History Main / LastRequest

* Ichirō Yashida's in ''Film/TheWolverine'' is to see Wolverine one last time. [[spoiler:Turns out there are far more nefarious motives for it]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo and the Amazon Women'': Johnny was about to be thrown at a volcano and he asked for a last wish. He was told he'd get nothing and to be grateful for that.

* ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967'' episode "Meet Birdgirl". After Birdgirl captures him and imprisons him in darkness (which drains his power), Birdman makes a last request - to see the sun again. She agrees and takes him into the sunlight, where he recharges his power and escapes. [[Franchise/StarWars She was far too trusting]]...

** The version currently shown on TV cuts after that, but the original has the whole group - executioners and all - performing "Camptown Races" in a minstrel show in Dixieland...complete with BlackFace.

"Yes please - a bulletproof vest!"''

* ''Literature/TheBible'': As Jesus was hanging on the cross, he told his disciple John to take care of his mother. [[note]]Interestingly, he is implied to have had several (half-)brothers, but apparently none of them showed up.[[/note]] This final request turned out to be not-so-final a few days later, but still he wasn't planning on physically sticking around for much longer. Also, one of the criminals who was being executed alongside him simply asked Jesus to remember him in Heaven; Jesus replied that he would certainly be there with him.

* In one episode of ''Thanks A Lot, Creator/MiltonJones!'', Milton starts a delivery company whose speed and efficiency draws the ire of his rivals. They kidnap him and are about to kill him when Milton asks to be granted a last request: to make one last order through his company. His captors, seeing nothing wrong with his proposed order, grant it. The order itself is innocuous - it's the method of delivery ([[BrickJoke a rhino]] that comes [[DynamicEntry crashing through the wall]]) that saves his skin.

** [[spoiler:Amanda Claw's]] Last Request was that Rex find a way to defeat Dr. Rex, since that would bring an end to the Dino Attack and all the death - including [[spoiler:her]] own - that it brought about.

* In ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods,'' [[spoiler: Jack's Mother]], right before dying, requests that the Baker protect [[spoiler: Jack from the giant. And the Baker obliges to the best of his ability.]]

* ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP Limited Life SMP]]'':

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* ''Manhua/MyBelovedMother'': Sinbell's mother, Aya, who [[MamaBear used her body to save him from a gas explosion]] only to be mortally wounded beyond saving, managed to weakly make one last request to Dr. Carl (her lover and Sinbell's biological father) - for her mind to be reprogrammed into a robot's so she can continue taking care of her son. Leading to the story's main plot where Sinbell is RaisedByRobots and goes through various prejudice in a society displaying FantasticRacism on machines.
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* Alluded to and PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', where Hopper at one point states that ''only'' their late mother's dying request is holding him back from [[CainAndAbel killing his bumbling brother Molt]].

* Alluded to and PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/ABugsLife'', where Hopper at one point states that ''only'' their late mother's dying request is holding him back from [[CainAndAbel killing his bumbling brother Molt]].

* In ''The Heaven Tree'' by Edith Pargeter (better known as Creator/EllisPeters of ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'' fame), the protagonist Harry has defied his patron's orders, because he felt he had to do the right thing (the order was to hang a child, Harry instead saved the child and brought him back to his father). The patron cannot forgive him this and will have him executed. The patron's wife, who is in love with Harry, manoevres the patron into acknowledging that a last request must be granted. Harry's last request? To have the wife as his bedfellow on his last night. (It's not what you think - they just talk, but it's a magnificent TakeThat.)

* In the ''{{Literature/Inda}} books, Noddy asks Inda to promise there will be no more war. Inda promises, without actually having heard what he said.

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Before he departs [[spoiler:to revive Godzilla at the cost of his own life]], [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Serizawa]] tells Mark to take care of Chen and Stanton in his absence.

* ''[[LetsPlay/LifeSMP Limited Life SMP]]'':

** [[spoiler:Cedric Diggory]] asks Harry to bring his body back to his parents. [[spoiler:An unusual variant, in that the last request actually comes posthumously from Cedric's ghost.]]
** It was revealed that about ten years earlier, Mrs. Crouch asked her husband to switch places with her imprisoned son as she was dying and she didn't want him to die in prison. Surprisingly, the law-abidding Crouch agreed to his wife's request and had her take a special potion that allowed her to look like her son for the rest of her life, which at that point, wasn't long.

* ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'' (first book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): King Gavilar gives his assassin a dark-glowing sphere of unknown origin and nature, to keep away from "them", and a cryptic message for his brother. The assassin obliges in taking the sphere and leaving the message because he believes the last wishes of the dying are sacred.
* "Look at me..." [[spoiler: Snape]]'s LastWords to [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry]], he wants Lily's eyes to be the last thing he sees.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', [[spoiler:Cedric Diggory]] asks Harry to bring his body back to his parents. [[spoiler:An unusual variant, in that the last request actually comes posthumously from Cedric's ghost.]]
*** Also in that book, it was revealed that about ten years earlier, Mrs. Crouch asked her husband to switch places with her imprisoned son as she was dying and she didn't want him to die in prison. Surprisingly, the law and order Crouch agreed to his wife's request and had her take a specital potion that allowed her to look like her son for the rest of her life, which at that point, wasn't long.

** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLightningLad'': As he is dying, Garth Ranzz requests to be taken to the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes' clubhouse so he can die surrounded by his teammates and friends.

* In ''Literature/{{Donkeyskin}}'', ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/65allerleirauh.html All Kinds Of Fur]]'', ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/stories/shebear.html The She-Bear]]'', and many of their variants, the dying queen asks the king never to marry a woman not so beautiful as she is, and it turns out only their daughter qualifies.
** Alternatively, as in ''[[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt1/pt118.htm The King Who Wished to Marry His Own Daughter]]'', it's to one who can not wear an article of her clothing.
* In ''[[http://www.online-literature.com/andrew_lang/green-fairy-book/22/ Prince Fickle and Fair Helena]]'', the titular prince's father, on his deathbed, requests that his son marry a certain princess. Though the prince is already betrothed to Fair Helena, his grief over the death of his father makes him forget this, and he agrees.

* In ''Literature/TheBlackThiefAndTheKnightOfTheGlen'', the queen has the king promise to keep their three sons in a tower, to keep them safe from a WickedStepmother.
* Subverted in the Creator/AsbjornsenAndMoe fairy tale ''Frik with the fiddle''. Our hero is about to be hanged, sitting on a ladder with the noose around his neck. His last request is to play a tune on his fiddle. He is saved because the fiddle is magic and gets everyone who listens to get up and dance, and ''nobody'' can deny him the first thing he asks for.

* In ''Literature/TheBlackThiefAndTheKnightOfTheGlen'', the queen persuades the king to promise to protect her sons by any WickedStepmother by raising them in a tower. The stepmother manages to talk him into bringing them back.
-->''I am now going to leave you, and as you are young and in your prime, of course after my death you will marry again. Now all the request I ask of you is that you will build a tower in an island in the sea, wherein you will keep your three sons until they are come of age and fit to do for themselves; so that they may not be under the power or jurisdiction of any other woman. Neglect not to give them education suitable to their birth, and let them be trained up to every exercise and pastime requisite for king's sons to learn. This is all I have to say, so farewell.''

-->'''Mr Feather:''' ''(PlayingWithSyringes)'' So, Mr Godfather of Soul, life as you know it will soon cease to exist. Any... final [[{{Pun}} requests]]?
-->'''James Brown:''' Say it loud.
-->''(OhCrap look from Mr Feather. Brown gets to his feet)''
-->'''James Brown:''' Say it, loud!
-->''(Feather starts twitching, throwing away his syringe)''
-->'''Doctor:''' What are you doing?
-->'''James Brown:''' ''(dancing)'' SAY IT LOUD! ''(everyone stares at Feather as he convulses madly)''
-->'''James Brown:''' ''([[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger pointing at Feather]])'' SAY IT LOUD! SAY IT--
-->'''Mr Feather:''' ARRRHM BLACK AND ARRRHM PROUD! ''([[HandGagging slaps hand over his mouth]])''

-->'''Carl:''' I'll give you a break. Where wouldn't you like to be shot?
-->'''Nick:''' South America.

** In the 1967 parody ''[[Film/{{Casino Royale 1967}} Casino Royale]]'' Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen) is in front of a firing squad, and requests a last cigarette, which is a bomb he throws at the firing squad. This distracts them which allows him to climb over the wall behind him. Of course, behind that wall is [[OutOfTheFryingPan another firing squad]] performing another execution at that very moment.

-->'''Mr Feather:''' ''(PlayingWithSyringes)'' So, Mr Godfather of Soul, life as you know it will soon cease to exist. Any... final requests?