If you had to die in some badass way, what would it be?

[armyowalgreens]

See I get bored when I'm sitting at work waiting for customers. So I decided to figure out some really epic ways of going out.


The first one that popped into my head involves planted explosives. I'm in some sort of high rise building, lets say 30 stories up, and the office realizes that the suitcase by the water cooler is full of explosives (some disgruntled ex-employee left it there as a present). We open it and see a timer reading "0:30". We have 30 seconds to get this package out of the building.

Realizing how fucking awesome I am, I grab the package and begin sprinting towards the nearest window. Right before I leap through the window, into the open air, I calmly announce "REMEMBER ME". I then leap to my imminent death as the bomb goes off saving the entire building from doom.



Actually, most of the scenarios involve large quantities of explosives. I mean a situation is automatically more awesome if things are blowing up, you know what I'm sayin'?

[EastTennesseeDem]

1. I've known the answer to this ever since I first saw the movie

[armyowalgreens]

2. Excellent choice.

[Blue-Jay]

6. Done in one.

*applause*

[denbot]

3. Alley and I plan to cross the pacific under sail.

If we die, were going out big.

[Odin2005]

4. holding up some crazy gunman, giving people a chance to escape.

[flvegan]

5. What happens if the bomb doesn't go off?

Like, you hit the window at 3 seconds and then it hits 0:00 and doesn't explode? See, that would suck.

[armyowalgreens]

7. "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"

HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet,
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

[WildEyedLiberal]

9. Wow - best application of a Yeats quote EVER

And I'd choose to die in an EPIC firefight. I'm laying down covering fire while my buddies/innocent civilians/puppies escape, taking out numerous baddies with my awesome skills, before going down in a blaze of glory.

[BlueJazz]

8. Tele-transported to the inside of a Star.

[moggie]

28. Huh, you still got stars?

As the heat-death of the universe draws near, I sigh, and depress the trigger which launches the next big bang.

[kentauros]

10. Like this:

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Part-12 (the movie's ending, in case you haven't seen it...)

:D

[CJCRANE]

11. Surfing the Phoenix Asteroids.

[HopeHoops]

12. Attempting to save the Earth by accepting a challenge from the invading aliens.

Well, only if that challenge involved about 200 women with mind probes causing them to desperately crave wild monkey sex. A heart attack would HAVE to factor into that at some point.

[City of Mills]

13. I'd like to pull a Randy Quaid

Flying a military jet into the firing mechanism of a metropolitan-sized invading alien spacecraft, setting off a chain reaction which blows it so smithereens, thus providing the blueprint to saving humanity from certain extinction.

[NJmaverick]

14. If I must- I would like to die saving the lives of others

That would be my choice

[Deep13]

15. In the Everest death zone. nt

[Initech]

16. Jumping out of a moving helicopter while shooting an AK-47 into a gigantic fuel tank.

[armyowalgreens]

20. Epic.

[moggie]

17. You need to work on your last words

I mean, "remember me"? What is this, a sappy rom-com? A badass hero needs to go out on a wisecrack, or a line bulging with testosterone. Also, you need to check ahead of time that those windows break, otherwise the last twenty seconds of your life could be really embarrassing.

[armyowalgreens]

19. How about "I expect time and a half for this"?

[proteus_lives]

18. Last stand. Hopeless battle for a lost cause.

Like at the Alamo or the Imperial Guard at Waterloo or the British troops at Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift. The French Foreign Legion at Camerone and of course, the Spartans at Thermophylae.

It a repeated event throughout human history. Even if you disagree with why they're fighting it's still stirring to see few stand against many.

[MajorChode]

21. Getting shot by the jealous husband of a supermodel on my 99th birthday

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Bloated from feeding on the blood and souls of the ignorant, I explode

and the few remaining humans, free to begin again in an ignorance-free world, erect a monument to me and use me an example with children, to say to them when they do something ignorant, "Don't let the Rabrrrrrr get you!"

[Orsino]

23. Gunned down by a dozen jealous husbands in broad daylight.

At the age of 95.

[datasuspect]

24. buddhist self-immolation

[mikeytherat]

25. Crushed by a runaway semi-truck driven by The Incredible Hulk.

mikey_the_rat

[SteppingRazor]

26. I don't plan to die. I plan to disappear in the Bermuda Triangle at about age 60...

but slightly off topic, this thread reminds me of a book idea a friend and I had a while back. It involved the death of the 60s-style, Easy Rider-like version of the American Dream. The first main character, a biker named Joe, would get hit by a truck hauling a load of Blackberries or iPhones. Then the two next main characters have to carry out his last wishes, which takes up most of the book. We were gonna call it Last Call for Joe.

[moggie]

27. Eaten by Nazi zombies, my body laced with nano-bomblets n/t

[Taverner]

29. When I'm in a lightsaber duel with Darth Sidious - I want to fry him real good

Right before his Sith Padwan takes me out...

[pokerfan]

30. in a hail of gunfire

[Alexander]

31. That scene was the inspiration for this scene:

Which would be my preferred badass death.

[Alexander]

32. Surrounded by guards after all of my friends have been killed,

Not caring that I have about 10-15 guns pointed directly at me, and smiling as I raise my weapon and start shooting.

A bit like this: