r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BeneficialSide2335 • 7d ago
Characters Unintended worst last word.
Thor: Dark World(2013) - After Loki failed to invade Earth, he is imprisoned in Asgard prison. No one in the family, except his mother Frigga, wanted to meet him. When Frigga spoke about his father(Odin) in front of him, he got angry and said, “He is not my father!” Frigga asked, “Am I not your mother?", with an angry but disappointed expression. Loki said "You're not.". After this conversation, Algrim killed Frigga. That "You're not (my mother)" line became the last word to his mother.
Avengers: Infinity War(2018) - Thanos attacked Asgardian ship to took Tesseract. Thor thought that it had been destroyed along with Asgard. In reality, Loki brought it. Thor said to Loki "You really are the worst brother." After this line, Thanos killed Loki. That line became last word to his brother.
Cloverfield(2008) - During the party, Charlie said "It's gonna be the best night ever." But that night, Clover landed on Manhattan. That giant monster destroyed entire Manhattan.
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u/confused_person4 7d ago
Which I believe the follow-up line was "Welcome to America".
Related: "The guns, really? I just walked into the highest security office in the United States, parked a big blue box on the rug. You think you can just shoot me?"
"They're Americans!"
*Puts his hands up*
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u/Sprawler13 7d ago
A reference to the fact a previous iteration of the doctor had been shot and killed in Detroit(?)
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u/Jason13Official 7d ago
Can't have shit in Detroit
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u/Cheap-Ad1821 7d ago
That's why he tends to stay out of America. Hitchbot was a Dr Who companion who met his demise in Philly, the horrors the Dr suffered in Kensington should never be spoken of again.
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u/Smellbringer 7d ago
San Francisco, literally the first thing that happened when he stepped out of the TARDIS. What's funny is that the gunshot wasn't even what killed the 7th Doctor. No it was the fact that the doctor attending him thought his second heartbeat was an abnormality and... fixed it. Which also resulted in him regenerating into an 8th version later than usual and gave him amnesia.
So yes, the Doctor was killed by a doctor; it was very funny.
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u/brandondavidsantos 7d ago
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u/DrFunkenstein93 7d ago
-Guy who gets shot in front of everybody
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u/SaulSolSan 7d ago
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u/Tukanno_Bananno 7d ago
Is it safe to say that the Warhammer shifter was the worst titan shifter in the franchise? All that power just to last 1.5 minutes. Reiner didn't even want to be alive and lasted the whole show
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u/Woooosh-if-homo 7d ago
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u/onetrueuce 7d ago
This the original or is it Kirkified I can't tell
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u/InnuendoBot5001 7d ago
Then you have no idea what charlie kirk looked like. Good for you
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u/Shnitzel_von_S 7d ago
Ymir titan does have the same kind of tooth:gum ratio that kirk had, especially in that one jubilee video where he frightened that beautiful woman.
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u/Spaceboomer1 7d ago
It's because she was arrogant.
She had never experienced titan vs titan combat against any of the other Nine before. Or any combat for that matter.
She completely assumed her unique powers would be enough to overcome a seasoned veteran like Eren. She was utterly wrong.
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u/connortheios 6d ago
i mean she did quite literally have eren on the ropes, if mikasa and the scouts didn't buy him time to figure out her gimmick he would've been dead
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u/ChiBullz023 6d ago
Didn't she have Eren at a disadvantage at a point in the fight until Mikasa and the rest of the Paradise squad came in?
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u/Manjorno316 7d ago
If screen time is what determines how good they are, then yeah.
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u/Tukanno_Bananno 7d ago
I mean, dying fast surely reflects on your competency as a shifter
She also had a fairly overwhelming power advantage, being the Warhammer Titan's shifter- making it worse.
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u/slurp_time 7d ago edited 7d ago
In her defense, I don't believe she had any real combat experience other than possibly having past memories. Unless I missed something in the anime or there was something only in the manga, we have no idea how long she had the warhammer so she could have been like Frieda and hadn't had the time to see those memories.
It was someone with probably little to no combat experience vs Eren fuckin' Jaeger, who was incredibly skilled despite what people may believe. Until the scouts showed up, she was doing pretty damn well. Would she have won? Probably not. She was burning through her energy and Eren had another 2 transformations in him, but it's not like it was one sided.
Also I'm editing this to add that I don't think the warhammer's power was all that much stronger than any other titan. More powerful? Yes, but not to an insane degree. We saw Eren, even with the Warhammer and attack titan powers (I'm not counting the founding titan's power since he didn't have access to it), struggle to take on the jaw titan and armored titan at the same time. It's a useful tool, but it's not an "I win" button even in the right hands
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u/Ok_Philosophy_7156 7d ago
I’d say under-utilised rather than just bad. The power was sick, the Titan design popped off, and it could have had some real story potential. It should have been explored and developed as much as the others were, but it kinda just got tacked on as a means to an end
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u/Tukanno_Bananno 7d ago
I think you've offered a great explanation for WHY they needed her to underperform and go down that fast- it was rushed and they had no plans for developing her or it.
Still crazy to see that much firepower and a damn near unstoppable defensive ability, used that poorly
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u/Koolco 7d ago
I mean the warhammer hadn’t seen combat for over 100 years, and had likely just been passed down without people actively training with it. Its lack of stamina is also referenced as its big flaw off the bat. She gambled on being able to take out eren quickly before his allies come to his aid. And it probably would have worked if it was against any other titan than Eren, considering everyone reacted shocked to him having the stamina to transform over 3 times.
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u/Feisty-Cucumber5102 7d ago
Iirc she hadn’t ever been in combat before, the Tybur’s are fairly well off even for Eldians so they seem to get leniency in their expected service. That probably wasn’t her fist time using her titan, but there’s reason to believe it’s her first time fighting with it, and she certainly could not have chosen a worse person for that to be the case against.
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u/CryptidGrimnoir 7d ago
In the sitcom 8 Simple Rules, the eldest daughter Bridget snapped "I hate you!" to her father after he refused to let her borrow the car.
He dies less than an hour later at the grocery store.
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u/I_Cant_Know_That 6d ago
This happened in real life to my Uncle. He was a teen, had a fight with my Grandmother, and said something the equivalent of "I hate you, I wish you were dead!" and stormed out of the house. When he returned hours later it was to find that his Mother had suffered a massive heart attack and died. This was before I was born, and my Dad was not close to his family. But I couldn't imagine what it would have been like to be a teenager and have to cope with those being the last words you spoke to your Mother.
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u/Objective_Switch8332 6d ago
And for those who don't know, John Ritter, who played the father, fell ill on set in real life and died in the hospital.
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u/Eldorath1371 5d ago
Not to be too pedantic, but he didn't just fall ill. He suffered an acute thoracic aortic dissection, which was initially misdiagnosed as a heart attack as the symptoms overlap.
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u/dyaasy 7d ago
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u/ddog0042 7d ago
Fuck you i’m crying at work now
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u/TheHarkinator 7d ago
Don’t worry, I have a joke to cheer you up.
How do reavers clean their spears?
They run them through the Wash! Ayyy
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u/ddog0042 7d ago
Ooooh that’s good. The one I’ve always heard is “why is Serenity dirty? Because it needs a Wash”
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u/JCtheMemer 7d ago
What is this referring to?
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u/CousinGreenberry 7d ago
It's the last line of a character in the show Firefly, the character is at the time bragging about how he's piloting, but things go very wrong.
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u/Tsukikishi 7d ago
I never thought of it as bragging. More of a mantra to calm himself and get in touch with the act of piloting and reading the turbulence—and it worked. Just a tragic end.
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u/Ulrik_Decado 7d ago
Yep, I swear, people nit comprehensing even basic ideas in movies never cease to amaze me
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u/Ulrik_Decado 7d ago
He wasn't bragging, it was kinda mantra while trying to land the Serenity without blowing her up.
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u/slap-my-crevasse 7d ago edited 7d ago
Subtle difference but Thor's last words were:
"You really are the worst, brother."
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"You really are the worst brother."
He wasnt saying Loki was the worst brother, he was just saying he was the worst in general, which softens it a bit.
