Last Words, but before Instant Sedation rather than dying. Sometimes they possess a bit of the impact of actual Last Words because the fainting character is in bad shape and using the last strength they have to utter them or because their general situation is bad and they don't know if they will wake up again.
In a variant, the person doing the sedating may give a one-liner to the person they have sedated. A brief bit of Snark-to-Snark Combat may ensue, before the drugged party passes out.
If they don't have any meaning, it's Non Sequi-- BONK! Have you tried flipping the banana onto its driveway?
See also His Name Is...
Examples:
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- Stardust Crusaders: As Kakyoin's attempts to warn the group about the Mannish Boy results in him getting struck from behind, he could only muster a few words to say the group can't fall asleep before becoming unconscious.
- Stone Ocean: After his memories and Star Platinum are stolen by Pucci, Jotaro could only tell Jolyne how much she means to him just as he becomes comatose.
- One Piece: At one point in the Skypiea arc, Sanji gets electrocuted by the Arc Villain Enel. Right before he faints, he tells him two things: "Thanks for lighting my cigarette" and to "get ready to cry."
- In one episode of Pokémon: The Original Series, Dr. Proctor is trying to give an aggressive Dodrio being treated a shot of sedative. Because of how much the Pokémon is flailing, he accidentally sticks himself with the needle. He has just enough time to tell Ash, Misty, and Brock how long it's going to put him out for, before staggering off to pass out.
- After being poisoned and wounded Zen of Snow White with the Red Hair manages to order almost everyone else still clinging to consciousness in the room to get medical attention before passing out himself showing just how much he values the country's soldiers and his personal aides.
- A short back-and-forth between Nie Huaisang and Jin Guangyao occurs just after the former drugs the latter in The Lost Cause.
Nie Huaisang: Hey, san-ge. I won our game.
- In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fic A Little Red and Blue
, Sharon is inadvertently sent to the year 1944 by Wanda and is later found by the past Steve and Bucky. At one point, Sharon and Steve save people from a burning building and Sharon has to jump out of a window in order to escape, getting some injuries that require stitches. This doesn't stop her from assisting Bucky's aunt Agatha with various chores in her home. Later, Sharon's stitches open, prompting to her to ask for a sewing needle, a mirror, some rubbing alcohol, and dental floss and request that she's not going to the hospital before passing out. This leading to Steve ripping her coat and shirt off while she's unconscious so he and Bucky can restitch her wounds. Steve becomes somewhat embarrassed when Sharon notices her missing clothing after waking up.
- Team Courier: After narrowly escaping the spotlight trap, an injured and exhausted Ryder uses her last moments of consciousness to think of some suitable last words — just in case — before she falls into a Post-Victory Collapse:
Ryder: I... am incredibly awesome!
- Played with in 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL is effectively dead for the remainder of the movie, but is only shut down, as he's a computer. It's one of the most famous moments in film.
HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do...
- In the movie Death Becomes Her, Bruce Willis's character gets smashed over the head with a large vase. He irritably turns to his attacker and asks "What?" before falling unconscious (and almost falling down a flight of stairs).
- The Firm has a sadder example. Avery, who has been hitting on Abby (Mitch's wife) for most of the movie, gets to see her when she joins him in the Cayman Islands. Unbeknownst to him, however, she's really there to help Tammy copy his files for Mitch. After Abby drugs Avery's drink, they go back to his hotel room, but as they're starting to undress, he briefly comes to his senses and demands to know what she's doing there. Abby eventually comes clean (well, partly):
Abby: I came here to get even with Mitch for letting the firm ruin our lives! I came because when he was down here, he slept with someone else!
Avery: [as he's losing consciousness] At least it's better than the alternative.
Abby: What alternative?
Avery: That you're here to see me. [passes out] - George of the Jungle: During Ursula's bouts of unconsciousness following her crash into a tree:
Ursula: Mommy, make the monkey stop talking...
