# Rosebud! Guess the Fictional Character by their Last Words (obvious spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717 "2008-05-27T02:43:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/121 "2008-05-28T14:08:36Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] 39. Didn’t your mommy and daddy show you enough attention when you were a child? Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, _Full Metal Jacket._ [/QUOTE] Correct. > [@Aspidistra](#): > > #68 "What will it be, then? How will you do it, my Amadan-Na-Briona? Mercy from the Pliocene Exile books? > [@Der Trihs](#): > > “Oh, grim Belisarius! Can you not see that God is a dancer, and creation his dance of joy?” Raghunath Rao from “An Oblique Approach”. > [@Der Trihs](#): > > “So now what?” \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* demanded. “A big show trial before the execution? Proof of my ‘crimes’ for the Proles and the newsies?” Oscar Saint-Just from “Ashes of Victory”. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/122 "2008-05-28T14:16:02Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] Sorry; delayed by work stuff. This was a movie where Bruce Dern played a crazy lowlife. Don’t know if that narrows it down much. [/QUOTE] The Cowboys? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/123 "2008-05-28T14:51:26Z")
[QUOTE=Aspidistra] We seem to have two #55’s… Is “I’m going…oh…oh” HAL from 2001? [/QUOTE] Nope. Earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/124 "2008-05-28T16:53:18Z")
Ok, since no one is getting #46 … Captain Hook, from _Hook_. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/125 "2008-05-28T17:07:13Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] #6 “Look at that, sun’s coming up.” [/QUOTE] This was from the remake of “Dawn of the Dead” - the guy who stayed behind on the dock because he’d been bitten. (I didn’t see that one get answered.) How about… “Corn Nuts!” “I’ve always loved you.” (disclaimer: Perhaps not his truly final words, but last words the character speaks before disappearing into an impossible-to-get-out-of situation.) “Jesus wept.” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/126 "2008-05-28T17:16:06Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] “I’ve always loved you.” (disclaimer: Perhaps not his truly final words, but last words the character speaks before disappearing into an impossible-to-get-out-of situation.) [/QUOTE] One of the Illinois Nazis to his leader in “The Blues Brothers” ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/127 "2008-05-28T17:18:12Z")
[QUOTE=Khan] 62.) “Trinity…!” [/quote] Apoc in _The Matrix_. #74: The last thing little Tracy Poe ever gets to smell will be my… stinking… breath. #75: I can live with that. (there are probably several examples of this one; I can name two) #76: An old man dies. A young girl lives. A fair trade. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/128 "2008-05-28T17:21:51Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] This was from the remake of “Dawn of the Dead” - the guy who stayed behind on the dock because he’d been bitten. (I didn’t see that one get answered.) [/QUOTE] Nope, that one _has_ been answered. It’s the last words of Capt. John Sheridan, on the TV show Babylon 5. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/129 "2008-05-28T17:45:13Z")
[QUOTE=Aspidistra] #70 “Listen to this! ‘Alas, ill rule in Hellas…’” (not strictly a fictional character, I will admit) [/QUOTE] Black Kleitos, to Alexander the Great. 1. “Rest now.” 2. “It grants one wish!” 3. “I’m not playing any mo..” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/130 "2008-05-28T17:46:57Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Some call him Tim. [/QUOTE] No, not Tim. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/131 "2008-05-28T17:49:00Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Rosewater] 55 is Khan from The Wrath of Khan. [/QUOTE] Quoting Captain Ahab from _Moby-Dick._ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/132 "2008-05-28T17:50:08Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] “Jesus wept.” [/QUOTE] Frank Cotton in _Hellraiser._ ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/133 "2008-05-28T18:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] #74: The last thing little Tracy Poe ever gets to smell will be my… stinking… breath. [/QUOTE] John Malkovich’s character in ConAir. Cyrus “the virus” Grissom. #55 - The wicked witch of the west? ---
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[QUOTE=Emily Litella] #55 - The wicked witch of the west? [/QUOTE] Yes! Well done! (“I’m melting, melting” would have been a dead giveaway.) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/135 "2008-05-28T20:21:50Z")
> [@](#): > > #76: An old man dies. A young girl lives. A fair trade. John Hartigan, _Sin City_. Mine - #80 - “I know. In hell.” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/136 "2008-05-28T20:33:07Z")
An easy one: “_Earn… this…_” ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717/137 "2008-05-28T21:34:22Z")
I don’t think I can get any of the outstanding ones. So I’ll contribute a couple more! 82: “That’s what happens when you live 10 years alone in Bolivia. You get colorful!” 83: “I…am. I…was.” 84: “Come back, you fools! Dogs aren’t dangerous! Come back and fight!” (another one that may or may not be actual last words in life, but last words before an essentially hopeless situation). 85: “I don’t know where I’ll be then Doc, but I won’t smell too good, that’s for sure”. ---
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[QUOTE=Shodan] Mine - #80 - “I know. In hell.” [/QUOTE] Johnny Favorite. (last line on film, but probably not his actual last words) ---
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[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph] 84: “Come back, you fools! Dogs aren’t dangerous! Come back and fight!” (another one that may or may not be actual last words in life, but last words before an essentially hopeless situation) [/QUOTE] Can’t think of his name without googling, the leader of the other band of rabbits, the savage one, taking on a dog at the end of Watership Down ---
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[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph] 85: “I don’t know where I’ll be then Doc, but I won’t smell too good, that’s for sure”. [/QUOTE] George Zipp. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosebud-guess-the-fictional-character-by-their-last-words-obvious-spoilers/450717.md?page=8)