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Bernardo: All of the main characters in Tosca wind up dying by the end of it. The same thing happens in every Italian opera. Murder, illness, revenge, suicide—people just keep dying and dying and dying! And do you happen to know what that means, Beatrice?
Beatrice: I can’t say I do.
Bernardo: It means Italians love tragedy! They’re sentimental about everything, especially death. That’s why our cities are filled with violence and vengeance! That’s why every solution we devise is routed in bloodshed.
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marshmallows, chocolate, graham cracker,
customers, staff, restaurant
marshmallows, chocolate, graham cracker,
customers, staff, restaurant
— Final Recipe, The Menu
Rogue One, may the Force be with you.
— Admiral Raddus, Rogue One
Music
"Everybody, everybody, everybody living now
Everybody, everybody, everybody fucks
Everybody, everybody, everybody living now
Everybody, everybody, everybody sucks
Everybody, everybody, everybody living now
Everybody, everybody, everybody cries
Everybody, everybody, everybody living now
Everybody, everybody, everybody dies"
Everybody, everybody, everybody fucks
Everybody, everybody, everybody living now
Everybody, everybody, everybody sucks
Everybody, everybody, everybody living now
Everybody, everybody, everybody cries
Everybody, everybody, everybody living now
Everybody, everybody, everybody dies"
— System of a Down, "Violent pornography"
"In the fires of ancient cosmic destiny
Evil will rise
And of all the legendary warriors
None will survive"
Evil will rise
And of all the legendary warriors
None will survive"
— Gloryhammer - "The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny"
Jonny: I mean, obviously, there are stories where people live, we just choose not to tell them.
Ashes: Yeah. 'Cause they're boring.
Ashes: Yeah. 'Cause they're boring.
—The Mechanisms, "Terminus"
Literature
Roose Bolton: Our goat should have consulted the Tarbecks or the Reynes. They might have warned him how your lord father deals with betrayals.
Jaime Lannister: There are no Tarbecks or Reynes.
Roose Bolton: My point precisely.
Jaime Lannister: There are no Tarbecks or Reynes.
Roose Bolton: My point precisely.
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Live-Action TV
Oscar: (reading) "Go, bid the soldiers shoot." And they all lived happily ever after.
Felix: Nobody lives happily ever after in Hamlet! (Beat) Nobody lives.
Felix: Nobody lives happily ever after in Hamlet! (Beat) Nobody lives.
— The Odd Couple (1970), Season 2, Episode 3, "Hospital Mates"
Video Games
It doesn't matter now. I'm so tired of this. I'm tired of all these people. I'm tired of all these places. I'm tired of being a flower. There's just one thing left I want to do. Let's finish what we started. Let's free everyone. Then... let's let them see what humanity is REALLY like!
Rip and tear, until it is done.
— Doom
Kill every last one of them!
— Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, Fire Emblem: Three Houses
"It's not a good story unless the hero dies."
— Varric, Dragon Age II
"All good things must come to an end, but how good was the end for our crew? Let's not mince words, everyone, but everyone is dead. You somehow even managed to get the dog killed. I didn't even think that was possible!"
— The Curator, The Devil in Me
Not a single soul returned from this trip...
— Fear & Hunger: Termina, should all 14 contestants be dead at the end of a run.
Most will end up here, covered in the poisoned earth, awaiting merciful oblivion.
—The Ancestor, Darkest Dungeon, when first accessing the Graveyard
Visual Novels
Every last student is dead.
— Purrfect Apawcalypse 3: Patches' Infurno during the "Born to Kill" ending
Web Comics
Minsk: Dis iz turnink into vun of dose plans...hyu know—de kind vere ve keel everybody dot notices dot ve's killin people?
Gorb: It iz?
Minsk: Uh huh. And how do dose alvays end?
Gorb: De dirgible iz in flames, everyboddyz dead and I've lost my hat.
Minsk: Dot's right. Und any plan vere you lose your hat iz?
Gorb: A bad plan?
Minsk: Right again!
Gorb: It iz?
Minsk: Uh huh. And how do dose alvays end?
Gorb: De dirgible iz in flames, everyboddyz dead and I've lost my hat.
Minsk: Dot's right. Und any plan vere you lose your hat iz?
Gorb: A bad plan?
Minsk: Right again!
"Oh god, you're right! There are still a few characters I haven't killed yet. I almost forgot about them."
Web Original
"If you were writing the first words of a novel version of Back to the Future, how would you do it? Maybe you’d introduce the concept of time being important, like the film did with all them crazy clocks. Maybe instead you’d introduce Marty and Doc, show who they are and what their relationship is. Well, anyway, you’re totally wrong!
The correct answer is to KILL EVERYBODY."
The correct answer is to KILL EVERYBODY."
"No. No, the lady in the Coke ad does not shoot him. I know I spend every finale of every show waiting for someone to get shot. When the clock starts running out on the hour, I get very anxious and start screaming at the TV, "Hey! When’s the shooting begin?" And then, no shooting. I feel deprived."
"So, I guess if you're making a movie and you're stuck for that perfect ending, just kill everybody. Hey, it worked for Tarantino, right?"
"You may notice a pattern near the end of the series: ER'YBODY GON' DIE."
"Whilst it is amateurishly directed (it feels like the clock was about to strike ten and they had to get it in the can as quickly as possible) I rather like the furious energy of the Doctor taking on the Cybermen and murdering them all out with a weapon. It feels like things have gotten wildly out of control and the only way to restore a sense of normality is to kill the lot of them. Is it the only way this story could have been concluded? No, but [Eric] Saward has once against boxed himself into a corner with too much going on and the only way he can see out is the murder everybody. It is becoming a habit on the show."
"Even though it set a box office record for a memorial day opening and got two thumbs up from Ebert and Roeper (Ebert praised its absurdity, which I think is the only way to go), X-Men 3 was kind of a disaster. It left the franchise in a weird place, with half of the cast dead or de-powered and the other half in this weird limbo of stuff that would need to be addressed before anything could actually happen. Like, they’re almost left having to go with an action movie starring Kelsey Grammer and [Elliot] Page if they did another sequel."
"You know, it's kind of a waste of time to create new characters for The Punisher's books. If they're Frank's enemies, they get shot dead after an appearance or two. If they're Frank's friends, they get shot dead after an appearance or two."
— Marvel Year In Review 1993
"George R. R. Martin, Joss Whedon, and Quentin Tarantino walk into a bar. Everyone you've ever loved dies."
— Internet Joke
Shakespeare's tragedies: They all die.
Shakespeare's comedies: Half of them die, and the other half crossdress.
— Internet Joke
Well, OK. You were killed in the nuclear explosion too, but every last one of those damned communist pokemon [sic] has been blown to smithereens. The revolution has been crushed and most of Brazil has been vapourised [sic], which can't be a bad thing. Unfortunately, the fight has only just begun; literally millions of those little bastard pokemon [sic] still infest the universe...
— Very old Adobe Flash parody game Pokémon: The Revolution
Western Animation
"Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end!" (grins)
— Patrick Star, Spongebob Squarepants
Real Life
"You will die. Your people will die. J. J. Abrams will die. You will ALL...DIE."
"No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves..."
