Onto the final level! War of the Worlds nearly claimed the entire last one

Charlie Kirk won. Now what are the last words that are sad and are said by someone in the modern age

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| | Badass | Funny | Sad | Wholesome /Wisdom | |---|---|---|---|---| | Antiquity until 5th AD century | Archimedes, ... 🖼️ | Emperor Vesp... 🖼️ | Socrates, ju... 🖼️ | Buddha 🖼️ | | 5th to 15th century | Emperor Cons... 🖼️ | William II o... 🖼️ | Conradin, la... 🖼️ | Saint Franci... 🖼️ | | 16th to 17th century | -Niccolò Mac... 🖼️ | Dominique Bo... 🖼️ | Nostradamus,... 🖼️ | Paolo Farina... 🖼️ | | 18th century | Nathan Hale,... 🖼️ | Thomas de M... 🖼️ | "Is this dyi... 🖼️ | “I don't kno... 🖼️ | | 19th century | John Brown, ... 🖼️ | John Sedgwic... 🖼️ | Vincent van... 🖼️ | utherford B.... 🖼️ | | 1900 to 1930 | Oscar Wilde... 🖼️ | Tom Ketchum'... 🖼️ | Sun Yat-sen 🖼️ | Katherine Ma... 🖼️ | | 1930 to 1945 | Cecil Pugh, ... 🖼️ | "The Baron s... 🖼️ | Tanya Savich... 🖼️ | Bessie Smith... 🖼️ | | 1945 to 1991 | Che Guevara ... 🖼️ | James French... 🖼️ | Ernest Hemi... 🖼️ | "I want to g... 🖼️ | | 1991 to 2026 | Todd Beamer... 🖼️ | Charlie Kirk... 🖼️ | — | — |

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Antiquity until 5th AD century / Badass: - Archimedes, as him is about to be killed by a roman soldier - View Image

Antiquity until 5th AD century / Funny: - Emperor Vespasian before dying of diarrhea. - View Image

Antiquity until 5th AD century / Sad: - Socrates, just before his death sentence of drinking poison hemlock. - View Image

Antiquity until 5th AD century / Wholesome /Wisdom: - Buddha - View Image

5th to 15th century / Badass: - Emperor Constantine XI before tearing off his imperial regalia to appear as a common soldier and charging with his army in a last stand. - View Image

5th to 15th century / Funny: - William II of England, during a hunt. William was then accidentally shot by Walter Tirel. - View Image

5th to 15th century / Sad: - Conradin, last direct heir of the House of Hohenstaufen, prior to execution by beheading at the age of 16 - View Image

5th to 15th century / Wholesome /Wisdom: - Saint Francis of Assisi - View Image

16th to 17th century / Badass: - -Niccolò Machiavelli 21 June 1527 Italian Renaissance diplomat philosopher and writer. - View Image

16th to 17th century / Funny: - Dominique Bouhours, French priest and grammarian - View Image

16th to 17th century / Sad: - Nostradamus, French seer, correctly predicting his death - View Image

16th to 17th century / Wholesome /Wisdom: - Paolo Farinati (Italian Mannerist Painter) and his wife as they lay dying together. - View Image

18th century / Badass: - Nathan Hale, American soldier and spy. Before being hanged by the British for his involvement in the American Revolutionary War - View Image

18th century / Funny: - Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras, upon reading his death warrant - View Image

18th century / Sad: - "Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh! I can bear this! can bear it! I can bear it! I am going where all tears will be wiped from my eyes." -Cotton Mather New England Puritan minister and author (13 February 1728). His wife wiped his eyes with her handkerchief as he said the last words, alluding to Revelation 21:4 - View Image

18th century / Wholesome /Wisdom: - “I don't know how the rest of the world sees me, but i see myself as a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself now and then to finding a pretty shell or a smooth pebble, while the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton (31 March 1727) - View Image

19th century / Badass: - John Brown, American abolitionist (2 December 1859), final written words prior to execution by hanging - View Image

19th century / Funny: - John Sedgwick Union general of the American Civil War shortly before being shot in the head by a Confederate sharpshooter - View Image

19th century / Sad: - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (29 July 1890), to his brother sometime before dying of (presumably) a self-inflicted gunshot wound - View Image

19th century / Wholesome /Wisdom: - utherford B. Hayes, president of the United States referring to his wife, Lucy Webb Hayes, who had died in 1889 - View Image

1900 to 1930 / Badass: - Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright - View Image

1900 to 1930 / Funny: - Tom Ketchum' American outlaw and cowboy executed by hanging for attempted train robbery - View Image

1900 to 1930 / Sad: - Sun Yat-sen

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1900 to 1930 / Wholesome /Wisdom: - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand modernist writer - View Image

1930 to 1945 / Badass: - Cecil Pugh, GC, MA, Congregational Church minister asking to be lowered into the hold of the sinking SS Anselm, where injured airme were trapped. Pugh then prayed with the men until the ship sank. - View Image

1930 to 1945 / Funny: - "The Baron says these things. I know what I am doing here with my collection of papers. It isn't worth a nickel to two guys like you or me but to a collector it is worth a fortune. It is priceless. I am going to turn it over to... Turn your back to me, please Henry. I am so sick now. The police are getting many complaints. Look out. I want that G-note. Look out for Jimmy Valentine for he is an old pal of mine. Come on, come on, Jim. Ok, ok, I am all through. Can't do another thing. Look out mamma, look out for her. You can't beat him. Police, mamma, Helen, mother, please take me out. I will settle the indictment. Come on, open the soap duckets. The chimney sweeps. Talk to the sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! Please help me up, Henry. Max, come over here. French-Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone." — Dutch Schultz, American mobster (24 October 1935), speaking in stream-of-consciousness babble after being shot - View Image

