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--->'''Death''': THE HOGFATHER CAN. THE HOGFATHER GIVES PRESENTS. THERE'S NO BETTER PRESENT THAN A FUTURE.

* [[DoctorWho The Doctor's]] [[TheNthDoctor tenth incarnation]] got a lot more warning about his impending death than the previous ones.

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* GraveOfTheFireflies has a scene in which the brother and sister who serve as protagonists capture a large number of fireflies and keep them nearby overnight. The next morning, all the fireflies are dead. Given the number of people who are killed by bombs or starvation in the movie, as well as its connection to the title, this scene is obviously meant to represent something beyond dead insects.

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* Used in ''{{Highlander}}'', when the immortal[[spoiler: Methos]] falls in love with terminally ill [[spoiler: Alexa Bond]] and tries to cure her by finding the Methuselah stone. Of course, the trope also applies to Connor and Heather, and to all immortal/mortal love stories since, as the character says: "You are all dying. Twenty years, six months, what's the difference?"

** Parodied in {{Scary Movie}} 3:

* DragMeToHell - Allison is gypsy-cursed to have her soul dragged to hell in three days.

* Frank must deal with a WhoDunnitToMe situation in this way in {{Film/DOA}}.
* The Shootist is about an aging gunfighter (played by JohnWayne) who discovers he's dying of cancer at the dawn of the 20th century and has only weeks to live. Eerily, after making the film Wayne was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died, making The Shootist his last picture.

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* [[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]: After dying in a HeroicSacrifice and being brought back by a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien, [[spoiler:Sheridan]] is given twenty years to live, implied to be a side-effect of his artificial restoration.

* Charlie and Locke from ''{{Lost}}'' both get in this situation, albeit differently. Charlie nearly all of Season 3 with the knowledge that he's doomed due to Desmond's prophetic visions, while John Locke is explicitly told by Richard that he's going to have to die (which we already knew he was dead, as of the end of season 4, which is one of the mysteries of season 5. [[spoiler: Locke is resurrected ]]
** [[spoiler: Except he isn't.]]

* From FlashForward2009, Demetri didn't have a flash forward, making him fear that he won't live up until those six months.

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* In MetalGearSolid 4, [[spoiler: Snake finds out that, due to accelerated aging programmed into his genes from birth, he's got around 6 months left to live. Worse yet, the FOXDIE virus he was injected with at Shadow Moses, 9 years earlier, has started to mutate, and will turn him into a walking, pandemic bio-weapon within 'bout 3 months. Good motivation for One Last Mission, huh? And no pesky worrying about an exit-strategy...]]

* In Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, all four bounty hunters' bodies start producing phazon (Phazon is highly toxic). Eventually, [[spoiler: Samus has to kill the other three bounty hunter, who had been corrupted by phazon. The only reason Samus doesn't get corrupted is that she destroys a load-bearing-boss on Phaaze, the source of all phazon, destroying the planet, which causes phazon to cease to exist.]] It makes sense in context.

* In MassEffect 2, Drell [[CareerKiller Assassin]] Thane is dying from a disease, which he makes clear to Shepard. He's trying to spend his last days [[TheAtoner making the world a better place]] and in his personal mission [[spoiler:attempting to save his son from following his footsteps]].

* BreathOfFire 5 uses this as a game mechanic. Your character embarks on a quest to make it to the surface- if it even exists- before his dragon counter reaches 100%. Once that happens, the dragon inhabiting him will take over and he will die. As you play through the game, the very act of walking will raise the counter by .01% every few seconds (and running will raise it faster than that.) Using various attacks in battle raise it up further and faster. If you don't play the game smart, you won't be able to finish it.

* DeadRising [[spoiler: gives you 20 hours before you turn into a zombie after the initial 72 hours of the storymode pass by.]]

* I'm actually surprised nobody mentioned [[TheWorldEndsWithYou The World Ends With You]] yet. Basically, one of the main premises of the game is that, well, the character themselves are in a game of sorts. The game lasts for a total of one week, and every day, each "Player" gets a text message with a mission for the day, after which a timer immediately (and painfully) appears on their hand. If none of the Players finish the mission before the timer runs out, the Game Master for the week officially wins, and all of the players are "Erased". However, it only takes a single pair of players (they all come in pairs, as part of the First Day's mission is to find a partner) to win for everyone to get a pass for the day. [[spoiler: It's not always you.]]

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* {{Goblins}} has [[MeaningfulName Dies Horribly.]]
* [[spoiler: Belkar]] in The OrderOfTheStick. [[spoiler: The Oracle mentions that he "should savour his next birthday cake", along with several other less than subtle hints, surprisingly early on, but everyone forgets it due to the spell ensuring they only remember the predictions they paid for. The Oracle later gives Roy's ghost an official prediction (carefully worded to avoid ProphecyTwist, not that this stops fans who don't want to accept the Belkster's impending demise from trying) that Belkar will "take his last breath - ever - before the end of the year", of which there are less than seven weeks left. There's no way of knowing how many strips that means, however...]]

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* In the ''{{KateModern}}'' episode "The Confession", Griffin reveals that he injected fifteen girls with a serum that has had the side effect of slowly killing their immune systems, meaning that they will die in a few months time. Charlie, Kate, Julia, Steve and Terry attempt to track them down, but all are either missing or dead by the time they reach them, with one exception, Lauren. Following the events of "Precious Blood", [[spoiler:Lauren is currently being kept alive only by taking a variety of pills daily for the rest of her life]], as revealed in "The Drugs Do Work".

* In the WhateleyUniverse right now, there's an interesting variant. A young wizardess is trying desperately to avoid the consequences of an unstoppable curse. The variant? Said wizardess is the villainess Hekate, and the heinous curse was put on her by Fey, who is supposed to be one of the good guys.

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* I'm actually surprised nobody mentioned [[TheWorldEndsWithYou]] yet. Basically, one of the main premises of the game is that, well, the character themselves are in a game of sorts. The game lasts for a total of one week, and every day, each "Player" gets a text message with a mission for the day, after which a timer immediately (and painfully) appears on their hand. If none of the Players finish the mission before the timer runs out, the Game Master for the week officially wins, and all of the players are "Erased". However, it only takes a single pair of players (they all come in pairs, as part of the First Day's mission is to find a partner) to win for everyone to get a pass for the day. [[spoiler: It's not always you.]]

* Those involved in networking know that packets have a variable set that is decremented when it hits each point, designed to keep packets from endlessly roaming the Internets like lost souls. What's this value called? Time To Live.

Either way, cue misery and angsting.

* [[JamesBond Bond villain]] Renard does what he does because [[spoiler: he's hopelessly in love with Elektra King]] and [[spoiler: he's got a bullet lodged in his brain that's migrating]].

* ''[[Ikiru]]''

* Due to the incredible strain of keeping the family in some sort of order, the heads of the Sohma family in ''FruitsBasket'' never live past thirty. [[spoiler: That's what, in fact, made Akito's father Akira an [[IllGirl ill boy]]... and ultimately killed him. Akito shows signs of illness in the anime and that's her FreudianExcuse, but in the manga her bad health seems to come more from ''deep'' seated psychological problems, courtesy of her ManipulaiveBitch [[AbusiveParents mother]].]]

* ''MacrossFrontier'' has this come to [[spoiler:Sheryl Nome]] late in the series, and it's [[TearJerker heartbreaking]], [[spoiler:especially how it ties into BreakTheCutie ''and'' BreakTheHaughty]].

* ''MacrossFrontier'' has this come to [[spoiler:Sheryl Nome]] late in the series, and it's [[TearJerker heartbreaking]], and plays a serious part in [[spoiler:BreakTheCutie ''and'' BreakTheHaughty]].

* [[spoiler: Belkar]] in The OrderOfTheStick. [[spoiler: The Oracle mentions that he "should savour his next birthday cake" surprisingly early on, but everyone forgets it due to the spell ensuring they only remember the predictions they paid for. The Oracle later gives Roy's ghost an official prediction that Belkar will "take his last breath - ever - before the end of the year", of which there are less than seven weeks left. There's no way of knowing how many strips that means, however...]]

Not to be confused with YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive, which is when the antagonist actually ''says'' "Your days are numbered!" ... or something similar, as a threat. Unless Alice is [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight actually doomed]], the statement in itself is that, not this.

** Parodied in {{Scary Movie}} 3:
-->'''Cindy''': Hello?
-->'''Tabitha''': [indistinct] Seven days.
-->'''Cindy''': What? Willie Mays?
-->'''Tabitha''': [indistinct] Seven days.
-->'''Cindy''': Who's gay? Hello?
-->'''Tabitha''': [indistinct] Seven days.
-->'''Cindy''': What?
-->'''Tabitha''': Can you hear me now?
-->'''Cindy''': Kind of.
-->'''Tabitha''': Can you hear me now?
-->'''Cindy''': Yes. Perfect.
-->'''Tabitha''': Seven days.
-->'''Cindy''': Seven days. Oh, my God. I'm gonna die next Monday?
-->'''Tabitha''': Yes. No. Wait. Monday. That would be seven business days. This is seven days starting now.
-->'''Cindy''': So seven days to this very hour? My watch broke. How am I gonna know the exact hour?
-->'''Tabitha''': Forget hours. This day seven days from now.
-->'''Cindy''': But there's a holiday coming up. Do you count the holiday?
-->'''Tabitha''': Well, that depends. What holiday?
-->'''Cindy''': Martin Luther King Day.
-->'''Tabitha''': Then no.
-->'''Cindy''': Why not? Everybody at work is taking it off.
-->'''Tabitha''': Jesus Christ, lady. I'm giving you seven friggin' days. I can come over now and kill the shit out of you if you'd rather have that.

Not to be confused with YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive, which is when the villain actually ''says'' "Your days are numbered!" ... or similar threat. Unless Alice is [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight doomed from the beginning]], the statement in itself is merely a threat.

Not to be confused with YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive, which is when the villain actually ''says'' "Your days are numbered!" or some variation thereof. Unless Alice is [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight doomed from the beginning]], the phrase itself is just a threat, not this.

Not to be confused with YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive, which is when the villain actually ''says'' "Your days are numbered!" ... or some variation thereof. Unless Alice is [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight doomed from the beginning]], the phrase in and of itself is just a threat.

Not to be confused with YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive, which is when the villain actually ''says'' "Your days are numbered!" (or some variation thereof). Unless the [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight prophecy]] is involved somehow, the statement in itself is merely a threat.