4. Roy Batty - Blade Runner
Warner Bros.
The Line: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time...like tears in rain...Time to die."
How He Dies: The entire premise of Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece revolves around the fact that the four android replicants Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is charged with chasing down have limited four-year lifespans, and they have come to Earth with the hope of finding a way to prolong their "lives". The leader of the group is the brutish yet philosophical Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), who as the only surviving replicant at the end of the movie, is tenaciously chased down by Deckard in the finale. Despite Deckard's quest to kill him, Batty saves Deckard from falling to his death, and as Batty's systems begin to shut down, he delivers the famous "tears in rain" monologue before expiring, much to Deckard's utter bemusement. This brilliantly rousing monologue is one of the most emotional death speeches in not just the history of cinema, but the history of the spoken and written word. Hauer, who improvised much of its final form, infuses Batty's final testament with so much longing and sadness, cementing the movie's point that the replicants, be they "human" or not, really aren't all that different from us: death comes for them far too soon, and they have plenty left to live for. It's all only enhanced by Ridley Scott's amazing visuals and Vangelis' incredibly emotive score.