History Main / ToAbsentFriends

* [[spoiler: Maes Hughes']] grave in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.
** There is a scene in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime adaptation]] where his widow comes to visit the grave, only to discover that someone else has already left flowers. Yes, [[spoiler:Roy Mustang]], we're looking at you.

* Almost all Roleplayers start the first session after a player dies (not a character, a player) with the phrase "To absent friends; let the adventure continue."

* There is a set of eighty silver goblets that have been reserved for this purpose. Upon each of them is engraved the name of one of the men who flew on the Doolittle Bombing Raid of 1942. With it is a bottle of 1896 (The year of James Doolittle's birth) brandy. This bottle was intended to be opened by the last two survivors of that mission to toast those that have gone before them. With only four men left, all of whom are in their mid-nineties and in failing health, they decided to open the bottle together in 2013.

* [[Music/WishYouWereHere "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Wish You Were Here"]] are all about Creator/SydBarrett's absence and departure from Music/PinkFloyd, and how they miss him.

* ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'' has the Kingsman organization's Doomsday Protocol, where all remaining agents (in the context of the movie, Eggsy and Merlin) proceed to a certain location and retrieve... a bottle of Statesman whiskey. Eggsy and Merlin take it as a morbid joke and proceed to enact this trope. Then they realize that the whiskey is ''[[{{Beergasm}} really good]]'', and [[UpToEleven repeat it for every Kingsman they knew personally]].

* When [[spoiler:Wolfwood]] dies in the Manga/{{Trigun}} manga, he and Vash share a final drink while he goes in what effectively ''is'' his wake. Then, when Livio wakes up from healing the fight damage, Vash has made a vast quantity of spaghetti, and their spaghetti-eating is several symbolic things, including affirmation of life, signal of Vash's willingness to accept Livio, and meal in honor of [[spoiler:Wolfwood]]. It is the saddest spaghetti ever.

* ''Film/FiftyFifty'':

* As do Music/{{Genesis}}, on their ''Music/NurseryCryme'' album. It is Music/PhilCollins' lead vocal debut with Genesis, on the first record he recorded with the band, five years before he became the band's full-time lead singer. The Opeth song is actually named after the Genesis song.

* At the end of ''TheDeerHunter'', after Nick's funeral, the group of friends goes back to the bar to have breakfast. They sing "God Bless America" in unison, then they raise their glasses, and Michael says, "Here's to Nick."

The epilogue to ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' shows Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman catching up on current events in a gaudy superhero themed restaurant called "Planet Krypton". At one point they toast their comrades who have passed on, with various drinking vessels evoking Green Lantern, The Flash, and Captain Marvel.

* As do Music/{{Genesis}}, on their ''Nursery Cryme'' album. It is Music/PhilCollins' lead vocal debut with Genesis, on the first record he recorded with the band, five years before he became the band's full-time lead singer. The Opeth song is actually named after the Genesis song.

*** Another version has his wife decide for him that he will quit drinking: but she neglects to tell his brother's to quit drinking as well.

* In ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'', the army of Asgard (led by Thor and Balder) invade the underworld domain of Hela to free mortal souls imprisoned there. With the hordes of Hel in hot pursuit, it becomes clear that someone must stay behind to delay Hela's forces long enough for Thor's army to escape. Skurge the Executioner [[MoreHeroThanThou settles whether he or Thor]] will stay YouShallNotPass (by knocking out Thor), Skurge asks Balder to remember him with a toast when he and Thor return to Asgard. Later, when Thor and Skurge meet in Hel, Skurge asks, and Thor is grieved to have to tell him that crises have kept them too busy to do so.

* In ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'', after Skurge the Executioner [[MoreHeroThanThou settles whether he or Thor]] will say YouShallNotPass (by knocking out Thor), Skurge asks them to remember him at Asgard. Later, when Thor and Skurge meet in Hel, Skurge asks, and Thor is grieved to have to tell him that crises have kept them too busy to do so.

* Occurs in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/NightWatch'', where the members of the Revolution gather every year on the twenty-fifth of May to remember their comrades who were killed. When young Sam asks why old men would cry to hear the cheerful song "All the Little Angels", the older Vimes privately knows that it's because they remember who they ''aren't'' singing it with.

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* Subverted in an old joke about an Irishman (or other stereotypical hard drinker) who goes to a bar every week and orders a round of three drinks--one for himself and two for his brothers, who are alive but live far away. Each brother does this as a sort of long-distance show of kinship. One day he shows up and orders only two drinks--the bartender, fearing the worst, offers his sympathies but it turns out one of the brothers had just given up drinking.
** In some versions it was ''him'' who decided to quit drinking.
*** Another version has his wife decide for him that he will quit drinking: but she neglects to tell his brother's to quit drinking as well.
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* Théoden's heartfelt "Hail to the victorious dead!" speech in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Return of the King'', as the Rohirrim remember their fallen brethren after the Battle of Helm's Deep.

** Fairly common amongst New Republic fighter pilots, especially the Rogue and Wraith squadrons of the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries''. Notably, whenever the Wraiths do it, ''somebody'' is obliged to [[MoodWhiplash make a smartass remark]]. For example, the end of ''Iron Fist'', after Face has been released from the medical ward: