Anime & Manga
You have used up all your power; that wasn't very smart of you, Angemon! Now you are no use to anyone! You can't escape from the Dark Forces! Evil is everywhere, so don't savor your victory. There are other Digimon just as powerful as I am, some of them are even stronger—I wonder what you'll do when you run into them? You haven't won at all! What a waste of time!"
— Devimon, Digimon Adventure
"You haven't won. Your dark dreams will never come true. Somewhere, someone will succeed where I failed. Until that day, live in fear. You will fall. We're only human... but... but we will survive. We will... survive..."
— Master Roshi to King Piccolo, Dragon Ball
"Just a few seconds before the flame of his life went out, it flickered, and he turned it into a blazing flare that covered the entire world. I've never laughed as hard as I did that night. I've never cried as much as I did that night. I've never drank as much, either. He was our captain, and he was a magnificent man!"
— Silvers Rayleigh, One Piece
"Hahaha... Just kill me! Just like my closed friend, Brunhild... If I die, my friends on Earth will follow after me... And defeat you with Grendizer!"
— Duke Fleed, UFO Robo Grendizer
"Go... until the time... I revive..."
— Madara Uchiha's last words before his death, Naruto
Audio Plays
"Genetics, my dear, you wouldn't understand, and there's no time to teach you now. But my son and his little friend will work it out, and when they do... I have killed the Supremo, just as if I drowned him in radiation. I have placed Davros on the throne... I've got everything I've ever wanted!"
—Lady Calcula, while dying of radiation exposure, Big Finish Doctor Who: I, Davros - Corruption
Comic Books
"I am set free from flesh and time. I am become a symbol in the human soul, a fearful star in mankind's inner firmament... I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am a rain. I cannot be contained. Free of Life, how then shall I be shackled? Free of Time, how then shall history be be my cage? I am a wave, an influence. Who then shall be safe from me?"
—Sir William Gull, From Hell
Film — Live-Action
"Everything that follows is a result of what you see here."
— Dr. Alfred Lanning, I, Robot
"I promise that my work will continue. You think it's over, just because I'm dead? It's not over. The games have just begun."
— Jigsaw (via a posthumous tape), Saw IV
Judge: Lord Henry Blackwood, you are sentenced to death for the practice of black magic, the unholy murder of five innocent young women, and the attempted murder of a sixth. Do you have any final words?
Lord Blackwood: Death...is only the beginning.
Lord Blackwood: Death...is only the beginning.
Steve Rogers: Who are you?
HYDRA Agent Heinz Kruger: The first of many. Cut off one head, two more shall take its place. Hail HYDRA! [ingests suicide pill and dies]
"When I was alive, I might have been a little naughty... but after they killed me, I became something much, much worse. The stuff nightmares are made of."
— Freddy Krueger, Freddy vs. Jason
"You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
— Obi-Wan Kenobi, A New Hope
Live-Action TV
"I’ll see you soon."
— He Who Remains, Loki
"It doesn't even matter if we die. The movement is strong enough to continue without us."
— Karli Morgenthau, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Tabletop Games
"Your presence does not surprise me, Assassin. I have known of you ever since your craft entered the Eastern Fringes. Why did I not have you killed? Because your mission and the act you are about to commit proves the truth of all I have ever said or done. I merely punished those who had wronged, just as your false Emperor now seeks to punish me. Death is nothing compared to vindication."
— Last words of Konrad Curze, Primarch of the Night Lords, to the Imperial agent sent to kill him, Warhammer 40,000
Theatre
"The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them; The Good is Oft Interred with their Bones."
—Antony, Julius Caesar
Video Games
"Barbara's dead, and I'm laughing
Jason Todd's dead, and I can't stop laughing
I'm even dead, and I can't stop laughing!
What else can I do?
Now I'm part of you"
Jason Todd's dead, and I can't stop laughing
I'm even dead, and I can't stop laughing!
What else can I do?
Now I'm part of you"
— The Joker, Batman: Arkham Knight, "Look Who's Laughing Now"
"You are greater than any I have ever trained. By killing me here, you have rewarded me more than you can possibly know."
— Darth Traya, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
"Ah yes, you've given me a fine death! A fine death indeed! And only in death can you know the true terror of Scarmiglione!"
"Death is only the beginning..."
Invictus Thrax: Where am I?
Remus: Where do all heroes go. When death takes them.
Invictus Thrax: Finally... I am free.
Romulus: Free? Your work is just beginning, Invictus Thrax. You are being chosen...
Remus: Where do all heroes go. When death takes them.
Invictus Thrax: Finally... I am free.
Romulus: Free? Your work is just beginning, Invictus Thrax. You are being chosen...
— after Invictus Thrax arrives in Elysium, Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance
Zero: Oh, no! The Sigma Virus has been leaking out...
X: It must have spread all over and could cover the Earth by now... All of the Reploids are getting severely damaged!
Zero: Sigma! He lost to us on purpose... We have to evacuate immediately!
X: It must have spread all over and could cover the Earth by now... All of the Reploids are getting severely damaged!
Zero: Sigma! He lost to us on purpose... We have to evacuate immediately!
"I am just a small part of what was known as Venom. Pieces of me are scattered throughout the cosmos. Eventually, another will become sentient and exact retribution. You will never escape the shadow of fear! My hatred for your kind is eternal!"
— Venom, Gradius V
"Only now, have I truly won..."
— Master Xehanort, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
"My body will be broken into pieces and spread across the universe. But with every piece, I will be reborn. Then you will regret having destroyed me!"
Web Original
“Killing me won’t stop my legacy, you swine! A thousand more at my hand! A thousand more thrown in that river! The water shall turn red by my hand!”
—The Toadman, The Toadman Saga
Real Life
"What does he mean by that?"
— Metternich, hearing Talleyrand had died.
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins."
— Soeren Kierkegaard
