History Main / DiedinYourArmsTonight

* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': Satine, in Christian's.

* ''Film/BladeII'' -- [[Characters/BladeII Nyssa]] disintegrates in the sunlight while Blade cradles her.

* In ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'', Hiromasa dies in Seimei's arms. However, he gets better.

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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* In ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates'', Raven Sherman dies in Dude Hennick's arms after Captain Judas shoves her out of the back of a moving truck.

[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* A variation in ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'': Barbatus's [[LosingYourHead severed head]] dies in Z's hands, after surviving and still talking much longer than a human head would.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Beast dies in Belle's arms. Thanks to Belle's timely, spell-breaking "I love you," he [[DisneyDeath recovers]]. The [[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 live-action remake]] also has Plumette dying in Lumiere's arms after that last petal falls. [[spoiler: Naturally, her death also proves to be of the Disney variety.]]
** In perhaps the only example in film history of an INVERSION of this trope, [[spoiler: Garderobe and Cadenza REVIVE in each other's arms once the curse is broken.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'', [[spoiler:Queen Tara dies in Ronin's, much to his chagrin]].
* Hans in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' claims to the diplomats that Anna has died in his arms and has made a LastWishMarriage, making him the King of Arendelle. Of course we know that's not true at all as he actually leaves Anna behind to die but not before callously revealing his motives in an intent to psychologically break her.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', [[spoiler: Olaf disintegrates in Anna's arms after Elsa turns to ice. Fortunately, both he and Elsa [[DisneyDeath get better later]].]]
* [[EnsembleDarkhorse Christophe/Ze Mole]] in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' died in Kyle's arms after failing to free Terence and Phillip. The two then take part in ''La Resistance's'' DarkReprise duet. [[ShippingGoggles Cue the shipping.]].
* After Superman rescues Svetlana in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanRedSon'', she dies in his arms a few moments later.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': Odette dies in Derek's arms due to Rothbart's evil magic. Fortunately, after Derek kills Rothbart, the spell is broken and Odette [[DisneyDeath gets better.]] Her father King William also dies in Derek's arms after Rothbart mortally wounds him earlier in the film, and unlike his daughter, [[KilledOffForReal he stays dead.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice Flynn dies]]]] in Rapunzel's arms. Thanks to a teardrop and the healing incantation, [[spoiler: he gets better.]] The position of the characters in this scene is [[ShoutOut very reminiscent of]] [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle and the Beast.]]
* ''Animation/WhiteSnake2019'': Xuan is frozen to death while still hugging onto Blanca to protect her from the cold of The General's trap device. She manages to save his soul from [[DeaderThanDead being destroyed]] by The General's contraption and he is able to reincarnate.

[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/DimensionX'''s "[[Recap/DimensionX40DwellersInSilence Dwellers in Silence]]": Dr Hathaway sneaks away to the graves of his family, and two of the Martians follow. When Dr Hathaway begins to die, Evans is instructed to hold him.

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has this played out word-for-word. After Gordito kills the zombified Ben Franklin, Doc accusingly says "You just killed my mentor. He died in my arms." Gordito reprimands him by saying "It must have been something you said," and reminds him they still have work to do and don't have time to mourn.
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061215 Lars in Agatha's.]]
** It seems to be happening with [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101018 Zeetha]], after she was run through and Higgs is cradling her but she got better.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': in one of the final acts, [[spoiler:Rose dies in Roxy's arms. Made all the more poignant because Rose got stabbed trying to avenge her girlfriend, and because both girls had only just met each other after years of eagerly waiting for it, especially since [[ItMakesSenseInContext they are each other's mother in two different realities]].]]
* Therkla in Elan's in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. To make matters worse, despite the fact that resurrection is relatively easy for an adventuring party...
-->'''Therkla''': "I'll take my chances that the Afterlife won't have any punishment worse than not being with you."
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0184.html Cut short earlier in the series]].
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0301.html Milk dudes in Soda's arms]]
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0472.html Daigo in Kazumi's arms]] - averted at the last minute.
* Zoë from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' was last seen cradled in Riff's arms, although no one knows if she's really dead or not. It still counts because Riff believes she died. [[spoiler:She didn't. [[FateWorseThanDeath It was actually far, far worse. Until it wasn't.]]]]
* Growp from ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'', in the process of being disintergrated, is caught in the arms of Emily before confessing his love. He proceeds to break up into small pieces.
* ''TAL'' has [[spoiler:Hiljo's]] death in Chapter [[spoiler:47]], in which he dies in Yu Jin's arms. Doubles as TearJerker when [[spoiler:Haje and Jenna, who he raised from their childhoods, show up; Jenna panics, noting that Hiljo isn't moving or breathing, and asks Haje what they should do... Haje, being mute, can do nothing but cry.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane and Sette break into the Red Berry Boys' hideout while the criminals are cutting open Cara to smuggle [[AntiMagic First Silver]] in her. They flee and leave the young girl to bleed out, and Duane arrives in time to try and fail to heal her, cradling her as she dies and murmurs innocent reassurances.

[[folder:Web Original]]
* At the climatic ending to the Reflection arc of ''Roleplay/{{AJCO}}'', the Doctor perishes in the re-education chamber and A_J gathers her corpse up in her arms while the others watch on, horrified at what they had just done.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Parodied in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE93Army army]]"; one of Homestar's soldiers in the "Homestarmy" is [[CompanionCube a popcorn popper named Frank Bennedetto]], and when Strong Bad kicks the popper Homestar rushes to Bennedetto's side as if he'd been mortally wounded.
-->'''Homestar:''' Don't you die on me, Bennedetto! Not on my watch! Don't you give up! [[MisplacedSorrow You never gave me the five bucks...]]
* In ''WebAnimation/TheLifeOfDeath'', Death kills those that he touches. He befriends a deer and avoids touching her. After she gets too old/weak to be with her herd, she encourages Death to pet her. The deer and Death have a FinalFirstHug.
* [[spoiler:Ma-Ti]] in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's arms at the end of ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''.
* In the penultimate chapter of ''Literature/ThePiratesCoveredInFur'', [[spoiler:Tully]] dies in [[spoiler:Michum's]] arms after being fatally wounded in the swordfight against Lyle Krinkor.
* In the 10th season WebAnimation/RedVsBlue [[spoiler:CT]] in the arms of [[spoiler:The Insurrection Leader]] after being mortally wounded by [[spoiler:Tex]]
* The ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' episode "The Lost Fable" somehow manages to make this trope even worse than usual. [[spoiler:Having already lost her lover Ozma to illness, Salem had to undergo the trauma of him being resurrected then killed again in her arms ''twice'' within the span of a few minutes when she tricks the gods into bringing him back.]]
* [[DarkActionGirl Clio Gabriella]] died this way in v4 of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', in the arms of her boyfriend Simon Telamon. She [[AlasPoorVillain even begged for him to help her.]]
* A fan's take on a ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' "Meet the Spy" animation has the Spy [[ChewingTheScenery over-selling]] his "death" to an Engineer who just shot him, collapsing dramatically into the Engineer's arms (complete with PietaPlagiarism), [[spoiler:so he can have a point blank shot to the Engineer's head, just as planned]]. (See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdZE59eJdEw here]].)

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[PleaseWakeUp "Don't do this to me, baby. Don't do this to me, baby girl, come on...No, no...Oh no, no, no... Please, please, don't do this...!"]]'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[PleaseWakeUp "Don't do this to me, baby. Don't do this to me baby girl, come on...No, no...Oh no, no, no... Please, please, don't do this...!"]]'']]

* In the 10th season Machinima/RedVsBlue [[spoiler:CT]] in the arms of [[spoiler:The Insurrection Leader]] after being mortally wounded by [[spoiler:Tex]]

* A variation in ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}: Barbatus's [[LosingYourHead severed head]] dies in Z's hands, after surviving and still talking much longer than a human head would.

-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZIOkbrX_uU Cutting Crew]]''', "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Perhaps the most tear-jerking of them all is [[ItWasHisSled Misuzu dying in Haruko's arms]] in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}''. The kicker? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMJ84qtMu4E It plays to the most heart-wrenching award bait song EVER.]]
* In the anime version of ''Manga/AkameGaKill'', Mine is not given the PlotArmor her manga counterpart was given, [[DeathByAdaptation and proceeds to die in Tatsumi's arms]] [[HeroicSacrifice after sacrificing her Imperial Arm to kill Great General Budo, who had fatally wounded her earlier in the fight]]. She manages to deliver a DyingDeclarationOfLove and a FirstKiss slash LastKiss to the man she was starting to crush on before letting death take her. All set to the short, yet somber cello of [[https://youtu.be/LBOSMqQC1TM Yume Monogatari]].
* In ''Anime/AngelBeats'', [[spoiler: Kanade Tachibana aka Angel]] finally manages to pass on in [[spoiler: Otonashi]]'s arms.
* In ''Manga/ArataTheLegend'', [[spoiler: Akachi]] dies in Kannagi's arms after the former submits to him, complete with Kannagi not letting go of [[spoiler: Akachi]] until Homura's flames have completely burned [[spoiler: Akachi's]] body away.
* In ''Manga/BattleRoyale'':
** [[spoiler:Yutaka is shot by Kiriyama while he's in Mimura's arms during their emotional embrace after Shinji accidentally shot Keita]].
** Earlier, [[spoiler: Takako dies in Sugimura's arms, who had been trying to find her the entire time]].
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
** Judeau dies in Casca's arms (sort of) after shielding her from a demon attack during the Eclipse. Made even worse by two additional heart-wrenching factors: his love was unrequited, and ''she didn't even know how he felt''. Worse, in the manga, the poor guy [[CannotSpitItOut doesn't even succeed in spitting it out before he dies]].
** Gaston, Guts' second in command, dies in his arms and is the last of the Hawks to die. [[YourHeadASplode He didn't go out as kindly as Judeau did]], though.
* In ''Manga/BlackCat'', [[DisposableWoman Saya]] died in Train's arms.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** When Hisana is bedridden with sickness, Byakuya is at her bedside clinging to her hand as she dies.
** After failing to defeat Aizen to obtain [[BestServedCold revenge]] for something Aizen did to his ChildhoodFriend Rangiku, Gin dies with Rangiku almost sprawled over his broken body, crying helplessly.
* In Manga/{{Bokurano}}, [[spoiler: Anko]] dies in either [[spoiler: Kanji]]'s arms or [[spoiler: her dad]]'s, depending if you're following the anime or the manga.
* In the anime of ''Manga/CaseClosed'', [[spoiler: Ai's older sister Akemi Miyano]] bleeds to death in the arms of Conan Edogawa himself. And much later, we find out that decades ago, [[spoiler: Matsumoto's partner Morimura died in Matsumoto's arms.]]
* In the manga version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Rosette does this in Chrono's arms. ''Twice''.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'': [[spoiler: Ushio, the daughter of Tomoya and [[DeathByChildbirth the already deceased Nagisa]]]] dies in Tomoya's arms from the same illness that took her mother’s life.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** [[spoiler: Shirley]] in Lelouch's arms.
** And then there's [[spoiler: Lelouch]], who was in Suzaku's arms for a while, but died in Nunnally's in the end.
** [[spoiler: Rolo]] in Lelouch's arms, [[spoiler: Euphemia]] in Suzaku's arms, Marianne in Nunnally's arms in the past, and C.C. in Lelouch's arms in the beginning, though she recovered.
* The climax of ''Manga/CountCain'' takes this and applies RuleOfThree: First, [[spoiler: [[MadDoctor Jizabel]] [[AlasPoorVillain Disraeli]]]], already dying of a gunshot wound, slits his throat in [[spoiler: Cassian]]'s arms; second, [[spoiler: [[BigBad Alexis]]]] succumbs to poison while being cradled by [[spoiler: his [[TheDragon dragon]], Ida]], and finally [[spoiler: Cain refuses to save himself alone, preferring to be crushed by rubble [[TogetherInDeath to stay alongside Riff]]]].
* [[spoiler:Julia]] dies in Spike's arms in the last episode of ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. Her death scene is iconic as well as [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] (until [[spoiler:Julia]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice was made to sing "(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight"]] in one of the WebVideo/AMVHell compilations).
* The ending of ''Anime/TheDaggerOfKamui'' features, among other things, the death of [[spoiler: Oyuki]], who eventually dies in Jiro's arms after making a last stand against Tenkai, her caregiver-turned-enemy.
* L in Light's in ''Manga/DeathNote'', although Light cradling L in his arms as he dies is actually just an act; when Light thinks nobody but L can see his face, he flashes a smugly victorious SlasherSmile at L just before L expires. However, if you ask the shippers...
* Near the end of the Vamdemon arc of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Wizardmon died in Gatomon's arms after TakingTheBullet for her and Hikari. Then we have Wormmon in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', who died in Ken's arms to kick-start his HeelFaceTurn. [[BackFromTheDead Wormmon got better...]] [[KilledOffForReal Wizardmon didn't.]]
* In the ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' special, ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Bardock - The Father of Goku]]'', Bardock finds his entire team dead save for [[AlmostDeadGuy Tora]], whom he picks up and is told by him that Freeza is afraid of him and plans to kill the entire saiyan race. He shortly died in Bardock's arms afterward.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged the TFS abridged parody]].
---> '''Bardock:''' My best friend just died in my arms. Didn't he?
* Alfeegi in Dragon Knights dies in his friend's arms after he was stabbed [[spoiler:by the main character, who later cut off his own head]].
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Simon dies being cradled in Erza's arms after being fatally injured by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Jellal's]] attack [[TakingTheBullet meant for her and Natsu]].
** Lucy holds [[spoiler:her BadFuture counterpart]] in her arms after the latter [[TakingTheBullet throws herself in front of an attack meant for her]].
* Happens several times in ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'':
** [[spoiler:Achilles]] cradles [[spoiler:Atalanta]] in his arms after he [[CradlingYourKill stabs her through the stomach]] to [[MercyKill save her from her own madness]], while he himself [[MutualKill is dying from her arrows rammed through his back]]. They exchange tearful thanks and farewells before passing on, though the former lasts a little longer. Should it be mentioned that Creator/WilliamShakespeare (who was no stranger to this trope in RealLife) was a member of their team and offered to write a tragic story of unrequited love between them earlier in the series?
** Sieg holds Jeanne in his arms as she's dying after the use of her [[SuicideAttack La Pucelle]] to try and destroy the Holy Grail. In a twist, only Jeanne herself dies, while her host body Laetica remains in his arms unconscious, but alive.
** [[spoiler:Shirou Kotomine]] ultimately dies in the lap of his Servant [[spoiler:Semiramis]] after he's fatally injured, being comforted by her as he passes away and even [[LastKiss sharing a kiss]].
* Though it's not shown in the final version, in an [[WhatCouldHaveBeen early script]] of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'' [[spoiler:Izumi]] died in Wrath's arms, complete with [[GoOutWithASmile going out with a smile]].
* Nuriko of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' dies in Tamahome's arms, as does Tamahome's little sister Yuiren. Soi dies in Nakago's.
** In the ''Suzaku Hi Den'' novel and third OVA, [[spoiler: Shu Tendo dies in ''both'' Hotohori and You Houki's arms after Hotohori tells him they can fix the Konan nation.]]
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'' has Takiko [[GoOutWithASmile Going Out With A Smile]] in Uruki's arms, after summoning Genbu and being killed by her father [[MercyKill to prevent her from being devoured by Genbu]].
* In ''Anime/FutureWar198X'' Michael frantically searches for [[spoiler:Marina]] after a fight breaks out in Neinberg, only to find her crushed under the rubble of a building. He pulls her out and she dies in his arms.
* Another instance of this trope occurs in ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'', where the protagonist's girlfriend Tae Kojima dies in his arms after being hunted down and murdered.
* In the ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' manga, [[spoiler:Weed's oldest friend GB who's been a coward all his life finally finds his courage when they're fighting a giant hybrid bear and ferociously attacks it, only to suffer fatal wounds in the attempt. Upon dying, GB cries and asks Weed to hug him, and (as much as it's possible for a dog to hug someone) Weed concedes while crying heavily himself, and he keeps holding onto him until GB suffers death cramps and dies completely.]]
* [[spoiler:Hare, while being eaten alive by the Apocalypse Virus,]] dies this way in ''Anime/GuiltyCrown''. [[spoiler:Averted, she was already dead, but her body shattered in Shu's arms.]]
* In ''Anime/{{Gungrave}}'' Episode 24, Sherry ended up taking a bullet meant for Harry when he was attacked by an assassin. Harry screamed her name while he clutched her to his chest.
* Pip Bernadotte in Seras' in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. Though technically he was just absorbed.
* In ''Anime/HelloWorld'' Ruri is held by Naomi after the lightning strike that felled her. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that this is downplayed as Ruri was only struck into a coma, but the depiction of Naomi otherwise conforms to this.]]
* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': [[spoiler:Meruem beautifully dies in Komugi's arms after he converses with her until his last breath, asking if she was there with him. [[TogetherInDeath Komugi dies soon after]].]].
* In ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', Kikyou dies in the title character's arms for the final time, after a LastKiss.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Played straight early in ''Phantom Blood'', when [[spoiler:George Joestar, Jonathan's father, dies in his arms after being stabbed by Dio]].
** {{Inverted|Trope}} during ''Phantom Blood's'' ending, where [[spoiler:Jonathan Joestar]] dies while holding [[spoiler:Dio Brando's severed, but quite alive, head]] in his arms.
* Happens twice in ''Anime/{{K}}''. In the flashback in Episode 6, Totsuka dies in Yata's arms after being shot, and later [[spoiler: Mikoto dies while slumped into Munakata's arms.]]
* In ''LightNovel/KazeNoStigma'', [[spoiler:Ayumi]] dies in Ren's arms.
* In [[DownerBeginning the first episode of]] ''Anime/KotetsuJeeg'', Dr. Shiba arrives home gravely wounded after [[BigBad Queen Himika]] tried to silence him. He ends up dying in the arms of his estranged son Hiroshi, TheHero and the titular Jeeg.
* [[LotusEaterMachine Dream!Alicia]] [[DisappearsIntoLight Disappeared into Light]] during her FinalFirstHug with Fate in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', all while telling her how she wished she could have been her sister in real life.
* Happens twice in ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': when [[spoiler: Gentle Chapman]] loses to Domon and collapses, he dies in his wife's arms (though [[spoiler: he [[CameBackWrong Comes Back Wrong]] later]]), while [[spoiler: Master Asia]] dies in Domon's arms after their final battle.
* Meer Campbell in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' dies in the hands of Lacus Clyne after TakingTheBullet for her. For an extra kick, Meer is Lacus' BodyDouble and her once biggest {{fangirl}}, now ridden by a volatile mix of jealousy, admiration, and the [[WellDoneSonGuy wish to be noticed by her]].
** Also, Stellar Louissier dies in Shinn Asuka's arms.
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing [[HowWeGotHere Episode Zero]]'', Wufei's wife Meiran dies in his arms after she tried to save her space colony.
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', both [[DarkActionGirl Four]] and [[LadyOfWar Emma]] die in the arms of Kamille. Whereas [[TeamDad Blex Forer]] dies in [[BigBrotherMentor Quattro's]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Sasuke appears to die in Naruto's arms in the very first arc, after stands in front of about twenty senbon heading for Naruto. Since Haku's attacks weren't intended to be fatal, he lives.
** During the Fourth Shinobi World War, [[spoiler:Neji]] really does die in Naruto's arms.
* Kagero dies in Jubei's arms in ''Anime/NinjaScroll''. [[spoiler:They kiss just before she dies, which, thanks to Kagero's PoisonousPerson nature, provides the antidote to the poison in Jubei.]]
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', [[spoiler: Emily Sevensheep]] dies ([[spoiler:or better said, was ''written out of reality'']]) in the arms of Yue Ayase.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** [[spoiler:Ace]] [[TakingTheBullet shields]] Luffy from a killing blow, and he dies while Luffy holds him in his arms. This trope contributes to the [[TearJerker sheer emotional impact this death has on both Luffy and the viewer]].
** In a flashback of the Dressrosa arc, [[spoiler:Scarlett died in her husband Kyros' arms]]. This one is especially cruel since [[spoiler:Kyros had been turned into a LivingToy by Sugar, everyone had forgotten about him, which means Scarlett died not even remembering she had a husband, let alone knowing he was holding her. And Kyros ''couldn't even feel the warmth of her dying body'']]. ''Holy crap''.
* [[spoiler:Xerxes Break]] dies in the arms of the two people he loves: [[spoiler: Sharon and Reim]] in ''Manga/PandoraHearts''.
* In ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'', Shinichi holds [[spoiler:Kana this way, on the night she intended to declare her love to him. Her eagerness to rush to this confession led her to run straight into a parasyte he was too late to save her from.]] As an unrequited love interest, this was sadly the closest she'd get to him.
* Two examples in ''Manga/PhantomDream'':
** Early on in the series, Kaname dies in Tamaki’s arms after the Suigekka sword has been recovered by Eiji, leaving Tamaki alone with only the higoshi to aid him.
** [[spoiler:After Roka realizes that Hira is starting to lose himself to his hatred, she kills herself rather than let Mutsu be forced to kill her and she dies with him holding her in his arms.]]
* [[spoiler:Romeo]] dies in Juliet's arms, in ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'', after being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.
** Technically, in the manga [[spoiler:they die at the same time]].
** Same goes to [[spoiler: Lord Montague]], who perishes in the arms of ''both'' Romeo and Juliet.
* Happens in ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' on two separate occasions. First, [[spoiler:Souseiseki dies in Suiseiseki's hands after a futile attempt at taking on Suigintou, made especially heartwrenching because Suiseiseki had desperately tried to convince her not to do it up to that point]]. In the very next episode, [[spoiler:Hinaichigo slowly unwinds during the course of the episode and finally in the hands of Tomoe]].
* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', [[spoiler:Tomoe]] died in Kenshin's arms after he accidentally attackedher with his katana. [[spoiler:In the OVA, this is when she decides to add the other stroke of his cross-scar (in the original, the scar happened accidentally).]]
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':
** [[spoiler:Sailor Mars]] dies in Sailor Moon's arms in the climax of ''Sailor Stars''.
** [[spoiler: Prince Diamond]] dies in Sailor Moon's arms as well.
** Mamoru, in his first death.
** [[spoiler:Nephrite]] and [[spoiler:Blue Saphir]], whose RedemptionEqualsDeath demises happen while in Naru's and both Moon and Tuxedo Kamen's arms, respectively.
** [[spoiler:Kakyuu]] dies in the arms of the three Starlights. In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], it was [[spoiler:Kakyuu]] in the arms of Sailor Moon.
** [[spoiler:Zoisite]] in Kunzite's arms.
* In the final episode of ''Manga/SchoolLive'' [[spoiler:TeamPet Taroumaru]] died in Miki's lap. [[spoiler:He had turned into a zombie and was given an anti-zombie vaccine. However it was too late and he died quickly after getting the vaccine, though [[DyingAsYourself at least he didn't die a zombie puppy]].]]
* In ''Anime/SCryed'', Ayase dies in Kazuma's arms when she loses the will to live. It sounds a bit idiotic, but it's {{justified|Trope}} in that being refined weakened her body severely, so the only thing she was living for was her brother. When he died, that was it.
* In ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'' prince Zen's first friend, an archer near his age working at the castle, died in his arms after [[spoiler: revealing himself as a FalseFriend that was part of a plot to assassinate Zen in retaliation for the way his elder brother had removed an earl and his family from power]].
* In the ''Manga/SoulEater'' anime, Crona appears to die in Maka's arms. Zhe gets better.
* In Episode 14 of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', [[spoiler:Asuna]] does this to Kirito after [[TakingTheBullet taking an attack meant for him]]. [[spoiler:Thankfully, Kayaba put her in the waiting room rather than having her [[MostDangerousVideogame brain fried]] immediately, so when Kirito won the game a minute or so later, she was able to survive]]. Also in the last chapter of the second season of the anime [[spoiler: Yuuki dies peacefully in Asuna's arms]].
* In ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'', the end of Episode 24 has a scene that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWizW_6AgQY#t=1m35s looks like]] a classic example (which all the characters believed it to be), but this was subverted as of ep. 25.
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul[=:Re=]'', the blood flows freely.
** Shirazu is mortally wounded saving his squad from [[ImplacableMan Noro]] and ends up bleeding to death. After spending the entire series [[TheRival manipulating and plotting against him]], Urie is the one that ends up comforting Shirazu in his final moments. Afterwards, he stays with the body and refuses to let go until medics come to retrieve it.
** At the conclusion of their climatic battle, Arima commits suicide and dies in Kaneki's arms, confessing his many secrets. The chapter ends with a shot of Kaneki cradling his body in his arms, [[DeathWail screaming]] in grief.
* ''LightNovel/TokyoRavens'': Twice, [[TheHero Harutora]] cradles [[KillTheCutie Hokuto]] and later [[HeroicSacrifice Natsume]] as they make their DyingDeclarationOfLove.
* ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'': [[spoiler: Seishuu]] dies in Youko's arms, and [[spoiler: Ikuya Asano]] perishes in Shoukei's.
* ''Manga/VampireKnight'': [[spoiler: Shizuka dies in Ichiru's.]]
** Later [[spoiler:Ichiru dies in Zero's.]]
** [[spoiler: Sara dies in Takuma's.]]
** [[spoiler:Kaname at last dies/falls into coma in Yuuki's.]]
* ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' gets some mileage out of this one: Aya gets to both Asami and Sena ''just'' in time for this, Sister Ruth dies in the arms of both Ken ''and'' Omi, Nagi catches Tot as Fafarello stabs her (she recovers) and has a nice FreakOut, and, most dramatically of all, Ouka Sakaki is shot as Omi embraces her, telling her [[TemptingFate they'll always be together]]...
* ''Manga/{{X1999}}'':
** [[spoiler: Seishirou dies in Subaru's arms at the Rainbow Bridge.]] Made all the more ironic since we also learn that [[spoiler: when Seishirou killed Subaru's twin Hokuto... [[CradlingYourKill she died in his arms as well]]. (There was a famous ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' picture featuring that moment already, but only then we see the details.)]]
** Potentially subverted when [[spoiler: Kotori is killed, and once everything has [[JustForPun died down]], Kamui cradles ''[[AlasPoorYorick her severed head]]'' while the Seals look on in horror and sadness.]] It's played straight in the anime series, however, [[spoiler: since [[{{bowdlerize}} she still dies but doesn't get dismembered]], letting Kamui hold her entire body]] -- and later, [[spoiler: Karen dies in Aoki's arms]], while [[spoiler: Hinoto dies in Kamui's]] and later [[spoiler: Sorata perishes in Arashi's]].
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' '''LOVES''' this trope:
** ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' Season 4: Joey dies in Mai's arms (it turns out to be of the [[DeathIsCheap undoable kind]]).
** ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' Season 5: Kisara dies in Priest Seto's arms.
** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'':
*** Carly dies in Jack's arms (undone at the end of the season).
*** Kiryu dies in Yusei's arms, complete with HoYay shoujo sparkles.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'': Ai dies in Yusaku's arms while [[DyingDeclarationOfLove confessing his love]].

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Comic book covers in general, especially in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, absolutely loved this trope. Almost always accompanied by a TonightSomeoneDies.
* While he was technically already dead, Jason Todd (Robin II) was held in the arms of Franchise/{{Batman}} during ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily''.
* ComicBook/{{Elektra}} had her first death in ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''. After taking a vicious curbstomping from Bullseye that ends in her throat getting slashed by a thrown card and then her getting impaled on her own sai, Elektra crawls out from the parking lot they were fighting in. She stays alive long enough to crawl to Matt's house and call out to him, before dying in his arms.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' Alan Scott's friend (and secret lover) Jimmy Henton died in the same act of sabotage that led to Alan becoming the Green Lantern. In the Golden Age the first thing Alan did after regaining consciousness was to stumble over and cradle his body, and in the ComicBook/DCRebirth era Alan actually got to Jimmy before he died and they exchanged a few words before he died in Alan's arms.
* In "The House That Haunted Batman", one of the many tortures that Dr. Tzin-Tzin uses on Batman is a simulation of Robin/Dick Grayson aging into dust as he holds him.
* In ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', Renee Montoya takes an enormous dose of a special durability pill, hoping to take down Superman once and for all. After a brief fight, however, she suffers a massive heart attack, and Superman holds her in his arms as she dies.
* After [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself]] to [[TakingYouWithMe kill Kang]], [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] dies in [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers']] arms. ''[[http://i45.tinypic.com/1t4kgg.png Very dramatically]]''.
** [[http://i49.tinypic.com/25573h4.png Tony almost dies in Steve's arms here]], too. Luckily, he recovers ''before'' dying this time.
* Near the end of the second volume of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'', John Constantine is [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice struck down]] by the Upside-Down Man and dies in the arms of a grief-stricken Zatanna.
* In the Amazing Spider-Man comic, in the end of ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied, Gwen doesn't literally die in Spider-Man's arms (she dies [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou many feet below him]]), but he cradles her body in his arms as he cries out that the Green Goblin will pay for her death.
* [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Troia]] died in ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'s arms in ''Graduation Day''. As they were each other's closest friends and LikeBrotherAndSister, it really messed him up.
* In the Belgian comic ''Papyrus'', the issue [[spoiler: ''Tears of the Giants'']] finishes with Papyrus cradling [[BridalCarry and later carrying]] the lifeless body of [[spoiler: a Hitite princess who loved him but couldn't spit it out since she was to marry the Pharaoh aka Papyrus's boss, and could only tell him [[DyingDeclarationOfLove as she lay dying in his arms]].]]
* Happens twice in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''. [[TimeTravel To the same person]]. Both times are with the same guy, too.
* ''[[Franchise/MonsterVerse Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Dr. Matemavi]] is [[spoiler:shot by Riccio]] and she dies being held in Aaron's arms — or she was killed instantly and her body landed in Aaron's arms while falling backwards.
* On one occasion, it was a BerserkButton for [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] that entirely too many people over the years had died in his arms after TakingTheBullet for him, and the latest one didn't even get to speak any LastWords.
* Franchise/{{Superman}} died in ComicBook/LoisLane's arms in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman''.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel:
** The [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan Ultimate universe's]] version of Peter Parker ended up dying in Mary Jane Watson's arms, after succumbing to wounds he received after TakingTheBullet for Captain America and fighting the Green Goblin and (what was left) of the Sinister Six to protect her, Aunt May and Gwen.
** ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'':
*** Angel rescued Alison, but she had drown, and died in his arms. Cue a BigNo, and a LittleNo.
*** Thor had the corpse of Valkyrie in his hands, but refused to accept her death. So he went to Hela's domain to reclaim her life.
* In both the comic and [[Film/VForVendetta movie versions]] of ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', V dies in Evey's arms after being shot.
* Done, by all people, Wolverine in a ''ComicBook/WhatIf?'' comic. Granted, he had [[spoiler: just killed his son Daken and was moments away from [[DriventoSuicide killing himself]]]] but it doesn't make it any less sad.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': After being fatally wounded by the White Magician and forcing Diana to take the item keeping her alive so that Diana can win the fight ComicBook/{{Artemis}} takes her last breaths being cradled by Diana.

[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* In ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates'', Raven Sherman dies in Dude Hennick's arms after Captain Judas shoves her out of the back of a moving truck.

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Happens in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28483500 In Mysterious Ways]] to Spock as [[VitriolicBestBuds he and [=McCoy=] are stranded on an alien planet.]] The Vulcan is poisoned by a native weapon, and the doctor is helpless to find an antidote, trapped away from the resources of the ship's sickbay. All he can do is to hold his frenemy as he dies and try to comfort him. [[spoiler:He gets better.]]
* In ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'', Haiba's cousin, Binamu --[[KissingCousins whom he unknowingly had an incestuous relationship with]] -- tragically dies in his embrace.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Done brilliantly in ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/72998/last-one-standing Last One Standing]]''. Twilight Sparkle dies tucked under Celestia's wing.
** In ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'', the first-person protagonist Blackjack dies under Glory's wing from [[RasputinianDeath a combination of cancer, mutation, multiple limb amputation, blood loss, pneumonia and finally, heart failure.]]
** The absolutely heartbreaking moment in ''[[Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'' when [[spoiler:Carrot Top]] [[TearJerker dies in Derpy's arms]].
** ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsMagicTheAdventuresOfSpike'': [[spoiler: Celestia]], after being mortally wounded by Chrysalis, dies in Spike's arms.
** In ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'', Twilight dies in Lightning's arms.
** [[spoiler: Silver Spoon]] dies that way in ''Fanfic/{{Sleepless}}''.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'': Done twice:
** {{Ki|dSidekick}}t dies in Vale's arms after being mortally wounded by a mutt.
** [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies Vale herself]], who had someone die in her arms]], dies in the arms of [[spoiler:Obsidian]].
* ''Fanfic/AllInTheFamily'': [[spoiler: The Mistress]], after being mortally wounded by the recoil of her weapon, dies in Warden's arms in Chapter 19.
* Though the fanfic video has not been released yet, it's confirmed that [[spoiler: [[Film/TronLegacy Rinzler]] dies in [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora's]] arms]] in ''[[Fanfic/BadAlertTheExtreme The Return of Bad Alert]]''.
* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MemoriesBornOfFire'', Christine Chapel holds Spock as he dies from self-inflicted stab wounds. However, it was AllJustADream.
* [[spoiler:Hermione]] in ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality''.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' fanfic ''Asshai's Flames'', High Priestess Joanna dies in her sort-of granddaughter Arkhia's arms after revealing that it was her younger daughter and Arkhia's aunt, Selye who poisoned her.
* Prior to ''Fanfic/ThePlanets'', Riza [[TakingTheBullet took the bullet]] for Roy during the war. She died his arms.
* ''Fanfic/MuchAdoAboutShakespeareLovesLaboursWon'': Archie remembers how Mariette died in Horatio's arms in Muzillac and the image of Horatio cradling Mariette's corpse keeps haunting Archie every night.
* In ''Fanfic/SoWedBothBeFree'', Ty Lee [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide by poison]] and dies in her lover Azula's arms.
* ''Fanfic/{{Somnium}}'': When Phillip kissed Aurora awake, he began bleeding from the mouth. He died in Aurora's arms a moment later.
* ''Fanfic/AWrinkleInTimeNaruto'': Hinata died in Naruto's arms during the war, again declaring her love for him. Her death nearly drove him over the DespairEventHorizon and into committing suicide.

[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Beast dies in Belle's arms. Thanks to Belle's timely, spell-breaking "I love you," he [[DisneyDeath recovers]]. The [[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 live-action remake]] also has Plumette dying in Lumiere's arms after that last petal falls. [[spoiler: Naturally, her death also proves to be of the Disney variety.]]
** In perhaps the only example in film history of an INVERSION of this trope, [[spoiler: Garderobe and Cadenza REVIVE in each other's arms once the curse is broken.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'', [[spoiler:Queen Tara dies in Ronin's, much to his chagrin]].
* Hans in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' claims to the diplomats that Anna has died in his arms and has made a LastWishMarriage, making him the King of Arendelle. Of course we know that's not true at all as he actually leaves Anna behind to die but not before callously revealing his motives in an intent to psychologically break her.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', [[spoiler: Olaf disintegrates in Anna's arms after Elsa turns to ice. Fortunately, both he and Elsa [[DisneyDeath get better later]].]]
* [[EnsembleDarkhorse Christophe/Ze Mole]] in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' died in Kyle's arms after failing to free Terence and Phillip. The two then take part in ''La Resistance's'' DarkReprise duet. [[ShippingGoggles Cue the shipping.]].
* After Superman rescues Svetlana in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanRedSon'', she dies in his arms a few moments later.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': Odette dies in Derek's arms due to Rothbart's evil magic. Fortunately, after Derek kills Rothbart, the spell is broken and Odette [[DisneyDeath gets better.]] Her father King William also dies in Derek's arms after Rothbart mortally wounds him earlier in the film, and unlike his daughter, [[KilledOffForReal he stays dead.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice Flynn dies]]]] in Rapunzel's arms. Thanks to a teardrop and the healing incantation, [[spoiler: he gets better.]] The position of the characters in this scene is [[ShoutOut very reminiscent of]] [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle and the Beast.]]
* ''Animation/WhiteSnake2019'': Xuan is frozen to death while still hugging onto Blanca to protect her from the cold of The General's trap device. She manages to save his soul from [[DeaderThanDead being destroyed]] by The General's contraption and he is able to reincarnate.

