History PlayingWith / TakingYouwithMe

* '''Defied''': "Don't worry, Joe can't do anything. There's no way he can reach the button before he dies."

** Bob presses the button to ensure Joe dies, [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of his own life]].

** When Joe dies, he ''literally'' takes Bob into the afterlife with him by grabbing Bob's leg as he gets pulled into it.

** Joe reveals secrets about himself and Bob, knowing that both of there reputations will be destroyed.

* '''Downplayed''': Joe uses his last bit of strength to wound Bob, perhaps mortally, perhaps survivably.

* '''Invoked''': "You think you may have won Bob... but like all good villains, I'm TakingYouWithMe!"

* '''Exploited''': ???

** At the very start of the battle, Joe presses a button to have an several nukes be fired at the base to completely ensure Bob's death.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

** Killing you will somehow restore me to full health!

* '''Exaggerated''': At the very start of the battle, Joe presses a button to have an several nukes be fired at the base to completely ensure Bob's death.
** '''UpToEleven''': SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum motivated by {{Revenge}}
* '''Justified''': Bob is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and if he isn't stopped, a lot more will be destroyed than Joe's base.
** Alternatively, Joe knows that Bob is more powerful/influential than Joe, so his boss benefits more from Bob's death and [[BatmanGambit the base was just a decoy to lure Bob into Joe's trap.]]
* '''Inverted''': Bob was on a suicidal mission, and presses the button himself.

* '''Deconstructed''': Joe killing himself would have destroyed Bob, but it'd have opened the way for a bigger danger to appear which wouldn't be able to be stopped because Joe was dead.
* '''Reconstructed''': Joe manages to kill himself and destroy Bob in a way that makes any latent danger unable to appear.

* '''Averted''': Joe dies without doing anything.

I'm dying...I can't help that...but I'm TakingYouWithMe!
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Joe is about to push the button when Bob presents a thoughtful PatrickStewartSpeech on the meaninglessness of such a gesture, a noble person who cared about his fellow man would never use his last bit of life to spread more destruction. Does Joe really want his legacy to be that of a CompleteMonster who destroyed that which he could not beat? Of course, if Joe believes himself to be such a monster, then, well, Bob admits he [[HeroicSacrifice sealed his own fate]] just by defeating him, so, with finger over the button, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark what kind of person are you]], Joe?

** Alternatively, Joe knows that Bob is more powerful/influential than Joe, so his boss benefits more from Bob's death and [[BatmanGambit the base was just a decoy.]]

Back to TakingYouWithMe.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Joe is about to push the button when Bob presents a thoughtful PatrickStewartSpeech on the meaninglessness of such a gesture, a noble person who cared about his fellow man would never use his last bit of life to spread more destruction. Does Joe really want his legacy to be that of a CompleteMonster who destroyed that which he could not beat? Of course, if Joe believes himself to be such a monster, then, well, Bob admits he [[HeroicSacrifice sealed his own fate]] just by defeating him, so, with finger over the button, what kind of person are you, Joe?

* '''Conversed''': "Did you see that explosion from Joe's base? He must have been trying to take Bob with him!"