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--> "Yer damned lucky the Sheriff's so soft. What's the matter, boy? Yer shakin' a little. How's it feel to be so helpless? In the face of death, it don't matter whether yer rich or poor, we all die in the end. Don't you ever forget that, 'cause one day I'm gonna be the one who comes callin' to claim yer soul. Now look into my eyes... I want you to remember them for the rest of yer life. 'Cause next time you see them ''this'' close, it'll be the last thing you ever see."

-->'''Cyrus the Virus''': And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

--> "Be it my mask or your blood, red is the last color you'll see."

-->'''Bithiah''': The day you break that oath will be the last your eyes will ever see.

--> '''Nikita:''' I will hunt down Division, and the last word they'll breathe before the end, will be my name.

-->'''Joker''': Clayface! Just the do-gooder I was hoping to see!\\
'''Clayface''': I'll be the last do-gooder you'll ''ever'' see!

-->'''Bane:''' I am Bane, the last opponent you'll ever face.

* In ''ComicBook/XMen'', ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} once issued one of these threats to the Blob, telling him to get into the habit of looking over his shoulder, because one day Wolverine will be there. And that he won't be seeing much else after that.
* Played with in ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier. Joe, a DeathSeeker trying to avenge his fallen friends, looks at the sky, decides it's the last thing he wants to see, closes his eyes, and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome kills the T-Rex that murdered his friends by jumping down its throat while holding live grenades.]]

* Angelus threatens the members of Series/{{Angel}} Investigations in "Cavalry":
-->"The last thing you smell will be each other's blood"
* In ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Transformers Spotlight]]'' Blaster swears revenge on Soundwave for brainwashing one of his friends into attacking him.
-->"And the last voice he hears, will be mine!"
* ''[[Franchise/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]'' #39, the classic story where the Green Goblin captured Spider-Man after uncovering his identity as Peter Parker, ended with Goblin unmasking himself before his enemy:

* In one issue of Al Ewing's ''ComicBook/Wasp2023'' miniseries, [[Characters/TheWasp Janet Van Dyne]] informs her longtime nemesis[=/=]stalker Whirlwind that he has used up her forebearance and sometime soon, be it in a prison cell, an alley, or what passes for his own home... he will hear a [[SizeShifter little buzz in his ear canal, moving inward]] (She's trying to rattle him, and is rather unnerved by how much she means it).

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* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Cersei makes this threat to Septa Unella, the septa torturing her to make her confess during her imprisonment by the Faith Militant. In the season six finale, [[spoiler:Cersei has most of her enemies killed with a wildfire explosion, but has Unella imprisoned in her dungeon. Cersei visits her captive and reminds her of her promised threat. Unella maintains her stoicism, declaring she's prepared to meet the gods. Cersei clarifies that Unella is not going to die for a long time, since she's got an even worse punishment in mind for her: leaving her with Ser Gregor Clegane.]]

* NBC Saturday morning's "One To Grow On" [=PSA=]s: The auditory version was used in a segment of this mid-1980s 60-second [=PSA=], wherein a 10-year-old boy was playing in a railroad yard, listening to his Walkman stereo headphones and oblivious to an oncoming train. His friends witness this and frantically try to warn him of the danger; fortunately, the boy sees the train fast coming upon him and he jumps off in time ... after which his friends scold him, one of them even remarking that the music he was listening to could well have been "the the last thing you ever heard!"

* Variant in ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist''. AxeCrazy Kimbley cheerily recommends always remembering the faces of the people you kill. "After all, they'll always remember you."

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* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Commander Ivanova delivers this line to an enemy battle group: "I am Death Incarnate, and the last living thing you are ever gonna see! God sent me."

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "The Gift," Buffy states that if the plan fails and the world ends, the last thing Dawn will see will be Buffy protecting her.

* A variation on ''Series/DoctorWho'', from the episode [[Recap.DoctorWhoNSS1E5WorldWarThree "World War Three"]]. The Slitheen learn that Mickey and Jackie managed to kill one of their brothers who was hunting them.
-->'''Asquith''': He's dead. Sip Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day-Slitheen is dead.\\
'''Green''': I felt it. How could that happen?\\
'''Asquith''': Somebody must have got lucky.\\
'''Green''': That's the last piece of luck anyone on this rock will ever have.
** This exchange from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]]
--->'''Colony Sarff''': Where is the Doctor? \\
'''Ohila''': Where he always is. Right behind you, and one step ahead. Tread carefully when you seek the Doctor, Colony Sarff, or he will be the last thing you find.