Second best death scene?

[mr_outsidevoice]

Movies:
The Iron Giant. Yes, I know there is that rebuilding sequence at the end, but that visual of him flying towards the nuke saying "Suuuperrrman" still causes a tear to form.
Boramir. moreso in the extended edition than theatrical.
Greedo, pre-lucas emascilation.
Khan. great ****-you moment.
Television:

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Wesley

, from Angel Finale. His death finally brought him peace.
B5,

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Mr. Morden

, at least the scene where

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Vir

keeps his promise after discovering said death and remains.
Novel:
Fint Fireforege. I've read the books 3 times and I still tear up every damn time.
Comic Books:
Colossus. I know what is going on in Astonishing, and because it is Joss Whedon writng it, I will give it a chance, but thatt moment where Peter decides to sacrafice himself to save the Mutant race and end his internal suffering is powerful to me. Is it sacraficeor a conveinient excuse for suicide?
Barry Allen. what is there to say?
Jason Todd. Power to the people, by a very slim margin.
Sue Dibny.

 

[Richards]

mr_outsidevoice: I recognized all of the other ones, but who's Sue Dibny?

Johnathan

 

[mr_outsidevoice]

I recognized all of the other ones, but who's Sue Dibny?


Wife of the Elongated Man. Was murdered in the First issue of Identity Crisis. I am a long time comic reader, this was a kick to the teeth. Issue 2 was even harsher.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Hans goober's death is cool as said.

Hans Gruber. Not "goober"!

 

[Ferret]

Bah. You knew who I meant Anyway I take french at school not german. Your lucky I didn't call him Hands Goober.

Anyway I think I meant Carl.

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The guy who is hung? Then shot by the police man.

 

[drnuncheon]

Here's a few I'd nominate (probably full of spoilers, read at your own risk):

For emotional impact: Gérard Depardieu's Cyrano in "Cyrano de Bergerac".
- I defy anyone to actually watch this film and not feel at least a little bit of a lump in their throat as Cyrano delivers his last dozen or so lines.

Aw, hell. Can't believe I forgot Cyrano. That kills me every time I read it. I guess it's because I read it and saw it as a play rather than a movie.

J

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Bah. You knew who I meant Anyway I take french at school not german. Your lucky I didn't call him Hands Goober.

Where's my rotfl smiley when I need 'im.

Anyway I think I meant Carl.

Yep, that's the one.

 

[Templetroll]

The way I envisioned Boromir's death scene from the book was much more powerful than the movie IMO. I was a little disappointed he was only killed by three arrows and then had to be saved by Aragorn. That ruined his death scene and diminished him from the character I knew in the book who killed so many orcs that they feared to approach him even while dying. That death scene doesn't rank all that high for me.

It might be that knowledge of the book made the movie seem less to you but my wife and daughter had an incredible time with the movies. At the Council scene my daughter whispered to me, "He's going to be trouble." about Boromir. The scene of Boromir's death was edited and acted so well, the music was great and it had us in tears. Three arrows was not too few, it was realistic that a hero could be shot with such precision and power as that orc had, dieing but able to battle on as he fell.

Back on topic, Shelob and Gollum both died quite nicely.

The Wicked Witch of the West in the "Wizard of Oz" is another memorable death scene, "I'm melting, I'm mellllt......" That was really cool.

From "The Princess Bride" - The death of Vizzini. The death of Count Rugen. That is how villians should die! hoist by their own petard! ( I looked it up to make sure I used it correctly, the history of the word is kinda funny http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=petard )

Hmm, I seem to like my heroes alive....

 

[swordsmasher]

How about Spike's death in the final episode of Buffy?

 

[Reflex]

I'd separate the death scenes into two categories- Poignant and stylish.

Donnie Darko, William Wallace, Roy Batty,

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Ashton Kutcher

in Butterfly Effect (although his was somewhat of a clone of Donnie's, I felt the poignancy because of his mother's earlier references to him being her special miracle baby), Maximus,

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the guests at the red wedding

in A Song of Fire & Ice,

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Chow Yun Fat

from The Killer, particularly in that he had at least wanted his eyes to be given to his singer/love interest/victim, but even THAT was ruined, and

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Kevin Spacey's character

in American Beauty all come to mind for poignancy. I'm sure there are many other good candidates, but these are all either recent in my mind or have been rightfully suggested by other posters in the thread.

For stylish and/or well-deserved, I'd have to go with

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The evil fallen musketeer

in Three Musketeers (classy dry exit line for a villain),

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Leon

in The Professional,

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Tim Roth

in Rob Roy (well-deserved, but the mother's locket humanized him a bit), Slim Pickens!,

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The Red Viper and the Mountain-That-Walks

from ASoF&I, Samson, and the biker from Raising Arizona.