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It's about how the last waltz is finished, but that doesn't mean the dance is over. Probably better if you forget what happened next. One Last Drink , by Enter The Haggis , about an old man deciding to throw one last big party for himself and all his friends before he dies. Alestorm 's Sunset on the Golden Age is all about this. He famously nailed this song in one take, while he was dying of AIDS and physically weakened, but his smile "still stayed on".
Warhammer 40, has this, said by a leader of the Imperial Guard, shortly before the entire unit is completely annihilated: Our end is come. But what an end! We have been given the most precious gift: Let the Emperor himself hear our final battle cry! Forward warriors of the Guard, and die like the heroes that you are!
Happens quite a bit in Hamilton. Hamilton himself wants to go out in a blaze of glory, as noted with some worry by Washington and his wife Eliza. He's given an opportunity in Yorktown , where he says that he "imagines death so much it feels more like a memory" and wonders if this is how he'll go.
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In a moment of Character Development , remembers his pregnant wife and decides instead to do his part to win the battle. Before his duel with Burr, Hamilton takes time to write a letter to his wife and share a last, touching moment with her, seemingly knowledgeable of the outcome of the duel. Burr subverts the trope just before his duel by saying that "this man [Hamilton] will not make an orphan of my daughter". Hamilton invokes this trope hard as the bullet travels towards him.
He first echoes the above words from Yorktown , makes peace with Burr, and sees who's waiting for him "on the other side": Hamilton then thinks of Eliza, and tells her that he'll see her on the other side. His last words echo the Friendship Song The Story of Tonight that he had sung at the beginning of the show.
Then the bullet strikes him, and he dies. It shortly follows the death of Team Pet Gavroche, and an unseen army officer tells to surrender and avoid any further bloodshed.
One Last Dance With Death. - Kindle edition by Mark Ward. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like. one last dance with pdf. Writing and release. Lyrically, "One Last Dance" talks about breaking. To Seventeen Magazine, Ellington. Ratliff said the inspiration for .
Instead, Enjolras and the revolutionaries give a rousing speech to fight to the last man, take down as many as they can, and avenge the deaths of Gavroche and Eponine, knowing that the people of Paris will rise to take their place until they have succeeded. Ultimately, it doesn't work, the people of Paris abandon them, and as Grantaire pointed out earlier, their deaths are largely pointless. Explorers of Sky had one of these with the main character.
It's explicitly mentioned as a chapter titled "The Last Adventure. Payday 2 has the "Swan Song" skill, which, when aced, allows for 6 seconds of infinite ammo with a bottomless clip Yes, even for double barrel shotguns, though the RPG and similar one-shot instakill weapons are excluded once you go down. Granted, you do move very slowly, and you can't heal yourself or make any attempt to delay your fate, but whether you're mowing through high level enemies firing high-tier power weapons as fast as you can fire without a care for ammo, or busting out Inspire Aced and reviving like a maniac to save your team from a wipeout, those 6 seconds can definitely be a last dance your team will appreciate.
In very much keeping with this trope there is a playable epilogue, which can only end with the players death. Noble Six remains on Reach to fight against an endless horde of Covenant. First you do it, and once you take enough damage it changes to cutscene showing Noble Six's final battle. There'll be Another Time Metal Gear: Partly the premise for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots , as Snake's genetic engineering is causing him to reach the end of his rope rather quickly.
Ocelot also has one when he finally confronts Snake for the last time, going for a fist fight like he did all those years ago. The end of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is this for The Boss. Lets make them the best 10 minutes of our lives. Damage reports coming in. Surviving ships are reporting heavy casualties.
The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse.
To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take Out of our minds. On a suicide mission — but the sand and rocks here, stained with thousands of years of warfare They will remember us, for this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares, this is the one we choose for ourselves: Now the slowest dance begins In El Goonish Shive , everything Ellen does as Elliot's " Evil Twin " and her fearless fighting of the Omega Goo was due to her thinking she would die in less than a month. Inadequate intel, mercenary guards too tough, problems with extraction.
Tagon teraported his wounded friends to safety, then faced dozens of enemies with a pistol and monofilament wire between his boots. Tayler also made a poster with the battle scene, but unfortunately it was lost when the site got reorganized. He got better later, thanks to time travel. Survival of the Fittest features this prominently due to the nature of characters death being announced, letting the player choose exactly how they want their character's last dance to be played.
From Killerbunnies , this is how Anwen, who is ill with a progressive and terminal illness, views part of her situation in terms of villainy, figuring she has nothing left to lose, especially if she cannot find a cure for the aforementioned illness. In TaleSpin , an erroneous diagnosis tells Baloo he's going to die soon.
He decides to go out with a bang by braving the Bermuda Trapezoid. In Gargoyles , Halcyon Renard, otherwise a man who had been defined by his insistence on personal accountability, justifies questionable actions in the episode "Golem" with his failing health. Goliath was not pleased.
In an episode of The Smurfs , the Smurfs overhear Papa Smurf say what they think is him mourning over Lazy's illness and doubt of him surviving. He's actually talking about Vanity's houseplant. When Lazy finds out that they think this, he starts to think so, and decides to do everything he had been too lazy to do his whole life, like climb mountains and tame wild beasts.
Unfortunately, all this is rather dangerous and Hilarity Ensues as the other Smurfs try to stop him from getting into more trouble. The Jetsons ; George thinks he's dying after a doctor's erroneous diagnosis, so he eagerly accepts Mr. Spacely's offer to test a high-tech safety jacket that can protect the wearer from anything. He's put through a lot of tests with potentially deadly situations like a room with crushing walls and a large rotary saw and thankfully, the jacket holds.
The cruelest part comes right before the final test where he is to be propelled into the air with anti-aircraft missiles shot at him and the doctor shows up to give him the right diagnosis. Thankfully, the jacket, again, holds up. In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Donatello invents a device that can give a medical physical in less than a minute. While he, Mikey, and Leo are shown to be in perfect health, it gives Raphael a really bad diagnosis, which is not helped when he overhears Mikey and Don lamenting about what might happen to him. In truth, they're talking about a ruined pizza.
Raph decides to go buy a superhero costume and do very public and dangerous heroics, including recovering a defoliant that a Mad Scientist throws into a volcano in an act of eco-terrorism. Of course, Don's machine was defective, and they have to help him before he really gets killed.
Andrew Cunanan was suspected by some to have gone on his murder-suicide spree, killing five people including Gianni Versace, thanks to believing himself to have been infected with HIV, but his autopsy proved him to be HIV negative. This was tested in a real-life experiment in Feudal Japan. A sensei head teacher, in this case of a school of fencing had a servant who'd been with him for years — and one day he was notified that the servant was wanted by the Shogunate authorities for a crime punishable by death. The sensei bowed and asked for a few days before turning the man over, then went to his servant, told him the news, and challenged him to a live-steel sword duel.
The sensei had had a theory for a long time that a man who knew he had nothing to lose would fight harder, and wanted to test it. It turned out to be correct; the servant fought like a man possessed, and after a while, the sensei was backed to the wall and staring defeat, disgrace and death in the face. Summoning up all his skill, he finally did manage to cut his servant down, and his theory was doubly vindicated.
A widely common practice in Japan, and to a lesser degree in other East Asian nations such as Korea, was the writing of a death poem , often times written just before one faces an imminent death, such as just before committing Seppuku , or going into a last stand or suicide attack.
Roman Empire had three punitive sentences for the arena: The first was an outright death sentence by being tied to a pole and torn to pieces by beasts while the second was being sentenced to Gladiator Games , with hope of missio , being freed after two years or surviving five fights.
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