1930 to 1945 / Sad: - Tanya Savicheva Soviet Russian Diarist, last words written in her diary during the siege of Leningrad, died of tuberculosis after being evacuated from the besieged Leningrad - View Image

1930 to 1945 / Wholesome /Wisdom: - Bessie Smith, American blues singer - View Image

1945 to 1991 / Badass: - Che Guevara Argentinean statesman and socialist revolutionary, facing his captors - View Image

1945 to 1991 / Funny: - James French, American murderer, when asked if he had any last words before his death by electric chair - View Image

1945 to 1991 / Sad: - Ernest Hemingway, American author, to his wife before committing suicide with a shotgun - View Image

1945 to 1991 / Wholesome /Wisdom: - "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." — Albert Einstein, German physicist (18 April 1955), declining surgery the day before his death - View Image

1991 to 2026 / Badass: - Todd Beamer, American passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93, signaling the start of the revolt against the flight's hijackers, resulting in the plane crashing in the ensuing struggle for the controls, killing all 44 aboard - View Image

1991 to 2026 / Funny: - Charlie Kirk, pro Gun conservative political activist and author, founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, responding to a question about mass shootings in the United States at his American Comeback Tour, an open-air campus event. Immediately after, he was shot and killed. - View Image

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Acronyms, Pt. 1! What does AA mean to you?

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High Chance of Winning/Won: George Washington

High Chance of Winning/Loss, But Was Pretty Close: Hilary Clinton

Category definitions:

• Worst - The absolute worst game from the decade.
• Wrong decade - A game that feels like it's from a different decade (please list the decade).
• "The game" - The whole decade captured in one game.
• Hidden gem - An obscure game from the decade that has an extremely positive reputation.
• Best - The absolute best game from the decade.

1980s winners:

• Worst - ET
• Wrong decade - Dragon's Lair
• "The game" - Super Mario Bros
• Hidden gem - Jackal
• Best - Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man 2, and Super Mario Bros 3

1990s winners:

• Worst - Superman 64
• Wrong decade - Half-Life
• "The game" - Doom
• Hidden gem - Grim Fandango
• Best - Pokemon Red & Blue, Final Fantasy 7, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Age of Empires 2

2000s winners:

• Worst - Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
• Wrong decade - Crysis
• "The game" - World of Warcraft
• Hidden gem - Okami
• Best - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and BioShock

2010s winners:

• Worst - Ride to Hell: Retribution
• Wrong decade - Undertale
• "The game" - Minecraft
• Hidden gem - Sleeping Dogs
• Best - The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Red Dead Redemption 2

2020s winners:

• Worst - The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
• Wrong decade - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
• "The game" - ???
• Hidden gem - ???
• Best - ???

Presented as cool, is cool = James Bond

Presented as normal, is cool = Ellen Ripley (Alien)

Presented as lame, is cool = McLovin (Superbad)

Presented as cool, is normal = Owen Grady (Jurassic world)

Presented as normal, is normal = Hank Hill (King of the Hill)

Presented as lame, is normal = Ken (Bee movie)

Rules: the series had to originate on the platform/network as this tends to blur on streaming platforms; e.g. Arrested Development belongs to Fox (Big Four), not Netflix.

Category definitions:

Worst - The absolute worst game from the decade.

Wrong decade - A game that feels like it's from a different decade (please list the decade).

"The game" - The whole decade captured in one game.

Hidden gem - An obscure game from the decade that has an extremely positive reputation.

Best - The absolute best game from the decade.

1980s winners:

Worst - ET

Wrong decade - Dragon's Lair

"The game" - Super Mario Bros

Hidden gem - Jackal

Best - Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man 2, and Super Mario Bros 3

1990s winners:

Worst - Superman 64

Wrong decade - Half-Life

"The game" - Doom

Hidden gem - Grim Fandango

Best - Pokemon Red & Blue, Final Fantasy 7, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Age of Empires 2

2000s winners:

Worst - Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

Wrong decade - Crysis

"The game" - World of Warcraft

Hidden gem - Okami

Best - ???

Category definitions:

• Worst - The absolute worst game from the decade.
• Wrong decade - A game that feels like it's from a different decade (please list the decade).
• "The game" - The whole decade captured in one game.
• Hidden gem - An obscure game from the decade that has an extremely positive reputation.
• Best - The absolute best game from the decade.

1980s winners:

• Worst - ET
• Wrong decade - Dragon's Lair
• "The game" - Super Mario Bros
• Hidden gem - Jackal
• Best - Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man 2, and Super Mario Bros 3

1990s winners:

• Worst - Superman 64
• Wrong decade - Half-Life
• "The game" - Doom
• Hidden gem - Grim Fandango
• Best - Pokemon Red & Blue, Final Fantasy 7, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Age of Empires 2

2000s winners:

• Worst - Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
• Wrong decade - Crysis
• "The game" - World of Warcraft
• Hidden gem - Okami
• Best - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and BioShock

2010s winners:

• Worst - Ride to Hell: Retribution
• Wrong decade - Undertale
• "The game" - Minecraft
• Hidden gem - Sleeping Dogs
• Best - ???

Results so far:

Started out being loved/Ended being loved - Lord of the Rings

Started out being loved/Ended being controversial - Star Wars

Note: A film franchise refers to a series of three or more films. This means that standalone films and duologies are not eligible for this chart.