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** In universe, the Diaries only have the "dead end" of its owners, which force them to attempt to change it. However, the Diaries also have "unwritten" parts each, and discovering what happen on it can cause a ripple effect on the Diaries of others.
** Out of universe, this series is mainly known as the source of the memetic "[[Yandere]] face of Extasis", courtesy of Yuno Gasai.
* While ''[[Magical Princess Minky Momo]]'' was very popular in its era, but is now best known for having the main character [[Killed Off For Real]], despite being a [[Kid Hero]] in a work aimed at little girls, by a truck carrying toys in response to a toy company pulling funding due to poor sales in spite of strong viewership.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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* ''[[The Passion of New Eve]]'' is known mostly as "that [[Angela Carter]]'s novel about a man castrated by [[Straw Feminist|feminists]]".
* ''[[Strangers on a Train]]'', both the book and its [[Alfred Hitchcock]]-directed film adaptation, due to being simultaneously the [[Trope Namer]], [[Trope Maker]], and [[Trope Codifier]] for [[Strangers on a Train Plot Murder|the trope of people "exchanging" murders to drive suspicion from themselves]].
* The novel version of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' has main character Amuro [[Killed Off For Real]] in a ''very'' anti-climatic way. Serious fans of the franchise might recognize it as the origin of the [[Palette Swap|G-3 Gundam]] that shows up in toys (and [[Gundam Build Fighters|the spin-off series about the toys]]), or be aware it uses [[Spell My Name With An "S"|bizarre name choices]] in the first English release due to its predating the anime's translation, and really hardcore fans may have heard of the bizarre section that claims Sayla's public hair would be a good luck charm <ref>This is an old Japanese war tradition and not as ''totally'' random as it seems to a western reader, though it's so old as to be obscure even to a native.</ref>, but ''everyone'' who has heard of the novel version is aware of Amuro's fate.
* ''Grande Sertão Veredas'', João Guimarães Rosa's [[Magnum Opus]], it is known in its native Brazil for a reason very similar to the ''Crying Game'' for the general public than any other aspect: Diadorim, a friend of our [[Anti-Hero]] protagonist Riobaldo, which he was developing homosexual feelings for, turns out to be a woman, which thanks to [[Values Dissonance]] couldn't seek revenge towards the man who killer her father as woman and disguised as a man so she could kill said man with her own hands. Considering this twist, critics also wonder if the protagonist is genuinely a [[Depraved Bisexual]] or the disguise was that good.
* [[Littlest Cancer Patient|Little Nell Trent]]'s death in [[Charles Dickens]] ''[[The Old Curiosity Shop]]'' is perhaps the oldest recorded instance of a work being "spoiled" as we know it (since Dickens popularized the concept of fiction released as serials, it's hard for it to have been anyone else), with sailors revealing the ending to those on the other side of the Atlantic before the last installment went on sale there. While tragic at the time, [[Oscar Wilde]] found it [[Narm|overdone to the point of hilarity]] ([[Doctor_Who/Recap/S27/E03_The_Unquiet_Dead|a sentiment The Ninth Doctor agrees with]]), and it's hard to find any discussion of this work that doesn't focus on her death. It's also likely why the penultimate paragraph of his later ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' has the now oddly worded emphasis in "Tiny Tim, who did ''not'' die".
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* Earl's carelessness causes the Ice Age... or in other words, everyone is doomed to die at the end of ''[[Dinosaurs]]''. While a funny and well-written show in its own right, the sheer audacity of killing ''everyone'' in a '''sitcom''' is the real draw for non-viewers.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Salome]]'': Salome does an striptease and asks for the head of Jochanaan.
* ''[[The Mousetrap]]'' is famous for having a convoluted, twisty ending. To know what happens in said ending, however, requires people to see the play or go to sources different than this wiki, because the other thing known about ''The Mousetrap'' is that said ending is [[Do Not Spoil This Ending|traditionally asked to be kept in secret once the play ends]], so future audiences aren't spoiled.
* ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]]. Everyone remembers it's a beautiful love story about a boy and a girl from a pair of families at war with each other
* ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]'' and the "The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could" segment, because of its plot about a teenage girl that sees [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Female)|the dubiously consented sex she had with an older woman as better than the rape she experienced from a male when she was a child]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Giygas is one of Nintendo's most beloved villains thanks to his horrific appearance, surprisingly tragic backstory, and memorably hopeless boss fight. He's also the final boss of ''[[Earthbound]]'', a very cute and silly game where you do ''not'' expect to be fighting an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that looks like a hellish, screaming void straight out of a [[Cosmic Horror Story]]. But while his appearance and nature are meant to be a secret that shocks and scares the player, it's safe to say that knowledge of his presence is what attracted the attention of new fans to a [[Cult Classic]] that desperately needed them.
* In ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' and ''[[Red Dead Redemption 2]]'', John Marston and Arthur Morgan, the protagonists of each game respectively, die far into them. These are easily the best known aspects of each game, and have attracted to players curious about the emotional impact their deaths have on other people.
* It is quite impossible, even for people not that into the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' franchise, to not know that [[Final Fantasy VIII|Rinoa]] is {{spoiler|a Sorceress}} due to the ''sheer amount'' of references available everywhere. On a similar note, Edea being Ultimecia due to [[Late Arrival Spoiler]] is another outcome, but this has notably shown how omnipresent Ultimecia really is throughout the game.
* Most people know little about the ''[[Mushihime-sama]]'' games other than that they have extremely hard [[True Final Boss]]es.
* ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'' is (in)famous for the plot twist of {{Spoiler|everyone in the story are actually unknowing NPCs Inside A MMORPG}}.
▲* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'': Faris is actually female, and the Big Bad is an evil tree.
== [[Visual Novel]]s ==
* ''[[Doki Doki Literature Club!]]'', as it's known as "that visual novel that goes so meta it becomes psychological horror".
* ''[[Katahane]]'' is so well known as a good [[Girls Love]] visual novel because of its prominent yuri end couple that most people who try it for the first time are baffled by the prominently-featured heterosexual couples.
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