:Also, like everyone else who lost his soul, [[UnexplainedRecovery he gets better]].]]
** There was also [[spoiler:Buccaneer]], who smiles and salutes his men just before his death, saying that he'll "be leaving early for a place higher than the peaks of Briggs".
** And [[spoiler:Bradley]]. His last words, paraphrased: "[[spoiler:Because of humans...towards the end...it was a life worth living.]]"
** Seemingly done to finalize the contrast between Father and [[spoiler:Van Hohenheim]] who father based his appearance from and whose actions and the opposite of each other's. While Father screams at his end and desperately tries to fight for survival before he is swallowed by the Truth, [[spoiler: Hohenheim simply collapses in front of his wife's grave with a smile on his face.]]
* This is how Lelouch goes at the end of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', reassuring Suzaku that what they're doing is for the best and giving Nunnally one last smile. It's kind of strained by the fact that he's been stabbed through the chest and is (apparently rather painfully) bleeding out, but it's still generally what he was doing.
** [[WildMassGuessing Is it]] [[EpilepticTrees how he goes?]] [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste Either]] [[TheStrategist way]], [[TheChessMaster all]] [[MagnificentBastard according]] [[AllAccordingToPlan to]] [[ThanatosGambit plan]].
** Earlier in season 2, Urabe gives one of these to Zero and Kallen before his HeroicSacrifice to stop Rolo in a TakingYouWithMe attempt and allow his comrades to escape. He calmly deflates his protective vest while apologizing in thought to Rakshata.
* Jiraiya from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. After a particularly grueling battle against (then) Akatsuki Leader Pain that involved Nagato bringing all six of them together to beat him (considering 1 of them can take on several Jonin Shinobi easily, needing all of them to kill someone speaks greatly for their skill/threat level), Jiraiya is impaled 5 times and dropped into the deep waters below. As he sinks, he grimly smiles and references a Japanese proverb[[note]]"The frog at the bottom of the well knows nothing about the vast ocean" which is about how limited your knowledge of the world is if you don't get out and explore a little. What Jiraiya said as he was dying was "The frog at the bottom of the well drifts off into the vast ocean"[[/note]] accepting his death. Bonus points for the StealthPun of the proverb being about a frog, his animal symbol.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Goku smiles as he bids his friends farewell saying, "Goodbye, everyone" before teleporting a bloated Cell into King Kai's world. Goku then sheepishly apologizes to the panicking King Kai, Bubbles and Gregory before Cell explodes, killing them all.
** Also, Android 16. Having been blown up by Cell previously, his severed head gives Gohan a final word of encouragement, telling him to fight Cell. He keeps on smiling even as Cell walks up to crush him with his foot.
* Jean from ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' goes out this way while [[spoiler: she uses the last of her yoki to help Clare revert back from her half-Awakened state, reassuring Clare that she has finally repaid her debt to Clare after she saved her from the same fate and that [[ItHasBeenAnHonor she was glad to have met her]].]]

* In the midst of the slaughter that was the Eclipse, Judeau's death in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' was particularly heartbreaking, in that he spends his final moments talking to Casca, whom he was secretly in love with but never got the chance to tell her his feelings. Instead, he spends it reminding her that her true love, Guts, loved her. He dies less horrifically than the rest of his comrades, dying instead from the injuries he sustained while trying to protect Casca.
* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', Kite and Gon's reunion is horrifyingly cut short when Neferpitou senses Kite's strength and decides to use the Hunter to test his own power. Kite loses an arm when he is distracted trying to warn Gon and Killua to run. After Killua knocks Gon out to keep him from [[LeeroyJenkins attacking Neferpitou]], Kite urges them to get away as fast as possible. Kite then calmly conjures a weapon as he prepares for a fight he knows he can't win.
* [[spoiler:[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Surprisingly, Kyoko]]]] of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' does one of these before her HeroicSacrifice, promising [[spoiler:Sayaka]] that they'll be TogetherInDeath and inadvertently reminding [[spoiler:Homura]] of her own mission. [[spoiler:Madoka]] has a lengthier ([[HoYay and more subtextual]]) last conversation with [[spoiler:Homura]], reassuring her that things will work out and they'll probably see each other again. Both of them GoOutWithASmile.

