[OT] The best ever death...

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"Cockily" is a word.

I don't think there is a "best ever" death. There are many very good deaths, though. I feel the best deaths are those that are not only dramatic and/or amazing, entertaining, or humorous, but that also have uniqueness and personality, so that they make a great epitaph for the person. The uniqueness of a great death makes it impossible to directly weigh its worth against a different great death.

Some other great cinematic deaths:

The end of The Wild Bunch (a great western film).

The A-bomb-riding pilot in Doctor Strangelove.

Various faked deaths in Harold and Maude.

Pretty much all the many deaths in The Abominable Doctor Phibes, and related films. I think my personal favorite is the man impaled by a bronze unicorn head catapulted from across the street.

Monty Python offers heaps and heaps of great comic deaths.

There are so many...

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