[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* The little boy who survived the Persian Immortals sacking his village in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' survived long enough to die in Leonidas' arms.
* ''Film/FourteenOhEight'': [[EldritchLocation Room 1408]] gives Enslin has a vision of his already dead daughter. She dies in his arms, and then her body crumbles into ash. ''And the room keeps going''.
* ''Film/{{Alibi|1929}}'': Tommy and the other cops burst into Buck's apartment seconds after Danny the undercover cop gets shot. Danny has an extended death scene in Tommy's arms in which he makes a self-deprecating joke about not being a good detective, before doing the whole "[[ImColdSoCold it's getting dark]]" thing.
* Matthew Cuthbert dies in Anne's arms in the 1985 film of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' after suffering a HollywoodHeartAttack.
* Like the animated version, ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' has the Beast die in Belle's arms at the climax; so does Plumette in Lumiere's arms (this really does happen to Creator/EwanMcGregor a lot!) as [[AdaptationExpansion the end of the curse]] [[DarkerAndEdgier changes all the Enchanted Objects into ordinary inanimate objects]]. Of course when the spell breaks, everyone comes back to life.
* ''Film/BladeII'' -- [[Characters/BladeII Nyssa]] disintegrates in the sunlight while Blade cradles her.
* There is a variation of this trope at the end of ''Film/TheBoondockSaints''. [[DeadSidekick Rocco]] is shot while tied to a chair, which is knocked down by the force of the shot. [[SiblingTeam Connor and]] [[VigilanteMan Murphy]] are tied to chairs on either side of him, and Murphy falls to the ground beside him, taking his chair with him. While there can be no arms involved (because they are all tied), Rocco dies with Murphy's head [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments buried in his shoulder]] while the brothers [[ManlyTears scream with grief]]. [[TearJerker It is a very touching scene]], and conveys the general emotion of this trope, complete with Rocco's last speech.
--> '''Rocco:''' [[{{Determinator}} You can't stop]]. You get out of here. Don't ever stop.
* In Greta Garbo's 1936 classic ''Film/{{Camille|1936}}'', Marguerite dies in Armand's arms in the very last scene. The 1982 film version of ''Film/{{Annie|1982}}'', which has the titular character attend the film at the cinemas, includes this scene, making it a case of ItWasHisSled.
* ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'': After Gus is shot InTheBack by Mei Ling, he collapses forward into Rose's arms, where he expires.
* In ''Film/{{Cimarron}}'', after not seeing her husband Yancey for at least 12 years, Sabra discovers him just as he's been mortally injured in an oil rig accident. She cradles him as he dies.
* Inverted in ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'', when the King dies with Kit in his arms.
* Adam Sandler's character in ''Film/{{Click}}'' dies in the arms of his son. However, it turns out to be a dream of sorts.
* Fiamma dies in Miss. G's arms in ''Film/{{Cracks}}''. Revealed that Miss. G is killing Fiamma by withholding her inhaler while she has an asthmatic attack, making this an example of CradlingYourKill.
* In ''Film/CruelIntentions'', after performing a HeroicSacrifice to save [[spoiler:Annette]] from being hit by a speeding car, [[spoiler:Sebastian dies in her arms, but not before telling her that he loves her.]]
* The LiveActionAdaptation of ''Film/DeathNote'' had [[spoiler:Light dying in his father's arms (made all the more poignant on Soichiro's part by the fact that Light tried to kill him only minutes before).]]
* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse''
** ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': When Antiope is fatally shot, Menalippe cradles her body.
** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': One glimpse into the BadFuture reveals that [[spoiler:Harley Quinn died in Batman's arms. Her last words words to him were a plea for him to kill the Joker slowly and painfully, a vow that he intends to make good on when the time comes]].
* Twice in ''Film/{{Deewaar}}'':
** Anita dies in Vijay's arms.
** Vijay dies in his mother Sumitra's arms.
* In the 1932 version of ''Film/AFarewellToArms'' starring Creator/GaryCooper and Helen Hayes, Catherine dies in Frederic's arms. In the book he just sits by her bedside as she [[PassedInTheirSleep dies while unconscious]] in typical Hemingway BeigeProse, but the movie offers a more classically romantic Hollywood death scene, complete with [[StandardSnippet the Liebestod from Wagner's ''Tristan & Isolde'']] to accompany it.
* ''Film/FaustLoveOfTheDamned'': John Jaspers manages to destroy Mephistopheles after he is released from his contract, but he then dies in Jade's arms as the only thing keeping him alive were his hellgiven powers.
* Bubba dies in Forrest's arms by a river in Vietnam after being mortally wounded during a battle in ''Film/ForrestGump''.
* In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', Quellek gets shot by one of Saris' minions after he and Alexander Dane free some Thermians from certain death. Before dying in his arms, Quellek tells Alexander that he (in the persona of "Dr. Lazarus," his character on the ShowWithinAShow) was like a father to him. Alexander quotes his character's famous line seriously for the first time in the film before rushing and attacking the minion, who's having some gun jamming issues.
* In ''Film/GangOfRoses'', Chas is shot in the back by one of the bandits and falls to the street. Babyface rushes to her side and gathers her in his arms as she dies.
* Sam dies in Molly's arms in ''Film/{{Ghost}}''.
* During the final showdown in ''Film/GhostRock'', Song and Wu Chen have a fight through the saloon. Wu Chen finally has Song has pinned on the balcony railing with his hand round his throat. Despite having the opportunity to kill him, Wu Chen lets him go. this causes Song to rethink his life choices. As he is doing so, other members of the gang grab Wu Chen and start kicking him to death. Song turns against his former partners and jumps into the fight: saving Wu Chen, but dying in the process.
* In ''Music/RobZombie's Film/HalloweenII2009'', Annie dies in Laurie's arms.
* In ''Film/HardTarget'', Nat cradles the fatally wounded Detective Mitchell in her arms as she dies.
* In ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', Scottish immortal Connor Macleod does this with his mortal wife Heather as she is dying of old age. It's a hell of a TearJerker.
* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', Rufio dies in Peter Pan/Banning's arms.
-->'''Rufio''': "[[TearJerker I wish I had a dad... like you.]]"
* In ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'', Peeta cradles the District 6 morphling as she dies from the monkey-mutt bite.
* A version in ''Film/{{Inception}}'': Mal is already a PosthumousCharacter, but she "dies" one last time in Cobb's arms when Ariadne shoots her in Limbo, where Cobb is finally able to make peace with her death and let her go.
* In ''Film/{{Infamous}}'', Dean gets fatally shot during the botched bank robbery and dies in Arielle's arms; telling her that now they will both get what they want.
* Subverted in Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller'' when the title character dies. He and his love interest Jenny miss each other as they grope for each other on the ground near the burning church due to both of them being blind at this moment, Jenny due to the tragic mistake that kicked off the whole thing, and Ah Jong due to getting shot in the eyes by Wong Hoi. The reason the scene came out like it did was because Chow Yun-Fat and Sally Yeh, the actors of the two in question, could only be scheduled to shoot on different days.
* ''Film/TheLastDaysOnMars'' (2013) shows the problems of doing this trope with a ZombieInfectee; notably being attacked at close quarters after they've died.
* The original ending to ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' has Audrey dying in Seymour's arms after the plant, Audrey II, tried to eat her.
* ''Film/TheLure'' (2015) [[spoiler:Silver in Mietek's, turning into sea foam the morning after his wedding to another girl.]]
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Loki in his brother Thor's arms. However, it turns out that he survived and then [[FakingTheDead faked his death]], using this opportunity to usurp the throne.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': [[spoiler: Peter Parker disintegrates in Tony Stark's arms.]]
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': [[spoiler:Tony dies in his wife's arms as she comforts him by telling him [[HerHeartWillGoOn she and their daughter will be okay]].]]
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': Satine, in Christian's.
* ''Film/{{Mythica}}'': Caeryn dies in her sister Teela's arms after being mortally wounded by Kishkumen.
* In ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'', Hiromasa dies in Seimei's arms. However, he gets better.
* In ''Film/OutlawWomen'', Ellen dies in Iron Mae's arms after she shot by Sam Bass while attempting to thwart him robbing the safe.
* In ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Ofelia]] dies in [[ParentalSubstitute Mercedes']] arms, while Mercedes [[TearJerker hums a lullaby to her, trying (and failing) not to cry]]
* As Dan Curtis breaks into the house in ''Film/ThePhantomOfCrestwood'', a mortally wounded Jenny Wren stumbles down the stairs and collapses in his arms; gasping out the words "The face!" before dying.
* ''Film/PoorPrettyEddie'': After Eddie is shot, Bertha cradles him and cries as he bleeds out.
* ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'' has Ed Harley washing his son, Billy's, face with a washcloth after the latter was mortally wounded in a hit-and-run.
* In ''Film/{{Purgatory}}'', Dolly Stone dies in Sonny's arms, which is why he's so adamant on who she is when she turns up in Refuge.
* [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Nathan]] in Shilo's arms in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''.
* ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' ends with Mr White cradling the mortally-wounded Mr Orange and [[DownerEnding finishing him off after the latter confesses he was the rat]]. It's pretty ambiguous on whether White shot Orange or if the cops just started shooting at him before he would have the chance. This is Tarantino we're talking about here, so this is probably completely intentional.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': Shepherd Book dies in Mal's arms after the Alliance attacks Haven.
* In ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'', when Astaroth is killed in a DuelToTheDeath with Lot over having seduced the latter's daughters, Shuah and Maleb, he takes comfort in being able to die in Shuah's arms.
* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'':
** During the DownerBeginning, Fong cradles her dying BestFriend Macy after their mission went terribly wrong.
** The entire Team D cradles Honey after she's shot in the neck during a rescue mission.
* Harry Osborn in ''Film/SpiderMan3''. The light in his eyes fades away as Mary Jane Watson and Peter Parker hold him: [[RedemptionEqualsDeath just after he finally forgives Peter and helps him defeat Sandman]].
* ''Film/Nymph'':
** Scylla in her guardian’s after being harpooned and stabbed.
* ''Film/StarWars'':
** ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' ends with Qui-Gon Jinn dying in Obi-Wan's arms. (This seems to happen to Creator/EwanMcGregor a lot -– and also to the character of Obi-Wan, whose love interests from the EU and other non-film stories always seem to go out this way. His love interest in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' who dies this way is even named Satine as an [[ActorAllusion allusion]] to ''Film/MoulinRouge'')
** Likewise, Shmi DiesWideOpen in Anakin's arms in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. Also, at the very beginning of the film, Padme's handmaiden bodyguard Corde' makes the ultimate sacrifice and expires in the Senator's arms.
** Happens several times in ''Film/RogueOne''. The first time Jyn Erso sees her father in thirteen years is just after Galen is shot leading to him dying as she holds him. During the final mission Baze Malbus holds his [[PlatonicLifePartners Platonic Life Partner]] Chirrut Îmwe after the latter is caught in an explosion. Finally, Jyn and Cassian Andor do a [[FinalFirstHug mutual version]] as the Death Star fires a low-level blast that destroys the beach they're sitting on.
** [[TakingTheBullet Darth]] [[HeelFaceTurn Vader]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies]] in Luke's arms in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
** In ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', Ben Solo dies in Rey's arms after giving up his life to save hers.
* In ''Film/Stitches2012'', the titular villain holds Bulger in his arms after removing his brain with an ice-cream scoop.
* ''Film/TerrorAtBlackFalls'': At the beginning of the HostageSituation, Johnny shoots Quito, who dies in his father Juan's arms.
* In ''Film/TestPilot'' Gunner dies in Jim's arms after Jim pulls him out of the plane they just crashed together.
* Morgan Earp dies in his brother Wyatt's arms in ''Film/{{Tombstone}}''.
-->'''Morgan Earp''': Remember what I said about [[GoIntoTheLight people seein' a bright light]] before they die? It ain't true. I can't see a damn thing.
* In ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'', Malone dies in Ness' arms after Nitti ambushes him with a Tommy Gun, but not before passing on vital information about the bookkeeper whose testimony can bring UsefulNotes/AlCapone down.
--> '''[[FinalWords Malone]]''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT...ARE YOU...PREPARED...TO...DO???]].
* In ''Film/TheWagesOfFear'', Jo dies in Mario's arms just before they would have arrived at their destination.
* ''Film/WildAtHeart'': Sailor and Lula kneel beside a dying car crash victim as she coughs up blood and mutters nonsense.
* Creator/BazLuhrmann's adaptation of ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'':
** Mercutio dies in Romeo's arms.
** Romeo dies in Juliet's arms after he takes the poison right when Juliet awakens.
* In ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', after Gwen's ShootTheDog moment, Lawrence [[ThisWasHisTrueForm returns to human form]] and spends his last moments of life in Gwen's arms before he appropriately dies at the end.
* Cathy dies in Heathcliff's arms in the 1939 film version of ''Film/{{Wuthering Heights|1939}}'', though not in the novel or most other adaptations.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
* Hank Rearden picks up the Wet Nurse and carries him until after his death in ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''.
* In ''Literature/CaptainCorellisMandolin'', Carlo holds Francesco when he dies, telling him that he always loved him.
* In ''Literature/ColdMountain'', Inman dies in Aida's arms after being shot by the Home Guards.
* At the end of ''Literature/TheCourtsOfTheMorning'', [[spoiler:the reformed Castor]] is murdered, and dies held in the arms of the woman he loves.
* The anarchist murdered at the start of ''Death at Victoria Dock'' dies in Literature/PhryneFisher's arms.
* ''Literature/ADogsPurpose'':
** Bailey is put down in the arms of his owner Ethan, while Ethan sobs into his fur.
** At the end of the book, [[spoiler:the now old Ethan]] suffers a stroke and dies cradling Buddy, [[spoiler:a reincarnation of Bailey (who remembers his past life with Ethan)]].
* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward has to kill [[GeniusLoci Oreg]], his [[AWizardDidIt immortal slave]], whom he inherited, and whose life is bound to Castle Hurog, in order to make the castle collapse and stop the villains. Oreg has wanted to die for a long time, so it is a mixture of MercyKill and HeroicSacrifice. Ward holds him as he drives a dagger into his brain, a method that he supposes "is painless. At least for Oreg."
* Happens on occasion in ''Literature/TheElenium''. Notable examples:
** Sparhawk cradles Sir Parasim as he dies during his first battle.
** Kring cradles a dying Peloi after the battle with the Dawn Men.
** Sephrenia gives [[spoiler:Martel]] her blessing (which involves a similar gesture) one last time before he dies.
** Subverted with Ehlana. Sparhawk cradles her immediately after she is cured of poison.
* ''Literature/TheEmpiriumTrilogy'': Eliana holds her mother's deformed body as she MercyKills her.
* In ''Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie'', by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline tracks Gabriel from Canada to Louisiana only to find him moments before his death.
* ''Literature/FoxDemonCultivationManual'': Changchu dies in Song Ci's arms.
* In ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'', Maia remembers the story of Hanevis Athmaza, who was horribly injured in protecting the emperor Beltanthiar III against Orava the Usurper, and died in his emperor's arms. Disturbingly enough, this story is implied to have inspired Maia to want to become one of the four ''nohecharei'' who are sworn to ''die'' before they would allow harm to come to the emperor. As an unloved son, he saw this as a chance to win his father's (the emperor's) love.
* In ''Literature/TheGreatBrain'', after finding out too late that he had been starving due to being completely wiped out financially, [[spoiler: Abie Glassman]] dies in Mamma Fitzgerald's arms.
* Dobby dies this way in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Harry's]] arms. [[spoiler:Later, so does Snape.]]
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
** In ''The Hunger Games'', Rue dies in Katniss's arms after being hit by a spear.
** In the ''Catching Fire'', an old recording about Haymitch's game reveals that he cradled his district tribute, Maysilee, as she was dying.
* ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Inverted. [[spoiler:Esmerelda was already dead and thrown into the charnel house when Quasimodo found her. He spent the rest of his life cradling her corpse, and [[TogetherInDeath his skeleton was found locked in embrace with hers]]. As the French excavators begin to pry the two apart, they both crumble into dust.]]
* ''Franchise/LesMiserables'': Éponine dies in Marius's arms. In the movie musical, we also see other students dying in their friends' arms. And in the stage musical, Fantine dies in Valjean's.
* In ''Literature/LittleMen'', John Brooke dies in his wife Meg's arms while holding their twins Daisy and Demi in his own.
* ''Literature/LittleWomen'' implies that Beth dies in Marmee's arms, stating "... on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last."
* At the end of ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheLion'' trilogy, [[spoiler:Julia dies in her brother's arms]] after making peace with [[spoiler:Rapha/Hadassah]]. Given the context and her [[BreakTheCutie history]], it doubles as a TearJerker and a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', Chuck dies in Thomas' arms.
* No character ever dies alone in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''. All deaths are slow, and many in the arms of a significant other, platonically or otherwise:
** Zoe Nightshade dies in the arms of her beloved goddess Artemis from internal bleeding.
** Silena Beauregard dies in the arms of her unlikely friend Clarisse La Rue.
** Luke Castellan dies in the arms of his former adoptive little sister Annabeth.
* Ralph dies in Isabel's arms in ''Literature/ThePortraitOfALady''.
* At the end of the ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' duology, Matthias dies in Nina's arms after being shot.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Joffrey Baratheon dies in the arms of his helpless, grief-stricken mother Cersei.
** This is how Ygritte dies. Her boyfriend Jon Snow holds her and gives a rather desperate PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd speech, to which she responds sadly, [[ArcWords "You know nothing, Jon Snow."]]
** In the prequel ''[[Literature/ArchmaesterGyldaynsHistories The Princess and the Queen]]'', [[spoiler: Joffrey Velaryon]] falls from the back of a dragon onto the city streets below. Witnesses claim a commoner girl held him while he died, but Archmaester Gyldayn believes that part was just a folktale.
** Lyanna Stark dies in her brother Ned's arms when Ned finds her in the Tower of Joy.
* In ''The Song of Roland'' Roland's best friend Olivier dies in his arms while [[HoYay Roland weeps]].
* ''Literature/SpaceGlass'': Amy dies in Ratroe's arms and Bob dies in Nicora's.
* ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour'':
** Anne dies in Richard's arms. No, Richard did not poison her as portrayed in ''Theatre/RichardIII''. In reality, although it's unlikely that Richard poisoned her, she probably [[DyingAlone died alone]] due to protocols of the time.
** The death of Edmund, Earl of Rutland. Though he didn't get the chance to say anything after being wounded, his friend Rob Apsall was cradling (or trying to cradle) him as he died, and kept trying to save him [[TearJerker "long after he knew Edmund was dead"]]. When all else fails, Rob just sits there holding him and weeping.
* In Creator/AnthonyPrice's spy thriller ''Tomorrow's Ghost'', [[spoiler:Frances Fitzgibbon]] performs a HeroicSacrifice at the end and dies in the arms of [[spoiler:Paul Mitchell, her colleague and would-be love interest]].
* In ''Literature/WolfHall'', Cromwell's youngest daughter dies in his arms.
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* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'': The Evil Queen dies in Virginia's arms after trying to kill her and being hoist on her own petard. As she dies, the memories of her past life come flooding back and she caresses Virginia's cheek whispering "My little girl -- I gave away my soul."
* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Although they're already dead by the time they find them, both Jack Bauer and Tony Almeida respectively cradle their wives' bodies when they're killed in the first and fifth seasons (in Tony's case he isn't given much time to mourn since he gets caught in an explosion that nearly kills him, too). It's played straighter later on in Season 5 when Tony dies with Jack holding onto him. [[spoiler: Of course, in Tony's case, [[UnexplainedRecovery he recovers]].]]
* ''Series/AlteredCarbon'': After confronting the villain and damaging her massive hovership so that it starts to fall from the sky, Takeshi chooses not to escape and instead cradles her body [[spoiler:because she's his little sister]].
* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'': [[spoiler:Misty Day]] dies in a sobbing Cordelia's arms after she [[spoiler: gets stuck in hell while performing Descensum]] during the Seven Wonders test. Her body [[TearJerker turns into dust in her embrace.]]
* ''Series/AndJustLikeThat'': [[spoiler:Big]] dies in [[spoiler:Carrie's]] arms after suffering a heart attack.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Fred in Wesley's arms before her soul is consumed by Illyria in "[[Recap/AngelS05E15AHoleInTheWorld A Hole in the World]]". In "[[Recap/AngelS05E22NotFadeAway Not Fade Away]]", Wesley dies in Illyria's arms while Illyria takes the form of Fred.
-->'''Illyria''': Would you like me to lie to you now?
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Happens twice in "This Is Your Sword". In the flashback, Akio dies in Tatsu's arms after contracting Shrieve's virus. In the present day storyline, [[spoiler:Maseo]] dies in Tatsu's arms after she stabs him.
** In ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'', Earth-Prime's Supergirl (at the time Earth-38's) cradles Earth-96's Superman as he dies due to anti-matter leaking from his body.
* ''Series/AshesOfLove'': [[spoiler: Su Li]] dies in Run Yu's arms.
* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'': Gene Hunt holds Sally (the prostitute from Hyde in 2.1), Supermac and Martin Summers in his arms as they die. This is much more allegorical than what is presented on the surface, because as is revealed in the GrandFinale, [[spoiler: Gene Hunt's abilities as a psychopomp include being able to transfer a persons soul to the afterlife by holding the dying person in his arms. In Season 3, the word "soul" is also [[MoodMotif vaguely whispered]] when this occurs.]]
** However,[[spoiler: this can only work if the dying person had a soul, i.e. if they are real as opposed to being collective constructs or creations to help the protagonists with their indvidual journeys. (Which Sally and Mac likely are.)]]
** Jim Keats in the same show, who holds both Louise (the undercover police officer) and Viv in his arms. It later emerges that [[spoiler: at least in Viv's case, they probably went to hell as Keats was the devil.]]
*** Gene Hunt also held Viv, however, [[spoiler:meaning that Viv might have gone to heaven (as indicated by the accompanied whisper.) However, if Chris's dream later in the series is correct, Viv is indeed in hell.)]]
---->'''Gene:''' I'll take him.\\
'''Keats:''' It's too late, Gene.\\
'''Gene:''' I'LL TAKE HIM!
* ''Series/BlackMirror'' has this in Season 3 episode "Hated in the Nation", where one of the [[ItMakesSenseInContext intended victims of a killer hashtag]] dies in Karin's arms while she and Blue are trying to protect her.
* ''Series/BloodTies2007'': Mike dies in Vicki's arms after being shot, but Henry hits the ResetButton on the GroundhogDayLoop and he's fine.
* ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'': Virtually every episode where a [[CartwrightCurse Cartwright has a girlfriend]]; the girl will end up being shot to death, poisoned or whatever, and the appropriate Cartwright will be there to hold his girlfriend as she whispers her last words before losing consciousness. This even happened to Candy in one episode. This was so common that by the late 1960s, these intended [[TearJerker tearjerkers]] became the legend of {{Narm}}.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': SubvertedTrope; [[spoiler:Tara]] is dead before she hits the floor, but [[spoiler:Willow]] [[TearJerker still holds out hope]].
* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': In the first part season three finale, Chuck cradles his father Stephen as he dies after being shot by Shaw.
* ''Series/ColdCase'': In "8:03 AM", Miller reopens the cold case of Skill Jones; a young drug dealer who died in her arms when she was working undercover for narcotics.
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' has Strauss dying in the arms of Hotch in the 8th season finale after the Replicator drugged her.
* ''Series/CoronationStreet'': Hayley Cropper dies with Roy by her side on their bed. Anna and Carla come in to discover her in Roy's arms.
** Mike Baldwin died in 2006 in his son Danny's arms.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Warrick in Grissom's arms; we later learn Grissom was [[ParentalSubstitute like a father to him]]. Grissom goes on to solve Warrick's murder.
* Series/{{CSINY}}: Stella's mentor/father figure in her arms in Greece after TakingTheBullet for her during a shootout between his brother and Mac.
* A RunningGag in ''Series/Danger5'' involving Pierre cradling a dying friend or enemy, who'd use their dying breath to pass on the ingredients of a perfect cocktail they'd invented.
* ''Series/DarkAngel'': Max dies in Logan's arms after being shot in the season 1 finale. [[BackFromTheDead She gets better.]]
* ''Series/DarkSideOfTheRing'': Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr reveals in "[[Wrestling/ChrisBenoit Benoit]]: Part One" that this happened to his uncle, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. According to Chavo, he found Eddie on his bathroom floor, alive but barely clinging to life. Though Chavo tried to get help, Eddie ultimately passed away in Chavo's arms. Chavo tears up upon recalling it, saying "I haven't been to this place in a long time."
* ''Series/TheDevilJudge'': Soo-hyun dies in Ga-on's arms.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]]: Lady Cassandra, in the body of her servant Chip, dies in the arms of her own past self.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]]: The Master dies in the Doctor's arms. [[spoiler:[[JokerImmunity He gets better.]]]] %%% Do not pothole to I Got Better. The Master's revival in this instance is not an Unexplained Recovery.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter "The Doctor's Daughter"]]: The title character, Jenny, ''also'' dies in the Doctor's arms. In her case, though, it's a DisneyDeath.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]]: In the world in which Amy and Rory are married and have settled down, [[spoiler:Rory disintegrates [[DeathIsDramatic slowly and dramatically]] in Amy's arms. Only in an alternate dream world, though.]]
