Quotes / You Are Already Dead

"I'm sorry. I am so, so sorry. But you've got two shadows."

— The Doctor, Doctor Who: "Silence in the Library"

Zeed: Your fists were mosquito bites to me...
Kenshiro: You're already dead.
Zeed: What!? (head explodes gorily)

—Fist of the North Star, the Trope Namer

Syndrome: Giant desert scorpion sting
Short-term symptoms: Necrosis of the brain and nervous system
Long-term symptoms: Certain Death
Chronic symptoms: None, not that it really matters

—Syndromes page, Dwarf Fortress Wiki

After fifteen years in storage, the Lemmons had developed a delayed fuse. It took ninety minutes for these little fuckers to kick in, but once they did, pow! I mean, I had skipped the tingle phase and went straight to the drool phase. These little bastards were so strong, I discovered a whole new phase: the cerebral palsy phase.

—The Wolf of Wall Street on expired "Lemmon 14" Quaaludes

You'll never see it coming
You'll see that my mind is too fast for eyes
You're done in
By the time it's hit you, your last surprise

— Lyn, "Last Surprise", from Persona 5

Machinedramon: Now, I will finish you once and for all!
Koromon: I don't think so! You missed what I did as WarGreymon! I sliced you like an onion!

—Digimon Adventure

"We're Team Fortress. And you're dead. [...] Nice. I managed to get the whole speech out before he died this time."

—Miss Pauling, Team Fortress #6: The Naked and the Dead

Slowly. Gently. This is how a life is taken.

Great is the weapon that cuts on its own!

The slow death. Unforeseen. Unforgiving.

—The Ancestor, Darkest Dungeon, when enemies die to Bleed or Blight

There was the soft tinkle of glass breaking. A hole had appeared in the window just behind Kroll's head. Kroll jerked slightly but remained standing. A look of puzzlement spread across his face.

There was a moment's silence. Then Kurst spoke. "You have been shot in the back of the neck, just above the cervical curve," he explained. "I'm afraid your spine has been severed and you are, effectively, already dead."

—Alex Rider: Scorpia Rising

Soifon: (smirks) "Sorry, I said "certain death" in two stings, but you probably only felt one."

—Bleach, said the split-second after she administers the kill strike on Ggio Vega

Sorry, but Deadly Queen^note Killer Queen, changed to avoid a lawsuit has already left its mark on the doorknob.

—Yoshikage Kira, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

Albrecht: You're the guy that murdered Tin-Tin.
Eric Draven: He was already dead. He died a year ago the moment he touched her. They're all dead. They just don't know it yet.

—The Crow (1994)

"You're already dead, Silberman. Everybody dies. You know I believe it, so don't fuck with me!"

—Sarah Connor, Terminator 2: Judgment Day

"Now here is a creature with smugness and guts,
Haughty and arrogant; look as it struts.
Enter its turf and suffer your fate
Watch as its eyes fill with rancor and hate
Don't try to run; it's already too late.

— Monster Hunter: Rise, introducing the Nargacuga

Delia Surridge: Are you going to kill me now?
V: I killed you 10 minutes ago. While you slept.

—V for Vendetta

"Well, that does it."

— Louis Slotin after a criticality accident involving the demon core.. He died nine days later.

"If an enemy can run faster than you, perhaps you should stay out of sight!"

— Padre Snowmizzle describing the SpongeBob's Pineapple level in Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom

"So as soon as this aircraft took off and they retracted the landing gear, there was basically no surviving. The fire was going to spread. They... they were gonna crash."

— Larry Vance, on Nigeria Airways Flight 2120, Mayday

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