How Dare You Leave Me on Read

"If y'all don't come back alive, I'll kill you!"

Guy falls while Taking the Bullet for the Damsel in Distress. Information technology's not Only a Flesh Wound, nope, he looks expressionless. Enough to be Left for Dead by the villain. Possibly invoking Pietà Plagiarism, the damsel cries over but curses the guy. She may fifty-fifty feebly beat upwardly his dead body, admonishing him for:

• Leaving her alone (either "alone in the earth" or simply "solitary with the guy who shot you lot").
• Coming back to salve her and dying in her identify.
• Not keeping his promise to always be in that location, or to survive to the terminate.
• (Irrational blubbering)

In more optimistic works he'll wake up because, well, there's someone yelling and hitting him, and Death Is Inexpensive compared to that. Expect Slap-Slap-Osculation as he'll be annoyed at beingness yelled at afterwards just saving her life, and they get over it and (mushy stuff happens hither). If it'south a actually sappy setting, expect a kiss to be involved in waking up their beloved. Sometimes, if he does die, he volition leave something of himself behind.

The genders can be reversed, and it's also a favorite trope to enact between Rivals or even enemies, especially if ane of them died through means other than at the Rival'south easily. Compare Antagonist in Mourning.

May happen some time after the wound, when the first person believes the other is dying and tries to Converse with the Unconscious.

Can besides occur later a failed endeavor at resuscitation, often accompanied by a Big "NO!" or "live, damn you!". Mutual in medical dramas.

Compare and contrast Try Non to Die. May overlap with Died in Your Arms Tonight. May overlap with Anger Built-in of Worry if the person hopes the victim volition pull through merely fears the worst. As a Death Trope, beware of unmarked spoilers.

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• In Vinland Saga brooding avenger Thorfinn has this exact reaction when Askeladd is fatally stabbed.

  Thorfinn: I'll never forgive you! How dare y'all die on me similar this!? Get upwards! Let's properly finish this in one case and for all! I was supposed to be the i to kill you!
  Askeladd: Geez... It'due south time for you to finish being a child...

• A very emotional scene in the first episode of YuYu Hakusho, with Kuwabara barging into Yusuke'due south funeral demanding a fight with him. This might exist considered an adult version of Please Wake Up. This is too a example of The Only I Allowed to Defeat You equally this establishes that Kuwabara considers Yusuke a rival who challenges him and betters him the more they fight against each other.
  • Parodied in the Abridged serial "You improve come up back to life or I'll kill y'all!"
  • Yusuke's mother Atsuko as well gets 1, in a drunken rage afterwards the wake - "I didn't requite you lot permission to die!"
• Low-cal from Death Notation screams "Come on, Damn it!" "Don't yous die on me y'all idiot!", at his father when he dies. It is unclear whether Light is genuinely upset at his begetter's death, or is simply acting to fool the other Kira investigation team members, or outraged that he didn't at least kill Mello. How to Read 13 seems to imply genuine mourning, as it is stated that Calorie-free'southward male parent is one of the merely people he would never kill.
• In Black Butler, Ciel does this to Sebastian when the latter is discovered dead. It's a especially Tear Jerker moment, with Ciel straddling Sebastian's dead body and repeatedly slapping him, all the while yelling that he didn't allow him to die, that he was supposed to be with him until the end. Information technology was all an act, but it didn't make the scene any less center-wrenching.
• Mazinger Z: In episode 52, Kouji gets brutally injure during a fight and falls unconscious. When he does not motility or reacts, Sayaka gets grief-stricken. She kneels by his side, and she starts crying as belongings him in arms. She pleads him not dying and non leaving her alone, and fifty-fifty makes an Anguished Declaration of Dearest. Then Kouji opens his eyes and he announces he is not getting married to a tomboy. Cue Sayaka wanting to kill him for real.
• Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary: Later on Moji-sensei serves as a Living Crashpad to save Tobita, she begs him to wake up after he falls unconscious from hitting his head on a wall while saving her. She feels particularly guilty because she'd told him to "fuck off and dice" earlier that day.
• In the concluding affiliate of Ranma ½, Ranma cradles Akane's inert body after she has seemingly died after the battle with Saffron. He berates her for beingness a dummy (and hits himself for it).
  • In the ice-skating arc, Ranma takes a blow for Akane potent enough to trounce all the bones in a man'due south body. When he doesn't answer to her, she assumes he's expressionless, then starts crying on his chest and calls him a fool. That's when he sits up, insulted that she wasn't more grateful for his sacrifice, and lets her know he was faking information technology. (He actually is hurt at that point, only he's a badass, so he walks information technology off.)
• Lupin Iii: always happens when Zenigata is in mourning for Lupin.
  • The Lupin Three: Office Ii episode, "Lupin the Interred," had Lupin assassinated by a paid mercenary. Zenigata insists it'southward a fob, while Jigen and Goemon destroy their environs since they can't kill Lupin.
  • In The Castle of Cagliostro, Zenigata sees Lupin's gang escaping from him and the Count, and Lupin himself is gravely injured. Pops shouts, "Lupin! You'd better not die earlier I become to arrest you!"
• Code Geass got this equally a Tear Jerker moment when Shirley bleeds to death in Lelouch's arms, promising to love him even if she'south reincarnated, and Lelouch desperately and futilely trying to utilise his Geass to salve her.
  • Not to mention in the terminal episode, when Lelouch dies. The juxtaposition of the scene is pretty hitting, with the crowds celebrating his death and chanting the name of his assassinator, and his sis Nunnally sobbing inconsolably over his trunk.
• In K, Misaki and Kusanagi both say this about Totsuka.
  • When he dies in Misaki's artillery, Misaki gives the incoherent blubbering version.
  • Simply after that flashback, when Kusanagi is in his bar, looking at all of the stuff Totsuka left behind from his expensive hobbies, he gives a remark like this - though information technology's more serious and forward-looking, because that Mikoto, for whom Totsuka was a Morality Concatenation, is preparing himself for a Roaring Binge of Revenge confronting the killer that might just take the whole city down with him...
• Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z was extremely distraught subsequently Goku'due south death during the Prison cell Games, which was seemingly permanent because he'd never have a chance to defeat him. And then much that he vowed to never fight again. The 7-year Fourth dimension Skip shows that he got better.
• Zoro from One Piece does this around the end of his flashback in the manga when his childhood friend Kuina died falling down the staircase and bankrupt her neck. The anime version of the story tends to displace the original manga, but trust me, he was absolutely pissed at her for leaving him as well equally saddened.
  • This becomes depressing when y'all consider that he manifestly nonetheless considers her his all-time friend. The poor guy can never catch a break.
  • He was pissed considering she was the only person he could not defeat, which was the reason why he took up swordfighting in the first place. He was pissed because she died earlier he can get the adventure to defeat her, and saddened considering both of them considered each other equally rivals, intent on being the world's strongest swordsman in the future.
  • And because the universe has a twisted sense of sense of humour, Zoro meets a Marine swordswoman named Tashigi who looks extremely similar to Kuina.
  • Crocodile is furious later Whitebeard is stabbed by a misguided marry (even though he didn't really die from the set on). This is because he knew that Whitebeard should've been able to contrivance that set on — an indication that Whitebeard had become weaker in the time since he defeated Crocodile.
• Inuyasha:
  • Upon finding his True Companion motionless on the ground in a fight confronting the Large Bad, Inuyasha cries out "Miroku! Don't you dare die!". The hitting happens later he wakes upwardly, unscratched.
  • He uses the same sentence on Sango later on, after she betrayed them and got severely hurt for her efforts.
  • Played straight by Kagome after the fight against the Peach Human. Inuyasha has fallen off a xx-flooring cliff, badly injured and in homo form. The others can't find his body but assume he must be dead. When Miroku remarks that "Inuyasha probably died without regrets, for fifty-fifty equally he sacrificed his life, he knew that he was saving yours", Kagome cries out that she didn't want him to and that he is an idiot. Miroku and Shippo join in, maxim he was indeed a fool. Of course, Inuyasha is Right Behind Them, and not pleased to be called an idiot.
  • Near the cease, Inuyasha has a like moment when Sesshoumaru is severely wounded and crushed past Magatsuhi, after delivering a strike to Magatsuhi'south true cocky. Believing he was dead/dying, Inuyasha tries desperately to free him, shouting "I'chiliad non gonna allow you die like this!"
• This occurs in Fushigi Yuugi when Nuriko dies. It happens again with Hotohori's death. Miaka screams that he had lied when he promised to stay live until his married woman, Houki, gives nativity to his son.
• In the feudal arc of Air, Ryuuya is badly injured defending Kanna and doesn't seem as though he's going to go far. He's told her that as he's her servant, he'll practice annihilation she says, so she orders him not to die. He doesn't... she does, though.
• In Count Cain - Godchild Cain yells at an unconscious Riff after he's been poisoned basically telling him he's not allowed to die.
• Inverted in Higurashi: When They Weep:
  • Inverted. Being that Hanyuu is a ghost she cannot interact with anyone except a select few people who are born every once in a while. She becomes frustrated when Rika says she wants to non repeat the cycle again. Of grade she didn't stay to her discussion.
  • Played straight in the last episode of Minagoroshi-hen. Information technology seems as if fate is about to be beaten, and all is well... until Keiichi is shot by the Big Bad. As he dies, Mion yells "No! This cannot exist! This cannot be!" until she is forced to flee.
• In Black Lagoon, a pocket-size-time law-breaking dominate hires some Mooks to take out the Lagoon Company for not playing exclusively for him. Naturally, they all dice. Only earlier Balalaika pays him a visit, he'southward heard ranting about how the mook he hired completely screwed him over by dying.
• In Bleach, Ichigo is killed by Ulquiorra and Orihime indicates this trope by repeating his name for several minutes. It works, he'south not dead anymore.
  • Also invoked by Tsukishima, who flips out when he learns that Ginjou is dying.
  • After Zaraki impales Unohana in the throat in their fight to the death, it takes him a second or two to process what just happened. He doesn't take it well.
• In Berserk, Guts gets bashed around by the apostle Wyald to the point where he is believed to exist dead. Casca, at present his lover, slaps him around in a fit of anger and tears every bit she tells the unconscious Guts that he couldn't exist expressionless because he promised to have her on his travels with him. He eventually comes around, though to the sound of Casca'southward screams as Wyald apprehends her and tries to brand her feel like a virgin over again.
• Happens afterwards, merely in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: after Kamina dies, Yoko is in the shower and says to herself: "Y'all said you would render that kiss a ten times over! Kamina, you lot wiggle!"
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Fullmetal Alchemist mixes it up with Pietà Plagiarism nearly the stop of the series, when Eagle gets her throat slashed and nearly bleeds to death. Mustang, panicked and on the verge of Manly Tears, does a lot of screaming at her to "Open your eyes!" and "Go information technology together!" Information technology'southward cranked Up to Eleven in the English language dub of Brotherhood, in which he says, "Don't you lot dare dice! Stay with me, Lieutenant!"
  • And in the 2003 anime version, you take Hawkeye arriving too late to protect Mustang from Archer. She finds him shot in the confront and lying motionless in a pool of his ain blood.

  "General! Dammit, Roy Mustang, answer me!"

• Great Teacher Onizuka: Urumi does this, even threatening to kill herself, when Onizuka has his Game-Breaking Injury and enters a blackout. His best friend Ryuji does information technology besides.
• In Tiger & Bunny, while Kotetsu ^note apparently dies in Barnaby's arms ;

  Barnaby: (Sobbing) Shut upwards! Don't talk like yous're about to die!! You're not that kind of person! Your enthusiasm is your only strong point, isn't it!? I've been learning to brand fried rice...and then you have to try it someday! Kotetsu!

• ×××HOLiC: How Watanuki reacts when Yuuko's vanishing from the universe so information technology volition be as if she'd died when she was supposed to. He's in tears, pleading to her "Please tell me this is all a dream!" and "Y'all can't go!"
• Tokyo Ghoul: Equally Shirazu lay dying Urie screams "DON'T YOU FUCKING DIE ON ME!" in a rather Tear Jerker scene.
• It happens in Negima! Magister Negi Magi when Chisame witnesses Jack Rakan's loss and "erasure" against Fate Averruncus. At that point, the poor daughter is sobbing her middle out and telling Rakan (in her own gamer-similar way) that someone every bit powerful as him is Not supposed to lose both a fight and his life.
• In the anime version of Akame ga Kill!, Tatsumi continuously promised that he would stay alive for his friends who sacrificed their lives trying to bring down the corrupt Empire. The penultimate episode shows Akame bursting into tears at the sight of an undeniably dead Tatsumi, with Akame berating the recently deceased hero for being unable to continue his promise.
• In Dragon Knights, Cesia makes a promise to never let Rath get himself killed past his own suicidal tendencies. She does mess up in one case, just then all she's got to do is bring him dorsum.

    Comic Books

• Some other gender-flipped version in Runaways, when Gert convinces 80'south!Geoffrey Wilder that Chase isn't innocent plenty to make a satisfactory sacrifice to the Gibborim and ends up getting killed instead. Chase promptly has a Freak Out and spends well-nigh of the next half dozen problems trying to bring her back...using the Gibborim. The others convince him that information technology's not what she would've wanted, though, and he is finally convinced to let her remain dead.
• In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Sonic's girlfriend, Princess Sally, was devastated seeing Sonic "die" in an explosion after destroying a mortiferous alien weapon, not knowing that he was really thrown halfway across the universe. A year subsequently, Sonic returned, and the two kissed and continued their human relationship. A following mission, however, reminded Sally again of how piece of cake it was to almost lose a loved ane, and she begged that Sonic would step down from his role as a hero. He reluctantly declined because of the Eggman threat. She then slapped him in forepart of their family unit and friends and they argued on the bigger priority, dear or duty. A break-up followed.
• A darker, creepier example of this trope occurred in the backwash of The Death of Superman: Lex Luthor is anguished past Superman'south expiry, just not because of any surreptitious love for him or anything like that; he'due south furious because he had an "I am The Only Ane Allowed to Defeat You" mentality towards Superman. At ane signal, Lex, solitary in his office, curses Doomsday for killing Superman before he could and shrieks, "I WAS ROBBED!!!"
• In issue 2 of Expiry of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy, X-23 has a scrap of this towards Wolverine. Laura tells Kitty later an outburst in the Danger Room that she feels angry because she thought of Logan as immortal and indestructible, and considering he promised to always be there for her if she needed him. His death leaves her feeling equally if that was a lie, and leads her to question her own life. By the end of the issue, she ultimately comes to terms with this and has moved on to feeling sad over his passing, only also pride in the instance he fix.

    Fan Works

• Star Trek: Phoenix: The root issue for the conflict between Twilight and Sunset in the second season stems from Sunset'south close call with death and subsequent 2-yr disappearance. Twilight mourned deeply for those years and, but when she eventually managed to let go of her and move past her grief, Sunset simply returned well and unharmed. The resulting disharmonize of emotions messed Twilight upward something awful, leading her to deeply resent Dusk for dying on her and especially, and irrationally, for non staying dead and sparing her the need to fear losing her all over over again.

• In Learning To Swim , this is Pelting's response after she saves Cats from drowning, every bit he'due south ingested a dangerous corporeality of water. (There'southward an element of guilt in her anger, as it's partly her fault that he tried to swim in the first place.)

  I grasped his thin shoulders and shook him. "Don't you dice on me, don't y'all dare fucking die! You stupid little baby!"
  Suddenly, Cats gasped and coughed upwardly plenty h2o to have bathed in. I pushed him to his side so he could spew without getting more than of it on me. "I'chiliad not a little baby," he gasped leaning on his elbow. His eyelids were still a frightening purplish color. "Why Rain gotta be so hateful all the time?"

• In the RWBY fic It'due south Time To Say Goodbye Nora endures Ren's death past vacillating between dissonant apathy and blind fury. During one scene, she vents this fury by shouting at his grave.

  "Yous know, it was really dumb for you to jump out in front end of the hook similar that."
  I looked at his picture. Information technology was yet there. I wasn't certain if someone was supposed to take information technology home or something.
  "You lot didn't have to do that. Information technology was really dumb."
  He didn't respond me. It was like he was being quiet, waiting for me to stop talking and so he could try and comfort me.
  "No, no, no, I know what yous're trying to exercise and I'chiliad non going to allow y'all. You're the reason I'm so alone correct now. This is your error, not mine! Y'all jumped in the way! NOT ME! DO You lot HEAR ME?! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!"

• Played for Laughs in the Troll Fic Finding Beloved in the Fire . Eragon trips and falls, impaling himself on Brisingr. Saphira's reaction to this is somewhere between this trope and shocked deprival.

  It couldn't be happening.
  We'd gone over this so many times.
  The strategy was perfect.
  He was going to impale Murtagh.
  HOW IN THE HELL DID THE WORLD'S Final HOPE FOR PEACE Die IN SUCH A STUPID Fashion?
  THAT MORON!

• In Being Expressionless Ain't Like shooting fish in a barrel, Seto Kaiba is not happy at all that Joey dies in his arms and tries insulting him to brand him stay awake. It doesn't piece of work.
• In Naruto: The Abridged Series, Orochimaru does this to the third hokage. What makes information technology funny that he had just spent an unabridged episode trying to kill the third, and failed. The third beats him past giving up his life to seal away Orochimaru's arms and Orochimaru's exact words are "Sarutobi, don't you dice on me! Give me back my arms, then die on me!"
• Mahanon, in the Dragon Historic period: Inquisition story All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird, gives his best friend Victoria a variant - he has legitimate reasons to believe she's dead, and when she turns up alive, he tells her to never do it again. Later, when their positions are somewhat reversed, she turns it back on him.
• A variation in the Pokémon: The Serial fanfic, Common Sense. Before long earlier escaping the sinking St. Anne, Jessie tells James that she'll never forgive him if he doesn't make it back.
• "Final Rights": Eleya has this reaction to Senior Master Athezra dying after taking a shell fragment in the chest.

  Eleya: No, no! Don't you lot dare dice on me! (checks his pulse) Oh, you phekk'ta died on me.

• In How the Lite Gets In , the 4-year-old Mary asks Dean, her father, if she can be mad at her mother for dying.

  Dean: You tin be as mad equally you desire. I'm mad, too.

• In Frozen Fractals, Anna reacts this way when her best friend Kristoff is stabbed trying to relieve her and her sis Elsa.
• Hinata in Black Flames Dance in the Current of air: Rise of Naruto is furious with Kiba over his suicide, citing that he had a level of support she dreamed of having and that his situation wasn't too bad insufficiently ^note Kiba had merely learned that he'd accidentally killed Akamaru only Naruto had resurrected him.
• Played for drama in Dragon Ball Z: A Good Man. Just every bit Justiciar Nevrrest is about to kill Vegeta while he's weak and defenseless. Dr. Tottle, a physician working for her shields Vegeta from her attack. Suffering a fatal accident in the process. Vegeta is devastated, expressing his grief by yelling angrily at the doctor for getting himself killed in such a way.

    Film — Animation

• Subverted in WALL•E, when WALL•Eastward'southward memory appears to be wiped, later on trying various tricks to restore it, EVE vigorously shakes WALL-E with an angry expression in an attempt to "wake him upwardly", but then resigns and mournfully "kisses" WALL•E.
• Monsters vs. Aliens, when Insectisaurus is shot down, Link shouts at him, "Don't you lot cartel close your eyes!" He becomes a butterfly.
• Littlefoot in The State Earlier Time tearfully says that his mother should've known better than to take on a Sharptooth and that it'south all her error that she died. The elderly dinosaur he's talking to comforts Littlefoot and tells him that it's nobody's error that she died.
• In Home, a major turning point in Tip and Oh's uneasy alliance comes when Oh dives underwater for a couple of hours and she kicks him and rants about him letting her call back he'd died.
• Briefly in Disney'due south Tarzan, when Terk is pulling unconscious child Tarzan out of the water: "C'mon, don't dice on me... don't die on me, yous weren't supposed to do it—!"

    Motion picture — Live-Action

• In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Watson to Holmes, while trying to artificially resuscitate him: "I know you can hear me, you selfish bastard!"
• Happens twice in The Abyss, first when Lindsey Brigman has drowned and her husband Virgil "Bud" Brigman yells at her while performing CPR to try to bring her back. After in the movie, when Bud faces death thousands of feet below her, Lindsey returns the favor.
• The Matrix franchise:
  • Happens in The Matrix. This works because the kiss Trinity administers along with those words makes Neo realize he isn't actually dead (only virtually dead and "Your Mind Makes It Real") and then he revives. In other words, the input from the Matrix told his brain he was dead but the input from the existent globe trumped information technology.

    Trinity: Neo, I'thousand not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall in love, and that man, the human who I loved would be The One. And then you encounter, yous can't be dead. Y'all tin can't be, because I beloved you. Y'all hear me? I love you.... Now *go up*.

  • ...and in The Matrix Reloaded:

    Morpheus: Trinity, don't you quit on me at present.
    Trinity: I'm sorry.
    Neo: Trinity. Trinity, I know you tin can hear me. I'm not letting go. I can't. I love you too damn much.

• Happens in Lethal Weapon iii picture show as part of Murtaugh's Heroic BSoD after having to gun down one of his son'southward friends in a shootout.
• Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia had Tom Cruise'south graphic symbol doing this to his estranged father, in sort of a verbal Slap-Slap-Buss.
• Field Of Lost Shoes: During the Battle of New Market place, Jack Stanard pushes Johnny Wise out of the line of fire, taking the burden of a Union volley. With the melee still going on, Johnny holds Jack and pleads with him to live. Jack says "I can't conduct you forever, Johnny. It's Up to Yous Now." and passes away. Cue Johnny'southward Farthermost Mêlée Revenge Binge confronting the Yankee soldiers.
• The Terminator has Sarah Connor trying to motivate a mortally wounded Reese (showing signs of the leader she's supposed to become):

  Sarah: Move it, Reese! On your anxiety, soldier! On your feet!

• In Pitch Black, this is Riddick's response when Carolyn Fry is dragged away and killed by the monsters. Immediately beforehand, this was also the motivation used to go him up afterwards he was haemorrhage intensely and in a country of panic, simply having been nearly killed by the creatures.
• In the film Flatliners, David Labraccio (Kevin Salary) is determined to resuscitate Nelson (Kiefer Sutherland), and continues even after information technology'southward articulate that Nelson is gone, going so far as to hit him in the chest to endeavour to get his heart going once again and saying "Come up on, Nelson!"
• Happens at the end of Ong-Bak, Humlae dies and Muay spends her last lines of the movie cursing him for dying.
• In The Long Osculation Goodnight, Samantha/Charly gets one of these from her eight-yr-former daughter, combined with Worst Assistance.
• Done comically in The Incorrect Box - Morris and John Finsbury (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) are taking their uncle Joseph on a railroad train trip on the news that a relative's imminent death will net them a fat inheritance - afterward the train crashes, Morris finds a dead body he thinks is Joseph's, and tearfully curses him for selfishly dying and leaving two helpless orphans destitute.
• Sort of subverted in Young Frankenstein. Later it appears Frankenstein has failed to bring a corpse back to life, he begins to strangle the expressionless torso claiming he has ruined him. Of course his two assistants attempt to pull him off for fear that he'll kill him.
• At the starting time of Always After, Danielle's male parent suffers a heart attack, and Rodmilla, his new married woman, starts wailing "You cannot leave me hither!" as he dies. Never mind, you know, his kid standing right there. She's not very squeamish.
• Twice in Red Tails:
  • Deacon has been desperately wounded, and is suffering from both serious bleeding and a head wound. He fades out of consciousness, his plane sliding into a dive, as Like shooting fish in a barrel screams helplessly at him to wake up and pull upwards. He wakes upwards, regains control of the airplane, and crashes on landing. Despite being doused in gasoline earlier the plane caught fire, he is pulled out and survives.
  • Easy finds himself in a similar situation with Lightning towards the stop of the motion-picture show. Lightning's aeroplane plows into the ground and explodes.

• The Avengers:
  • He doesn't straight accost Coulson or his corpse, only subsequently Coulson is killed by Loki while trying to defend Thor, Tony Stark angrily calls him an idiot while clearly holding back tears when Steve finds Tony brooding at the spot where Coulson died a half an hour or then after his death.
  • Nick Fury is the first to find him equally he's dying, and reacts similarly.

    Fury: But stay awake. Eyes on me!
    Coulson: No, I'm clocking out here.
    Fury: Not an option!

• In The Edge, Charles pulls this on Bob.
• Jurassic Park III: Subsequently Paul Kirby narrowly averts a Heroic Cede to save his wife and son from the Spinosaurus, the crying Amanda calls him an asshole and begs him not to leave them solitary. Then he reveals that he survived the scuffle and they're reunited again.
• The Hunger Games: Katniss has a rather distressed reaction when she thought Peeta consumed the nightlock berries.

  Katniss: Damn yous, Peeta, damn you!

• Robin Hood - czwarta strzała parodies this mercilessly - Marion has the Merry Men take shifts telling Robin not to die. He nonetheless does.
• A funny variant is found in Adventures in Babysitting, when the group is mistakenly informed by an emergency room doc that Brad has died. Upon seeing him alive, his best friend embraces him and says, "Don't you lot ever dice on me!" Brad, who has no thought what'southward going on, is understandably confused by the directive.
• An entirely unsentimental version in The International, equally Clive Owen's character is speaking to a Professional Killer who's a potential witness against the villains who are trying to kill him — after the killer catches a car-pistol flare-up in the chest, Owen slaps him and says, "Don't y'all fucking dare!"
• In Angel (1984), Mae manages to fight off the Serial Killer, simply is fatally stabbed in the procedure. Solly finds Mae and holds her while dies; all the time yelling ''Don't yous dare die on me!". Mae'south main concern is that Solly non allow Angel to see her trunk cut up like this.
• Scrooged: During his Christmas Present vision, Frank discovers that Herman, a homeless fellow whom he had simply spoken to at Claire's homeless shelter, has frozen to decease in the NYC sewers since the last fourth dimension he saw him. Knowing that Herman had just been somewhere where he would have been rubber and warm, Frank flies into a heartbroken rage:

  Frank: Y'all moron! YOU Jerk! WHY DIDN'T You STAY AT CLAIRE'S?! WHY DIDN'T YOU STAY WITH CLAIRE!? SHE WOULD'VE TAKEN Care OF YOU, You WOULD'VE EATEN, You WOULD'VE BEEN WARM! Yous MIGHT BE Live!! You'D BE A PRETTIER COLOR, I'LL TELL YA THAT!!!

    LARP

• In Empire LRP, there is a skill chosen Stay With Me which stops someone from dying and gives them a hit back. Information technology works exactly like this Trope. It has a counterpart of Rousing Spoken language, to heal someone even more via Dramatic Shouting.

    Literature

• Arya Stark does quite a bit of this in A Song of Ice and Fire, angry at the adults who keep failing to protect her.
  • Also played with when Cersei demands that Lord Giles be told, "He does not have my leave to die."
• Hogfather: Susan gets this when the Hogfather dies and she tin't even figure out why.
• In Dragon Bones, Ward is very, very angry at Oreg, for not only making a Heroic Cede only manipulating him into doing the killing.
• The Outsiders: Right before and right after Johnny's death, his big blood brother figure Dallas curses him and Ponyboy for being stupid and naive enough for getting into the things that pb to his expiry, completely loses it, and ultimately commits Suicide past Cop.
• The Redwall volume series, by Brian Jacques. Two instances. One is afterward a graphic symbol is establish in the forest badly wounded and is told "If you die, I'll kill you!". Another version is in a divide book where a character that's been unconscious is told by a friend that if he dies, the other grapheme volition never speak to him once again. This is lampshaded past the now-conscious character remarking that it'd exist interesting to see that.
• Nynaeve does this to a wounded Aiel Maiden in Book Three of The Bike of Time. On purpose, though: information technology helps her to get angry enough to channel and heal her.
• A variation occurs in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream— the sadistic supercomputer AM is enraged when all of the human characters die except one, not because he cared almost them, only considering he can no longer use them as outlets for his hatred of humanity. In revenge, he turns his torments on the sole homo character remaining, Ted— whose eventual fate is, incidentally, where the championship comes from.
• In Labyrinths of Echo by Max Frei the protagonist one time accidentally cured a wounded homo suffering from magical compulsion by wishing aloud his "patient" would be okay. And later discovered that while his own domination spell is dangerous, ordering its victims to recover may ready even terminal disease or otherwise incurable insanity.
• Variation: In the book The Princess Bride, subsequently existence stabbed by the half dozen-fingered man, Inigo has a vision of his begetter:

  Inigo: ...sorry, Father... I'm sorry...
  Domingo: I don't desire your "sorry"! My name is Domingo Montoya and I died for that sword and you can go along your "sorry". If you were going to fail, why didn't y'all dice years ago and let me residual in peace?

• In Gene Stratton-Porter's Freckles, Angel, having dug upwards Freckles's family, is bellyaching that he is notwithstanding near Expiry by Despair.

  You lot Just Endeavor DYING AND Yous'LL GET A GOOD SLAP!

• Katniss with Peeta in The Hunger Games. Information technology actually happens more than one time but the most prominent example is probably when his center stops later on hitting the force field in Catching Fire.
• In The Dragon and the George when Daffyd has been bitten/poisoned by harpies, Danielle responds by telling him she loves him and ordering him non to die. Daffyd is implied to fight off the poison by sheer Heroic Willpower.
• Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff'south "May she wake in torment!" speech upon receiving the news of Cathy's expiry. A portrait of a man and then enraged at his expressionless beloved for leaving him that he wishes torment on her immortal soul.
• Auria with David in Those Who Weep Light-green Tears later she tries to relieve him after he stayed backside to save her.
• In Midnight'due south Children, Ahmed reacts badly to the death of his friend Doc Narlikar. He calls it a "expose" on account of the fact that Ahmed couldn't actually attach his name to Narlikar's business due to religious persecution, and was thus totally dependent on Narlikar to requite him the profits.
• In the Gaunt's Ghosts novel Directly Argent, the sniper Jessi Banda is stabbed through the lungs during a especially brutal trench fight on the frontline. Her squad commander, the commonly rude and dismissive Major Rawne, cradles her (while badly wounded himself - his trunk is virtually pulped) while ordering her to stay alive.

  Rawne: Don't you die on me. I fething guild you to exist okay.

• In the Warhammer 40,000 novel Helsreach, Black Templar's Reclusiarch Merek Grimaldus has this reaction when a Titan'due south princeps (whose Titan he had just saved from being overrun) was dying from the strain of controlling the massive machine. He demands the crew go the Titan working, but they inform him that it is incommunicable without the princeps. To solve the issue, he proceeds to remind the dying princeps that she swore to fight by his side and to shake it off and go upward. This allows the princeps to regain her sense of self...and pisses her off enough to retake command of the Titan, due to the sheer insult that a machine thought it could control her. All to the utter daze of the crew.

  Grimaldus: You swore to me that you would walk. Stand, Zarha, STAND!

    Alive-Activity Television set

• Happens in season 4 of Angel, when Gunn is momentarily killed and brought back by an electric daze and acts cavalier about it - Fred breaks downward in tears and starts screaming "You died and left me all alone!"
• Cistron Chase gets one of these in Ashes to Ashes (2008) after Alex passes out from hypothermia.
  • Also when she was drugged by Summers and when she mysteriously stops animate after being chloroformed
    • Also arguably when he drags her out of the route in the start episode:

      Factor: Practice you know how much paperwork there is for suicides?!

• In Babylon 5, Ivanova's emotional reaction subsequently Marcus uses an alien life transfer machine to save her life, nearly at the cost of his own.
• In the final episode of the 13th flavor of Canada's Worst Commuter, there's a skit in which host Andrew "operates" on the hero car for the flavour, which has been badly damaged by the bad drivers. He shouts "Don't you exercise this to me!" and tries to revive it with jumper cables, but it flatlines.
• An odd version in Castle when Beckett badly tries to resuscitate a murderer who she's just shot, calling for him to stay with her because he'south the human being who killed her mother and the merely lead to why she was murdered.
• Charmed had Piper screaming and breaking downwards at her older sister Prue'south grave, managing to be incredibly heartbreaking. Piper merely did this after Paige told her information technology was okay to exist mad at Prue for dying, and that Paige herself was angry at her parents for dying.
• A "near death" version on The Closer later on Sanchez takes three shots to salve Provenza:

  Master Johnson: Detective Sanchez, heed to me! I'm issuing yous a directly lodge. Keep breathing! Do you hear me? Go on breathing!

• Physician Who:
  • In "Final of the Fourth dimension Lords", the Doctor almost demands that the Primary not die on him. Made all the worse by the fact that the Main actually could save himself from death if he chose to. He's just dying to spite the Doctor.

    The Master: Dying in your artillery. Happy now?
    The Dr.: Y'all're not dying, don't be stupid. It's only a bullet. But regenerate.
    The Master: No.
    The Medico: Ane little bullet. C'monday.
    The Main: I guess y'all don't know me so well. I turn down.

  • "Wood of the Dead": River, in her first-last appearance about the Medico: "If he dies, I'll kill him!"
  • This commutation between the Doctor and Wilf in "The End of Time" Part i:

    The Doctor: [bluntly] I'm going to die.
    Wilfred: Well, so am I, 1 day.
    The Doctor: Don't you dare!
    Wilfred: All right, I'll attempt not to!

  • "The Expletive of the Black Spot":

    The Doctor: Come on, come on, Rory, not like this, non today!

  • In "Before the Alluvion", Clara has a Freak Out when the Dr. indicates he's resigned himself to dying. (Due to the Timey-Wimey Brawl being in play, Clara has already seen the apparently deceased Doctor in the future.)

    Clara: Non with me! Die with whoever comes after me, you do not leave me!

• Firefly:
  • In "Jaynestown", when i of the mudders dives in forepart of a shotgun blast intended for Jayne, even when information technology's been proved Jayne isn't the hero the village thought him to be, Jayne goes ballistic. Afterwards, he's actually shaken up by the incident, not comprehending why the mudder had saved his life at the expense of his own. "Don't make no sense...".
  • In "War Stories", when Niska resuscitates Mal after having tortured him to death "Mr. Reynolds...? You died, Mr. Reynolds. If yous dice, I can't hurt you anymore."
• Game of Thrones Used equally a motivation speech before a boxing by Sandor Clegane to his troops.

  Clegane: If any of you die with a clean sword, I'll rape your fucking corpse!

• In a first season episode of Gilmore Girls, Emily freaks out in the hospital when Richard has a mild eye attack and berates him for it (although he actually survives).

  Richard: Emily, listen. If I die...
  Emily: No!
  Richard: Emily...
  Emily: Richard Gilmore, there may be many things happening in this hospital tonight, but your dying is not ane of them.
  Richard: But—
  Emily: No! I did non sign on to your dying. And it is not going to happen. Non tonight, not for a very long time. In fact, I demand to go offset. Do I make myself clear?
  Richard: Yes, Emily. You may go starting time.

• M*A*S*H may very well take been the first to popularize the surgeon's "Live, Dammit, live!" line, with Hawkeye and his obsessive bulldoze to forestall death in a line of work that's just crawling with it. No wonder he nearly cracks in the final episode.

  "C'monday... alive, dammit, live! Don't let the bastard win!!"
  "Live, that's an social club!"

• On The Mentalist, Lisbon keeps telling Sam Bosco that it'll be OK, that he can't permit a little lead stop him. Heartbreaking.
• NCIS:
  • Gibbs orders his subordinates not to die on a regular basis, and it seems to piece of work. This occurs notably in SWAK when Tony has the plague.
  • Ziva does this with the man who killed her father and Jackie Vance when he eats a cyanide-laced cigarette—not out of whatever affection, but because they desire to bring him in alive to find out who hired him.
• One of the first scenes of the first episode of Red Dwarf involves a welcome back party for a dead sailor who has been resurrected as a hologram. During his toast, he says the post-obit:

  "As you know, Holly'due south merely capable of sustaining one hologram, and then my advice to anyone more vital to the mission than me is, if you dice, I'll kill you."

• Wilhelmina in Ugly Betty yells this hysterically as Bradford dies in the middle of their wedding.
• During the Season ane finale of Star Expedition: Picard, a recently-deceased Picard discussed with Information how he had executed a Heroic Cede in the events at the climax of Star Trek: Nemesis, and his feelings nigh him having done and then. While Picard had remembered his own death, since Information uploaded his consciousness to B-four before Enterprise-E's boxing with the Scimitar, he did non remember his ain expiry.

  Picard: You don't remember your decease. I tin can't forget it.
  Data: Plainly, I had ended my existence in the hope of prolonging yours.
  Picard: That's right. Before I had fifty-fifty grasped the nature of our predicament, you had conceived and executed information technology. I was furious!
  Data: My apologies, Captain. But I am not certain I could have done otherwise.
  Picard: Truthful. That might've been the most Data matter you always did. I've always wished that I could've said I was sorry that information technology was you and not me.
  Data: Captain, practice y'all regret sacrificing your life for Soji and her people?
  Picard: Not for an instant!
  Data: So why would you imagine I regret sacrificing mine for yours?

    Music

• "Pretty Aroused" by Blues Traveler. John Popper wrote this song expressing his sadness over the death of his bandmate/best friend Bobby Sheehan.

  And I wanna shout from my guitar
  Come out, come out wherever you are
  The joke is over, open up your eyes
  A heart like yours, it never dies
  And I institute your keys behind your chair
  I however tin can come across you sitting there
  This isn't funny; don't fool around
  You let me get... you let me downwardly

• "Night Wings" by Within Temptation includes the lyrics "Don't you die on me/Y'all haven't made your peace/Live life, breathe, breathe".
• Leæther Strip nigh invokes the trope name with "Don't You Dare Die On Me".
• The small-scale-time Westward Virginia rock ring The Weber Brothers has a song called Don't Y'all Die on me, which includes the lines "Don't you die on me! If y'all exercise, I'm never gonna forgive you. Don't you lot die on me! Such an underhanded thing to do!"

    Theatre

• The play Our Country's Good has Duckling pleading with a dying Harry to not die. When he dies anyway, without ever waking up, she lets out an anguished "I hate you. No, I love you. How could y'all do this to me?!"
• Hire combined information technology with the Ironic Repeat:

  Who do you call up you are / leaving me alone with my guitar?

• In Adjacent to Normal, Dan resents Diana, in part, considering he's afraid she'll hurt herself again. Also, this trope is the underlying reason everyone resents Gabe so much.
• If/Then has a song called "I Hate You" in the "Liz" timeline. The protagonist's husband, a military medic, goes on deployment confronting her wishes. While her insults and declarations of hate first out every bit Acrimony Born of Worry, they take a dissimilar turn when it's revealed he was killed in the medical tent.

    Video Games

• Disgaea:
  • In Disgaea: 60 minutes of Darkness, the gender-reversed variation happens when Flonne accepts to exist killed past the Seraph in order to forestall him from punishing the entire group. Once Laharl realizes that she really is gone, he goes utterly apeshit.

    Laharl: Yous're going to carelessness me, like my mother did? I didn't give you permission! Is this what you phone call dearest? If it is, and then I'll never believe in love! Ever!

  • Disgaea iii has something quite similar, where Mao laments the decease of Almaz, challenge that he did non give his servants permission to die on him (all while trying his darnedest not to admit that he actually cares nearly Almaz'southward fate).
  • Subverted in the bad catastrophe path, where he'south painfully honest most not caring.
• Jaheira to her hubby Khalid in Baldur's Gate: "Y'all dice on me and I swear y'all'll never hear the terminate of information technology!" When he's killed in the sequel, It'southward Personal.
• From Odin Sphere:

  Mercedes: Ingway... is that you? Yous lied to me! You said nosotros'd meet again!

• From Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days we have this line:

  Roxas: Xion! Who else am I going to eat ice cream with?

• Tales of Symphonia has one for v characters out of the six character-team during that betoken of the game. Idiot Hero Lloyd gets aroused at everyone for dying at a critical point of the game. Subverted when, almost ten game minutes later, you lot find out that every one of them was a Disney Expiry.
• Some companion boxing cries for a fallen Hawke in Dragon Age II fit this trope. A shocked Anders shouts "No! Don't you dare!", while Aveline takes it personally: "Not today Hawke. Non while I am hither!" Similar for Carver ("Don't you die on me. Non later all this."), Fenris ("No! I volition non allow it!"), and Isabela ("Don't you die on me!"). Some of them too have lines of this nature for other companions when they fall, depending on who it is and how they experience about them. Averted by Sebastian, Bethany, and Varric, who generally audio panicked and distraught.
• A very deplorable case from Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits: When a Darc is finally reunited with a female parent he has grown upwardly bold betrayed him and his demon begetter, he is first furious at her. Then she takes a soldier's bullet intended for him, causing him to yell at her, "No dying, you hear me?!? You tin't dice until I've killed you lot properly! Female parent? Mother!?"
• In Dragon's Dogma, your Pawns, while supposedly emotionless, seem pretty distressed when you die in a game over, often demanding that you "OPEN YOUR Optics!"
• Concluding Fantasy V': Faris and Krile both say variants of this when Galuf is dying after his boxing with Exdeath. Faris yells at him to "become up, y'all quondam bat! Quit playing around, this isn't funny!" while Krile simply begs him not to dice over and over. Meanwhile, they're dousing him with every healing spell and detail in the menu, just none of it works.
• In Sands of Destruction, Kyrie asks Naja to impale him because his Power Incontinence puts Morte (And the Rest of the world) in danger. While Morte is too stunned to react as he lies dying in her arms, she afterwards berates him for it afterwards he's resurrected at the Temple of Light.
• 1 of the lines of dialogue between raiders in Fallout 4 is "NO! Don't you die on me!" when a raider discovers the body of a comrade who got killed.
• In Far Cry: New Dawn, Mickey, ane of the Highwaymen leaders, has this reaction when her sister Lou dies from injuries dealt to her by the Captain, because Mickey feels that as the older twin, she was supposed to die commencement.
• A variant of this trope in Chrono Trigger. Afterward Crono is blasted out of beingness at the hands of Lavos, his friends set out to revive him using the titular Chrono Trigger. If you accept Lucca in you party following the end of the quest, she hugs Crono, belting out this trope most word-for-discussion.

    Visual Novels

• Umineko: When They Cry has a specially heartbreaking example in Episode 5 when Beatrice thinks Battler, impaled on a red sword, is expressionless and gives up, apologizing. When Battler understands the truth and wakes up, just her empty vanquish remains, crumbling when he tries to hold it.

  Battler : Even though I finally understood... why did you give upwards before me?!

• In Code:Realize this happens towards the end of Van Helsing's route. A very heartbreaking scene takes place in which the Actor Character wails over his seemingly expressionless body, made worse as he may or may non truly be expressionless depending on the choices yous've made.

    Web Animation

• Homestar Runner: Parodied in the Strong Bad Email "army", when Homestar mourns the "death" of Frank Bennedetto, an inanimate popcorn popper who happens to exist a fellow member of the Homestarmy: "Don't you dice on me, Bennedetto! Not on my picket! You never gave me the five bucks...!" An Easter egg has Homestar tearfully informing Marzipan's microwave of her "son'south" death.

    Webcomics

• In The Dreamer Bea tells a feverish and unconscious Alan "Don't y'all dare get out me here without you." on this page
• As seen in a higher place, in Daughter Genius Agatha flips out and, by yelling at her Love Interest dying of (substantially) a lifeforce leak manages to stabilize him. Possibly a case of The Power of Love or Compelling Voice, or as hypothesized by another character in the novelization version of the scene, the target simply enjoys a good argument. Her other dear interest made an amusing threat to the same character earlier:

  Tarvek: Hang on! The arrangement's damaged! If y'all die earlier we fix it, I'll... I'll kill you!

• In Something*Positive, Davan tries to insult his friend Scotty out of his overdose-induced blackout. Scotty flatlined. At the open casket funeral, Davan is and so furious that Scotty committed suicide instead of coming to his friends and family with his problems that he throttles Scotty's corpse.
• Stand Nevertheless, Stay Silent: Onni does the "please don't get out me alone" variant to his younger sister Tuuri as he sees her leaving for the afterlife. Tuuri's decease leaves a couple of cousins as Onni'south only known living relatives after an eleven-year-quondam event resulted in the death of at least his parents, aunt, and uncle.

    Web Original

• SCP Foundation, SCP-1417-J ("Passive-Ambitious Meteorite"). During Emergency Procedure 1634-Broadway Kemal pretends to have been electrocuted and Anderson pretends to perform CPR on him.

  Anderson: Don't you lot die on me, yous son of a bitch! You've never given upwards on anything earlier! Don't you surrender on me now!

• In Worm, Imp has this reaction to Regent pulling a Heroic Sacrifice to save her from Behemoth.
• Epic Rap Battles of History: "Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates" has Steve Jobs dice halfway through the battle, disappearing in a stream of pixels after proverb he's going to turn a profit in heaven. Bill Gates, with whom Jobs had been Volleying Insults not a moment beforehand, does not take it well.

    Western Animation

• In Gargoyles, as Magus lays dying, Princess Katherine says "Ye tin nae leave me now!"
• South Park:
  • When Kenny dies in the episode "Rainforest Schmainforest". Kelly tries to give him CPR saying "Breathe! Breathe! Breathe, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" He survives.
  • A similar event occurs in the Imaginationland story arc when Cartman, of all people, managed to bring Kyle back from the brink of death afterwards being injured by the portal to Imaginationland. It's difficult to say whether this was a example of Antagonist in Mourning or Cartman just wanted Kyle to live long enough to fulfill his part of the bet. Or both.
• In The Ripping Friends, Rip says something like this to a dehydrated Chunk when he was attacked past The Boxy Wad.
• Dr. Holiday does this in the Generator Rex episode "A Family unit Vacation", when it looks like Agent Vi is dead.

  Dr. Vacation: Don't you exercise this to me! I will hate you lot forever!

• In Evil Con Carne when Hector's detached tummy starts dying on him.

  Hector: You're a disgrace to the uniform! You make me sick. (sadly) I command you... to live!

• The Family Guy episode "Life of Brian" has Stewie doing this when Brian is on his deathbed.

  Stewie: Dammit, Brian, you can't die! We were gonna do so many things together! Nosotros were gonna become windsurfers; I was gonna be a little better than you, simply we were both gonna be good!

• Jackie Chan Adventures: Uncle did this to himself in "The Dog And Piggy Show" after Hak Foo knocked out Uncle with a sucker punch, as a Call-Back to a like scene in "The Mask Of El Toro Fuerte", when Uncle appeared before a knocked-out Jackie.

  Vision!Uncle: Uncle! Uncle!

  Vision!Uncle: What happened? Y'all got such a whooping!

  Uncle: Big rima oris had big fist...

  Vision!Uncle: 1 more thing: there is work to do! You must learn the pig talisman and discover the power it possesses.

  Uncle: But, I am dead...

  Uncle: Oh, right.

  Uncle: (waking upwards) OW!

    Real Life

• Acrimony is said to be one of the 5 stages of grief.
• Common coping mechanism for Italian families at funerals.
• When she read the suicide annotation of Kurt Cobain, widow Courtney Love went off when she got to a part where he wished normalcy for the loved ones he left behind: "Well, why didn't you fucking stay?!"

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