** At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]], [[spoiler:Rory is last seen cradling the body of Amy, half-fallen away from him after he accidentally shot her. Don't worry, she gets better too.]] %%Likewise.
** Again with Rory in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot "The Curse of the Black Spot"]], when Amy has to resuscitate a drowning Rory [[spoiler:and thinks she failed]].
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor’s Wife"]], Idris’ human form gives out while being cradled by Rory. [[spoiler:But since she’s actually the TARDIS, all her energy and consciousness goes back into the TARDIS itself and normalcy is restored. But the interaction between her and the Doctor in this scene is still quite the TearJerker.]]
** Also, in the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], [[spoiler:his daughter Miranda.]]
* ''Series/TheEternalLove'': Yi Huai dies in the emperor's arms.
* Greg Parker nearly dies in Ed Lane's arms in the series finale of ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'' after being shot multiple times by MadBomber Marcus Faber, but the final scene reveals (after teasing the issue a bit) that he survived, albeit with a permanent and career-ending disability.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** King Renly Baratheon collapses into Brienne of Tarth's arms after he is stabbed through the heart by a LivingShadow, and she holds him for a moment before he dies. Brienne later tells Catelyn that [[AllLoveIsUnrequited this was the only time she was ever able to hold him]].
** Subverted with Talisa, as by the time Robb Stark desperately cradles her during the Red Wedding shortly before being killed himself, she is already dead. Visually it's very much like this trope.
** Jon Snow holds his [[StarCrossedLovers ex-lover]] Ygritte as she dies, as in the novels.
** Jaime tells Bronn that dying in the arms of the woman he loves is how he wants to go.
** King Joffrey Baratheon's wedding feast happens on a bright morning and everything seems fine until Joffrey's IncurableCoughOfDeath at which point Jaime and Cersei rush to his side only for him to gasp his final breath in his mother's arms.
** Pyp dies in Sam's arms in "The Watchers on the Wall" during a battle with Wildlings.
** Lyanna Stark died in her brother Ned's arms at the end of Robert's Rebellion. She is revealed to have been dying after a complicated birth.
** Princess Myrcella ends up getting poisoned and collapses and dies in her uncle/father Jaime's arms after they have a first and sweet father-daughter conversation. Jaime can only hold her and helplessly call her name as she succumbs to her death.
** Lord Ormund Baratheon famously died the arms of his son Steffon in the War of the Ninepenny Kings. Septon Ray doubts the authenticity of this story.
** In the penultimate episode of the series, [[spoiler:Jaime and Cersei Lannister]] go out this way; trapped in the collapsing crypts underneath the Red Keep, they quietly accept their fate and share a final tender embrace before the roof gives way and they are crushed under tons of rock.
* ''Series/GeneralAndI'':
** Ping Ting dies in Bei Jie's arms. [[spoiler: Or so Sima Hong and his retinue think. Turns out she survived.]]
** Yao Tian dies in He Xia's arms.
* ''Series/GoodbyeMyPrincess'': Gu Jian dies in Xiao Feng's arms. Later, Xiao Feng dies in Cheng Yin's arms.
* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': Oswald Cobblepot/the Penguin is a textbook EvenEvilHasLovedOnes, and all his loved ones seems to go out this way: his mother, his father, his mentor, his most trusted underling, almost his best friend...the poor guy can't seem to catch a break.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': One of the two John Crichtons (long story) dies in Aeryn's arms of [[HeroicSacrifice radiation poisoning]].
* ''Series/{{Hanna}}'': Erik dies from a bullet wound while Hanna cradles him, begging for him to stay.
* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'': During Gilgamesh's ritual to raise Dahok, he throws the sacrificial dagger at Nebula. Iolaus [[BigNo yells]] and [[HeroicSacrifice dives in front of her]], taking it in the chest. He dies shortly afterwards in Hercules' arms. He later [[CameBackWrong is possessed]] and [[BackFromTheDead gets better]]. Also, Iolaus had died twice in Hercules' arms previously.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Nathan Petrelli dies in Peter's arms in the second season (though he gets better); Daphne Millbrook dies in Matt's in the third season. Also, Claire Bennett dies in her mother's arms in one of her [[HealingFactor many]], [[GoodThingYouCanHeal many]] deaths in the first season.
* ''Series/{{Hex}}'': Thelma is stabbed by Azazel when she tries to [[HeroicSacrifice save Cassie]] and falls into her arms. She [[BackFromTheDead got better...]] [[SpiritAdvisor sort of.]]
* ''Series/LosHombresDePaco'':
** After getting gut-shot on her friggin' ''wedding day'', [[BuryYourGays Silvia]] spends the rest of the two-hour season finale suffering until she finally dies in the arms of her new wife and her father.
** Kiki died in Paco's arms and Rita was in Montoya's arms when he died. There wasn't anything the rest of the team could do except sing to the ones dying because cell phone service was cut off by the ones shooting the people at the wedding.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': Mariette and Horatio flee from Muzillac, trying to reach the strategically very important bridge and the British troop. Revolutionaries' forces advance on the bridge as well. As they run, Horatio holds and supports Mariette because she has hurt her leg. She is then suddenly shot at her back. Horatio is heartbroken, holds her in his arms, caresses her face and keeps cradling her despite the fact that the bridge is under fire.
* ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'': Several. One of the most notable examples came in "Forever Fifteen", an episode where the officers try to arrest a DrunkDriver after he causes a deadly accident involving four teenagers. One of the victims literally dies in Officer Bubba Skinner's arms, just moments after she was extricated from the wreckage of her car.
* In the final episode of ''Series/LukeCage2016'' season 2, [[spoiler: Luke holds [[BigBad Mariah Stokes]] as she succumbs to the [[KissOfDeath poisoned lipstick]] her daughter Tilda had used on her]].
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'': [[YouCannotFightFate Tezuka]] was lethally wounded saving [[TheHero Kido]] in battle. His death wears on Kido probably even more than the other ones and everything he had to watch caused him to snap close to the series' finale.
** ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'': [[LivingMacGuffin Koyomi]] died in [[HurtingHero Haruto]]'s arms after Gremlin rippped the Philosopher's stone out of her in the story's finale. Haruto then went to fight Gremlin and take the Philosopher's Stone/her heart back.
** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': [[StepfordSmiler Kiriya]] got a Game Over and vanished as [[TheHero Emu]] was watching helplessly. This affected Emu deeply and underlined his actions through the whole story. It also left the CR crew to figure out why he had to die.
** True to its bleakness, ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'' has nearly all too many to count. For example:
*** [[LostLenore Kasumi]] died in [[HeartbrokenBadass Ryuga]]'s arms after being turned from Smash back into human. Her death both drives and haunts Ryuga for the whole story.
*** Fu Washio aka Engine Bro's would later die in Ryuga's arms (again)...[[TakingtheBullet after taking a blow from]] [[BigBad Evolt's]] [[FinishingMove Black Hole Finish]] [[HeroicSacrifice meant for Ryuga]].
** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'': [[TheHero Sougo]] held [[LostLenore Yuko Kitajima]] after she was defeated as Another Kiva and then when she was lethally wounded by [[BitchInSheepsClothing Ora]] moment later.
*** For short time it seemed that Sougo and Heure might actually go from mortal enemies to neutral parties, if not allies. Then Ora [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice backstabbed]] Heure for the last time, leaving Sougo cradling the kid in his arms as he was dying.
* ''Series/TheKingsWoman'': Gongsun Li dies in Ying Zheng's arms.
* ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'': Kai's second death occurs this way, after he is badly burned during the 2nd destruction of Dora Talos. Losing her son a second time causes Bandora to shed a tear, robbing her of her witch powers.
* ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'' [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laughs]] in the alternate universe of ''Bestial Battery Go-Busters'', introducing a new character who's TheAce and killing him off within less than two minutes. The death is played as over the top as possible, including this trope.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderOrganizedCrime'': Nova's girlfriend is shot and killed in front of her by rival gang members, dying as Nova holds her.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': Alex "died" in Olivia's arms.
* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Several episodes have this happen. The most notable example was Season 7's "Sylvia," where in the final scene where Sylvia pledges her forever love for Albert, he holds her as they have one last kiss... after which she loses consciousness and dies.
* ''Series/LivAndMaddie'': In the season finale of ''Voltage'', Garrison holds a dying Tess in his arms as he becomes the new [=SkyVolt=].
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Sawyer holds Juliet as she dies in the final season opener.
** Also, Sayid holds Shannon in his arms after she is mistakenly shot by a paranoid Ana Lucia.
* ''Series/LostLoveInTimes'':
** Mei Ya dies in Qing Chen's arms.
** Luan Fei dies in Yuan Hao's arms.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': The groundbreaking episode "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet," in which Hawkeye's friend (author of a book he was writing under the episode title) dies on the operating table. Hawkeye asks why he weeps for his friend and not the kids who have died before, and Henry rationalizes only this:
-->'''Henry:''' All I know is what they told me in command school. There are certain rules about a war, and Rule Number One is young men die, and Rule Number Two is doctors can't change Rule Number One.
* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'': Merlin has had a fair few people die in his arms. In series two, his girlfriend Freya and father Balinor both ended up dying in his arms. In the show's final episode, ''The Diamond of the Day Part II'', it was [[spoiler:Arthur]] who died in his arms from the wounds inflicted by [[spoiler:Mordred]]. Also in the final episode, [[spoiler:Gwaine]] dies in Percival's arms after being horrifically tortured for Arthur's whereabouts by Morgana.
* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Caitlin is shot as she's walking towards Crockett after a concert. She collapses in his arms before she dies.
* In the ''Series/MidnightCaller'' episode "Someone to Love," Jack visits his ex-girlfriend Tina Cassidy as she's dying of AIDS in a hospice. He pulls her into his arms before she dies.
* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': Future!Simon dies in Alisha's arms after taking a bullet for her. And then in season three, ALISHA dies in SIMON'S arms. It's that sort of a show.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In "Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk", Monk holds onto a woman who looks just like his late wife as she dies. This sends Monk, who's been finally starting to recover from his phobias after they went overboard after his wife's death, into a horrible relapse.
* ''Series/MoonLovers'': Ha-jin dies in Wang Jeong's arms.
* ''Series/MorkAndMindy'': In the episode "Mork In Wonderland", Mindy's alternate universe counterpart, Mandy, dies in Mork's arms, telling him that Mindy is a lucky woman.
* ''Series/MrShow'': Terry sells Ronnie Dobbs' story to the movies, which features a movie version of Ronnie and Terry. [[spoiler:This happens to the movie version of Ronnie Dobbs, as he's held by the movie version of Terry]].
* ''Series/MyCountryTheNewAge'': Yeon and Seon-ho both die in Hwi's arms.
* ''Series/TheOC'': The Season 3 finale "The Graduates": due to a car-crash, Marissa dies in Ryan's arms.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': The episode "Corner of the Eye'': Two best friends successfully foil an alien invasion, then one dies of his injuries in the other's arms.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** [[spoiler: Sheriff Graham]] dies in Emma’s arms right after they kiss and he gains some of his Enchanted Forest memories back [[spoiler: unbeknown to either of them that Regina has just literally crushed Graham’s heart which she kept in a vault as her prisoner]].
** Season 2 has [[spoiler: Cora, Regina’s [[AbusiveParents mother]] die in Regina’s arms not long after [[ItMakesSenseInContext putting Cora’s heart back into her body, which in a flashback showed Cora had removed herself when she was a young woman decades earlier]] believing that love and other feelings/emotions would make her weak and interfere with her plans for power. She dies because unbeknownst to them Snow White earlier had secretly used a spell that would kill Cora when her heart was returned to her body. With the ability to properly feel emotions now restored, Cora’s final words are telling Regina that [Regina] would have been worth giving up her power quests for all those years ago]].
** [[spoiler: Neal]] dies in Emma's arms after separating from his father along with a very tearful goodbye to both of them.
** In the midseason finale of Season 5, [[spoiler: Hook also dies in Emma's arms after she reluctantly stabs him with Excalibur to stop the Dark Ones.]]
* ''Series/PrincessAgents'': Curly dies in Chu Qiao's arms.
* ''Series/PrincessSilver'':
** Consort Yun died in the Emperor's arms.
** Long Yue dies in Rong Le's arms.
** Ning Qian Yi dies in Zhao Yun's arms.
** The emperor of Northern Lin dies in the arms of his two surviving sons.
* ''Series/ThePrincessWeiYoung'': Wei Young and Zi Yan both die in Xin Er's arms.
* ''Series/{{Revenge}}'':
** In Season 2 [[spoiler:Amanda]] dies in Emily's arms on a sinking life raft in the middle of the ocean after their poignantly named boat, ''The Amanda'', explodes and sinks.
** In Season 4 [[spoiler:Daniel]] dies in Emily's arms at Grayson Manor after taking two bullets for her. As he dies Emily confesses to him that her [[HoneyTrap initial romance]] with him wasn't all a lie.
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': In the [[Recap/RevolutionS1E20TheDarkTower season one finale]], Nora Clayton dies in Miles Matheson's arms. What really drives it in home is the fact that they were trying to get to a nearby infirmary in an attempt to save her, and she died before they could even get there. Also, you get to see a closeup view of Miles's face, showing that he is very unhappy with her death.
* ''Series/TheRiseOfPhoenixes'': Zong Chen dies in Nan Yi's arms.
* ''Series/RobinHood'': [[spoiler:Marian]] dies in Robin's arms at the end of season two, surviving a fatal sword wound just long enough for them to [[spoiler: finish their wedding vows]].
* ''Series/ScarletHeart'': Zhang Xiao dies in Yin Ti's arms.
* ''Series/ScholarWhoWalksTheNight'': Myung Hee dies in Sung Yeol's arms.
* ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'': Poor young Perkins dies in Harper's arms, surrounded by the other two supporting members of TheSquad, after being gutstabbed (''[[Recap/SharpeS3E2SharpesBattle Sharpe's Battle]]'').
* ''Series/{{Skins}}'': Chris dies in Cassie's arms.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** [[spoiler:Kyla]] dying in Clark's arms played it dead straight. [[spoiler:Alicia]] is already dead when he held her in his arms, he didn't quite hold [[spoiler:Evan]] in his arms, [[spoiler:Chloe]] in "Arrival" didn't [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt manage to die]], but the dialogue just before almost have you worried. [[spoiler:Chloe]] in "Labyrinth" also dies in Clark's arms after being shot in the chest. [[spoiler:But AllJustADream. A really horrible one at that.]]
** In "Phantom" and the next episode, "Bizarro", [[spoiler:Chloe and Lois]] manages to die in each other's arms, separately. [[spoiler:Lois is stabbed, Chloe arrives and weeps over her body, which heals Lois but instead kills Chloe.]]
** In "Fracture", [[spoiler:Chloe dies ([[ResurrectiveImmortality again]])]] in Lionel's arms.
** In "Odyssey", [[spoiler:Clark ([[NotQuiteDead almost]]) dies in Chloe's arms. Extra emotional impact comes from that ComicBook/GreenArrow [[BrainwashedAndCrazy shot him]] and Chloe tries and fails to heal him.]]
** In "Bride", [[spoiler:Jimmy almost dies in Chloe's arms, ''right after they get married''. He died for real in Chloe's arms in "Doomsday", complete with DyingDeclarationOfLove.]]
** In "Injustice", [[spoiler:Chloe]] dies in Clark's arms, but in another twist, [[spoiler:it is actually [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Eva in disguise]].]]
** In "Kandor", [[spoiler:clone Jor-El]] dies in Clark's arms.
* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'': Sura dies in Spartacus's arms.
* ''Series/{{Spooks}}'': [[spoiler:Fiona]] dies in the arms of [[spoiler:her husband Adam]] after being shot by [[spoiler:her ex-husband who had come BackFromTheDead]]. Her dying wishes that he look after [[spoiler:their son Wes]] made it even sadder.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E06TreacheryFaithAndTheGreatRiver Weyoun 6]] dies in Odo's arms after activating his [[CyanidePill termination implant]]. His LastRequest is that Odo, whom his species regards as a god, perform a blessing.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
** In "Stardust City Rag", [[spoiler:Icheb]] dies in Seven of Nine's arms, whom he loves like a mother.
** In "Nepenthe", [[spoiler:Hugh]] passes away in Elnor's arms, and to mirror the above example, he's another ex-Borg drone who bites the dust in the company of someone he loves; [[spoiler:[[WordOfSaintPaul Jonathan Del Arco]] had [[https://www.ign.com/articles/picard-hugh-nepenthe-episode-7-jonathan-del-arco-elnor portrayed]] Hugh]] as [[https://twitter.com/JonathanDelArco/status/1250830661994156033 being in love]] with Elnor.
--->[[spoiler:'''Del Arco''']]: [...] we shot the [[spoiler:death scene]] last (same day) at that point it was about [[[spoiler:Hugh's]]] love for Elnor and letting go.
** In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", [[spoiler:Picard succumbs to his neurodegenerative disorder]] while he's being held by Raffi, his friend and former second-in-command.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Sam is stabbed in the back severing his spinal cord as he and Dean are reunited at the end of the penultimate episode of Season 2. Sam dies in his arms, but Dean makes a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with a demon]] to [[BackFromTheDead bring Sam back]]. Unusual in that Sam doesn't get a chance to say goodbye or really anything at all -- he just gets stabbed in the back, falls down, looks vaguely unfocused and dies. He barely seems to register Dean's presence.
** At the end of Season 3, Dean dies in Sam's arms. Dean dies in Sam's arms three, no, six times [[TheyKilledKennyAgain (at least)]] in [[GroundhogDayLoop "Mystery Spot"]].
** Jo dies in her mother's arms. Made even more tearjerkier when Ellen makes a HeroicSacrifice shortly after. Ellen stayed behind was so that Jo wouldn't [[DyingAlone die alone]], but Ellen still [[OutlivingOnesOffspring ends up watching her die]] before she sets off the explosion.
** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS08E04Bitten Bitten]]", Michael dies in Kate's arms, complete with a DyingDeclarationOfLove, after being fatally wounded.
** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS08E12AsTimeGoesBy As Time Goes By]]", Sam and Dean's time-traveling grandfather Henry dies being held by his grandsons after Abaddon mortally wounds.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Allison dies in Scott's arms after being [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed through the stomach with one of the Oni's swords]]
* ''Series/TenMilesOfPeachBlossoms'': Xuan Nu dies in Li Jing's arms.
* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': This is how Charley Dixon's wife dies, with Charley holding her and sobbing.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': In order of death: Estelle, Tosh, and Ianto in Jack’s arms.
* ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'': A few of Andrew's assignments die in his arms, such as in the season five episode, "The Peacemaker".
* ''Series/WordOfHonor'': Cao Weining dies in Gu Xiang's arms. [[WeddingSmashers Right before]] [[WidowedAtTheWedding their wedding, no less]].
* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Xena and Gabrielle have each died in the other's arms more than once. [[BackFromTheDead They got better.]]
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[[folder:Music]]
* "Run, Joey, Run" by David Geddes, where Julie, a teenaged girl who had become pregnant by her boyfriend, is accidentally shot by her father. When he realizes what he's done, he rushes to her and holds her in his arms as she whispers her last words:
--> Daddy please don't\\
It wasn't his fault\\
He means so much to me\\
Daddy please don't\\
We're gonna get married...
* "Arms Tonite" by Mother Mother.
-->I died in your arms tonight,\\
I slipped through into the afterlife,\\
It was nice.
* "This is because I can spell confusion with a K and I can like it/It's to dying in another's arms and why I had to try it..." ''Konstantine'', Something Corporate.
* "My Last Breath" by Music/{{Evanescence}}. The narrator in the song is dying, and singing the song to her lover.
--> Can you feel me in your arms?
* ''Naked as We Came'' by Music/IronAndWine.
--> I lay smiling like our sleeping children / One of us will die inside these arms.
* "Sons of Fate" by Music/TheProtomen has Megaman cradle his dying brother Protoman in his arms.
* Concrete Blonde's 'The Sky Is a Poisonous Garden'.
* J. Frank Wilson's ''Last Kiss'' (The Music/PearlJam version is a [[CoveredUp cover]].):
-->But somehow I found my baby that night\\
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said,\\
"Hold me, darling, just a little while."\\
I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss;\\
I found the love that I knew I had missed.\\
Well, now she's gone, even though I hold her tight.\\
I lost my love, my life, that night.
* The album titled "My Arms, Your Hearse" by Music/{{Opeth}}.
* The song "El Paso" from ''Music/GunfighterBalladsAndTrailSongs'' by Music/MartyRobbins, told in PosthumousNarration, ends with the cowboy dying in the arms of his SpicyLatina lover Feleena after being fatally shot down by a posse for killing a guy who tried to rape her. The song's sequel confirms this, as his death also [[DrivenToSuicide drives her to suicide]].
* "The Ghost of You" by Music/MyChemicalRomance makes mention of it.
-->At the top of my lungs, in my arms, she dies.
* "Last Dance" by Covenant:
-->My heart is blackened\\
I am dying in your arms
* "In Your Arms" by Magenta:
-->I just wanna die in your arms\\
Found I had lost my chance\\
I just wanna die in your arms\\
I just wanna die tonight
* "Annie's Song" by John Denver:
-->Let me drown in your laughter\\
Let me die in your arms.
* Hidden Citizens' cover of Cutting Crew's "I (Just) Died In Your Arms" takes the song's title [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning literally]].
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[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/DimensionX'''s "[[Recap/DimensionX40DwellersInSilence Dwellers in Silence]]": Dr Hathaway sneaks away to the graves of his family, and two of the Martians follow. When Dr Hathaway begins to die, Evans is instructed to hold him.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* Many, many operas and ballets based on Abbé Prévost's character Manon, who dies in the arms of her lover Des Grieux.
* In ''Theatre/AidaJohnRice'' there are two examples:
** The titular character's former servant Mereb dies in her arms, fatally injured trying to protect her and her father.
** Aida and Radames die in each other's arms in the tomb.
* ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'': Mark Antony with Cleopatra.
* In ''bare: a pop opera'', Jason dies in Peter's arms.
* In ''Theatre/BonnieAndClyde'', Buck dies in the arms of his wife, Blanche, after being shot.
* Creator/HenrikIbsen used this in his early plays. Thus, Theatre/{{Catilina}} dies in the arms of Furia in his very first play, and Sigurd dies in the arms of Hjørdis in Theatre/TheWarriorsAtHelgeland. Both also doubles as CradlingYourKill. Further, Theatre/PeerGynt arguably dies in the arms of Solveig. After that, Ibsen seems to have discarded the trope. Although this may be a possible position for Oswald and his mother in Theatre/{{Ghosts}}
* Both Christian and Cyrano in Roxanne's arms, in ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''.
* Rodrigo in Schiller's and Verdi's ''Theatre/{{Don Carlo}}s'' dies in the title character's arms.
* In ''Theatre/DreamGirl'', in the DreamSequence where Georgina becomes a fallen woman, she takes a lethal dose of poison and melodramatically collapses into the arms of [[TheOneThatGotAway the brother-in-law she used to love]].
* In the famous dramatization of ''East Lynne'', Lady Isabel, disguised as Madam Vine, takes her son William into her arms in his dying moments, and asks him to call her his mother. He does so, and dies. Isabel's ensuing lament that her child died without knowing she was his mother is famous although [[BeamMeUpScotty invariably misquoted]].
* In ''{{Theatre/Hamilton}}'', Philip dies in his parents' arms.
* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'':
** Hamlet dies in Horatio's arms. Hamlet had been poisoned by Laertes during their duel. Upon realizing he was dying, Hamlet stabbed his Uncle, the king, who was technically also Hamlet's father because he married Hamlet's mother. Hamlet's mother had already died because she drank from a poisoned cup that the king had meant for Hamlet. Anyways, everyone's pretty much dead except Hamlet, Horatio, and Osric by this point. Hamlet lies dying in Horatio's arms, telling Horatio to live and "report [him] and [his] cause aright to the unsatisfied." Horatio offers to die with Hamlet by drinking from the poisoned cup, but Hamlet tells him to continue living "to tell [his] story."
** In some adaptations, Queen Gertrude dies in her second husband Claudius' arms.
* In many if not most productions of ''Theatre/HenryIV'', Hotspur dies in Prince Hal's arms, and it's also a case of CradlingYourKill.
* In the DarkerAndEdgier stage version of Disney's ''Theatre/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Esmeralda dies in Quasimodo's arms of smoke inhalation from her near-burning at the stake.
* Schiller's ''Kabale und Liebe'': Luisa to Ferdinand.
* ''Theatre/KingLear'': "Enter Lear, with Cordelia dead in his arms."
* In ''Theatre/LOrfeo'', after her fatal snakebite, Eurydice died in Sylvia's arms, with her last words being Orpheus's name.
* Mimì in Rodolfo's arms in ''Theatre/LaBoheme'' by Puccini; subverted in the modern musical ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'', where Mimi has a new lease of life.
** Then played straight in ''Rent'', when Angel dies in Collins' arms.
* Eponine in Marius's, after being shot returning to the barricades in "Theatre/LesMiserables".
* Audrey in Seymour's in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''.
* As written, the musical of ''Literature/LittleWomen'' has Beth die offstage, but some productions have her die in Jo's arms at the end of their duet "Some Things Are Meant To Be" instead. See, for example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcCOlF2YvSc this video.]]
* In ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', Christine dies in the Phantom's arms.
* The title character, Kim, of ''Theatre/MissSaigon''. She dies in the arms of Chris after shooting herself.
* In Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', Benedick swears to Beatrice that he will die in her arms. Typically for Shakespeare, however, it's a DoubleEntendre; yes, he is swearing to be with her forever, but he's also using "Die" as a euphemism for achieving sexual release...
* ''Theatre/TristanAndIsolde'' has Tristan dying in Isolde's arms, cutting their feverishly anticipated BigDamnReunion tragically short.
* Verdi LOVED this trope actually. Here's a list of characters of his that die in the arms of others:
** ''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}'': Gilda, in her fathers' arms.
** ''Theatre/IlTrovatore'': Leonora, in Manrico's.
** ''Theatre/LaTraviata'': Violetta, in Alfredo's.
** ''Theatre/{{Aida|Verdi}}'': Aida and Radames, in each other's (see also the Elton John/Tim Rice musical).
** ''La forza del destino'': another Leonora, in Alvaro's.
** ''Simon Boccanegra'': Simon, in his daughter's and Fiesco's.
** ''Ernani'': Ernani to Elvira...
** ''Un ballo in maschera'': Gustav (Richard) to Amelia.
* ''Theatre/DerRingDesNibelungen'':
