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Perfect for those who are dying for one last joke.

Starsky: Looks like you just punched your last ticket, amigo.

Hutch: I'm sorry, did you just tough-talk a dead body? Starsky & Hutch (2004) Looks like you just punched your last ticket, amigo.I'm sorry, did you just tough-talk a dead body?

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When the hero (or in some cases the Villain) has just killed someone, often in a gruesome manner, they do a Bond One-Liner.

The classic Bond One-Liner is typically a bad Pun or Obligatory Joke on the manner in which the victim was dispatched. A Bond One Liner can be a snarky response to the now-dead enemy's attempted Pre-Mortem One-Liner, or an Ironic Echo of something they said to the hero earlier. It may be a sign that the character has sociopathic tendencies. Often works on the basis that it Crosses the Line Twice.

Alternately this may happen when the hero is discussing the victim with a third character often with the third character wondering why the victim is not present.

Note that while William Peterson's one liners on CSI, David Caruso's one liners on the Miami sister show and Jerry Orbach's on Law & Order are often similar in content, they fail the test for this trope, as Grissom and Briscoe were never the killers, only snarkers. In general, see Quip to Black for cheesy one-liners right before a cut.

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Also, when said before killing, it's a Pre-Mortem One-Liner (which, for the record, James Bond says just as often). It's also possible to combine the two, with separate quips before and after killing the victim. If the character is making smartass quips about their own impending death then it's a Gallows Humor version of a "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner.

The Trope Namer is James Bond, who does this in every single one of his films.note The early films were done under the onus of The Hays Code; these quips were used to downplay the violence; later films simply carried on the tradition. Ditto Arnold Schwarzenegger, but Bonds' have more pun. As a Death Trope, beware of unmarked spoilers.

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Anime and Manga

Asian Animation

In the Simple Samosa episode "Sumo Momo", Samosa is in a wrestling match with Sumo Momo and goes through 93 rounds of being clobbered before he finally gets an injury - the tip on his head cracks, which makes him furious and causes him to beat him up like nobody's business. After he does this, he delivers the following line: Samosa: Hey, I'll give you one tip. Never mess with my tip, okay?

Comic Books

Fan Works

Literature

Live-Action TV

Machinima

One of the Red vs. Blue bonus videos, called "Sargeisms", was entirely dedicated to Sarge giving off large quantities of Bond- and Pre Mortem One Liners. "Dr Sarge says take 2 barrels of this Shotgun and call me when you're dead!"

"Or my personal favorite 'You just got Sarged!'" Which is taken up again in Episode 3 of Revelation where Sarge and Grif are kicking Wash's ass and the former is about to finish the job with his Shotgun. He starts saying "You just got..." and ends up shooting before he's finished. The very next thing Sarge says is says is "Goddammit, I messed up my one-liner!" A less humorous example occurs in Reconstruction. Washington takes Delta's advice that South Dakota no longer "hamper their progress" and points a gun at her. She starts to say "What are you going to do, shoot-" after which Wash says, "Yes. Good suggestion." "My name is Leonard Church , and you will FEAR MY LASER FACE !" After Tucker stabs Wyoming, he goes "That's right bitch. I take care of my kid." The episode with the Zealots who behave like in an actual Halo deathmatch has two, ("Oh you fucking camping bitch!")"It's a legitimate strategy!" and `("What did you mean we could work as a team?") "I bash you in the head with my rifle and you die. Good teamwork you fucking noob." Once Sharkface is shot dead: "You know, I don't think he'll be getting up from that one."



Magazines

The magazine Slate features the results of a contest for reader-submitted Bond One Liners. The winner of that contest was "Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, pissant."

for reader-submitted Bond One Liners. MAD did a parody of the movie Charade, focusing on its lighthearted tone in the face of mayhem. The glamorous leads trade quips as their adversaries die horribly, like when one is found drowned in a bathtub: "Too bad he died before he had a chance to come clean!" - "This crime has a familiar ring to it!"

Miscellaneous

In LEGO's BIONICLE, Teridax eats/absorbs Nidhiki in order to gain more power for his fight with the Toa Metru. Apparently Nidhiki did not go down easily, because Teridax would later describe the event with, "I lost because I disagreed with something I ate."

Music

Lupe Fiasco's song "The Coolest" features one. After gunning down Michael Young History, who was bragging that he was the "Coolest mothafucka in the world," his killer remarks: "Ain't too cool now, is you, nigga?"

In the very old ballad "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight", Lady Isabel elopes with a knight and when they come to the seashore he boasts that he's drowned six king's daughters here "And thou the seventh shall be". But Lady Isabel tricks him and shoves him off the cliff herself, and depending on the version, says one of two things: "Six king's daughters hast thou drowned here,/Go keep them company." or "...and the seventh has drowned thee."

Podcasts

The Adventure Zone: Balance: Taako passes out during the boss battle with the liches Lydia and Edward, but after they're defeated, his player Justin begs to be allowed to make one of these. What he had in mind is so great, DM Griffin allows it, saying Taako woke up just long enough to say three words before passing out again: Liches... get... stitches!

Professional Wrestling

After Wade Barrett threw Randy Orton down a flight of stairs, Kayfabe sending Orton to the hospital, Wade quipped, "The Viper is now extinct."

Radio

Also parodied in one of the "Party Planner" sketches on BBC Radio 4's That Mitchell And Webb Sound (and on the TV adaptation). When the two characters are trying to decide whether or not to invite James Bond to a party, one recounts an event from a previous party at which Bond threw somebody out of a window for saying that his cigarette case was "gay". The victim landed on a railing spike and was paralysed. Webb: Everyone's in shock, apart from James, who strolls over to the window, looks down and says: "What a piercing bore."

Mitchell: "Piercing bore"? There's no such expression!

Webb: Well, the railing was next to a crusher. It was pretty clear that he'd meant to say "crushing bore", but had missed, and was making the best of a bad job.

Religion and Mythology

Judges 15:16- Then Samson said, "With an ass's jawbone I have made asses of them. With an ass's jawbone I have killed a thousand men." (He had just used the jawbone of a donkey / wild ass as a weapon). One possible translation made to preserve the pun is something like "With the jawbone of an ass, I have heaped them in a mass." A thousand kills? That is an assload of bodies. In the original Hebrew, the word for "donkey" sounds like the word for "heap" making a better pun.



Tabletop Games

To quote the now legendary Old Man Henderson after running over Hastur with a gas tanker rigged with C4; Old Man Henderson : "Henderson here. Figured out what the nasties are weak against." Jimmy : "What's that, Mr. Henderson?" Old Man Henderson : "Point blank annihilation."

"Checkmate."

Theatre

Macbeth has been told he is invincible to all those "of woman born." So naturally, upon killing Young Siward: Macbeth: Thou wast born of woman.

The Villain Song "Cell Block Tango" in Chicago has a few, albeit in the context of killers reenacting their deeds after the fact: Liz: So I took the shotgun off the wall and I fired two warning shots — into his head. Annie: So that night when he came home from work, I fixed him his drink as usual. You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic! June: And then he ran into my knife. He ran into my knife ten times. Velma: Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely blacked out; I can't remember a thing. It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead! Mona: I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive — and I saw him dead!

Theme Parks

At the end of The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man at Universal Studios, after the titular hero has webbed up all the villains, he delivers one. Spider-Man: Guess that wraps things up!

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Western Animation

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