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* Subverted in ''MonstersVsAliens''. After The Missing Link and Dr. Cockroach are telling each other ItHasBeenAnHonor, B.O.B. tells them he'll see them tomorrow for lunch. They agree, although B.O.B. was totally serious...

* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', [[spoiler:as Euphemia dies after being shot by Lelouch,]] Suzaku tearfully begs her to join him[[spoiler:and his friends at Ashford Academy. Euphie gently rejects the idea, having already accepted that her time is up, and tells Suzaku to continue on in school for both of them.]]

-->'''B.O.B.:''' I'll see you guys tomorrow...for lunch.

-->'''Dr. Cockroach:''' There'll be candy and cake...balloons.

* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' has a more stealthy example. [[spoiler:While approaching the series' FinalDungeon, Oz suggests having a tea party after the GrandFinale ad everyone gets excited. Within a few hours of that conversation, though, over half their group is dead including him. While at first it seemed like cruel irony, flashbacks reveal that Oz had been aware he was going to [[MessianicArchetype die]], making his tea party conversation a fridge example of this trope.]]

* ''{{Homestuck}}'': The last thing uranianUmbra does before taking her (possibly final) nap is call Roxy and confide in her: [[spoiler: her true name, her real species, her species' nature, and the relationship between herself and her brother. The first and last ones are most important to this trope: if somebody says her name to her brother, he will fall asleep and she will wake up, and vice versa. She leaves Roxy with her name so that if she never wakes up on her own, Roxy can contact her brother and do it herself.]]

* {{Homestuck}}: The last thing uranianUmbra does before taking her (possibly final) nap is call Roxy and confide in her: [[spoiler: her true name, her real species, her species' nature, and the relationship between herself and her brother. The first and last ones are most important to this trope: if somebody says her name to her brother, he will fall asleep and she will wake up, and vice versa. She leaves Roxy with her name so that if she never wakes up on her own, Roxy can contact her brother and do it herself.]]

*** If Shepard romanced Garrus, their final conversation in London consists of them calmly discussing whether to start a family after the war is over. Romanced Liara will also lament how their disappointed their "little blue children" will be that she didn't have a speech ready.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', the members of SEES make a plan to meet on Graduation Day, even though they have every reason to believe that the world will end before that day ever gets arrives.

** Two seasons earlier, Xander proposed to Anya just they go off to stop the Apocalypse (again).

* One of the greatest moments of this troop in ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' where George talks to Lennie about their plans for the farm and the rabbits to distract Lennie before George [[spoiler:shoots him in the back of the head out of kindness, before Curley kills him instead]]. It is such a heartbreaking moment...

* In the third installment of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Jon has something of a one-sided version of this with the dying Ygritte. He tells her that she'll be fixed up, that she'll see a hundred castles, and that they'll return to their cave together. Her response is simply, "[[MeaningfulEcho You know nothing, Jon Snow.]]"

*** If Shepard romanced Garrus, their final conversation in London consists of them calmly discussing whether to start a family after the war is over.

* One of the greatest moments of this troop in ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' where George talks to Lennie about their plans for the farm and the rabbits to distract Lennie before George [[spoiler: shoots him in the back of the head out of kindness, before Curley kills him instead]] It is such a heartbreaking moment...

* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'': As Tony lay dying in Maria's arms, the two discuss how they're going to get away because no one will let them be. She starts to sing a reprise of a song about how they will leave. He dies before she can finish.

** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': During their romance path, Shepard and Thane can make plans to visit a desert. This one's especially tragic because, even in the off chance that both Shepard and Thane survive the suicide mission, Thane [[DeadManWalking has roughly nine months to live]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E8LisaTheSkeptic Lisa the Skeptic]]," Edna suggests she and Skinner have sex one last time before the end. Skinner agrees, but asks her to give him a bit so he can finish filling out the tardy slips. If the world was ending, who cares about tardy slips?

* In each of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' games, Shepard and his/her crew have every reason to believe that they're not going to survive the final confrontation against Saren (''VideoGame/MassEffect1'')/the SuicideMission (''VideoGame/MassEffect2'')/the final push against the Reapers (''VideoGame/MassEffect3''). That doesn't stop them from making plans.

* In ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', after Cap makes his choice to [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]], he and Peggy make plans for a date. A tearful Peggy tells him, [[HowDareYouDieOnMe "Don't you dare be late."]] He agrees, and reminds her that he can't dance, and worries about stepping on her feet. He gets [[KilledMidSentence cut off mid-sentence]] as he crashes into the sea.]]

* ''FinalFantasyX'' had this as a major and very well developed plot point for the first 3/4 of the game where Tidus and Yuna talked about what they were going to do after defeating Sin with the Final Aeon; they did this all the way up to just before entering Zanarkand. When Tidus learns that Yuna's death would be a part of the summoning, it crushes him as he thinks about how much time they spent talking about the future beyond Sin's death. Towards the end of the game it actually switches around as Tidus keeps secret that he will disappear when they stop Yu Yevon.
** It also acts as a subversion. With Tidus and Rikku hell-bent on [[TakeAThirdOption finding another way]] and Auron quietly (but awesomely) backing the idea, Yuna eventually ''rejects'' the whole idea that she has to die [[spoiler: and twist a loved one into the next Sin]], culminating in FFX-2 where she tells someone who plans a HeroicSacrifice "your plan sucks!"
* In ''{{Persona 3}}'', the members of SEES make a plan to meet on Graduation Day, even though they have every reason to believe that the world will end before that day ever gets arrives.

** It also acts as a subversion. With Tidus and Rikku hell-bent on [[TakeAThirdOption finding another way]] and Auron quietly (but aweasomely) backing the idea, Yuna eventually ''rejects'' the whole idea that she has to die [[spoiler: and twist a loved one into the next Sin]], culminating in FFX-2 where she tells someone who plans a HeroicSacrifice "your plan sucks!"

* ''FinalFantasyX'' had this as a major and very well developed plot point for the first 3/4 of the game where Tidus and Yuna talked about what they were going to do after defeating Sin with the Final Aeon; they did this all the way up to just before entering Zanarkand. When Tidus learns that Yuna's death would be a part of the summoning, it crushes him as he thinks about how much time they spent talking about the future beyond Sin's death.

* Used in the last episode of "Hakuouki" Shinsengumi Kitan, [[spoiler: Chizuru uses it to tell Yamazaki that he must get better soon because there'll be lots of injured in the war, and he'll be needed to tend the wounded. ]]

* Used in the last episode of "LightNovel/Hakuouki" Shinsengumi Kitan, [[spoiler: Chizuru uses it to tell Yamazaki that he must get better soon because there'll be lots of injured in the war, and he'll be needed to tend the wounded.