History Main / HowDareYouDieOnMe

Compare and contrast TryNotToDie. May overlap with DiedInYourArmsTonight. May overlap with AngerBornOfWorry if the person hopes the victim will pull through but fears the worst. As a DeathTrope, beware of unmarked spoilers.

** ...and in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'':

** Happens in ''Film/TheMatrix''. This works because the kiss Trinity administers along with those words makes Neo realize ''he isn't actually dead'' (only virtually dead and "YourMindMakesItReal") so he revives. In other words, the input from the Matrix told his brain he was dead but the input from the real world trumped it.

* An odd version in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' when Beckett desperately tries to resuscitate a murderer who she's just shot, calling for him to stay with her [[spoiler: because he's the man who killed her mother and the only lead to why she was murdered]].

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

* Littlefoot in ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' tearfully says that his mother should've known better than to take on a Sharptooth and that it's all her fault that she died. The elderly dinosaur he's talking to comforts Littlefoot and tells him that it's nobody's fault that she died.

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* ''Film/RobinHoodCzwartaStrzala'' [[ParodiedTrope parodies]] this mercilessly - Marion has the Merry Men take shifts telling Robin not to die. [[spoiler: He still does.]]

* As seen above, in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Agatha flips out and, by yelling at her LoveInterest dying of (essentially) a lifeforce leak [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100312 manages to stabilize him]]. Possibly a case of ThePowerOfLove or CompellingVoice, or as hypothesized by another character in the novelization version of the scene, the target simply enjoys a good argument. Her ''other'' love interest made an amusing threat to the same character earlier:

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1417-j SCP-1417-J ("Passive-Aggressive Meteorite")]]. During Emergency Procedure 1634-Broadway Kemal pretends to have been electrocuted and Anderson pretends to perform CPR on him.

** And in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], you have [[spoiler:Hawkeye arriving too late to protect Mustang from Archer. She finds him shot in the face and lying motionless in a pool of his own blood]].

* In ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' [[YouKilledMyFather brooding avenger]] Thorfinn has this exact reaction when [[spoiler: Askeladd]] is fatally stabbed.
-->'''Thorfinn:''' I'll never forgive you! How dare you die on me like this!? Get up! Let's properly finish this once and for all! ''[[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou I was supposed to be the one]] to kill you!''\\
[[spoiler:'''Askeladd:''']] Geez... It's time for you to stop being a kid...
* A very emotional scene in the first episode of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', with Kuwabara barging into Yusuke's funeral demanding a fight with him. This might be considered an adult version of PleaseWakeUp. This is also a case of TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou as this establishes that Kuwabara considers Yusuke a rival who challenges him and betters him the more they fight against each other.
** Parodied in the Abridged series "You better come back to life or I'll kill you!"
** Yusuke's mother Atsuko also gets one, in a drunken rage after the wake - "I didn't give you permission to die!"
* Light from ''Manga/DeathNote'' screams "Come on, Damn it!" "Don't you die on me you idiot!", at [[spoiler: his father when he dies]]. It is unclear whether Light is genuinely upset [[spoiler:at his father's death]], or is just acting to fool the other Kira investigation team members, or outraged that [[spoiler: he didn't at least kill Mello]]. ''How to Read 13'' seems to imply [[spoiler:genuine mourning, as it is stated that Light's father is one of the only people he would never kill.]]

* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': In episode 52, Kouji gets brutally hurt during a fight and falls unconscious. When he does not move or reacts, Sayaka gets grief-stricken. She kneels by his side, and she starts crying as [[PietaPlagiarism holding him in arms]]. She pleads him not dying and not leaving her alone, and even makes an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Then Kouji opens his eyes and he announces he is not getting married to a tomboy. Cue Sayaka wanting to kill him ''for real''.
* ''Manga/NurseHitomisMonsterInfirmary'': After Moji-sensei serves as a LivingCrashpad to save Tobita, she begs him to wake up after he falls unconscious from hitting his head on a wall while saving her. She feels especially guilty because she'd told him to "fuck off and die" earlier that day.
* In the final chapter of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', [[spoiler: Ranma [[PietaPlagiarism cradles Akane's inert body]] after she has seemingly died after the battle with Saffron. He berates her for being a dummy (and hits himself for it).]]
** In the ice-skating arc, Ranma takes a blow for Akane strong enough to crush all the bones in a man's body. When he doesn't respond to her, she assumes he's dead, then starts crying on his chest and calls him a fool. That's when he sits up, insulted that she wasn't more grateful for his sacrifice, and lets her know he was faking it. (He actually is hurt at that point, but he's a badass, so he walks it off.)
* ''Franchise/LupinIII'': always happens when [[AntagonistInMourning Zenigata is in mourning]] for Lupin.
** The ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' episode, "Lupin the Interred," had Lupin assassinated by a paid mercenary. Zenigata insists it's a trick, while Jigen and Goemon destroy their surroundings since they can't kill Lupin.
** In ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'', Zenigata sees Lupin's gang escaping from him and the Count, and Lupin himself is gravely injured. Pops shouts, "Lupin! You'd better not die before I get to arrest you!"

* In ''Anime/{{K}}'', Misaki and Kusanagi both say this about Totsuka.
** When he dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Misaki's arms]], Misaki gives the incoherent blubbering version.
** Just after that flashback, when Kusanagi is in his bar, looking at all of the stuff Totsuka left behind from his expensive hobbies, he gives a remark like this - though it's more serious and forward-looking, considering that Mikoto, for whom Totsuka was a MoralityChain, is preparing himself for a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the killer that might just [[SuperPowerMeltdown take the whole city down with him...]]

* Zoro from ''Manga/OnePiece'' does this around the end of his flashback in the manga when his [[TearJerker childhood friend Kuina died falling down the staircase and broke her neck]]. The [[AdaptationDisplacement anime version of the story tends to displace the original manga,]] but trust me, he was ''absolutely pissed at her for leaving him'' as well as saddened.
** This becomes ''depressing'' when you consider that he apparently still considers her his best friend. The poor guy can never catch a break.
** He was pissed because she was the only person he could not defeat, which was the reason why he took up swordfighting in the first place. He was pissed because she died before he can get the chance to defeat her, and saddened because both of them considered each other as rivals, intent on being the world's strongest swordsman in the future.
** And because the universe has a twisted sense of humor, Zoro meets a Marine swordswoman named Tashigi [[IdenticalStranger who looks extremely similar to Kuina]].
** Crocodile is ''furious'' after Whitebeard is stabbed by a misguided ally (even though he didn't actually ''die'' from the attack). This is because he knew that Whitebeard should've been able to dodge that attack -- an indication that Whitebeard had become weaker in the time since he defeated Crocodile.

