# Best final line
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 14, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644 "2015-04-14T15:20:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/1 "2015-04-14T15:20:27Z")
A character’s final line, like just before they die. Not the last in a book or that stuff, the FINAL line.
Thorin for the win, but what others do you like/respect?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/2 "2015-04-14T15:59:03Z")
Field Marshall VonKluck, _Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid_: “At least I got… Terre Haute…”
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### Author:  [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/3 "2015-04-14T16:13:53Z")
Serleena, from MIB2:
“Oops. Teeth.”
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/4 "2015-04-14T17:30:34Z")
Butch Cassidy - “Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble.”
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### Author:  [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/5 "2015-04-14T17:32:30Z")
“You always were an asshole, Gorman.”
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/6 "2015-04-14T17:32:56Z")
“Dogs aren’t dangerous!”
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/7 "2015-04-14T17:33:09Z")
The Asian chick in _ **Rambo: First Blood, Part II** _:
“I think you make good choice!”
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### Author:  [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/8 "2015-04-14T17:44:18Z")
I’ve always had a soft spot for:
_**"I’ve… seen things you people wouldn’t believe… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those… moments… will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears… in… rain. Time… to die…"**_
**Blade Runner 1982**
In real life I have been known to use “Gone… Like tears in the rain” myself.
TCMF-2L
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/9 "2015-04-14T17:58:31Z")
“I would have followed you, my brother… my captain… my king.”
“I have been, and always shall be, your friend. Live long and prosper.”
“I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a… fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you.”
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/10 "2015-04-14T18:02:26Z")
[Sorry but there can be only one](http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/12/31).
[QUOTE=Calvin]
… Let’s go exploring!
[/QUOTE]
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/11 "2015-04-14T18:10:13Z")
“Rollo Tomassi.”
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/12 "2015-04-14T18:18:37Z")
**Real Life:** “Messy, isn’t it?” – _Richard Brautigan’s suicide note_
**Classic Short story:** “He did it solely to gain an appetite.” – _Lord Dunsany, “Two Bottles of Relish”_
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### Author:  [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/13 "2015-04-14T18:38:45Z")
**The Hunt for Red October:**" I would like to have seen Montana." - Vasili Borodin
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/14 "2015-04-14T18:49:05Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#):
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> Serleena, from MIB2:
> “Oops. Teeth.”
Didn’t she get better?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/15 "2015-04-14T18:59:38Z")
Again from real life: My FIL’s (v.1.0) last words were, “Getting old sucks.”
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/16 "2015-04-14T19:12:20Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> **Classic Short story:** “He did it solely to gain an appetite.” – _Lord Dunsany, “Two Bottles of Relish”_
Not what the OP is asking, but you win the thread anyway. 😉 If we were going in that direction, I’d add Roald Dahl’s last line for “Bitch”: “I don’t know who you are, young man, but you’ve done me a power of good.”
For the OP, I’ll go with the classics:
“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” (_White Heat_)
“Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?” (_Little Caesar_)
“Rosebud”
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### Author:  [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/17 "2015-04-14T19:14:35Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> [Sorry but there can be only one](http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/12/31).
Saying Calvin dies just after that seems like kind of a dark interpretation
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/18 "2015-04-14T19:23:39Z")
> [@Simplicio](#):
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> Saying Calvin dies just after that seems like kind of a dark interpretation
It was Calvin’s FINAL line, the Op did say: "_like just before they die. Not the last in a book or that stuff, the FINAL line"_
It was a lot more final than the classic Spock line quoted **Smapti**. Which would have been the best final line if it was really his final line.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/19 "2015-04-14T19:24:22Z")
> [@Simplicio](#):
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> Saying Calvin dies just after that seems like kind of a dark interpretation
It was [very sad.](http://s2.photobucket.com/user/CaliforniaPeggy/media/smileys/lio080120.gif.html)
☹
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/20 "2015-04-14T19:35:55Z")
“I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I…”
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
“What a world, what a world! Who ever thought a little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?”
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