In fact only the nameless mooks seem to be able to die without fuss.

Every character (good and bad) seems to have a flashback sequence or a life flashing experience as part of their death scene. Gungrave uses this trope as much as possible.Literally happens in Black Butler when Shinigami Grell slices into people's bodies and ribbons of film burst out this so the Shinigami can determine where their victims go in the afterlife.A vision of what life could have been like if his daughter wasn't a diclonius and his wife therefore hadn't died rather than how it actually was (thus avoiding the usual Clip Show part of this trope) flashes before his eyes just before the bomb goes off. A variation of this occurs in Elfen Lied when Kurama blows himself up with his diclonius daughter.In the first episode of Excel Saga, really bizarre scenes from Excel's life flash before the paramedics in the ambulance and one of them says, 'Uh oh, her life's flashing by.Though it takes a little bit to think of it. Azumanga Daioh: Osaka says that, while they're out seeing the pandas, she wants to see this.Played completely straight in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 when Lockon dies.Later, Hinata has flashbacks of how Naruto inspires her during her fight against Pain. This drives him to wake up to encode a message before he dies for real. In Naruto Jiraiya sees flashbacks of him with Minato and Kushina and also of Naruto after he gets his throat slashed by Pain.Inverted in Death Note, where Random images of L's orphanage flashed seconds before he died.Beware.Įxamples of My Life Flashed Before My Eyes include: According to the Other Wiki the phenomenon is known as life review and is a widely occurring experience of people seeing much of their life history in chronological sequence and precise detail during near-death encounters.Ĭompare Contemplate Our Navels and Dying Dream (where the entire story is revealed to be this).Īs a Death Trope, Spoilers ahead may be unmarked. In that case, a common follow-up is mentioning how the flashback was awesome, boring or too short. In the other, a character experiencing a harrowing experience says his 'life flashed before eyes'. In one, the audience is treated to a mini Clip Show of Stock Footage or Flash backs. That, or it's just my brain going into overdrive, and I really am dying.Ĭharacters using this trope go about it in two ways. You know, after seeing that sequence of relevant scenes either exposing parts of my Backstory or using somehow familiar visuals I see that this can't be the end. I see the day I got The Call and meeting up with my four new friends. My school days as a lanky teenager, worrying about homework and girls. I can't die now! I had so much to live for! I can see my parents smiling as they tuck me in as a child. Oh no, that's his knife lodged in my gut.

Have a good life flash before your eyes