* This occurs in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' when [[spoiler: Nuriko dies]]. It happens again with [[spoiler: Hotohori's death. Miaka screams that he had lied when he promised to stay alive until his wife, Houki, gives birth to his son]].
* In the feudal arc of ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', Ryuuya is badly injured defending Kanna and doesn't seem as though he's going to make it. He's told her that as he's her servant, he'll do anything she says, so she orders him not to die. [[spoiler: He doesn't... she does, though.]]
* In ''Manga/CountCain - Godchild'' Cain yells at an unconscious [[spoiler:Riff after he's been poisoned]] basically telling him he's not allowed to die.
* Inverted in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':
** Inverted. Being that Hanyuu is a ghost she cannot interact with anyone except a select few people who are born every once in a while. She becomes frustrated when [[spoiler:Rika says she wants to not repeat the [[GroundhogDayLoop cycle]] again]]. Of course she didn't stay to her word.
** Played straight in the last episode of ''Minagoroshi-hen''. [[HopeSpot It seems as if fate is about to be beaten, and all is well]]... until [[spoiler:Keiichi is shot by the Big Bad. As he dies, Mion yells "No! This cannot be! This cannot be!" until she is forced to flee.]]
* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', a [[BitPartBadguys small-time crime boss]] hires some {{Mooks}} to take out the Lagoon Company for not playing exclusively for him. Naturally, they all die. Just before [[TheBaroness Balalaika]] pays him a visit, he's heard ranting about how [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit the mook he hired completely screwed him over]] by dying.
* In Manga/{{Bleach}}, Ichigo is killed by Ulquiorra and Orihime indicates this trope by repeating his name for several minutes. [[spoiler:It works, he's not dead anymore.]]
** Also invoked by [[spoiler: Tsukishima]], who ''flips out'' when he learns that [[spoiler: Ginjou is dying]].
** After Zaraki impales [[spoiler:Unohana]] in the throat in their fight to the death, it takes him a second or two to process what just happened. He doesn't take it well.
* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', Guts gets bashed around by the apostle Wyald to the point where he is believed to be dead. Casca, now his lover, slaps him around in a fit of anger and tears as she tells the unconscious Guts that he couldn't be dead because he promised to take her on his travels with him. He eventually comes around, though to the sound of [[spoiler: Casca's screams as Wyald apprehends her and tries to [[AttemptedRape make her feel like a virgin again]]]].

* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' mixes it up with PietaPlagiarism near the end of the series, when [[spoiler:Hawkeye gets her throat slashed and nearly bleeds to death. Mustang, panicked and on the verge of ManlyTears, does a lot of screaming at her to "Open your eyes!" and "Get it together!" In the English dub of ''Brotherhood'', he says, "Don't you ''dare'' die! Stay with me, Lieutenant!"]]
** And in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], you have [[spoiler:Hawkeye arriving too late to protect Mustang from Archer. She finds him shot in the face and lying motionless in a pool of his own blood]].
--> [[spoiler:"General! ''Dammit, Roy Mustang, answer me!''"]]
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': [[spoiler:Urumi]] does this, even threatening to kill herself, when [[spoiler:Onizuka has his GameBreakingInjury and enters a coma]]. His best friend [[spoiler:Ryuji]] does it as well.

* ''Manga/XxxHolic'': How Watanuki reacts when [[spoiler: Yuuko's vanishing from the universe so it will be as if she'd died when she was supposed to.]] He's in tears, pleading to her "Please tell me this is all a dream!" and "You can't go!"

* It happens in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' when [[spoiler: Chisame witnesses Jack Rakan's loss and [[RetGone "erasure"]] against Fate Averruncus.]] At that point, the poor girl is [[BrokenTears sobbing her heart out]] [[spoiler: and telling Rakan ([[MetaGuy in her own]] [[GamerChick gamer-like way]]) that someone [[WorldsBestWarrior as powerful as him]] is NOT supposed to lose both a fight and his life.]]
* In the anime version of ''Manga/AkameGaKill'', Tatsumi continuously promised that he would stay alive for his friends who sacrificed their lives trying to bring down the corrupt Empire. [[spoiler: The penultimate episode shows Akame bursting into tears at the sight of an undeniably dead Tatsumi, with Akame berating the recently deceased hero for being unable to keep his promise.]]
* In ''Manga/DragonKnights'', Cesia makes a promise to never let Rath get himself killed by his own suicidal tendencies. [[spoiler:She does mess up once, but then all she's got to do is bring him back.]]

* A darker, creepier example of this trope occurred in the aftermath of ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'': ComicBook/LexLuthor is anguished by Superman's death, but not because of any secret love for him or anything like that; he's furious because he had an "I am TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou" mentality towards Superman. At one point, Lex, alone in his office, curses Doomsday for killing Superman before he could and shrieks, "I WAS ROBBED!!!"
* In issue 2 of ''Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy'', ComicBook/{{X 23}} has a bit of this towards ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. Laura tells Kitty after an outburst in the Danger Room that she feels angry because she thought of Logan as immortal and indestructible, and because he promised to always be there for her if she needed him. His death leaves her feeling as if that was a lie, and leads her to question her own life. By the end of the issue, she ultimately comes to terms with this and has moved on to feeling sad over his passing, but also pride in the example he set.

* ''Fanfic/StarTrekPhoenix'': The root issue for the conflict between Twilight and Sunset in the second season stems from Sunset's close call with death and subsequent two-year disappearance. Twilight mourned deeply for those years and, just when she eventually managed to let go of her and move past her grief, Sunset simply returned well and unharmed. The resulting conflict of emotions messed Twilight up something awful, leading her to deeply resent Sunset for dying on her and especially, and irrationally, for not ''staying'' dead and sparing her the need to fear losing her all over again.
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* In ''[[https://exalted-thesunalsorises.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log/learningtoswim Learning To Swim]]'', this is Rain's response after she saves Cats from drowning, as he's ingested a dangerous amount of water. (There's an element of guilt in her anger, as it's partly her fault that he tried to swim in the first place.)
-->''I grasped his thin shoulders and shook him. "Don't you die on me, don’t you dare fucking die! You stupid little baby!"\\
Suddenly, Cats gasped and coughed up enough water to have bathed in. I pushed him to his side so he could spew without getting more of it on me. "I'm not a little baby," he gasped leaning on his elbow. His eyelids were still a frightening purplish color. "Why Rain gotta be so mean all the time?"''
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fic ''[[http://rwbyobsessedsorrynotsorry.tumblr.com/post/86980415368/its-time-to-say-goodbye It's Time To Say Goodbye]]'' Nora endures Ren's death by vacillating between [[SelectiveObliviousness dissonant]] apathy and blind fury. During one scene, she vents this fury by shouting at his grave.
-->''"You know, it was really dumb for you to jump out in front of the claw like that."\\
I looked at his picture. It was still there. I wasn’t sure if someone was supposed to take it home or something.\\
"You didn’t ''have'' to do that. It was ''really'' dumb."\\
He didn’t answer me. It was like he was being quiet, waiting for me to stop talking so he could try and comfort me.\\
"No, no, no, I know what you’re trying to do and I’m not going to let you. You’re the reason I’m so alone right now. This is ''your'' fault, not mine! ''You'' jumped in the way! NOT ME! DO YOU HEAR ME?! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!"''

* In ''Fanfic/BeingDeadAintEasy'', Seto Kaiba is not happy at all that Joey dies in his arms and tries insulting him to make him stay awake. It doesn't work.
* In ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'', Orochimaru does this to the third hokage. What makes it funny that he had just spent an entire episode trying to kill the third, and failed. The third beats him by giving up his life to seal away Orochimaru's arms and Orochimaru's exact words are "Sarutobi, don't you die on me! Give me back my arms, ''then'' die on me!"
* Mahanon, in the ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' story ''[[Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird]]'', gives his best friend Victoria a variant - he has legitimate reasons to believe [[HeroicSacrifice she's dead]], and when she turns up alive, he tells her to never do it again. Later, when their positions are somewhat reversed, she turns it back on him.
* A variation in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/CommonSense''. Shortly before [[AbandonShip escaping the sinking St. Anne]], Jessie tells James that she'll never forgive him if he doesn't make it back.
* "Fanfic/LastRights": Eleya has this reaction to Senior Chief Athezra dying after taking a shell fragment in the chest.
-->'''Eleya:''' No, no! Don't you ''dare'' die on me! ''(checks his pulse)'' Oh, you ''[[PardonMyKlingon phekk'ta]]'' died on me.

* In ''Fanfic/FrozenFractals'', Anna reacts this way when her best friend Kristoff is stabbed trying to save her and her sister Elsa.
* Hinata in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3665921/53/Black-Flames-Dance-In-The-Wind-Rise-of-Naruto Black Flames Dance in the Wind: Rise of Naruto]]'' is furious with Kiba over his suicide, citing that he had a level of support she dreamed of having and that his situation wasn't too bad comparatively[[note]]Kiba had just learned that he'd accidentally killed Akamaru but Naruto had resurrected him[[/note]].
* Played for drama in ''Anime/DragonBallZ: A Good Man''. Just as Justiciar Nevrrest is about to kill Vegeta while he's weak and defenseless. [[spoiler:Dr. Tottle, a physician working for her shields Vegeta from her attack. Suffering a fatal blow in the process. Vegeta is devastated, expressing his grief by yelling angrily at the doctor for getting himself killed in such a way.]]

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', [[spoiler:when WALL•E's memory appears to be wiped, after trying various tricks to restore it, EVE vigorously shakes WALL-E with an angry expression in an attempt to "wake him up", but then [[DespairEventHorizon resigns]] and mournfully "kisses" WALL•E.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', when Insectisaurus is shot down, Link shouts at him, "Don't you dare close your eyes!" [[spoiler: He becomes a butterfly.]]
* Littlefoot in ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' tearfully says that his mother should've known better than to take on a Sharptooth and that it's all her fault that she died. The elderly dinosaur he's talking to comforts Littlefoot and tells him that it's nobody's fault that she died.

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', [[spoiler: Watson to Holmes, while trying to artificially resuscitate him: "I know you can hear me, you selfish bastard!"]]

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' franchise:
** Happens in ''Film/TheMatrix''. This works because the kiss Trinity administers along with those words makes Neo realize ''he isn't actually dead'' (only virtually dead and "YourMindMakesItReal") so he revives. In other words, the input from the Matrix told his brain he was dead but the input from the real world trumped it.
--->'''Trinity:''' Neo, I'm not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall in love, and that man, the man who I loved would be The One. And so you see, you can't be dead. You can't be, because I love you. You hear me? I love you.... Now *get up*.
** ...and in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'':
--->'''Morpheus:''' Trinity, don't you quit on me now.\\
'''Trinity:''' I'm sorry.\\
'''Neo:''' Trinity. Trinity, I know you can hear me. I'm not letting go. I can't. I love you too damn much.
* Happens in ''Film/LethalWeapon3'' film as part of Murtaugh's HeroicBSOD after having to gun down one of his son's friends in a shootout.
* Paul Thomas Anderson's ''Film/{{Magnolia}}'' had Tom Cruise's character doing this to his estranged father, in sort of a verbal SlapSlapKiss.

* ''Film/TheTerminator'' has Sarah Connor trying to motivate a mortally wounded Reese (showing signs of the leader she's supposed to become):
-->'''Sarah:''' Move it, Reese! On your feet, soldier! On your feet!
* In ''Film/PitchBlack'', this is Riddick's response when [[spoiler:Carolyn Fry]] is dragged away and killed by the monsters. Immediately beforehand, this was also the motivation used to get him up after he was bleeding intensely and in a state of panic, just having been nearly killed by the creatures.

* Happens at the end of ''Film/OngBak'', [[spoiler: Humlae dies and Muay spends her last lines of the movie cursing him for dying.]]

* Done comically in ''Film/TheWrongBox'' - Morris and John Finsbury (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) are taking their uncle Joseph on a train trip on the news that a relative's imminent death will net them a fat inheritance - after the train crashes, Morris finds a dead body he thinks is Joseph's, and tearfully curses him for selfishly dying and leaving two helpless orphans destitute.
* Sort of subverted in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. After it appears Frankenstein has failed to bring a corpse back to life, he begins to strangle the dead body claiming he has ruined him. Of course his two assistants attempt to pull him off for fear that he'll kill him.
* At the beginning of ''Film/EverAfter'', Danielle's father suffers a heart attack, and Rodmilla, [[WickedStepmother his new wife]], starts wailing "You cannot leave me here!" as he dies. Never mind, you know, ''his kid'' standing right there. [[{{Jerkass}} She's not very nice]].

%%* ''Film/TheGauntlet'': Gus to Ben, near the end.
* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'':
** He doesn't directly address [[spoiler:Coulson]] or his corpse, but after [[spoiler:Coulson is killed by Loki while trying to defend Thor,]] Tony Stark angrily calls him an idiot while clearly holding back tears when Steve finds Tony brooding at the spot where [[spoiler:Coulson]] died a half an hour or so after his death.
** Nick Fury is the first to find him as he's dying, and reacts similarly.
--->'''Fury:''' Just stay awake. ''Eyes on me!''\\
'''[[spoiler:Coulson]]:''' No, I'm clocking out here.\\
'''Fury:''' Not an option!
* In ''Film/TheEdge'', Charles pulls this on Bob.
* ''Film/JurassicParkIII'': After Paul Kirby narrowly averts a HeroicSacrifice to save his wife and son from the Spinosaurus, the crying Amanda calls him an asshole and begs him not to leave them alone. Then he reveals that he survived the scuffle and they're reunited again.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Katniss has [[ShipTease a rather distressed reaction]] when she thought Peeta consumed the nightlock berries.
-->'''Katniss:''' Damn you, Peeta, damn you!

* A funny variant is found in ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting,'' when the group is mistakenly informed by an emergency room doctor that Brad has died. Upon seeing him alive, his best friend embraces him and says, "Don't you ''ever'' die on me!" Brad, who has no idea what's going on, is understandably confused by the directive.
* An entirely unsentimental version in ''Film/TheInternational'', as Creator/CliveOwen's character is speaking to a ProfessionalKiller who's a potential witness against the villains [[YouKnowTooMuch who are trying to kill him]] -- after the killer catches a machine-pistol burst in the chest, Owen slaps him and says, "Don't you fucking dare!"
* In ''Film/Angel1984'', Mae manages to fight off the SerialKiller, but is fatally stabbed in the process. Solly finds Mae and holds her while dies; all the time yelling ''Don't you dare die on me!". Mae's main concern is that Solly not allow Angel to see her body cut up like this.

* Arya Stark does quite a bit of this in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', angry at the adults who keep failing to protect her.
** Also played with when [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] demands that Lord Giles be told, "He does not have my leave to die."
* Literature/{{Hogfather}}: [[spoiler:Susan gets this when the Hogfather dies]] and she can't even figure out why.

* ''Literature/TheOutsiders'': Right before and right after Johnny's death, his big brother figure Dallas curses him and Ponyboy for being stupid and naive enough for getting into the things that lead to his death, completely loses it, and ultimately [[spoiler:commits SuicideByCop]].
* The ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' book series, by Brian Jacques. Two instances. One is after a character is found in the woods badly wounded and is told "If you die, I'll kill you!". Another version is in a separate book where a character that's been unconscious is told by a friend that if he dies, the other character will never speak to him again. This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by the now-conscious character remarking that it'd be interesting to see that.
* Nynaeve does this to a wounded Aiel Maiden in Book Three of Literature/TheWheelOfTime. On purpose, though: it helps her to get angry enough to channel and heal her.
* A variation occurs in ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''-- the sadistic supercomputer AM is enraged when all of the human characters die except one, not because he cared about them, but because he can no longer use them as outlets for his hatred of humanity. In revenge, he turns his torments on the sole human character remaining, Ted-- whose eventual fate is, incidentally, where the title comes from.
* In ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho'' by Max Frei the protagonist once accidentally cured a wounded man suffering from magical compulsion by wishing aloud his "patient" would be okay. And later discovered that while his own domination spell is dangerous, ordering its victims to recover may fix even terminal disease or otherwise incurable insanity.
* Variation: In the book ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'', after being stabbed by the six-fingered man, Inigo has a vision of his father:
-->'''Inigo:''' ...sorry, Father... I'm sorry...\\
'''Domingo:''' I don't want your "sorry"! My name is Domingo Montoya and I died for that sword and you can keep your "sorry". If you were going to fail, why didn't you die years ago and let me rest in peace?

