[OT] The best ever death...

[Xaren Hypr]

Originally posted by dogscoff:

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guess boba fett will not be making this list

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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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"

[Atrocities]

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."

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Call it corny, but I still find Kirk's "Bridge on the Captain!" death scene in ST: Generations a riot

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."

[Loser]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
How about the end of Dark Star?

Yeah, best performance by a bomb, ever!
"Let there be light."

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Or Silent Running?

Good one too, but I wonder how many people will recognize that movie.

[dogscoff]

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....

[geoschmo]

Mel Gibson in Breaveheart.

"FREEEEEEEDOM!!!!"

[Loser]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
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....

...and then she says "You always were an ******* Gorman."