** In the Royal Swedish Opera’s 2008 staging of ''Das Rheingold'', Freia rushes to Fasolt when he is fatally wounded, and they have a chance to say farewell to each other before he dies in her arms.
** In most ''Walküre'' stagings, such as the 2010 Metropolitan Opera production, Siegmund dies in Wotan’s arms.
* In ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', Maria cradles Tony in her arms as he dies.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The first ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'' game has [[spoiler:Xehla]] die in [[spoiler:Kalas]]'s arms after you beat the final BigBad.
* Happens quite a few times in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'':
*** One happens in a strange way: [[spoiler:when Hugo Strange is stabbed by Ra's al Ghul, Batman cradles the dying doctor in his arms while sharply arguing with Ra's. But by then, the doctor initiates Protocol 11 before dying in Batman's arms, seconds before Batman quickly lets go of him and escapes from the exploding tower along with Ra's.]]
*** Near the end, [[spoiler:Talia al Ghul gets shot InTheBack by the real Joker after falling for the "fake Joker gag" and falls into Batman's arms before dying.]]
** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', [[spoiler:Alfred Pennyworth sadly dies in Batman's embrace right after being rescued in the damaged Batcave. Only temporarily, though, as the former is OnlyMostlyDead and can be revived by Batman and the power of Electrocutioner's MagicalDefibrillator Shock Gloves.]]
** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', [[spoiler: Poison Ivy collapses in [[ShipTease Batman's arms]] after using the last of her strength to disperse [[BigBad Scarecrow's]] fear gas spread by the Cloudburst. After muttering, " Nature always wins," [[RedemptionEqualsDeath she dies]] and her body [[NoBodyLeftBehind disintegrates into pollen]]]].
* In the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' DatingSim ''Lost Colors'', there are two {{downer ending}}s in which the PlayerCharacter dies in the arms of either [[spoiler: Kallen Kouzuki]] or [[spoiler: Nagisa Chiba]]
* Several scenarios in ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' result in Connor dying in Hank's arms. Most notably, finding the deviant in the kitchen of Stratford Tower results in Connor getting a vital biocomponent ripped out. Fail to recover it in time, and Hank comes in just in time to cradle Connor in his arms as he shuts down.
* ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' does this three times over the course of its two games. In the first game, [[spoiler:Jinana and Lupa]] die in the arms of, respectively, [[spoiler:Argilla and Gale]]. In the second game, [[spoiler:Angel and Gale are ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by one another and die in an embrace.]]
* In the opening level of ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', [[TheHighQueen Empress Jessamine]] dies in her [[BodyguardCrush bodyguard]] [[PlayerCharacter Corvo]]'s arms after a supernatural assassin runs her through.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'':
** At the end of act 1, [[spoiler:your sibling]] will die in your arms if you [[spoiler:brought them to the deep roads mission but didn't bring Anders, as they will succumb to the taint.]]
** At the end of "All That Remains", [[spoiler:Hawke's mother dies this way.]]
* A few ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors''/''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' endings have a character's love interest dying like this. In at least one case, it's because the player killed him.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'': [[spoiler:At the end, [[PowerDegeneration Serah has her final vision]], and as she collapses, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Noel pulls her into a hug to hold her upright]]. After a few seconds, Serah dies, and both of them fall to the ground together, still embracing. When Hope arrives a few minutes later, Noel is [[TearJerker still cradling Serah's body against his chest]].]]
** [[spoiler:Yeul is shown dying several times throughout the story]]; on at least two of these occasions, she is cradled in either [[spoiler:Noel or Caius']] arms.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', [[spoiler: Ninian]] is seen in [[spoiler: Eliwood]]'s arms in the CG that follows her death scene.
*** In another CG, [[spoiler: Archsage Athos]] dies in [[spoiler: Hector]]'s arms. 20 years later, according to ''Fuuin no Tsurugi'', [[spoiler: Hector]] himself would perish in the arms of [[spoiler: Roy]].
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', if the player chooses Eirika's path, the first CG in the epilogue shows her holding the dying [[spoiler: Queen Ismaire]] in her arms.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', if the player chooses the ''Birthright'' path, later in the story [[spoiler:Elise dies in her brother Xander's arms after she takes a hit from him that was meant for the Avatar. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Xander does not take it well]]]].
*** Before the route split, [[spoiler:the Avatar's mother, Queen Mikoto, also [[TakingTheBullet takes an attack meant for them]] and expires in their arms shortly after. [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening They don't take it well, either]].]]
*** Subverted with [[spoiler:Azura]], also on ''Birthright''. [[spoiler:As she dies, she makes a motion that looks like she planned to crawl towards the Avatar's arms, but she [[DisappearsIntoLight evaporates into water]] before she can reach them.]]
** Almost at the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia'', [[spoiler: Alm's group finds a mortally wounded [[UpperClassTwit Fernand]]. He dies in the arms of his once-best friend, [[SupportingLeader Clive]].]]
* A couple of examples of this in the ''.hack'' series:
** [[spoiler:Mia]] dies in Elk's arms after the party defeats her true form [[spoiler:Macha the Temptress, the sixth phase of the wave. She gets better.]].
** [[spoiler:Alkaid]] gets data-drained by an AIDA and "dies" in Haseo's arms, providing one of the saddest cutscenes in the G.U. games.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Galerians}}'' series has one of these per game, involving the same characters, though they trade places. In the denouement of the first game, Lilia holds Rion as his brain shuts down from [[DeadlyUpgrade psychic overstress]]. As the second game approaches its finale, Rion holds Lilia as her body shuts down from radiation poisoning.
* In the ending of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', Kratos and Atreus see a mural left behind by the Giants (who had the gift of prophecy) depicting the events of their journey to Jotunheim. Right before they go outside to scatter Faye's ashes, Kratos sees a section of the mural hidden by a cloth depicting him dying in Atreus' arms. He does not tell his son what he saw.
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', Kat dies in Six's arms after being headshot by a sniper, and is cradled in PietaPlagiarism fashion.
** Sgt. Johnson in ''VideoGame/Halo3'', while being held by Master Chief.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'' [[spoiler:Damas]] dies in Jak's arms after he is crushed beneath a vehicle.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' has [[spoiler: Xion's death, or rather Xion's individuality as a separate being. As it wasn't depressing enough already imagine dying in the arms of someone who's forgetting you even as he tries to hold on.]]
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' almost did this when Kairi is revived and Sora has stabbed himself with the Keyblade of People's Hearts. Sora falls backwards, Kairi goes to catch him, and...he disappears, sparkling out of existence. Yes, folks, this is when Roxas was born.
** Something similar happens in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', as [[spoiler: Master Eraqus]] dies in Terra's arms.
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' [[spoiler: Saix dies in Lea's arms after being defeated by Sora, Roxas and Xion. As both are aware of the temporary nature of "death" for Nobodies, they promise to meet up again once Saix -- Isa -- returns to life as a human.]]
* Pictured above: In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', a ZombieApocalypse breaks out, and when trying to carry his daughter Sarah to safety, Joel runs into a soldier who's ordered to shoot them both. He mortally wounds Sarah, who dies in Joel's arms while he pleads for her not to leave him. It got to the point the voice actors/motion capture performers themselves cried.
* After the climactic battle with the ClimaxBoss of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'', [[spoiler: Crow dies after performing a HeroicSacrifice]] in Rean's arms to the latter's regret.
* In the final photo memory of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', [[spoiler:Zelda unleashes a burst of holy energy to protect Link from an attacking Guardian, incapacitating said Guardian. However, Link still collapses from the mortal wounds he took fighting the other Guardians earlier and promptly takes his last breath in a tearful Zelda's arms. Thankfully, he gets better.]]
* Depending on your choices throughout the game, any of your team members in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' can die in Shepard's arms during the assault on [[spoiler: the Collector Base]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'':
** This can happen with [[spoiler:Conrad Verner]] in one of the ways his story is resolved. [[spoiler: Also hilariously subverted, as depending on your actions, Conrad has the touching death scene with Shepard... only for another of Shepard's old acquaintances, Jenna, to reveal that she sabotaged the gun and that Conrad was ''never'' shot at all.]]
** [[spoiler:Miranda]] will die this way if you don't complete certain prerequisites.
* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX 4'', if you choose to play as Zero, after you defeat [[spoiler: Zero's love interest, Iris]], Zero cradles them in his arms until they "dies".
* Similarly in [[VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX the remake of the first game]], [[spoiler: Zero's death scene is redone to have Zero die in X's arms.]]
* ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'': [[spoiler: Either Ellegaard or Magnus will give you their armor before the confrontation with the Wither Storm and will end up being fatally wounded in the ensuing chaos. After the Wither Storm is defeated, you find Soren cradling his dying friend.]]
* At the end of ''VideoGame/Mother3'', [[spoiler: Claus dies in his brother Lucas' arms]].
* ''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'''s third ending has [[spoiler: Kainé]] dying in your character's arms after [[spoiler:you're forced to kill her when the Shade inside her takes control.]] There's also [[spoiler: Fyra in the King's arms, and Devola in Popola's arms.]]
* In ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'', when the party [[TimeyWimeyBall suddenly ends up back in time,]] they meet the Emperor of Hamelin, whom they [[ForegoneConclusion already know]] [[OhAndXDies died fifteen years ago.]] [[spoiler: He dies being cradled by Swaine, whom he knows perfectly well [[WellDoneSonGuy is his son from the future.]] The elder Swaine has just had to watch his younger self run away from home, fully believing [[TheUnfavorite his father only loves his younger brother.]] The elder only realizes how wrong this is as he embraces his father one last time.]] This naturally leads to [[BigNo a hugely, giganticly, screen-shaking "NOOO!"]]
* In ''VideoGame/OfLoveAndEternity'', when the Knight's lover is [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice run through]] in the intro cinematic, he runs over to her, drops his sword and cradles her as she passes. [[DespairEventHorizon He's so overcome with despair that he allows her killer to kill him too]].
* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/Persona2: Innocent Sin'''s ending, [[spoiler:Maya]] dies in [[spoiler:Tatsuya]]'s arms.
** In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', during the October Full Moon operation, [[spoiler:Shinjiro is shot to death by the leader of Strega. His childhood friend Akihiko is the one who holds him as he passes away and and the others grieve.]] Also, at the very end of the game, during graduation day, [[spoiler:a weary protagonist, having used all of his (or her, if the player chooses a female protagonist for the Playstation Portable version of the game) power to seal away the harbinger of death, falls asleep and dies in [[RobotGirl Aigis']] arms.]]
*** As an another addition, ''VideoGame/Persona3 Portable'''s ending on a NewGamePlus gives the protagonist the choice to meet whomever he/she maxed a Social Link with romantically to die in their arms. For the female protagonist, this includes [[spoiler: Shinjiro Aragaki, who merely woke up from a coma three days before.]]
*** Many are AnguishedDeclarationOfLove and DeclarationOfProtection. [[spoiler: Ken has PleaseDontLeaveMe (well, [[YouKilledMyFather he's been "left behind" before]]), Akihiko's is a straight up love declaration, and Shinjiro is [[ThinkHappyThoughts still as upbeat as always]]: "I'm glad I met you."]]
*** [[spoiler: Chidori romantically dies in Junpei's arms after performing a HeroicSacrifice to save him from dying of a bullet wound by infusing him with her Persona's power. In P3 FES, she can get better if the player fulfilled certain requirements before the scene.]]
* Happens to [[spoiler:Grovyle and Celebi]] in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon''. Except it isn't just one of them. It's ''both'' of them that disappear.
* In ''VideoGame/ProjectFirestart'', if Mary dies while following Jon, the player gets a short {{cutscene}} of her last moments while cradled in Jon's arms.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', Ada seemingly dies in Leon's arms at the end of his B scenario. Don't worry, she [[DisneyDeath gets better]].
** Steve Burnside's in Claire Redfield's in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. Alfred's just a bit too [[{{Rimshot}} late]] for him and Alexia to do this in the same game.
** Luis dies in Leon's arms in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''.
* In ''[[VideoGame/RivalSchools Project Justice]]'''s [[spoiler: Taiyo High]] ending, [[spoiler: Hyo]] dies in [[spoiler: his brother Kyousuke]]'s arms.
* ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction'' features two, one which happens during play and one which is only told about through FlashBack:
** In the Valley of Dragons, [[spoiler:a very desperate Kyrie]] asks Naja to kill him. Naja obliges, but it's Morte who holds him as he makes his FinalSpeech before he DisappearsIntoLight.
** In the Cave of Memories, Taupy is forced to recall [[spoiler:killing his best friend, Ace]], and mentions that he held him as he died.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Snatcher}}'', [[spoiler:Harry]] dies in Gillian's arms.
* [[spoiler:Shauna]] dies in [[spoiler:Trish]]'s arms in ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'': [[spoiler:After [[MercyKill putting her out of her misery]], [[TragicMonster Jennifer]]]] fades away in Rick's arms.
* [[spoiler:Nanami]] in Riou's in ''VideoGame/SuikodenII''. [[spoiler:She gets better if you collected all 108 stars before this scene.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} Liberation Day'', [[spoiler:Chigara, who had just been mind-controlled by the BigBad into kicking off the [[WhamEpisode Liberation Day massacre]], gets shot by Veniczar Fontana mere seconds after kicking the BigBad’s spirit out of her body. As Kayto cradles her in his arms, she apologizes that they won’t be able to open their bakery and dies.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood'', [[spoiler:Guybrush finds Morgan [=LeFlay=] mortally wounded by her own Blade of Dragotta and runs to her side, holding her in his arms (or rather with his hook hand) as she slowly dies after telling him about the incident in the Marquis De Singe's lab.]]
** [[spoiler:Also, Elaine holds Guybrush in her arms as he is slowly dying from his wounds inflicted by [=LeChuck=]'s Cutlass of Kaflu, and after [[TearJerker she tearfully makes her promise to stop [=LeChuck=] for him]], Guybrush slumps down to the ground as he dies while still in her arms. (He gets better later in Chapter 5.)]]
* Both [[spoiler: General Frings and Ion]] die in Luke's arms in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss.'' [[BreakTheHaughty Can't catch a break, can he?]]
* In a discarded storyboard for ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' promotional video Meet The Medic, a BLU Sniper dies dramatically in the arms of a BLU Soldier. Cue BigNo... and then [[MoodWhiplash both of them get run over by an incoming train]].
* In ''[[VideoGame/ThorGodOfThunder2011 Thor: God of Thunder]]'', a game set before the events of ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Sif becomes dead for a short time. She pushes another Asgardian out of danger, is impaled, and dies in Thor's arms, causing him to be enraged and seek vengeance for her death.
--> '''Thor:''' Sif...
--> '''Sif:''' ''Stupid.'' I should've seen it coming.
* Arcueid dies in Shiki's arms in the end of her route of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}.'' [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope She gets better.]] DoubleSubverted in the True Ending, where she decides she can't stay with Shiki.]]
* The absolutely heartbreaking death of [[spoiler:Isara]] in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles''.
** The death of [[spoiler:Gusurg]] in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesIII''.
* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' Trilogy:
** ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'': [[spoiler:June dies in Junpei's arms in the "safe" and "submarine" endings.]]
** ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'':
*** [[spoiler: Luna's ending]] ends with this between [[spoiler: Sigma and Luna]]. [[ImpliedTrope Possibly]] doubles as FinalFirstHug.
*** Phi and Sigma will die hugging each other if [[spoiler: you fail to defuse the bombs]].
** ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'':
*** [[spoiler: Sigma in Diana's arms]] in the ending where [[spoiler: Diana didn't push the blue button]].
*** Inverted in [[spoiler: Monty Hall]] segment if [[spoiler: you get the answer right. While the room is filled with carbon dioxyde you'll get a gas mask but only one. Junpei will give it to already nearly passed out Akane]] and she'll be held in his arms while ''he'' dies. [[spoiler: Getting the wrong answer]] leads to straighter example, except they ''both'' die.
---->[[spoiler:'''Junpei''']]: [[TearJerker I'm glad... i got to hear your voice one last time...]]
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* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has this played out word-for-word. After Gordito kills the zombified Ben Franklin, Doc accusingly says "You just killed my mentor. He died in my arms." Gordito reprimands him by saying "It must have been something you said," and reminds him they still have work to do and don't have time to mourn.
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061215 Lars in Agatha's.]]
** It seems to be happening with [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101018 Zeetha]], after she was run through and Higgs is cradling her but she got better.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': in one of the final acts, [[spoiler:Rose dies in Roxy's arms. Made all the more poignant because Rose got stabbed trying to avenge her girlfriend, and because both girls had only just met each other after years of eagerly waiting for it, especially since [[ItMakesSenseInContext they are each other's mother in two different realities]].]]
* Therkla in Elan's in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. To make matters worse, despite the fact that resurrection is relatively easy for an adventuring party...
-->'''Therkla''': "I'll take my chances that the Afterlife won't have any punishment worse than not being with you."
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0184.html Cut short earlier in the series]].
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0301.html Milk dudes in Soda's arms]]
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0472.html Daigo in Kazumi's arms]] - averted at the last minute.
* Zoë from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' was last seen cradled in Riff's arms, although no one knows if she's really dead or not. It still counts because Riff believes she died. [[spoiler:She didn't. [[FateWorseThanDeath It was actually far, far worse. Until it wasn't.]]]]
* Growp from ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'', in the process of being disintergrated, is caught in the arms of Emily before confessing his love. He proceeds to break up into small pieces.
* ''TAL'' has [[spoiler:Hiljo's]] death in Chapter [[spoiler:47]], in which he dies in Yu Jin's arms. Doubles as TearJerker when [[spoiler:Haje and Jenna, who he raised from their childhoods, show up; Jenna panics, noting that Hiljo isn't moving or breathing, and asks Haje what they should do... Haje, being mute, can do nothing but cry.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane and Sette break into the Red Berry Boys' hideout while the criminals are cutting open Cara to smuggle [[AntiMagic First Silver]] in her. They flee and leave the young girl to bleed out, and Duane arrives in time to try and fail to heal her, cradling her as she dies and murmurs innocent reassurances.
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* At the climatic ending to the Reflection arc of ''Roleplay/{{AJCO}}'', the Doctor perishes in the re-education chamber and A_J gathers her corpse up in her arms while the others watch on, horrified at what they had just done.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Parodied in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE93Army army]]"; one of Homestar's soldiers in the "Homestarmy" is [[CompanionCube a popcorn popper named Frank Bennedetto]], and when Strong Bad kicks the popper Homestar rushes to Bennedetto's side as if he'd been mortally wounded.
-->'''Homestar:''' Don't you die on me, Bennedetto! Not on my watch! Don't you give up! [[MisplacedSorrow You never gave me the five bucks...]]
* In ''WebAnimation/TheLifeOfDeath'', Death kills those that he touches. He befriends a deer and avoids touching her. After she gets too old/weak to be with her herd, she encourages Death to pet her. The deer and Death have a FinalFirstHug.
* [[spoiler:Ma-Ti]] in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's arms at the end of ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''.
* In the penultimate chapter of ''Literature/ThePiratesCoveredInFur'', [[spoiler:Tully]] dies in [[spoiler:Michum's]] arms after being fatally wounded in the swordfight against Lyle Krinkor.
* In the 10th season Machinima/RedVsBlue [[spoiler:CT]] in the arms of [[spoiler:The Insurrection Leader]] after being mortally wounded by [[spoiler:Tex]]
* The ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' episode "The Lost Fable" somehow manages to make this trope even worse than usual. [[spoiler:Having already lost her lover Ozma to illness, Salem had to undergo the trauma of him being resurrected then killed again in her arms ''twice'' within the span of a few minutes when she tricks the gods into bringing him back.]]
* [[DarkActionGirl Clio Gabriella]] died this way in v4 of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', in the arms of her boyfriend Simon Telamon. She [[AlasPoorVillain even begged for him to help her.]]
* A fan's take on a ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' "Meet the Spy" animation has the Spy [[ChewingTheScenery over-selling]] his "death" to an Engineer who just shot him, collapsing dramatically into the Engineer's arms (complete with PietaPlagiarism), [[spoiler:so he can have a point blank shot to the Engineer's head, just as planned]]. (See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdZE59eJdEw here]].)
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' [[spoiler:Aang]] dies in Katara's arms in the season two finale. He got better with the assistance of the spirit water and Katara's healing powers, though [[spoiler: he can't access the Avatar State until the final battle against Ozai]].
* In a ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} gets pushed off a building by Scarecrow. She just happens to ([[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence graphically]]) fall on her father's police car and dies in his arms. This causes Gordon to blame Franchise/{{Batman}} and try to capture him. The episode was thankfully AllJustADream and Barbara is alive and well decades later in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': Silverbolt ''thinks'' this happens with Blackarachnia (complete with BigNo). Rattrap and Rhinox let him get it out of his system, before mockingly pointing out that she's merely in [[OnlyMostlyDead Stasis Lock.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'':
** After Christopher Walken enters a psychotic rage and crushes Gary Oldman's head, he then snaps out of it and cradles his opponent in his arms.
** During Nick Diamond's version of Moses leading his people out of Egypt, Moses loses to Rhameses the Pharaoh, but the fight is interrupted by Harrison Ford, who holds Moses in his arms before he dies and agrees to lead the Israelites out in his place.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', during an episode that takes place in a BadFuture, where [[spoiler: Broadway]] has been [[EyeScream blinded]] for years, and is fatally wounded during a battle. As Goliath comforts him in his arms, and tells him the sun will rise soon, and he will be able to heal. [[spoiler: Broadway]] mistakes [[GoIntoTheLight the light for the sun as he dies]], this {{TearJerker}} moment happens.
-->'''[[spoiler: Broadway]]''': ''The sun! I haven't seen it for years. Can you see it Goliath, it..its beautiful (dies)''
-->'''Goliath''' ''(crying): Goodbye my friend''
* In ''Disney's Legends'' the story of John Henry is told, where he challenges a steamroller to finish a railroad using only his sledge hammer, in order to ensure all the railroad workers keep their jobs.[[spoiler: Despite winning the race, John dies from overexertion, and dies in his loving wife's arms, and with the sledge hammer still in his hands]].
* In the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', [[spoiler:Ashi [[RetGone fades from existence]] in Jack's arms. On their wedding day, to boot]].
* In an odd example of this happening between lifelong enemies, the final confrontation between [[spoiler: Maul and Obi-Wan]] ends this way in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', with [[spoiler: Obi-Wan]] cutting [[spoiler: Maul]]’s lightsaber in half as he delivers the fatal blow, and catching him before he hits the ground. They then share a few words about the boy [[spoiler: Obi-Wan]] is protecting, the latter confirming that he is indeed the ChosenOne.
-->'''[[spoiler: Maul]]''': He... will... avenge us.
* ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011'' has TheHero Lion-O doing this twice:
** In "Omens Part Two" he holds his father King Claudus as he dies having been stabbed InTheBack by the series BigBad, and Claudus has just enough time to tell Lion-O he's SoProudOfYou.
** In "Song of the Petalars" Lion-O holds his {{Lilliputian|s}} PlantPerson friend Emrick in the palms of his hands, as Emrick dies of old age, due to his race's [[RapidAging one-day]] lifespan. Lion-O grieves that Emrick hasn't achieved all his goals, but Emrick, who by his [[TimeDissonance reckoning]] has led a rich, [[WeAreAsMayflies fulll lifetime]], assures him that ItsTheJourneyThatCounts.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', [[spoiler: IdiotHero Sadlygrove dies in the arms of his LoveInterest, Evangelyne. Luckily, he gets better and returns early into the following season]].
* Yakko Warner cradles his sister Dot as she dies near the end of ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', breaking down in tears as she makes him tell her special story "one last time." We see later [[spoiler:she, and arguably he, were just acting]] but it's no less [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] to watch.
* The first WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/AWildHare'', has Bugs stage a fake death scene in Elmer's arms.
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* In ''Thor: God of Thunder'', a game set before the events of ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Sif becomes dead for a short time. She pushes another Asgardian out of danger, is impaled, and dies in Thor's arms, causing him to be enraged and seek vengeance for her death.

* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', [[spoiler:Tomoe]] died in Kenshin's arms after he accidentally attacked her with his katana. [[spoiler:In the OVA, this is when she decides to add the other stroke of his cross-scar (in the original, the scar happened accidentally).]]

* In the anime version of ''Manga/AkameGaKill'', Mine is not given the PlotArmor her manga counterpart was given, [[DeathByAdaptation and proceeds to die in Tatsumi's arms]] [[HeroicSacrifice after sacrificing her Imperial Arm to kill Great General Budo, who had fatally wounded her earlier in the fight]]. She manages to deliver a DyingDeclarationOfLove and a FirstKiss slash LastKiss to the man she was starting to crush on before letting death take her. All set to the short, yet somber cello of [[https://youtu.be/LBOSMqQC1TM Yume Monogatari.]]

* Near the end of the Vamdemon arc of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Wizardmon died in Gatomon's arms after TakingTheBullet for her and Hikari. Then we have Wormmon in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', who died in Ken's arms to kick-start his HeelFaceTurn. [[BackFromTheDead Wormmon got better]]... [[KilledOffForReal Wizardmon didn't]].
* In the ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' special, ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Bardock - The Father of Goku]]'', Bardock finds his entire team dead save for [[AlmostDeadGuy Tora]], whom he picks up and is told by him that Freeza is afraid of him and plans to [[KillThemAll kill the entire saiyan race]]. He shortly died in Bardock's arms afterward.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged the TFS abridged parody]].