Ursula: I'm gonna pass out again now. Bye. - George of the Jungle 2: Ursula comments on seeing Shep wearing New Balance shoes before fainting:
Ursula: Oh, the elephant's wearing New Balance. [faints]
- In HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami, Dan Geraldo gets a dozen of blowpipe Tranquillizer Darts in the face before fainting.
Dan: It stings a bit.
- Labyrinth: Jareth orders Hoggle to give Sarah a drugged peach; after she bites into it, she realizes something is wrong, and breathes: "Hoggle, what've you done?"
- Mystery Men: Right after Captain Amazing asks what he just picked up is if not evidence, it shoots out a cloud of pink smoke. Captain Amazing can only briefly protest:
Casanova Frankenstein: It's a chloroform-deploying portable enticement snare.
Captain Amazing: ...Ah, dang! - In The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, the Police Squad lab tech is demonstrating a tranquilizer dart-shooting watch to Frank Drebin (it's that kind of movie). When he shoots Frank's squadmate, Ed, the man puts his hand to his neck (where the dart landed). Then, as he's passing out, he says:
Ed: Ted... why?
- Ronin has a non-Instant Sedation version — after Vincent and Jean-Pierre remove a bullet from Sam without anesthesia (at Sam's insistence), Sam says, "If you don't mind, I'm gonna pass out now," and does.
- Spaceballs:
- Dark Helmet suffers this due to his own incompetent leadership; when he orders Colonel Sandurz to hit the emergency brake to get Spaceball One out of Ludicrous Speed, he continues forward into a console. After they pick him back up, somewhat battered, he suggests everyone take a five-minute break before he collapses.
- Meanwhile, Lone Starr and Barf are stuck on a desert planet. As Barf collapses, he goes, "Oh, waiter... Check, Please!! *Thud*" in a Non Sequitur, *Thud*. Lone Starr soon follows with a straighter example: "Must go on... must go on... who am I kidding? *Thud*"
- And a Spaceball guarding the self-destruct mechanism instructs Lone Starr how to do a proper Vulcan neck pinch, and when he does, "Like this?" The guard replies, "Yeah!" *Thud*
- Star Wars: After being Force-choked by Anakin in Revenge of the Sith, Padmé briefly regains consciousness and manages to say a few words to Obi-Wan: "Is Anakin alright?" She passes out again moments later and so never finds out that Anakin was horrifically injured and left for dead.
- From Thor, when the title character wakes up in a hospital and starts fighting back the staff.
Thor: YOU ARE NO MATCH FOR THE MIGHTY— [injection]
- In True Lies, when Aziz's men capture the Taskers, Helen is tranq'd with a shot to the neck. "That hurt, you ba—" *thud*
- Near the beginning of xXx, Xander is shot with a tranquilizer dart. This may come across as a Non Sequitur, *Thud*, but it's not. Not ten minutes earlier in the movie, he had stolen a car (as part of a Take That! to a Jack Thompson expy). The car in question was a Corvette. Which led to the quote.
Xander: [confused] It was only a Corvette! [thump]
- In the episode "Chains" from the second series of Blackadder:
Kidnapper: Excuse me, Meister...
Blackadder: Yes? What is it?
[Kidnapper hits him on the head with a large stick]
Blackadder: I said, "What is it?", not "Hit me hard on the head with a—" [thud] - Casey in the Chuck episode Chuck vs The Dream Job is shot twice with tranquilizer darts and has a third dart stabbed into his neck by Chuck.
Casey: [to Chuck] I'm gonna kill you when I wake up.
- The main character of Dexter often whispers a one-liner to his victims right after he slips them the needle.
- Firefly:
- The episode "The Train Job" sees a fair few things go wrong, resulting in Jayne making a serious move to take command. This doesn't sit well with the rest, resulting in certain actions being taken and Jayne narrating his path out of consciousness.
Jayne: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here! Now we're finishing this deal, and then maybe, maybe we'll come back for those morons... got themselves caught... and you can't change that by getting all... bendy.
Wash: All what?
Jayne: You got the light... from the console to keep you... lifting you up... they shine like... little angels...
[Jayne unceremoniously falls on his face]
Wash: Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
Simon: I told him to sit down. - Mal and Inara in the episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds" both get curse words as Saffron's knockout drug takes effect. Almost. Neither of them quite manage to finish cursing, but they both say more or less the same thing: Mal gets "Son of a—" and Inara, "You stupid son of a—!"
- In "Objects in Space", Simon is walking Zoe through removing a bullet from his leg (without painkillers, as he needs to remain alert). After she gets the bullet out, he says "Okay, I think I'm gonna pass out now..."
- The episode "The Train Job" sees a fair few things go wrong, resulting in Jayne making a serious move to take command. This doesn't sit well with the rest, resulting in certain actions being taken and Jayne narrating his path out of consciousness.
- In one episode of Hill Street Blues, Lt. Hunter receives a gift in the mail from an admirer which he thinks is some sort of flute. One of the other officers in the precinct tries blowing into it. There is a pfft, and a feathered dart is sticking out of Hunter's chest.
Hunter: Oh. It's a Blow Gun. [thud; roll opening credits]
- House:
- Wilson: "You drugged me..." *thud*
- Similarly, House manages to mutter, "Who spiked my..." before falling to the ground.
- In one episode of M*A*S*H, Henry grabs a hypodermic syringe from a combative patient in the OR and gets a handful of the needle. He manages to count down to ninety-eight before collapsing. Counting backwards from one hundred is a common suggestion from surgeons to their patients to track when the patient succumbs to the anesthetic.
- Monk: Police investigate a hit-and-run that left a pedestrian in bad shape. Paramedics report that the victim kept repeating the sentence "Girls can't eat fifteen pizzas" before losing consciousness. While other detectives ascribe this phrase as a Non Sequitur, *Thud* remark, Monk is convinced the phrase has meaning, since it was uttered more than once. He at last deduces that the phrase is a mnemonic to help the victim recall the license plate of the vehicle that struck him: "Girls Can't Eat 1 5 Pizzas" means GCE-15P. This points the police directly to the culprit.
- Vedek Fala's "Faith... faith" as his suicide pill takes effect in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Covenant".
- Star Trek: The Original Series:
- From the episode "I, Mudd:"
Mudd: What can I do?
Kirk: Nothing, Harry. Just.. go to sleep.
Mudd: What do you mean? [Dr. McCoy produces a hypo] Oh, now, now wait a minute, gentlemen. No, what I, I.. [gets injected] had in mind was actually more in the line of a few words of sage counsel, as it were. Advice...
[THUNK]
Kirk: Oh, Harry. I do believe you're putting on weight. - From the episode "The Empath", after Dr. McCoy gives Spock a shot so that he can sacrifice himself in Spock's place:
Spock: Your action is highly unethical. My decision... stands. [falls unconscious]
McCoy: Not this time, Spock.
- From the episode "I, Mudd:"
- Fraggle Rock: In "The Day the Music Died", the caves go dark because the Ditzies, the source of light in Fraggle Rock, are dying. Without the Ditzies' light, the Fraggles begin entering a Forced Sleep. Wembley tries to help bring the other Fraggles above ground so the daylight will wake them, but he succumbs to the darkness and dozes off on a bunch of sleeping Fraggles in the Great Hall.
Wembley: Oh, boy, is a pile of Fraggles ever... [lies down on the pile of Fraggles] ...comfortable. [falls asleep]
- In Black Friday, Becky Barnes tries to sedate and kidnap Hannah while under Wiggly's influence. She ends up stabbing her own leg with the syringe instead, and collapses onto Hannah, pinning her down. As her old flame Tom leaves with the coveted Wiggly doll, Becky tries unsuccessfully to get him to share.
Becky: [groggily] Hey Tom... half of that... is mine!
Tom: Sorry Becky... looks like you need a nap! [leaves]
Becky: You... baaastaaarrrrd. [passes out]
- ANNO: Mutationem: In the Fission Mailed scenario, when Ann is forced into a device to activate The Halls of Ritual and open a portal into Hinterland, resulting in the Ancient Artifact being taken, she can only say a weakened "W-wait... y-you" before collapsing.
- In Disney Magic Kingdoms, during the Turning Red Event, Mei expresses the desire to keep protesting before passing out.
Miriam: Mei! You're de-pandafied!
Mei: Yep! De-pandafied and ready to... build on... this... unprec... *yawn* ... Unprec... edented... victoryzzzzzzzzz...
Miriam: ... Aaaaaand now you're asleep standing up. I got you, girl. - During the Heavensward story in Final Fantasy XIV, Alisae is shot with a poisoned arrow by the Warriors of Darkness. She uses the last of her strength to tell the player character where the assailants are headed before she passes out.
- In Hitman: Blood Money, after Diana injects Agent 47 with a fake death serum/sedative to fake his death, Mr. 47 attempts to fight back but winds up on the ground muttering "We can't... (the rest is inaudible)" before finally passing out.
- Kingdom Hearts I: If Sora manages to beat Leon in their first encounter, he passes out from exhaustion just as he was saying Leon was about to lose.
- Twice in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the first time when Raiden is badly wounded after a fight with Vamp and manages to say "Go meet... Big Mama" before finally succumbing to his wounds. The second time is again with Raiden after he briefly wakes up, when he tells Snake and the others that a man in eastern Europe named Dr. Madnar, the man who saved his life the first time, can heal him before once again falling unconscious.
- Kratos's last words before he faints due to Yuan's lightning attack in Tales of Symphonia are "Are you all right?...Good." This, of course, is spoken to the intended target of the attack he blocked, Lloyd, his son.
- The protagonist of Daughter for Dessert has some mundane ones before passing out from a night of heavy drinking.
- Dave in College Roomies from Hell!!!: "I will use the last of my consciousness to state that this is not cola, this is in fact plain and simple paint thinner."
- This bit
from Crimson Dark:
Daniel: OK... Whisper, I think I'm about to pass out. Please don't take it personally. - From Daughter of the Lilies, as Thistle tries to have the last word
with Lyra after casting a major spell.
Thistle: Now who's the crazy oooouuuunnn... [drops to the floor] - Sleepless Domain: After having exerted herself saving Kokoro's life in a Heroic Second Wind, Undine tries to blame herself for putting Kokoro in danger in the first place. As Kokoro reassures her, the adrenaline finally wears off, and Undine passes out from exhaustion mid-conversation
:
Undine: I just... I don't... understand... you...
- Beast Wars: Waspinator captures a protohuman girl and is trying to carry her back to base. Unfortunately, said protohuman got some pointers from Cheetor and puts them to use, hacking away at his joints so that by the time she's finally delivered to Megatron, he barely manages, "Waspinator deliver fleshy-bot safe and sound..." before he falls all to pieces again.
- Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: In "Map of Infinity", Gwen is shot with a small spike. She later pulls it out after feeling strange, having just enough time to say "I think I've been—" before collapsing.
- Generator Rex: In "Frostbite", Rex needs his excess nanites drained, but has to be sedated for it. As he falls asleep, he complains that the sedative always gives him weird dreams. These end up being flashbacks.
- Phineas and Ferb: In "Bad Hair Day", Doofenshmirtz sings a song about how he's been shot in the butt with a dart, before cutting off abruptly.
- In Street Sharks, Clint manages to break free, grab Dr. Paradigm, and gasp out "What have you...", before apparently dying from the gene-slamming. His brothers just scream in pain and seemingly die before they can say anything.

