Playing With / Taking You with Me

Basic Trope: Someone uses their last bit of strength to attempt to kill others.

• Straight: When Bob has Joe dying at his feet, Joe presses a self-destruct button to destroy the base and kill Bob.
• Exaggerated:
  • At the very start of the battle, Joe presses a button to have several nukes be fired at the base to completely ensure Bob's death.
  • Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum motivated by Revenge.
  • When Joe dies, he literally takes Bob into the afterlife with him by grabbing Bob's leg as he gets pulled into it.
• Downplayed:
  • Joe uses his last bit of strength to wound Bob, perhaps mortally, perhaps survivably.
  • Joe reveals secrets about himself and Bob, knowing that both of their reputations will be destroyed.
  • Bob creates a portal to seal Joe into a Prison Dimension. As he's getting sucked in, Joe pulls Bob in with him.
• Justified:
  • Bob is on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and if he isn't stopped, a lot more will be destroyed than Joe's base.
  • Joe knows that Bob is more powerful/influential than Joe, so his boss benefits more from Bob's death and the base was just a decoy to lure Bob into Joe's trap.
  • Joe wants him and Bob to be Together in Death.
  • Joe refuses to let Bob just defeat him, so he's arranged it so that he could defeat Bob as well.
  • Joe does not care about the consequences of his actions because he does not have to live with them.
  • This is Bob's idea of "If I Wanted You Dead..." Joe decides that he's screwed no matter what, so he may as well try to ruin Bob.
  • Joe considers his life worth sacrificing against Bob Evulz
• Inverted:
  • Bob was on a suicidal mission, and presses the button himself.
  • You Are Worth Hell: I'm going with you.
  • Killing Joe somehow restores Bob to full health!
  • Bob presses the button to ensure Joe survives, at the cost of his own life.
• Subverted: Joe promises not to press the button...
• Double Subverted: ...but when Bob has his back turned, Joe presses the button anyway.
• Parodied: Joe nobly presses the button. It's not working.
• Zig Zagged: Joe is about to push the button when Bob presents a thoughtful Patrick Stewart Speech 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 monster who destroyed that which he could not beat? If Joe believes himself to be such a monster, then, well, Bob admits he sealed his own fate just by defeating him, so, with finger over the button, what kind of person are you, Joe?
• Averted:
  • Joe dies without doing anything.
  • No one dies.
  • Joe doesn't die. Bob on the other hand...
• Enforced: "Bob and Joe are lowering our show's ratings. Let's have them fight, and both be destroyed by Joe in the end!"
• Lampshaded: "Just watch. Just when we think he's dead, Joe is going to try to take us out in an explosion."
• Invoked: A dying Joe lured Bob to his base specifically for the purpose of a murder-suicide.
• Exploited: Charlie, Joe's partner-in-crime in a Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, knows that Joe is a Sore Loser, so in hopes to dispose of Bob, a powerful mutual enemy, he deliberately arranges so that Bob will storm into Joe's base and beat Joe, causing Joe to blow up said base in an attempt to kill Bob, at the same time helping Charlie by removing Bob from his plans.
• Defied:
  • "Don't worry, Joe can't do anything. There's no way he can reach the button before he dies."
  • Joe's attack does absolutely jack to Bob.
  • Bob makes sure to blow away Joe's limbs and any gadgetry on his person to remotely control the self-destruct before tearing apart the manual self-destruct controls with an axe, leaving absolutely no options for Joe to take anybody with him.
  • Joe notes that he sees no point in taking down Bob with him, as he's not petty and realizes that killing him won't undo his defeat.
• Discussed: "Haven't you noticed how whenever the villain is dying, he attempts to kill the hero in a blaze of glory?"
• Conversed: "Did you see that explosion from Joe's base? He must have been trying to take Bob with him!"
• 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.

Played for Drama: Bob looks down at the injured Joe, who laughs at how far they've come from when they were kids. Joe asks Bob to finish the job, but Bob can't do it. Joe laughs, knowing Bob was always the better of the two of them. He pats his chest, hitting a button. Bob hears the click and alarms start blaring over a self-destruct. Joe laughs, saying they're going to go down together. Bob is forced to run away and try to escape blast area, leaving Joe behind. Joe has flashbacks about their childhood as the shockwave erupts, taking him as he dies smiling. He knows Bob likely escaped, but accepts that fact in death. Bob just barely manages to escape the building before it explodes.

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I'm dying... I can't help that... But I'm Taking You with Me!

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