Best Death Scenes (Spoilers)

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-12-27 09:40pm

Wash's death in Serenity was great because it avoided all the cliches. If I'm remembering correctly, he just gets impaled out of the blue, but the crew has to keep running. No sappy death-speech, no overwrought "I'm such a badass" thing.

Elfdart · Post by **Elfdart** » 2005-12-27 10:02pm

Patrick Degan wrote:John Bernard Books' (John Wayne) death at the climax of The Shootist.

Actually I thought the best death in that movie was when Mike Sweeny (Richard Boone), after taking a mortal gunshot wound, but inflicting same on Books hollered: "And that was for my BROOOOOOOTHEEEEEEEEEER!"

Drooling Iguana wrote:"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've seen C-beams glitter in the dark over Tanhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die." - Roy Batty, Blade Runner

I'm surprised I didn't mention that one. Great scene.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-12-27 10:21pm

I'll say:

Roy Batty's death in blade runner
and

That worthless english Fop's death in "Tale of Two Cities"

and

"Tis not as wide as a church door, nor as deep as a well." -Mercutio with a gut wound in Romeo and Juliet

and

ok guys remember that if you leave your hot girlfriend behind to go on another fucking Crusade just after your little bandit rebellion ousted the evil Prince John, expect her to be pissed when you finally come home, some twenty years later. Expect her to poison you.

Falkenhayn · Post by **Falkenhayn** » 2005-12-27 11:04pm

Dinobot's death in Transformers: Beast Wars. Sorry, had to do it.

Then final scene in Battery Wagner from Glory. And James Armastead's mortal wounding at the Angle in Gettysburg.

"When you see...General...Hancock...would you tell him that General Armastead sends his regrets. Would you tell him how very...sorry I am?"

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2005-12-27 11:55pm

Maximus dying at the end of Gladiator

NeoGoomba · Post by **NeoGoomba** » 2005-12-28 12:37am

Manus Celer Dei wrote:Raziel in Legacy of Kain: Defiance. "And I, I am not your enemy, not you destroyer...I am, as before, your right hand...your sword..." Perfect.

I would say that Mobeius' first death in Blood Omen was quite fitting.

Mobeius: "Aye vampire, you have seen my plan, just as I have seen your destiny. The future says...you die.

Kain: "But I AM dead," *lops of Mobeuis' head* "as are you."

What great games.

And I will raise my hand and second the obligatory Dinobot death scene mention.

Tokaji Kyoden · Post by **Tokaji Kyoden** » 2005-12-28 12:45am

The death of Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop.

"...bang..." and that ending song almost always gets me near tears.

Elfdart · Post by **Elfdart** » 2005-12-28 02:37am

The Yosemite Bear wrote: ok guys remember that if you leave your hot girlfriend behind to go on another fucking Crusade just after your little bandit rebellion ousted the evil Prince John, expect her to be pissed when you finally come home, some twenty years later. Expect her to poison you.

Robin and Marian was another good one.

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2005-12-28 03:14am

Spike at Cowboy Bebop's End.

Dinobot's (original) death in Beast Wars.

Chrono's death from Lavos in Chrono Trigger.

Walker's death in the Voyage of Jerle Shanara Antrax

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-12-28 04:19am

Elfdart wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote: ok guys remember that if you leave your hot girlfriend behind to go on another fucking Crusade just after your little bandit rebellion ousted the evil Prince John, expect her to be pissed when you finally come home, some twenty years later. Expect her to poison you.
Robin and Marian was another good one.

hell yeah, and having read the stories I do love the fact that someone finally showed the ending of the story, not "They Lived happily Ever After"

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-12-28 04:47am

DarkSilver wrote:Chrono's death from Lavos in Chrono Trigger.

Ah yes...

"Behold destiny...in its most brutal form..."

Post by **haas mark** » 2005-12-28 05:42am

Deep Impact was the name of the movie, if I remember right. The scene where the chick and her dad are at the beach and they get taken over by the tidal wave.

Also, in The Day After Tomorrow, the English dudes drinkin' the whiskey.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2005-12-28 08:18am

I remember being really, really upset when Optimus Prime died in Transformers: The Movie. But the *way* he went out was more exciting, exchanging crippling, metal-deforming blows with Megatron until they beat each other to death.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-12-28 08:31am

Dinobot's death in Transformers: Beast Wars. Sorry, had to do it.

"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly - the ill deeds, along with the good - and let me be judged accordingly. The rest ... is silence"

That was awesome, especially for a kid's cartoon.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-12-28 09:19am

I always liked the way Gozer the Destructor died in Ghostbusters, and if not killed, at least stopped for the time being. First, he gets blasted by the proton beams and gets set on fire, which can't be good for a giant marshmallow man. Still, he gets pissed off and starts his ascent of the building, then he gets to the top as the ghostbusters are fucking up his side of the gate, he looks horrified as it all explodes, then this enormous volume of marshmallow gets blown off the top of the building, to rain down on Walter Peck.

Terminator - crushing the T-800. Terminator 2 - the death of the T-1000 and the T-800.

Optimus' death is quite touching.

Boromir, what a dude, those things sticking out of him weren't arrows, they were goddamn tree trunks.

Qwerty 42 · Post by **Qwerty 42** » 2005-12-28 12:47pm

Civil War Man wrote:Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean. ("I feel...cold.")

Didn't he say "I feel old"?

Boromir's was very well done.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-12-28 12:55pm

Leon from the movie of the same name. "This is for..... Matilda"

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-12-28 12:56pm

Qwerty 42 wrote:
Civil War Man wrote:Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean. ("I feel...cold.")
Didn't he say "I feel old"?

Cold. It ties in with one of his speeches earlier about how sucky the curse is. "I can't feel hot or cold". Something like that.

I have to second Wash. If you didn't know, it was a total 'HOLY FUCK!' moment.

Also, I must join the throng of Boromir nominators.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2005-12-28 01:07pm

Book.

"I killed the ship that killed us... not very Christian of me."

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2005-12-28 01:17pm

The English dude with all the booze in Pitch Black.

"I wasn't supposed to die like this. I was supposed to die in Paris, I never even got to see Paris"

*Blasts flamethrower breath lighting up the scene of him suurounded by the creatures they jump on him as it goe black*

Gunhead · Post by **Gunhead** » 2005-12-28 03:50pm

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid

"Butch Cassidy: Wait a minute - you didn't see Lefors out there did you?
Sundance Kid: Lefors? No, why?
Butch Cassidy: Thank God for that. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble."

Leon seconded "See you at Tony's. I'm gonna clean them all. Tony's in an hour."

Gettysburg / Picketts charge "General sir, I have no division"

Stalingrad

Sin City "An old man dies, a young girl lives. Fair trade."

I'm surprised anyone thinks Qui-Gons death was surprising. The minute he appeared on screen I thought "He's dead". When Maul appeared I thought
"That Qui-Gon is the deadest jedi still walking and talking"

-Gunhead

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-12-28 04:07pm

Gunhead wrote:I'm surprised anyone thinks Qui-Gons death was surprising. The minute he appeared on screen I thought "He's dead". When Maul appeared I thought
"That Qui-Gon is the deadest jedi still walking and talking"

-Gunhead

up to that point nobody important had ever truly died from a lightsaber (in the movies) unless they allowed it (Kenobi), so that was surprining

sure they did kill countless noname henchmen or troopers but only named character to die from a lightsaber (Kenobi(though even that is debateble as the cloak was already failing when the blade hit) allowed himself to be killed.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-12-28 04:14pm

The Terminator, in T2.

"I know now why you cry, but that is something I can never do."

Falkenhayn · Post by **Falkenhayn** » 2005-12-28 04:37pm

Charlie Sheen and Patrick Swayze at the end of Red Dawn.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2005-12-28 08:26pm

The enemy admiral near the end of The Last Starfighter........No long speeches no screaming in frustration....

Officer"Helm is down, Sir we are crashing into Rylos's moon what shall we do?"

Admiral. Monicle swings over his eye. "We die"