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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' gives us Baragor, the so-called [[DeathSeeker Slayer King.]] Rather than going to seek his glorious death in battle like the rest of the Slayers, he's forced to run his city-state. His solution is to turn his city into a home for Slayers. [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Warhammer Dwarves being what they are,]] ''all of Baragor's sons for five generations'' have become [[DeathSeeker Slayers]] themselves.

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Baragor, the so-called [[DeathSeeker Slayer King.]] Rather than going to seek his glorious death in battle like the rest of the Slayers, he's forced to run his city-state. His solution is to turn his city into a home for Slayers. [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Warhammer Dwarves being what they are,]] ''all of Baragor's sons for five generations'' have become [[DeathSeeker Slayers]] themselves.


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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Dante, the 1,500+ year old chapter master of the [[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesCharacters Blood Angels]] space marines, has lived longer than almost any other (loyalist) space marine not interred in a dreadnaught, and is still actively leading the chapter and marshalling Imperium defenses against the innumerable threats against it. It is often stated how tired he is of his centuries of service and would very much like to rest, but aside from being unwilling to abandon the Imperium as so many hostile forces assault it, he also continues fighting due to belief in a prophecy that he will be the last one standing between the Emperor and total destruction. In a subversion of expectations, though, being appointed Lord Regent of the Imperium Nihilus (The half of the Imperium cut off from the rest because of the opening of the [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Great Rift)]] is said to have revitalized him with new purpose, instead of crushing his hopes even further with such heavy responsibility.
** Flavius Bile, the MadScientist EvilutionaryBiologist, has been alive for much longer, long enough that he had seen the Emperor in person when the Emperor could still walk, and has made multiple clone bodies that he shifts his consciousness into to prolong his life. "Until my work is done" has become something of a mantra as he continually struggles against his many enemies and the Blight that keeps killing his bodies. He admits at a few points that he's grown tired, but he's got to finish his great project.
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* ''Fanfic/AnimorphsTheReckoning'': Cassie's aversion of this trope is the source of much angst for Jake. About halfway through the story, Cassie is killed in a [[ColonyDrop meteor strike]] trying to [[SenselessSacrifice rescue a bystander]], rather than accepting rescue or escaping alone. Jake grieves by repeatedly morphing Cassie to explore her thoughts and speak to her memory, eventually deciding that her heroic death was, in part, a way to escape [[WarIsHell the Yeerk invasion]] and [[TheChainsOfCommanding her responsibility to end it]].
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* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'': Between his accelerated aging and [[spoiler:the threat of the mutant Fox Die causing a pandemic]], Snake knows he's not going to be around much longer, but he still has to take out Liquid first.

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* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'': ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'': Between his accelerated aging and [[spoiler:the threat of the mutant Fox Die causing a pandemic]], Snake knows he's not going to be around much longer, but he still has to take out Liquid first.
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* Until the ContinuityReboot of ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' and the Unreboot of ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'', this was part of Sarah Connor's fate as a PosthumousCharacter in ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': shortly after the events of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', she was diagnosed with leukemia and given six months, but lived for years, long enough to see August 29, 1997 come and go without incident. That said, [[spoiler:she was still ProperlyParanoid enough that her casket was loaded with weapons (Sarah herself had actually been cremated)]].

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* Until the ContinuityReboot of ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' and the Unreboot {{Unreboot}} of ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'', this was part of Sarah Connor's fate as a PosthumousCharacter in ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': shortly after the events of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', she was diagnosed with leukemia and given six months, but lived for years, long enough to see August 29, 1997 come and go without incident. That said, [[spoiler:she was still ProperlyParanoid enough that her casket was loaded with weapons (Sarah herself had actually been cremated)]].
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-->-- '''Creator/RobertFrost''', "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

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-->-- '''Creator/RobertFrost''', "Stopping "[[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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* Ivan Isaacs of ''Manhwa/{{Priest}}''. He wants nothing more than to be with his dead girlfriend again, but he still has to complete his RoaringRampageOfRevenge and apparently the BigBad has worked Ivan's fate into his plans, and intentionally keeps him alive so Ivan can fulfil his role.