* In ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic Universe]]'' issue #3, E-102 Gamma confronts E-123 Omega and Gamma is shown to easily overpower Omega despite Gamma being such a weaker unit. He realizes Omega would be a better choice to return to GUN with and quickly implants a virus in Omega that grants him emotions just before Omega obliterates him. As he's doing this, though, he's telling Omega that he could destroy his body, but not his soul. [[TemptingFate Omega's response?]] "[[TheSoulless Robots don't have souls.]]" He gets one.

* [[spoiler: Inanna]] gets one in [[spoiler: issue 11]] of [[ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine The Wicked + The Divine]]
** Well, [[SubvertedTrope not quite]]. [[OnceMoreWithClarity Issue 21 then reveals that]] [[spoiler:Baphomet didn't actually kill Inanna, as he realized that if Inanna knew that Baph's motive was to steal his remaining years of life, Ananke must have told him, meaning that she planned for the Pantheon to start turning each other. Unfortunately, Inanna still dies that night, but he's caught unawares and murdered by Ananke and so doesn't get the DyingMomentOfAwesome he seemed to get in issue 11]].

* Yankee Doodle Pigeon invokes then subverts this in the ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' story "Truce or Consequences" (Gold Key, Hanna-Barbera Fun-In #10). After Dick Dastardly frames him as a traitor and facing desertion charges, Yankee Doodle agrees to the easy way out to save face. But as Dastardly has a lit cannon aimed at him, Yankee Doodle utters his last words--"ABOUT FACE!" which causes Muttley to do an about face and aim the cannon at Dastardly.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', as Pitch fires an arrow at [[spoiler:Sandman]], the latter is getting consumed by the nightmare, [[spoiler:he]] first glares at Pitch and then calmly closes [[spoiler:his]] eyes. [[spoiler:[[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better]]]].
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'', the ultra-fatalistic Owlman realizes he's about to be blown up, smiles very slightly, and softly utters his CatchPhrase: "It doesn't matter."

* {{Film/Armageddon}}: [[spoiler:After finding out that remote detonation was no longer an option, the astronauts draw straws on who will go out on the surface of the asteroid to detonate the warhead before it crashes into and destroys Earth, A.J. ends up getting the short straw and just before he embarks, Harry (another astronaut who was also previously his boss on a oil rig and see's himself as A.J.'s father figure) pushes him back into their spaceship and gives him his embroidered suit patch. Harry then makes his way to the warhead and after a brief struggle getting a hold of the detonator, thinks of his daughter as a child and her hypothetically getting married to A.J. to motivate himself to blow himself up, which he does with no hesitation.]]

* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'':
** The T-800 calmly lets Sarah Connor lower him into molten steel and gives a thumbs up before being completely immersed This is in stark contrast to the deaths of [[spoiler:the T-1000, who screams and flails in pain the whole time]].
** Miles Dyson sets off a bomb so that with his death everyone had a chance to get out of danger, so he sort of qualifies.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** The TropeNamer is Obi-Wan Kenobi of original trilogy, and the brief second of eye contact he makes with Luke right before Darth Vader kills him in ''Film/ANewHope''.
-->'''Obi-Wan''': "''[[BadassBoast If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine]].''"
** When Yoda goes out, he does so peacefully on his bed, giving Luke one last piece of wisdom and then [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence becoming one with the Force]].
** Creator/LiamNeeson got a variant of this trope as Qui-Gon Jinn in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', calmly meditating before his final, brief duel with [[spoiler:Darth Maul]] when their fight is [[MidBattleTeaBreak briefly interrupted]] by the shifting of some laser doors. This is a case where he didn't necessarily know that he'd be dying, but likely considered the possibility.
** As of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', [[spoiler:Han Solo has joined the fold.]] He approached Kylo Ren/[[spoiler:Ben]] alone to talk to him to convince him to leave the First Order. After being stabbed for his failed attempt [[spoiler: to redeem his son, he simply clasped onto Ben's cheek]] before falling into the chasm.
** In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker]] does this. [[SubvertedTrope He is not killed by Kylo, though]]. Kylo ''attempts'' to kill him in the aftermath of the CurbStompBattle of Crait by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill vaporising him using his AT-AT's laser cannons]], and then when that apparently fails, he goes and confronts [[spoiler: Luke]] in person. After curb-stomping Kylo, [[spoiler: Luke eventually allows Kylo to stab him, and it is revealed that Luke isn't really there, and it is just a powerful astral projection. He tells Kylo that he is doomed to fail, the war is not won, and that he will not be [[TitleDrop the last Jedi]]. He then allows the projection to dissipate, and subsequently passes away from the effort of sustaining it.]]
---> '''[[spoiler:Luke]]:''' See ya around, ''kid''.

* While fighting the Phoenix in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', [[spoiler:Xavier]] briefly smiles at Wolverine before being disintegrated. And at the [[AfterTheCredits very end]] of the movie it turns out [[spoiler:Xavier's NotQuiteDead]].

* [[TheSpock Mr. Spock's]] HeroicSacrifice death near the end of ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''. Given that Spock is a (half-)Vulcan, it's perfectly in character.
* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Nero quietly faces his death, even as his ship is ripped apart around him as it sits halfway in a black hole. He was offered the opportunity to escape, but chose to go down with his ship.
* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' has a few different examples played in different ways:
** Spock, facing his apparent imminent death in an erupting volcano, faces his fate with stoic calm, just before ''Enterprise'' manages to beam him to safety. His evident lack of regret over potentially dying leads to some problems with his girlfriend, Uhura.
** Thomas Harewood takes the time to send a message explaining his actions to Admiral Marcus before [[spoiler: setting off an explosion which kills him and destroys a Section 31 facility. This was the cost for Khan saving Harewood's daughter.]]
** [[spoiler: James Kirk]], meanwhile, faces his impending death a bit less well. After verifying that the ship and crew is safe thanks to his actions, he admits that he's afraid and wishes he knew how not to be.
* ''Film/KillBill'' had a similar contrast between Bill's muted acceptance and Elle's desperate outrage.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': Jack Sparrow, left behind on a sinking ship with an angry kraken, simply smiles, draws his sword and lunges at it. "Hello Beastie."
* ''Film/TheLastStarfighter'' so completely cripples the [[spoiler:Ko-Dan mothership]] that it winds up on an unstoppable [[spoiler:collision course for one of Rylos' moons]]. When Lord Kril is asked "What do we do?", he straightens up, closes his monocle-thing, and calmly replies "We die." [[spoiler:And then they do.]]
* In ''Film/{{Cyborg 2}}'', Jack Palance is the leader of the underground railroad helping to smuggle cyborgs out from under the control of the Pinwheel Corporation. At the end of the film, the CorruptCorporateExecutive captures him, brings him to his office, and gloats that he's just sent the self-destruct signal to blow up the cyborg heroine (Angelina Jolie!). Instead, it's Palance who starts ticking, and with a smirk he proclaims "looks like you kissed the wrong ass goodbye!" before blowing the BigBad and his corporate headquarters sky-high.

* Subverted in ''Film/SilentHill'' [[spoiler:Cybil pulls out her telescopic baton and fights off the cult members to buy Rose some time in order to escape in the elevator, she then pulls out her gun and tries to shoot the cult's leader Christabella only for the gun to be empty, Cybil then smiles and aims her gun down and peacefully lets herself get beaten to death by the cult members. however later in the film it's revealed that she is still alive and about to be burned to the stake, although she kept herself relatively cool compared to how many other, if not most people would have in her situation, when she actually died toward the end of movie she was nowhere near as calm or at peace like in her previous scene, burning to death while panicking and in anguish.]]

* Holmes in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'' wasn't afraid to exchange his life for his friend's. He genuinely and sadly looks at Watson like he's saying "Goodbye, John." [[spoiler:He [[UnexplainedRecovery gets better]]]].
* [[spoiler:Pvt. Witt]] in ''Film/TheThinRedLine''.
* ''Film/ThreeHundred'':
-->'''Stelios:''' It is an honor to die by your side.
--> '''Leonidas:''' It is an honor to have lived by yours.
* ''Film/{{Tron}}'': When [[TheDragon Sark's]] forces come to arrest the old program Dumont, he stares them down and greets them as he would programs seeking contact with their Users, a ''major'' blasphemy in the totalitarian system.
** Also, before [[spoiler:Flynn]] performs his [[spoiler:attempted]] HeroicSacrifice, he instructs the onlooker not to worry.
* ''Film/BladeII'' gives the same moment to [[TheDreaded Jared Nomak]]. After a long, eventful battle with Blade he actually slides the hero's broken sword deeper into his heart to finish himself off properly.
--> '''Nomak:''' "It hurts. It hurts no more."

* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'': "Pull my finger."

* ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite'' had a rather interesting variation with [[spoiler: John Mallory. After successfully ''blowing up a train'', he gets shot and fatally wounded. We get a brief tear-jerking conversation between him and Juan Miranda... and then he promptly blows himself up]].
* At the end of ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'', [[spoiler: König]] does this, when he realizes that [[spoiler: Zaitzev]] tricked him and has the drop on him.
* It wasn't used in the final film, but just before his death in ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater'', Doyle winks to the kids.
* The old wizard Ulrich does it ''twice'' in ''Film/{{Dragonslayer}}''. First, he invites an enemy to stab him as a test of his magic, and then gives the guy a knowing smile before he falls. Then he stands on a mountaintop and lets the dragon catch him in its claws.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': [[spoiler:Yondu]] give up his spacesuit generator to Peter after the heroes escape [[spoiler:Ego's implosion]]. Peter is stuck in RapidFireNo, but [[spoiler:Yondu]] is dissonantly calm about the whole thing, [[spoiler:even as he's freezing the death in vaccuum, and his last words are in telling Peter that while Ego may have sired him, Yondu was proud to be Peter's adoptive dad.]]
--> "He may have been your father, but he wasn't your daddy."
* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': [[spoiler:Doctor Strange, about to disintegrate into dust,]] uses his last breaths to calmly reassure [[spoiler:Tony Stark]] that "there was no other way."

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', when Gandalf looks at the other members of the Fellowship and tells them to "''fly, you fools!''" before letting go and falling with the Balrog. Even though he [[DeathIsCheap eventually does come back]], he may not have been certain at the time.
* [[spoiler:Dumbledore]] in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is a DoubleSubversion. At first, it appears he's pleading with his killer to spare him. In the next book, it's revealed that [[spoiler:his death had been planned by both of them for almost a year, and he was pleading for Snape to honor his word and actually do it.]]
** And then [[spoiler:Harry himself]] repeats the feat in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The Deathly Hallows]]'' when he finds out that the only way Voldemort can be beaten is if Harry is killed by him. After ensuring that there are people who have the necessary information to kill Voldemort, he has a peaceful moment with the ghosts of his loved ones. He then confronts the Dark Lord, accepting his fate and not even using his wand to defend himself. [[spoiler: He gets better, though.]]
* In ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', both of Pierre's mentors, Osip Bazdeev and [[EccentricMentor Platon Karataev]], die in this way. Osip, in his bed with Pierre by his side. Platon, [[spoiler:shot by the French]], having intentionally fallen behind in a [[spoiler:POW forced march]]. Both scenes are described as them dying with a certain dignity.
* Tirandys in P.C. Hodgell's Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath spends his last wounded moments telling his protege and surrogate child Jame that she did right, before ending his own life with the [[OneHitKill Ivory Knife]].

* There are several of these moments in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse. [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Thrawn]] smiled. [[Literature/OutboundFlight Lorana and Thrass]] [[HoldingHands took each others' hand]]. [[Literature/DeathStar Atour Riten]] stayed behind on the Death Star to give the others clearance and sat surrounded by his books. [[ManchurianAgent Diric Wesseri]] held [[Literature/XWingSeries his wife's]] hand. [[Literature/XWingSeries Ton Phanan]] weakened and died very slowly, but he was still quietly DefiantToTheEnd and [[DeadManWriting wrote to his wingmate, telling him not to blame himself]]. In ''Literature/TheNewRebellion'', Luke didn't die, but he thought he would and acted in accordance to this trope, allowing himself to be killed rather than resorting to the Dark Side.

* Creator/TerryBrooks does this in ''[[Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy The Wishsong of Shannara]]'' between Allanon and Brin, whose last act in this world is to ensure Brin can carry on without him and to pass on a blood inheritance to ensure one of her descendents can resurrect the druid power he's [[LastOfHisKind taking out of the world by dying]].
* In Literature/LesMiserables, when [[spoiler: Grantaire]] wakes up to find [[spoiler: Enjolras]] at the wrong end of a firing squad, he walks past the soldiers and gently asks for [[spoiler: Enjolras']] permission to die beside him.
* Literature/CatsCradle includes one of these, when [[spoiler:Mona]] calmly touches a bit of Ice-Nine to their lips [[spoiler:after discovering that the entire surviving population of San Lorenzo committed a similar form of suicide at Bokonon's direction.]]

* In the season 18 finale of ''Series/TheAmazingRace '', second place team Flight Time & Big Easy slowed down and enjoyed the scenery during their bike ride over the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys when they realized that sisters Jen & Kisha were too far ahead for them to catch and were going to win.

** Centauri Emperor Turhan also faced his death with a graceful dignity. He wanted to make sure he could apologize to the Narn for their past occupation before he died, and make peace with them, which was why he came to Babylon 5--although that overture sadly failed due to the scheming of Londo and Refa.
*** Subverted with Tuhan, in fact. While this was arguably his intent (before he died, he wanted to stand before a Narn in neutral space and personally, if not officially, apologize), but his failing health robbed him of that chance (as did the afforementioned scheming). He also very much wanted to meet a Vorlon, and Kosh indeed stops by Turhan's sickbed shortly before his death. When Turhan asks the Vorlon "How will it end?" Kosh replies "In fire," which is not what the poor old man wanted to hear. Finally, his last words, after being informed that Refa and Mollari have struck a decisive blow against the Narn, is a whispered "We are all damned." Turhan wanted the Obi Wan Moment, but got a TraumaCongaLine.

* Parodied in ''Series/TheStrangeCalls'': Older mentor figure Gregor has been attacked with a serum that will turn him into a tree. Lying on a stretcher in an ambulence, he quietly accepts his fate, and offers some last wishes to a tear-stricken Banks. His last words before fading away: "If any dogs piss on me, shoot them." Further subverted in that these turn out to be PartingFromConsciousnessWords, as the nurses had just sedated him.

* As the anti-matter wave sweeps over them in ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'', [[spoiler: Iris shoots Earth-1 Superman]] a worried look. He just has time to give her a comforting nod before they both dissolve, the latter without a (visible) flicker of fear.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', when [[spoiler:Fei]] destroys Lahan, Alice calmly looks at herself as she is disintegrated. Also, Krelian calmly chooses to "become one with god" at the end which is equivalent to death, even after Fei pleads for him to come back to Earth and atone for his sins.
* Rufus's death scene in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. In the movie sequel ''Advent Children'' it turns out [[spoiler:it was only a DisneyDeath.]]
** Aerith's death in the same game when she dies in the Forgotten Capital.
* Each of the Espers who sacrifices himself in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' does this.
* Both played straight and subverted in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'',[[spoiler: First with James, the main character's father, after the purifier in the Jefferson Memorial is seized by Enclave Soldiers lead by Colonel Autumn, who tries to force James to reveal the code so the Enclave can take control over the project, after the Colonel kills Janice Kaplinski a member of James's science team, James calmly without worrying about his own safety puts in a false code which floods the chamber with radiation killing himself and the Enclave Soldiers (and preventing them from using the purifier), just before he dies he tells his son/daughter to run in a manner similar to how Obi Wan told Luke as a ghost moments after he died in {{Film/A New Hope}}. This is most likely not a coincidence considering the many other Star Wars references in Fallout and perhaps even more importantly, that James is voiced by {{Creator/Liam Neeson}} who played Obi Wan's Master, Qui Gon Jinn in {{Film/The Phantom Menace}}. Later on in the story ether the main character, a follower or Sarah Lyons (a Brotherhood of Steel soldier) can make a similar sacrifice, if Lyons is sent in she permanently dies, if the player or a follower goes in they survive in the DLC Broken Steel,subverting the trope]]
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': [[spoiler:Raven]], after being defeated, furthers the plot in a cutscene, and then calmly allows himself to be [[spoiler: eaten alive by a flock of birds from which his name is derived]].
** [[spoiler:Big Boss]] in the post-credits sequence of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''.
---> ''[[spoiler:"This is good, isn't it?"]]''
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' has a small one around three quarters of the way through the game at the end of [[spoiler:Virmire, where you have a choice of saving either Ashley or Kaiden, and the one you leave behind will die in a nuclear explosion]]. Both of them argue that the other should be saved, and the only thing the condemned one has to say is "I don't regret a thing."
** And in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:Mordin Solus']] last words to Shepard and in general fit this. First he tells Shepard that he would have liked to study some seashells that her referenced earlier[[note]]he was talking about retiring[[/note]], and then later quietly sings to himself right before the explosion that kills him.
--->[[KilledMidSentence "I am the very model of a--"]] '''<BOOOM>'''
*** That the line goes "I am the very model of a [[spoiler: scientist salarian]]" [[TearJerker only makes it worse]]
*** If Shepard asks why [[spoiler: Mordin can't have someone else can't do it]], his response is a [[MeaningfulEcho characteristic]] [[spoiler: "Had to be me. Someone else would have gotten it wrong".]]

* Minor nod in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' - when a priest has taken the talent Spirit of Redemption, the tooltip description states that the Priest has become "more powerful than you can imagine". Enhanced by the fact that Guardian Spirits in Warcraft have a similar blue-white translucence to Jedi Force-spirits.
* Xion in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' - [[spoiler:She dies in Roxas' arms, after telling him that it was her choice to go away now and that she belongs with Sora.]]

* At the end of ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', it's over for Zack and he knows it, but he's got just enough left to pass on his sword and give Cloud a pep talk before getting absorbed by the Lifestream

* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', [[spoiler:King Vendrick]] gets this at the end of the Lost Crowns Trilogy; after having gathered the crowns of the Sunken King, the Old Iron King, and the Ivory King, you go into the [[spoiler:King's Memory]] one last time [[PermanentlyMissableContent with no possibility of returning afterward]] where [[spoiler:Vendrick]] will give you his blessing. This turns each of the Crowns [[spoiler:(including his own)]] into a functional {{Immortality}} device that can stave off the curse and prevent you from Hollowing so long as you wear one of them. After doing so and realizing that [[spoiler:his]] own Hollowing is imminent, [[spoiler:Vendrick]] gives one final word of advice before the Ashen Mist fades;
--> '''[[spoiler:Vendrick:]]''' Seek strength. The rest will follow.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel IV'', [[spoiler:Rean says goodbye to his friends who have known him for two years, and his students who he taught for a few months (Juna, Kurt, Altina, Ash, and Musse) before he, Crow, and Millium sacrifice their lives to take out the curse of Erebonia for good in the normal ending.]]

* Subverted in a story after [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfClarkKent the Conduit saga]]. Restrained in a {{deathtrap}} designed to be unbeatable, watching his life tick away on a timer overhead, ComicBook/JimmyOlsen delivers a rousing plea to his super powered pal not to [[ItsAllMyFault blame himself for]] [[YouDidEverythingYouCould failing to save him]]. Luckily, he had an [[EurekaMoment epiphany]] which allowed Franchise/{{Superman}} to save him -- just barely.

** There is also [[spoiler: Rorschach]]'s death. He starts out like this, cooly accepting the logic of his own death under the circumstances. But he breaks from the trope at the last moment; with tears streaming down his face, he screams at his hesitant killer to "[[GetItOverWith DO IT!]]"

* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000715c Megaman tries to have one.]]

* [[spoiler: [[CrazyAwesome Jack Rakan]]]] in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' spends his last moments apologizing to the KidHero for not being able to fix his generations problems, and then telling his killer that it was fun, and [[BloodKnight his killer should really learn to enjoy this sort of thing]].

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': [[spoiler:Yondu]] give up his spacesuit generator to Peter after the heroes escape [[spoiler:Ego's implosion]]. Peter is stuck in RapidFireNo, but [[spoiler:Yondu]] is dissonantly calm about the whole thing, [[spoiler:even as he's freezing the death in vaccuum, and his FamousLastWords are in telling Peter that while Ego may have sired him, Yondu was proud to be Peter's adoptive dad.]]

* In Literature/LesMiserables, when [[spoiler: Grantaire]] wakes up to find [[spoiler: Enjolras]] at the wrong end of a firing squad, he walks past the soldiers and gently asks for [[spoiler: Enjolras']] [[FamousLastWords permission to die beside him]].

->''"You can't win Darth, if you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."''

* Reportedly Hannibal Barca, the great Carthaginian general, had a moment like this when the Roman legions who had been chasing him for years finally caught up for him, but rather than let them take him back to Rome and be paraded around as a captive he [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled took poison]] instead. His last words were reportedly "Let us relieve the Romans from the anxiety they have so long experienced, [[TakeThat since they think it tries their patience too much to wait for an old man's death]]."

* In true [[DangerDeadpan Chuck Yeager]] fashion, the black boxes of many planes recorded how many pilots would remain calm and collected even as they knew the plane was going down, [[TearJerker in a truly dignified fashion.]]

* A rather... special one happens in ''Anime/MaiHime''. More exactly, when [[spoiler:Haruka tosses her red badge at Yukino]] before she disappears. Though the one above is the most extreme, the cause of most deaths in ''[=Mai-HiME=]'' allow many characters to know when its coming and take it peacefully. Two characters, [[spoiler:Natsuki and Yukariko]], even bring about [[spoiler:their own deaths]] as it's the only way to save the world.

* [[spoiler: [[CrazyAwesome Jack Rakan]]]] in Manga/MahouSenseiNegima spends his last moments apologizing to the KidHero for not being able to fix his generations problems, and then telling his killer that it was fun, and [[BloodKnight his killer should really learn to enjoy this sort of thing]].

* In the midst of the slaughter that was the Eclipse, Judeau's death in ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' was particularly heartbreaking, in that he spends his final moments talking to Casca, who he was secretly in love with but never got the chance to tell her his feelings. Instead, he spends it reminding her that her true love, Guts, loved her. He dies less horrifically than the rest of his comrades, dying instead from the injuries he sustained while trying to protect Casca.

--->That the line goes "I am the very model of a [[spoiler: scientist salarian]]" [[TearJerker only makes it worse]]

--> '''[[spoiler: Zeratul:]]''' The [[{{MacGuffin}} Keystone]]... will guide you... to the [[{{Precursors}} xel'naga]]...

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* In ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic Universe]]'' issue #3, E-102 Gamma confronts E-123 Omega and Gamma is shown to easily overpower Omega despite Gamma being such a weaker unit. He realizes Omega would be a better choice to return to GUN with and quickly implants a virus in Omega that grants him emotions just before Omega obliterates him. As he's doing this, though, he's telling Omega that he could destroy his body, but not his soul. [[TemptingFate Omega's response?]] "[[TheSoulless Robots don't have souls.]]" He gets one.

* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', right before dying, [[spoiler:Kamina]] takes a moment to reassure Simon and [[spoiler:reverse his earlier message of "Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me, who believes in you!" to "Believe in yourself. Not in me, who believes in you, not in you, who believes in me. Believe in Simon, who believes in himself!"]].

** Also [[spoiler:Kittan]] who stops a Spiral Power-neutralising trap using an attack up till that point exclusively used by Simon, and leaves by [[spoiler:laughing quietly to himself about how great Spiral Power is]].

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': [[spoiler: Yondu]] give up his spacesuit generator to Peter after the heroes escape [[spoiler: Ego's implosion]]. Peter is stuck in RapidFireNo, but [[spoiler: Yondu]] is dissonantly calm about the whole thing, [[spoiler: even as he's freezing the death in vaccuum, and his FamousLastWords are in telling Peter that while Ego may have sired him, Yondu was proud to be Peter's adoptive dad.]]
---> "He may have been your father, but he wasn't your daddy."
* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': [[spoiler: Doctor Strange, about to disintegrate into dust,]] uses his last breaths to calmly reassure [[spoiler: Tony Stark]] that "there was no other way."

* [[spoiler: Rachel]] in Literature/{{Animorphs}} demorphs right before she's killed in order to smile at [[spoiler: Tobias]] and tell him that she loves him.

** He then temporarily [[spoiler:comes back from non-existence]] solely to [[spoiler:[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan smack Negi]]]] for attempting to use his SuperpoweredEvilSide, and to give some final advice, essentially having two consecutive {{Obi Wan Moment}}s. And then he just can't stay away, since it seems he's back permanently thanks to [[spoiler:Negi's bunch using the Master Key who brought everyone affected by the Keys back]].

*** Subverted with Tuhan, in fact. While this was arguably his intent (before he died, he wanted to stand before a Narn in neutral space and personally, if not officially, apologize), but his failing health robbed him of that chance (as did the afforementioned scheming). He also very much wanted to meet a Vorlon, and Kosh indeed stops by Turhan's sickbed shortly before his death. When Turhan asks the Vorlon "How will it end?" Kosh replies "In fire," which is not what the poor old man wanted to hear. Finally, his last words, after being informed that Refa and Mollari have struck a decisive blow against the Narn, is a whispered "We are all damned." Turhan wanted the ObiWanMoment, but got a TraumaCongaLine.

* Sousuke's mother from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', as revealed from his [[BadDreams nightmares]] and in his backstory. The plane he and she were on crashed in the middle of snowy mountains, and apparently all the rest of the passengers died. They were huddled together, and she protected him from the cold. During Kalinin's rescue mission, although they were able to take Sousuke out of the plane in time, the part of the plane Sousuke's mother was on crumbled, and she ended up falling to her death. She yells out to him, [[GoOutWithASmile with a sad smile on her face]], that he must live, never give up, and to fight. It certainly gives a bit of explanation as to why he's so bent on being CrazyPrepared and becoming the CrazySurvivalist he is today.

* In ''Anime/SonicX'' (and the video game ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' which the anime was based on) just before being ejected into space and blown up ([[DIsneyDeath not really]]) Sonic looks at his friends, says "hey, it's okay" before telling Tails to finish what he started. He's still smiling as he's blown out of the Space Station. Tails finishes what he started. Awesomely.

** E-102 Gamma in the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' adaptation beforehand, after getting mortally wounded by his defeated brethen E-101 Beta, he exclaims in horror as the fellow bot explodes, only to express relief when his animal battery emerges safe, before shutting down himself. Granted Gamma is a robot with limited sentience, but since his final emotion was "relief" it still counts.
-->'''Gamma:''' I'm relieved...Gamma: Mission Complete....

* In ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Universe]]'' issue #3, E-102 Gamma confronts E-123 Omega and Gamma is shown to easily overpower Omega despite Gamma being such a weaker unit. He realizes Omega would be a better choice to return to GUN with and quickly implants a virus in Omega that grants him emotions just before Omega obliterates him. As he's doing this, though, he's telling Omega that he could destroy his body, but not his soul. [[TemptingFate Omega's response?]] "[[TheSoulless Robots don't have souls.]]" He gets one.

* Both played straight and subverted in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'',[[spoiler: First with James, the main character's father, after the purifier in the Jefferson Memorial is seized by Enclave Soldiers lead by Colonel Autumn, who tries to force James to reveal the code so the Enclave can take control over the project, after the Colonel kills Janice Kaplinski a member of James's science team, James calmly without worrying about his own safety puts in a false code which floods the chamber with radiation killing himself and the Enclave Soldiers (and preventing them from using the purifier), just before he dies he tells his son/daughter to run in a manner similar to how Obi Wan told Luke as a ghost moments after he died in {{Film/A New Hope}}. This is most likely not a coincidence considering the many other Star Wars references in Fallout and perhaps even more importantly, that James is voiced by {{Creator/Liam Neeson}} who played Obi Wan's Master Qui Gon Jinn in {{Film/ The Phantom Menace}}. Later on in the story ether the main character, a follower or Sarah Lyons (a Brotherhood of Steel soldier) can make a similar sacrifice, if Lyons is sent in she permanently dies, if the player or a follower goes in they survive in the DLC Broken Steel.]]