History FaceDeathWithDignity / FanWorks

** In ''Franchise/SpiderMan Evolution'', at the end of the Silvermane arc, Kingpin orders all of Silvio's men dead, causing the Enforcers to fight for their lives. When they're nearly out of ammo, they make a break for Silvio's limo, only for Ox to get shot and the limo to not work. Fancy Dan, who's breaking down because of this and is promising to go straight if they make it out alive, spots a way out through a sewer entrance and leads Montana to it, only for him to realize that [[Creator/GrantMorrison the sadistic Kingpin mook Morrison]] is approaching fast with many others, and that they'll just catch up. Instead of running, he locks Montana on the other side by breaking off the handle, staring down Morrison as he shoots him at pointblank range.

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* ''Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesOnVacation'':
** Taiga Tachibana (who'd done a TwinSwitch with her sister Tatsuki, the actual culprit), calmly accepts her fate without even giving a MotiveRant, and tells her sister that she loves her before being taken away to be executed.
** [[DecoyProtagonist Akira Azuki]], after realizing that she was the one who accidentally killed the third victim, confesses to the murder and gives final words of encouragement to the survivors (including the ones she dislikes) before being executed.
** Seita Kirishima, the fourth culprit, stops arguing after Nagato gives a summary of his crimes, conceding that he cannot argue his case any longer. After calmly and matter-of-factly discussing his reasons for the crime, he gives Nagato his notebook with all his observations and accepts his fate.
** Nobuhiro Higurashi [[HeroicSacrifice asks his classmates to vote for him]], as a result of the rules requiring the students to sacrifice one of the survivors after the two victims in the fifth trial turn out to have killed each other. He passes the mantle of leadership to Nagato and declares that he does not regret his decision.
* ''Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesToDie'':
** After being exposed, Reiko Mitamura, the second murderer, provides the final piece of evidence that helps ensure her conviction. In the minutes before her execution, she apologizes to those she betrayed in her attempt to graduate, and concedes that this is what she deserves.
** Zig-zagged with Sora Hoshino, the third murderer. He fights to the bitter end, even trying to threaten the other students with an empty gun to avoid being convicted, and once he's convicted, he bitterly notes that his death only bought the others a little more time "living" while being stuck in the school. In the end, though, he decides to "take (his) execution like a man," albeit partly out of {{pride}}.
* ''Fanfic/TheWizardInTheShadows'' has Saruman, who goes out surprisingly gracefully, prophesying a warning then asking Harry to kill him. Wormtongue, as noted by Eirian, does not. And gets a FateWorseThanDeath.
* In ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' Lieutenant Commander T'Var performs a HeroicSacrifice[=/=]TakingTheBullet to save a larger ship, her former commander, and a MineralMacGuffin, facing her death with calm Vulcan stoicism.

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* In the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6272844/1/Refusal-to-Fall Refusal to Fall]]'', [[spoiler:Ukraine]] dies refusing to bow to the Empire, [[spoiler:managing to shoot him before she goes]]. The end of the story has a history book suggest that [[spoiler:her sacrifice was the turning point for the war against the Empire.]]
* ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'': [[spoiler: Lord Alster Dayne, who travels to King's Landing while suffering a deadly disease to deliver Dawn and much needed information to his only son.]]
** The last man to be beheaded by [[spoiler: Robert]] for taking bribes.
** Averted with [[spoiler: Janos Slynt]], who soils himself and is crying out and asking to be sent to the Wall the whole time.

* In the ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2188199/1/Sakura-s-Christmas-Surprise Sakura's Christmas Surprise,]]'' it's revealed that Syaoran's older sister Fanren has [[DreamingOfThingsToCome dreamed of her own death since she was four]], and that she will die [[HeroicSacrifice saving]] [[ChildrenAreInnocent an innocent little girl]] from an exploding bus. When a horrified Sakura objects, Fanren calmly tells her that she has [[YouCantFightFate accepted her fate]] and uses it as an opportunity to live her life to the fullest every day. Her demise occurs off-screen in chapter 7 of ''Fanfic/ShadowOfTheDragon'', another fic set in the same continuity.

* Technomad seems to like this trope: both [[Literature/TheTomorrowSeries Ellie Linton]] and [[Literature/BattleRoyale Mitsuko Souma]] were ShotAtDawn, in different fics, and both went out without blindfolds, defiant and unbowed.

* ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' tells the stories of all the Hunger Games, which includes several tributes who use their interview with Caesar to do a final performance.
** During the tribute interviews of the 40th Games, the District 6 girl, recognizing she would likely die the next day (which she did), "asked if she could recite a poem she wrote. It was about the smell of her mother's bread cutting through the stench of the petrol refineries, and it was deeply moving."
** Aeria Whitaker, one of District 5's female tributes for the Second Quarter Quell, flawlessly performs the dance solo she would have given at her school's summer recital.
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9855028/1/The-Warlord-Era-Internal-Perspectives The Warlord Era: Internal Perspectives]] by Blex Luthor begins with a dying Jeong Jeong forty years after the end of the Hundred Year War.
-->'''Jeong Jeong:''' Now at last we are sitting down. Death and I. Looking each other eye-to-eye before we walk off together.