* In Episode 14 of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', [[spoiler:Asuna]] does this to Kirito after [[TakingTheBullet taking an attack meant for him]]. [[spoiler:Thankfully, Kayaba put her in the waiting room rather than having her [[MostDangerousVideogame brain fried]] immediately, so when Kirito won the game a minute or so later, she was able to survive]]. Also in the last chapter of the second season of the anime [[spoiler: Yuuki dies peacefully in Asuna's arms]]

** [[KidSidekick Kit]] dies in Vale's arms after being mortally wounded by a mutt.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Beast dies in Belle's arms. Thanks to Belle's timely, spell-breaking "I love you," he [[DisneyDeath recovers]]. The [[{{Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017}} live-action remake]] also has Plumette dying in Lumiere's arms after that last petal falls. [[spoiler: Naturally, her death also proves to be of the Disney variety.]]

%% In ''Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland'', the title character doesn't die in Princess Camille's arms, per say, for he's incapacitated beforehand after the knockback from shooting the Morning Rod at Nightmare King forces him off his flying bed and lands his head on a rock. When Princess Camille, Professor Genius, and Flip regain consciousness, Camille discovers Nemo, rushes to his side, and cradles him, pleading for him to wake up until she bursts into tears. Of course, it's not long before King Morpheus awakens him with the Morning Rod.
* [[EnsembleDarkhorse Christophe/Ze Mole]] in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' died in Kyle's arms after failing to free Terence and Phillip. The two then take part in ''La Resistance's'' DarkReprise duet. [[ShippingGoggles Cue the shipping]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'', [[spoiler:Queen Tara dies in Ronin's, much to his chagrin]].

* ''Film/TheLure'' (2015) Silver in Mietek's, turning into sea foam the morning after his wedding to another girl.

** It seems to be happening with [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101018 Zeetha]], after she was run through and Higgs is cradlign her but she got better.

* ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'': [[spoiler: IllBoy Seishuu]] dies in Youko's arms, and [[spoiler: Ikuya Asano]] perishes in Shoukei's.

* ''Series/BloodTies'': Mike dies in Vicki's arms after being shot, but Henry hits the ResetButton on the GroundhogDayLoop and he's fine.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice Flynn dies]]]] in Rapunzel's arms. Thanks to a teardrop and the healing incantation, [[spoiler: he gets better.]] The position of the characters in this scene is [[ShoutOut very reminiscent of]] ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle and the Beast.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice Flynn dies]]]] in Rapunzel's arms. Thanks to a teardrop and the healing incantation, [[spoiler: he gets better.]] The position of the characters in this scene is [[ShoutOut very reminiscent of]]...