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** To wit: The strip has killed, since the beginning, six major characters just among the Toughs, including two who could easily be billed as main characters, and so many supporting Toughs it's hard to count. And these are just the ones who HAVEN'T come back.
*** To be fair, however, that's spread out over twelve years. You can certainly start reading any given arc and assume that no Toughs will have died by the end of it (not even any redshirts). Except during a Schlocktoberfest, when someone dies, but not necessarily in an irreversible way (there's now an [[In-Universe]] 5 step scale from "clinical death" to "utterly gone").
* The pre-''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky]] Roomies'' featured the (then) [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101020925/http://www.itswalky.com/d/19990311.html shocking death of Ruth]. Her death marked a [[Cerebus Syndrome]] moment in the strip's history (The strip started the transition to It's Walky in the immediate aftermath) and served to show that the gang's wacky hijinks were no longer consequence-free. It also set the "No warning" tone for many of the deaths to come (Dina's in particular).
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' has main characters die quite often, and with little drama. It helps that there are quite a few main characters in each arc. Only one of them, Glon, has ever been brought back.
* Although set in a world with functional resurrection magic, ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' has featured a number of shocking deaths, particularly Lord Shojo, Miko Miyazaki, Therkla and Roy Greenhilt, himself, who is [[The Hero|the main protagonist of the comic]]. Only the last of those has been reversed, and doing so was the goal of an arc.
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== Real Life (which obviously is this trope) ==
Specific examples can go here.
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20100221013351/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39236 world death rate] seems to be holding steady at 100%.
** Not only can anyone die, but everyone and [[The End of the World as We Know It|everything as we know it]] '''will.''' {{spoiler|Even you and I, one day.}}
* [[Fan Nickname|CelebreCaust '09]] has claimed an unusually high number of big names (in no particular order), with the deaths of [[Michael Jackson]] (acute propofol intoxication; ruled involuntary manslaughter), Natasha Richardson (brain injury), [[Kill Bill|David Carradine]] (accidental strangulation), [[Billy Mays]] (heart attack), [[John Hughes]] (heart attack) and [[Brittany Murphy]] (likely a drug overdose combined with an eating disorder) coming out of nowhere. Plus, two very young sports stars killed in car accidents—the baseball pitcher, Nick Adenhart, was killed the same night he started a game.
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