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* [[Reality TV]] does this often. If an episode is focusing on a contestant, chances are they are [[Catch Phrase|auf'd]] that episode. This is particularly true if their confessionals emphasize 1) How much winning the competition would mean to them; 2) How much they have come to appreciate their teammate/showmance partner; 3) How much they have learned / grown / matured because of their participation; 4) How wonderful the experience has been or how many new friends they've made; and 5) How much better / stronger / more skillful / better-liked / more in control of the game they are than one or more of their fellow competitors.
** ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'' is an [[Egregious]] offender. Whenever a girl shows up who isn't one of the handful of prominently featured girls in each cycle, she's either getting called first that week or being sent home. Expect her to be suddenly struggling with the judges' critiques, even though she's never been shown doing so before that point.
** ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]'' has a bad habit of doing this to its more under-the-radar players, particularly in later seasons.
*** Once a contestant is revealed to the audience to be a homosexual in the same episode he is voted out. One of the most famous examples would be the episode of Tocantins where Coach is voted out, after being sent to Exile Island, finding a "Dragon Slayer Cane", and (presumably) faking a back injury when losing the immunity challenge to JT.
* This has become a way for ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' fans to determine who will be eliminated at the end of the episode.
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* In ''[[Burn Notice]]'', Victor died almost as soon as we found out what his deal was.
* In "[[Desperate Housewives]]", the episode where Martha Huber dies begins with saying how much she wanted her life to be exciting and to be famous, and at the end, she was famous for her horrific murder.
* ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'': While Alex Cabot occasionally had episodes in which her legal case was bigger than the investigation, the absolute crowner was "Loss", at the end of which she dies. (No, [[Not Quite Dead|not really]]. She goes into Witness Protection.) And as one of Alex's main roles on the show was to have [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|UST]] with Olivia Benson, this episode was also a crowner of [[Les Yay]].
* In ''[[FlashForward]]'', the character of {{spoiler|Al Gough}} receives this as his send-off episode. In fact, it is the first time that {{spoiler|more than a few moments is devoted to his flash-forward and the mental turmoil he is experiencing}} although it is hinted at every so often in the previous episodes.
* Claude on ''[[Degrassi High]]'' plays this trope completely straight; he had appeared in a couple episodes in the first season (though he did have a significant amount of screen time in them) before [[Driven to Suicide|committing suicide]] near the end of Season 2.
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