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* Ivan Isaacs of ''Manhwa/{{Priest}}''.''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}''. He wants nothing more than to be with his dead girlfriend again, but he still has to complete his RoaringRampageOfRevenge and apparently the BigBad has worked Ivan's fate into his plans, and intentionally keeps him alive so Ivan can fulfil his role.
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* ''Music/{{MILGRAM}}'': Upon his introduction, Shidou Kirisaki requests to receive the death penalty for his wrongdoings. After being voted innocent (forgiven) in the first trial, he recognizes that he can't die yet because his medical expertise is invaluable; [[spoiler:it saved the lives of two guilty (unforgiven) prisoners who were badly beaten up]]. In his second song, "Triage":
-->The vote that negates the option of death, the love that won't perish\\
(...) That's right, there are lives that need safeguarding\\
So hey, prolong my life, I'm indispensable

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->''"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.''\\
''But I have promises to keep,''\\
''And miles to go before I sleep,''\\
''And miles to go before I sleep."''

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->''"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.''\\
''But
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But
I have promises to keep,''\\
''And
keep,\\
And
miles to go before I sleep,''\\
''And
sleep,\\
And
miles to go before I sleep."''




!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].






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* ''Literature/TheLicaniusTrilogy'': Caedan desperately wants to die (in order to rejoin his beloved wife, as some atonement for the atrocities he's committed in the past, and because his life is part of what's holding open the gateway into [[{{Hell}} the Darklands]]), but he has a great many things he has to do first, and it's not until the very last sentence of the last book in the trilogy that he finally dies.

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* ''Literature/TheLicaniusTrilogy'': Caedan desperately wants to die (in order to rejoin his beloved wife, as some atonement for the atrocities he's committed in the past, and because his life is part of what's holding open the gateway into [[{{Hell}} the Darklands]]), but he has a great many things he has to do first, and [[spoiler:and it's not until the very last sentence of the last book in the trilogy that he finally dies.]]
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** Punisher villain Thorn woke up from a nearly(?) successful attempt on his life remembering nothing but his killers' faces (including Frank's). Now he feels no pain or emotions, shrugs off any and all injuries no matter how severe, and neither needs nor wants to sleep at all. Like a vengeful ghost, he just wants to settle unfinished business so he can finally rest. He describes himself as being already dead and/or living in a dream, and both stories/arcs featuring him draw explicit comparisons between him and Frank.

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** Punisher villain Thorn woke up from a nearly(?) successful attempt on his life remembering nothing but his killers' faces (including Frank's). Now he feels no pain or emotions, shrugs off any and all injuries no matter how severe, and neither needs nor wants to sleep at all. Like a vengeful ghost, he just wants to settle unfinished business so he can finally rest. He describes himself as being already dead and/or living in a dream, and both stories/arcs featuring him draw explicit comparisons between him and Frank.Frank — they’re both “the walking dead.”
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* Implied in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina''. After Vox Machina arrives in Whitestone, Percy explains that he has been consumed by vengeance ever since the Briarwoods and their allies murdered his family in front of him, tortured him and his younger sister for weeks, and forced him to flee his only home. The pepperbox pistol he invented during his exile has his [[GottaKillThemAll kill list]] inscribed on the barrel. Scanlan points out that there are only five names while the barrel is six-sided, and asks who the final bullet is for. Percy doesn't answer, [[TheShadowKnows but the shadow behind him shows him pointing the pepperbox at his own head]].
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* In ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheLastRonin'', the titular Last Ronin attempts to commit {{seppuku}} for failing to stop Oroku Hiroto at the end of the first issue, with the Ronin feeling it's the only way that he can regain his honor. However, injuries sustained in the attempt affect the Ronin too much for him to go through with it, as he passes out from bloodloss right before he can. When he wakes up, the Ronin makes a point to keep trying to stop Hiroto as his final mission instead of trying to go through with another suicide attempt, albeit with the implication that he doesn't intend to survive after the mission is over, one way or another. [[spoiler:And indeed, he does not; the Last Ronin dies when Hiroto electrocutes them both in a way that results in a MutualKill, ending both of their clans for good, albeit with a final shot revealing that [[RayOfHopeEnding more mutant turtles might be on the way]].]]

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* In ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheLastRonin'', the titular Last Ronin attempts to commit {{seppuku}} for failing to stop BigBad Oroku Hiroto at the end of the first issue, with the Ronin feeling it's the only way that he can regain his honor. honor after failing the mission. However, injuries sustained in the attempt on Hiroto's life affect the Ronin too much for him to go through with it, as he passes out from bloodloss right before he can.can kill himself. When he wakes up, the Ronin makes a point to keep trying to stop Hiroto as his final mission instead of trying to go through with another suicide attempt, albeit with the implication that he doesn't intend to survive after the mission is over, one way or another. [[spoiler:And indeed, he does not; the Last Ronin dies when Hiroto electrocutes them both in a way that results in a MutualKill, ending both of their clans for good, albeit with a final shot revealing that [[RayOfHopeEnding more mutant turtles might be on the way]].]]

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