* In ''Literature/TheDragonAndTheGeorge'' when Daffyd has been bitten/poisoned by harpies, [[{{Tsundere}} Danielle]] responds by telling him she loves him and ''ordering'' him not to die. Daffyd is implied to [[FightOffTheKryptonite fight off the poison]] by sheer HeroicWillpower.
* ''Literature/WutheringHeights'': Heathcliff's "May she wake in torment!" speech upon receiving the news of Cathy's death. A portrait of a man so enraged at his dead beloved for leaving him that he wishes torment on her immortal soul.
* Auria with David in ''Those Who Cry Green Tears'' after she tries to save him after he stayed behind to save her.

* In the Literature/GauntsGhosts novel ''Straight Silver'', the sniper Jessi Banda is stabbed through the lungs during a particularly brutal trench fight on the frontline. Her squad commander, the normally [[Main/DrillSergeantNasty rude and dismissive]] Major Rawne, cradles her (while badly wounded himself - his torso is nearly pulped) while ''ordering'' her to stay alive.
-->'''Rawne:''' Don't you die on me. ''I fething order you to be okay.''
* In the Warhammer 40,000 novel ''Helsreach'', Black Templar's Reclusiarch Merek Grimaldus has this reaction when a Titan's princeps (whose Titan he had just saved from being overrun) was dying from the strain of controlling the massive machine. He demands the crew get the Titan working, but they inform him that it is impossible without the princeps. To solve the issue, he proceeds to remind the dying princeps that she swore to fight by his side and to shake it off and get up. This allows the princeps to regain her sense of self...and pisses her off enough to retake control of the Titan, due to the sheer insult that a machine thought it could control her. All to the utter shock of the crew.

* Wilhelmina in ''Series/UglyBetty'' yells this hysterically as Bradford dies [[spoiler:in the middle of their wedding]].

* In ''Theatre/NextToNormal'', Dan resents Diana, in part, because he's afraid she'll hurt herself [[spoiler: again]]. Also, this trope is the underlying reason everyone resents [[spoiler: Gabe]] so much.
* ''Theatre/IfThen'' has a song called "I Hate You" in the "Liz" timeline. The protagonist's husband, a military medic, goes on deployment against her wishes. While her insults and declarations of hate start out as AngerBornOfWorry, they take a different turn when it's revealed he was killed in the medical tent.

* Jaheira to her husband Khalid in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': "You die on me and I swear you'll never hear the end of it!" When he's killed in [[VideoGame/BaldursGateII the sequel]], ItsPersonal.
* From ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'':
-->'''Mercedes:''' [[spoiler: Ingway...]] is that you? You lied to me! You said we'd meet again!
* From ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' we have this line:
--> '''Roxas:''' [[spoiler:Xion!]] Who else am I going to eat [[TrademarkFavoriteFood ice cream]] with?
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has one for five characters out of the six character-team during that point of the game. IdiotHero Lloyd gets angry at everyone for dying at a critical point of the game. [[spoiler: Subverted when, about 10 game minutes later, you find out that every one of them was a DisneyDeath.]]

* A very sad example from ''VideoGame/ArcTheLadTwilightOfTheSpirits'': When a Darc is finally reunited with a mother he has grown up assuming betrayed him and his demon father, he is first furious at her. Then she takes a soldier's bullet intended for him, causing him to yell at her, "No dying, you hear me?!? You can't die until I've killed you properly! Mother? Mother!?"

* One of the lines of dialogue between raiders in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is "NO! Don't you die on me!" when a raider discovers the body of a comrade who got killed.
* In ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'', [[ScaryBlackWoman Mickey]], one of the Highwaymen leaders, has this reaction when [[spoiler:her sister Lou]] dies from injuries dealt to her by [[PlayerCharacter the Captain]], because Mickey feels that [[AngstySurvivingTwin as the older twin, she was supposed to die first]].
* A variant of this trope in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. After [[spoiler:Crono is blasted out of existence at the hands of Lavos]], his friends set out to [[spoiler:revive him using the [[ArtifactTitle titular Chrono Trigger]]]]. If you have [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Lucca]] in you party following the end of the quest, she [[spoiler:hugs Crono, [[{{Tsundere}} belting out this trope]] almost word-for-word]].

* In ''VisualNovel/CodeRealize'' this happens towards the end of [[spoiler:Van Helsing]]'s route. A very heartbreaking scene takes place in which the PlayerCharacter wails over his seemingly dead body, made worse as he may or may not truly be dead depending on the choices you've made.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1417-j SCP-1417-J ("Passive-Aggressive Meteorite")]]. During Emergency Procedure 1634-Broadway Kemal pretends to have been electrocuted and Anderson pretends to perform CPR on him.
-->'''Anderson''': Don't you die on me, you son of a bitch! You've never given up on anything before! Don't you give up on me now!
* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[spoiler: Imp]] has this reaction to [[spoiler: Regent pulling a HeroicSacrifice to save her from [[OmnicidalManiac Behemoth]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** When [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny dies]] in the episode "Rainforest Schmainforest". Kelly tries to give him CPR saying "Breathe! Breathe! [[PrecisionFStrike BREATHE, YOU SON OF A BITCH!]]" [[spoiler: He survives.]]
** A similar event occurs in the Imaginationland story arc when Cartman, of all people, managed to bring Kyle back from the brink of death after being injured by the portal to Imaginationland. It's hard to say whether this was a case of AntagonistInMourning or Cartman just wanted Kyle to live long enough to fulfill his part of the bet. Or both.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRippingFriends'', Rip says something like this to a dehydrated Chunk when he was attacked by The Indigestible Wad.

* In ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' when Hector's detached stomach starts dying on him.
-->'''Hector:''' You're a disgrace to the uniform! You make me sick. ''(sadly)'' I command you... to live!
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Life of Brian" has Stewie doing this when Brian is on his deathbed.
-->'''Stewie:''' Dammit, Brian, you can't die! We were gonna do so many things together! We were gonna become windsurfers; I was gonna be a little better than you, but we were both gonna be good!

* Vegeta from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' was extremely [[AntagonistInMourning distraught]] after [[TheRival Goku's]] death during the Cell Games, which was [[KilledOffForReal seemingly permanent]] because he'd never have a chance to [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou defeat him]]. So much that he vowed to [[IWillFightNoMoreForever never fight again]]. The seven-year TimeSkip shows that he got better.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''': Faris and Krile both say variants of this when [[spoiler:Galuf is dying after his battle with Exdeath]]. Faris yells at him to "get up, [[spoiler:you old bat]]! Quit playing around, this isn't funny!" while Krile simply begs him not to die over and over. Meanwhile, they're dousing him with every healing spell and item in the menu, but none of it works.

** ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' mixes it up with PietaPlagiarism near the end of the series, when [[spoiler:Hawkeye gets her throat slashed and nearly bleeds to death. Mustang, panicked and on the verge of ManlyTears, does a lot of screaming at her to "Open your eyes!" and "Get it together!" It's cranked UpToEleven in the English dub of ''Brotherhood'', in which he says, "Don't you ''dare'' die! Stay with me, Lieutenant!"]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'', a major turning point in Tip and Oh's uneasy alliance comes when Oh dives underwater for a couple of hours and she kicks him and rants about him letting her think he'd died.

* Anger is said to be one of the five stages of grief. However, the five stages of grief [[https://curiosity.com/topics/the-five-stages-of-grief-is-a-myth-curiosity/ are actually a myth]].

* This line from the ''Fanfic/TamersForeverSeries'':
-->[[spoiler: '''Rika''': ''"Damn you, Takato... I have cried more in these last few days than in my entire lifetime, and it's all your fault!"'']]