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I have another candidate :

"At such range they could not even hit an elep..."
Last words of General John Sedgwick, battle of Spotsylvania, 1864

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That one has my vote. Especially considering Tex's reaction to the event.

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Call it corny, but I still find Kirk's "Bridge on the Captain!" death scene in ST: Generations a riot http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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My favorite cinamatic death...Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's death at the hands of the Bolivian Army.

Talk about overkill...!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">heh, why not? Being jet-packed into the mouth of a giant sand... thing is a fairly cool way to go.

Like PvK says, it doesn't necessarily have to be noble, brave or heroic. Comic or fitting will do nicely- it just has to be an exit to remember.

How about the end of Dark Star? Or Silent Running?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">heh, why not? Being jet-packed into the mouth of a giant sand... thing is a fairly cool way to go.

Like PvK says, it doesn't necessarily have to be noble, brave or heroic. Comic or fitting will do nicely- it just has to be an exit to remember.

How about the end of Dark Star? Or Silent Running?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Boba Fett didn't die, he eventually made his way back out (it's described in a later novel, iirc)...more like a cool "near-death" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Would the death of the Enterprise in Star Trek III Count?

"Oh my god bones, what I have done?"
"What you always do Jim, turn death into a fighting chance to live."

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You need to read the books to understand that death. Once you do it becomes very clear as why he died.

:"I always knew I would die alone."

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Just thought of another one that always gets me... Vasquez, in Aliens. She goes back down the tunnel for the other guy (Gorman?) but it's too late to save him and she's given her life for nothing. Then they grip the grenade together and....

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Mel Gibson in Breaveheart.

"FREEEEEEEDOM!!!!"