Parting words, coming after
drugging someone but before
the victim hits the ground. May take the form of a
Preemptive Apology. A kind of
Pre-Mortem One-Liner without the actual, y'know, death. The last words from the guy they
drugged are
Parting From Consciousness Words.
Trope name comes from Tony Basil's "
Mickey".
Examples:
Film
- Hudson Hawk.
Hudson Hawk: Hey, this doesn't taste like cappuccino.
Anna: Oh. I guess I put too much ethyl chloride in it.
Hudson Hawk: [collapses]
- Mystery Men: Right after Captain Amazing asks whether what he just picked up is not evidence, it shoots out a cloud of pink smoke:
Casanova Frankenstein: "It's a chloroform-deploying portable enticement snare."
Captain Amazing: "... - Ah, dang!"
- Sherlock Holmes
Irene: I told you to let it breathe.
Live-Action TV
- Dexter: Debra's new fiancee explains how ashamed he was at accidentally leaving one piece of evidence as the Ice Truck Killer.
- And, of course, Dexter himself often whispers a one-liner to his victims right after he slips them the needle.
- Played with on Lost. Juliet was handed what was told to her to be a glass full of tranquilizers.
Ethan: "You... probably shouldn't have drank that so fast..."
- Heroes: Mohinder to Sylar
Mohinder: "I already have you, Mr. Sylar."
- Blackadder:
The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells: Drugged! By God!
Blackadder: By Baldrick, actually, but the effect is much the same.
Manga and Anime
Video Games
Web Comics
- After Jordi is drugged in Cuanta Vida:
Anton: T-tut mir leid. ("I'm sorry.")
- In Girl Genius:
Lucrezia: Not poison, silly. I'm one of the good guys now, remember?
Western Animation
- The Venture Bros.:
"You'd be surprised at the amount of chemicals the average cigarette contains."
- After a certain mercenary tranquilizes Wolverine in Hulk Vs. Wolverine...
"Logan, buddy! It's me, Deadpool! I shot you."
- In The Batman, after the Riddler sprays Batman with knockout gas:
"Tell me, Batman... What question can you never answer "yes" to? Are you asleep?"
