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* ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uhqkjaCHPcc/VduNNPhFDQI/AAAAAAAAAyw/Vz0cODEtdQo/w1542-h1254/image.jpg asks this]] of an [[AlternateUniverse alternate]] version of himself that [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial really doesn't at all look like]] ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}.
* Doctor Doom is flabbergasted by Reed Richards' perseverance to the point of expressing this trope word-for-word in [[LargeHam ALL CAPS ON MANY DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.]] Special props to ''ComicBook/FantasticFour #200'', after Reed escapes from a sealed incinerator by squeezing through the tiny pipeline leading from a jet blasting poisonous chlorine gas into his face.
* Spoken word for word by ComicBook/GreenGoblin to his [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] ComicBook/SpiderMan in FinalBattle of the ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''.
-->'''Norman Osborn:''' I had you unconscious -- At my mercy! How could this have happened? Why won't you just '''DIE?'''?\\
'''Peter Parker:''' Because... then you'd win. And I'll '''NEVER''' give you satisfaction! ''[[[HeyYouHaymaker POW]]]''
* In ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'', Promixa Midnight one of Thanos's EliteMooks [[https://retconpunchdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/ma2_cage.jpg utters this word for word]] while having a glorious VillainousBreakdown during her earthquaking fight with ComicBook/LukeCage in New York. In fairness to Midnight, prior to coming to Earth she had conqured thousands of worlds with Thanos and killed many powerful cosmic beings with him. So the idea of any non-immortal, let alone a puny Earthling like Luke, giving her so much trouble and being able to NoSell her full might understandably shatters her arrogance and freaks her the hell out.
* In an issue of Adam Warren's ''Literature/DirtyPair'', Kei, fighting an artificially created "warbeast", starts unloading into its head at point-blank range with a gun capable of stopping PoweredArmor with one shot.

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* ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'': A variation appears during the climactic battle between Lex Luthor (armed with all the powers of Superman) and Steel (armed with basically some armour and a big hammer). After Steel responds to the predictable CurbStompBattle that ensues by continuing to keep getting up no matter how hard Luthor hits him, Luthor -- after first mocking the increasing number of injuries that Steel is racking up -- bellows "Are you still getting up? Lie down and die!"
* ''Literature/BanishedFromTheHerosParty'': When Red and Rit are sent hurtling down an elevator shaft in the ancient elf ruins, they survive by virtue of [[spoiler:Danan being at the bottom and using one of his techniques to send them flying back up]]. This inexplicable occurrence causes [[spoiler:Ares, who had attempted to kill Red to remove his influence over Ruti]], to wonder why Red can't just die already.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
** The Joker says this in his [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/goofybatman110-13.jpg very first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/BatmanNumber1''. Ironic, given Joker's [[JokerImmunity later ability]].
** In ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheCapedCrusader'', this is said by the Joker during his eulogy as he's retelling the story of how he killed Batman:
--->''''''Joker:''' Smile damn you, why don't you smile?!''' You've got enough Joker Venom in you to finish off a regime of elephants. Why don't you '''smile?''' Why don't you '''die?'''\\
'''Batman:''' Because it's not '''funny.'''
* ''ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'': Deathstroke
[[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uhqkjaCHPcc/VduNNPhFDQI/AAAAAAAAAyw/Vz0cODEtdQo/w1542-h1254/image.jpg asks this]] of an [[AlternateUniverse alternate]] version of himself that [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial really doesn't at all look like]] ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}.
* Doctor Doom is flabbergasted by Reed Richards' perseverance to the point of expressing this trope word-for-word in [[LargeHam ALL CAPS ON MANY DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.]] Special props to ''ComicBook/FantasticFour #200'', after Reed escapes from a sealed incinerator by squeezing through the tiny pipeline leading from a jet blasting poisonous chlorine gas into his face.
* Spoken word for word by ComicBook/GreenGoblin to his [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] ComicBook/SpiderMan in FinalBattle of the ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''.
-->'''Norman Osborn:''' I had you unconscious -- At my mercy! How could this have happened? Why won't you just '''DIE?'''?\\
'''Peter Parker:''' Because... then you'd win. And I'll '''NEVER''' give you satisfaction! ''[[[HeyYouHaymaker POW]]]''
* In ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'', Promixa Midnight one of Thanos's EliteMooks [[https://retconpunchdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/ma2_cage.jpg utters this word for word]] while having a glorious VillainousBreakdown during her earthquaking fight with ComicBook/LukeCage in New York. In fairness to Midnight, prior to coming to Earth she had conqured thousands of worlds with Thanos and killed many powerful cosmic beings with him. So the idea of any non-immortal, let alone a puny Earthling like Luke, giving her so much trouble and being able to NoSell her full might understandably shatters her arrogance and freaks her the hell out.
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''Literature/DirtyPair'': In an issue of Adam Warren's ''Literature/DirtyPair'', series, Kei, fighting an artificially created "warbeast", starts unloading into its head at point-blank range with a gun capable of stopping PoweredArmor with one shot.



* In the ''Seed of Destruction'' storyline, ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} shoots [[BigBad Rasputin]] in the head...

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* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Doctor Doom is flabbergasted by Reed Richards' perseverance to the point of expressing this trope word-for-word in [[LargeHam ALL CAPS ON MANY DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.]] Special props to ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961'' #200, after Reed escapes from a sealed incinerator by squeezing through the tiny pipeline leading from a jet blasting poisonous chlorine gas into his face.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'':
In the ''Seed of Destruction'' storyline, ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} Hellboy shoots [[BigBad Rasputin]] in the head...



* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': In ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', General Ross asks this of the Green Scar Hulk, when he's pumping the Hulk full of MoreDakka.
-->'''Ross:''' Why won't you die already?\\
'''Hulk:''' That's ''your'' job, isn't it?
* ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'': Promixa Midnight, one of Thanos's EliteMooks, [[https://retconpunchdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/ma2_cage.jpg utters this word for word]] while having a glorious VillainousBreakdown during her earthquaking fight with ComicBook/LukeCage in New York. In fairness to Midnight, prior to coming to Earth she had conqured thousands of worlds with Thanos and killed many powerful cosmic beings with him. So the idea of any non-immortal, let alone a puny Earthling like Luke, giving her so much trouble and being able to NoSell her full might understandably shatters her arrogance and freaks her the hell out.



* The Joker says this in his [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/goofybatman110-13.jpg very first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/BatmanNumber1''. Ironic, given Joker's [[JokerImmunity later ability]].
* In ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheCapedCrusader'', this is said by the Joker during his eulogy as he's retelling the story of how he killed Batman:
-->''''''Joker:''' Smile damn you, why don't you smile?!''' You've got enough Joker Venom in you to finish off a regime of elephants. Why don't you '''smile?''' Why don't you '''die?'''\\
'''Batman:''' Because it's not '''funny.'''
* A variation appears in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', during the climactic battle between Lex Luthor (armed with all the powers of Superman) and Steel (armed with basically some armour and a big hammer). After Steel responds to the predictable CurbStompBattle that ensues by continuing to keep getting up no matter how hard Luthor hits him, Luthor -- after first mocking the increasing number of injuries that Steel is racking up -- bellows "Are you still getting up? Lie down and die!"
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel:

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* The Joker says ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spoken word for word by ComicBook/GreenGoblin to his [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] Spider-Man in FinalBattle of the ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''.
-->'''Norman Osborn:''' I had you unconscious -- At my mercy! How could
this in his [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/goofybatman110-13.jpg very first appearance]] in ''ComicBook/BatmanNumber1''. Ironic, given Joker's [[JokerImmunity later ability]].
* In ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheCapedCrusader'', this is said by the Joker during his eulogy as he's retelling the story of how he killed Batman:
-->''''''Joker:''' Smile damn you, why don't
have happened? Why won't you smile?!''' You've got enough Joker Venom in just '''DIE?'''?\\
'''Peter Parker:''' Because... then you'd win. And I'll '''NEVER''' give
you to finish off a regime of elephants. Why don't you '''smile?''' Why don't you '''die?'''\\
'''Batman:''' Because it's not '''funny.'''
satisfaction! ''[[[HeyYouHaymaker POW]]]''
* A variation appears in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', during the climactic battle between Lex Luthor (armed with all the powers of Superman) and Steel (armed with basically some armour and a big hammer). After Steel responds to the predictable CurbStompBattle that ensues by continuing to keep getting up no matter how hard Luthor hits him, Luthor -- after first mocking the increasing number of injuries that Steel is racking up -- bellows "Are you still getting up? Lie down and die!"
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel:
''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'':



* ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'': General Ross asks this of the Green Scar Hulk, when he's pumping the Hulk full of MoreDakka.
-->'''Ross:''' Why won't you die already?\\
'''Hulk:''' That's ''your'' job, isn't it?
* ''Literature/BanishedFromTheHerosParty'': When Red and Rit are sent hurtling down an elevator shaft in the ancient elf ruins, they survive by virtue of [[spoiler:Danan being at the bottom and using one of his techniques to send them flying back up]]. This inexplicable occurrence causes [[spoiler:Ares, who had attempted to kill Red to remove his influence over Ruti]], to wonder why Red can't just die already.
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* Used in the movie version of ''Film/TheCrow'' where Funboy shoots the hero several times, only to watch in horror as the hero's HealingFactor kicks in and closes the wounds right before his eyes, leading him to cry "[[HarsherInHindsight Don't you ever fuckin' die?]]"

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* Used in the movie version of ''Film/TheCrow'' ''Film/TheCrow1994'' where Funboy shoots the hero several times, only to watch in horror as the hero's HealingFactor kicks in and closes the wounds right before his eyes, leading him to cry "[[HarsherInHindsight Don't you ever fuckin' die?]]"

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