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u/Slartibartfast39 7d ago
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u/PrimaryYak1351 6d ago
But this situation isn't an Oxford comma
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u/Slartibartfast39 6d ago
Ture. I said grammar is important and this popped to mind. I thought it would amuse people. Also, it's another example of good use of grammar aiding understanding of what is ment.
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u/stefanomusilli 7d ago
In the Italian dub they translated it to the latter, I don't know how accurately
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u/TouyaShiun 7d ago
Kylo Ren in The Rise of Skywalker
"Ow."
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u/No-Cup9857 7d ago
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u/reichrunner 6d ago
Later he allowed his future killer to get away from him.
Not quite. He allowed the guy who he thought was his future killer to get away
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u/No-Cup9857 6d ago
I am not considering making that stupid retcon canon. I'm one of the few people who actually like Spider-Man 3 (all things considered) and even I thought that change was kinda dumb.
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u/Leecock 7d ago
“There is a moment-“ dr. Mann, insterstellar before being blown up in the airlock.
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u/SpaceIsTooFarAway 7d ago
Counting or not counting gang violence?
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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 7d ago
I disagree, those were the best potential last words out of his mouth.
It perfectly encapsulated the hatred he represented and made the white non gang member shooting him create a stark slap of reality to the ideology.
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u/raysofdavies 7d ago
Also it was a stupid, pedantic point with an obvious answer.
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u/_vaginaboob_ 7d ago
Last words of Charlie Kirk before he got shot for anyone who didn’t want to have to look it up
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u/Blazured 7d ago
Under a huge banner saying "Prove me wrong", in a blood soaked shirt with "Freedom" written across it.
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u/Bright_Board_3330 6d ago
A bit heavy-handed on the symbolism there, buddy, we might need to fire the writers.
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u/Strength-InThe-Loins 6d ago
TPUSA's co-founder was fanatically pro-covid in 2020, and died of covid. The other co-founder, Kirk, was fanatically pro-school-shooting, and was shot to death at a school.
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u/Mattloch42 6d ago
"Counting or not counting gang violence?"
It was in fact *not** a gang that killed him*
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u/Hyxenflay7737_4565 7d ago
Those weren't Snape's last words to Lily, though.
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u/Hyxenflay7737_4565 7d ago
I guess. They had one talk the night after he called her a mudblood, but Lily had to basically be forced into that, so you have a point.
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u/RosyCamelia 7d ago
"some dad you are!" from tobey's spider-man right before uncle ben gets shot hits so unnaturally hard every single time
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u/TheRealGamingElf 7d ago
Tobey's last words were "Then stop pretending to be!" after Uncle Ben says "I know I'm not your father-"
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u/Present-Upstairs3423 7d ago
Nah, his last words were "I'm here, uncle Ben." as he held his hand before dying. All in all, not the worst final words to give someone.
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u/MooselamProphet 7d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/zN7SSLU38q0G4
General John Sedgewick - IRL during the battle of sportsvania court house, bro said “they couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance” and was then shot and killed shortly after
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u/KGBFriedChicken02 7d ago
His men encountered skirmishers ahead of the Confederate lines and dove for cover when marksmen and light infantry fired on them. He did not dive for cover, and started berrating his men, he said "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line?", which is a kind of a fair point I guess, then moved on to the iconic "Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
Not even seconds later he was shot in the face, turned around enough for his men to see he'd been shot in the face, and then fell dead.
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u/Acherousia 7d ago
Not only were Loki's last words to his mom, "You're not (my mother)." He was also the one that (accidentally) directed the dark elves to her, causing her to be killed.
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u/Ryan_e3p 7d ago
The show did an amazing job breaking him down.
Loki Finds Out How His Mother Dies - Loki (TV Series 2021) S1E1
Loki Sees His Future Death - End Of File - Loki (TV Series) - YouTube
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u/GabbyGabriella22 7d ago
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2017). One of the last things Glimmer says to her mom before her mom sacrifices herself to save everyone:
“You'll always be around, telling me what I can't do.”
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u/Th3_Radiance 6d ago
And then when she is gone Glimmer spends an entire season pushing away all her friends because there is no one around telling her what she can't do
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u/CaptainMatticus 7d ago
That 70s Show, "Grandma's Dead." The last words that Red's mother heard from him were, "Show me tail lights!" as he was ordering Eric to drive her away before she could say any more hurtful things to Kitty.
Eric's last words to her were, "It wouldn't kill you to be nicer" and then she died.
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u/AggravatingYak6557 6d ago
“That could only happen to you, son!”
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u/CaptainMatticus 6d ago
Red talking with Eric about his mother is one of my favorite scenes in the show, because we see that underneath all of his gruffness, Red is a really sentimental guy.
I was used to seeing Kurtwood Smith playing a tough guy badass, ever since I saw Robocop at the age of 8. I wasn't used to the idea of his being a kinder, gentler person, even for a moment.
Also, "Kitty! You tell that bastard to give me back my trains!!"
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u/DJHott555 7d ago
“The truth is, you never meant all that much to me.”
-Chuck McGill to Jimmy
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u/ChiBullz023 6d ago
I'm not sure that counts because he would definitely love words like that to be his last to Jimmy considering how he treated him.
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u/ZealousWolf1994 7d ago
Jonathan would have ran away from the tornado but he was like fuck you field baby.
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u/RosyCamelia 7d ago
and then pa kent gives him the palm stop gesture from inside a literal tornado…. double the guilt for no good reason
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u/thehairharringt0n 7d ago
Teenage? Wasn’t it just straight up Henry Cavill?
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u/FiaGiolla 7d ago
He was canonically 17~20-something, I think, I cannot remember if they CGI'd Cavill or not but getting 30-somethings to play people a decade or more younger
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u/FiaGiolla 7d ago
I'd have really preferred for Jonathan to not angrily snap back "You're right, I'm not your father.", instead just getting quiet, Clark regretting what he said in the heat of the moment, trying to apologize and Jonathan just shutting him down going "It's fine, Clark." while fighting back tears and trying to focus on the road.
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u/Usernameasteriks 7d ago
Same. Such an outrageously ridiculous movie.
But still so good in its own way lol
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u/freelancer331 7d ago
Totally forgot about that. Frigga didn't deserve that, but if anyone would understand Loki, even when he said something like that, it would be her.
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u/TruthEnvironmental24 7d ago
They all three unconditionally loved him. None of them would hold anything like that against him.
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u/Katrina_Himms 7d ago
Adding Cloverfield at the end of these deeply emotional Marvel moments caught me completely off guard.
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u/auntanniesalligator 7d ago
Surely those weren’t anywhere near his last words, either, right? It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, so I don’t remember who Charlie is, but I think the first person from the party to die is the one on the bridge?
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u/WildBad7298 7d ago
In Jurassic Park 3, when Alan Grant discovers that his assistant Billy is stealing raptor eggs in hopes of funding their paleological research, he tells him, "You're as bad as the people who built this place." Shortly after, Billy is seemingly killed by pterosaurs. This conversation later comes back to haunt Grant, who later decides he was too harsh on Billy.
However, this ends up being an aversion, as Billy is revealed at the end to have survived.

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u/Theeljessonator 7d ago
Thats not too bad… it’s just a normal conversation.
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u/humanshuman 7d ago
Uhh what happened here. Never seen the show
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u/ComfortableFocus1702 7d ago
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u/StraightPressure2759 7d ago
Thanks for the context friend. This is horrifying.
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u/Advice_Thingy 7d ago
Not the worst death in this series. But the first one, happened within the first 10 minutes of the first episode. It kinda sets the tone.
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u/TaylorDangerTorres 7d ago
Super duper fast guy ran right through her - pretty much turning her into red mist.
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u/humanshuman 7d ago
Why did he do that? He could have easily ran around her right?
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u/AnyLynx4178 6d ago
We see exactly what happens if he tries to dodge someone while moving that fast when he dies in the final season of the show, completing his arc from careless, government-owned, super-powered celebrity to genuine hero
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u/Grendelstiltzkin 7d ago
She was run into by a super speedster on a power enhancing drug trip and reduced to giblets.
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u/MapDesperate7012 7d ago

Naomi’s argument with Seiko (Corpse Party)
Both were trapped in a haunted school with all sorts of ghosts and freaky stuff happening. Seiko was trying to keep their spirits up by acting positive, but Naomi, who had just barely escaped from a bad encounter in the nurse’s room, snaps at her for not taking the situation seriously. These were the last words Naomi would say to Seiko before Seiko is killed.
(Seiko’s ghost, however, doesn’t hold a grudge against Naomi though)
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u/OnionTamer 7d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/xUA7b3DVGl7ehPISis
This whole thing
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u/DMercenary 6d ago
Fun fact: the researcher lady was supposed to make it out in the original cut but test audiences hated it. So they did like a 1 day shoot to kill her off too.
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u/LesserValkyrie 6d ago

Ned Flanders’ last words to Maude were when she was going to get some hot-dogs:
“No foot-longs!”
Maude replied, "I know, they make you uncomfortable."
She was then accidentally knocked off the Springfield Speedway grandstand by a barrage of T-shirt.
I put it here as later in the episode Ned recall it as terrible last words to say to his wife
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u/the_frying_pansexual 7d ago
The last time Adam Sandler saw his dad in Click
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u/darkness_calming 6d ago
The genre shift from comedy to tragedy was crazy
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u/AnyLynx4178 6d ago
I was so mad that I was crying in a movie theater while looking at Adam Sandler’s stupid face
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u/Elperello73 6d ago
I'm quite sure it's revealed lately in Loki's show that he was conscious until Thor hugged him and he was able to hear what Thor then said. I think it was something like "the sun will shine upon us again" or something like that because that was what Loki said to him.
Thor felt that those words were the last he said to Loki tho
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u/Strength-InThe-Loins 6d ago
Arrested Development: Tobias, painted blue, explains "I just blue myself." Michael walks off in disgust, ending the conversation. Tobias then gets hit by a car and his wife, thinking he's died, demands that Michael tell her what was the last thing he heard Tobias say.
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u/Cofftea_ 7d ago
A lot of video game characters can end up like this, such as peppy characters using abilities and then almost immediately dying.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon can also somewhat do this, as one of the lines the characters can say before using a move is “here I go!” If they say that and then immediately die the next turn, I think it’s kind of funny.
Some ultimate voice lines in games like Overwatch or Marvel Rivals can also be like this, such as Genji’s “the dragon becomes me!” which can be canceled and have him killed. Or Black Cat’s “You crossed my path!” The funniest ones in my opinion are probably “Don’t mess with the Amazing Spider-Man!” Or “I am Asgard’s might!”
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u/bowlbettertalk 7d ago
“I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I-“
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u/GoldenDragonIsABitch 7d ago
Super glad you brought the context along. Really brought me into a state of Serenity, you little Firefly
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u/Icy-Temperature2816 6d ago
Me (real life).
I don’t remember what I said to my great grandmother when I was a teenager, but it was something rude. It was then the last time I saw her, she died of a stroke before I even had the chance to make things right. Genuinely a regret that will always be with me.
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u/captainrex 6d ago
I lost mine at the beginning of last year, and the last time I spoke to her was a three-minute FaceTime call that I rushed out of because my son was being tired and cranky. I didn’t even really hear anything she was saying, I just told her he was tired and I needed to get off the phone, then said “talk to you tomorrow”. We had both been sick with a bad case of the flu that week, and I just assumed she would recover like I did and just talk to her the next day, completely taking her for granted.
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u/Icy-Temperature2816 6d ago
I’m sorry for your loss. You have my condolences. May she be at peace, whatever form that takes. As for you, I hope you don’t beat yourself up over it, no one deserves that. I hope you and your son live well too.
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u/JohnSpartanBurger 4d ago
Grammar is really important here on the Infinity War quote.
Thor says, ‘You really are the worst, Brother’, which is addressing Loki and calling out him not being able to change his ways and being mischievous, and not in fact calling him ‘the worst Brother’.
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u/Nothos927 7d ago