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Contrast with [[Bus Crash]], in which the actor does not return, and we are told of their off-screen death some seasons later, complete with a failure of their body to appear, at least in an intact state.
A number of reasons may exist for this: perhaps the actor has agreed to return, but insists on being killed to give their character closure. Or perhaps the writers have just grown a pair and decided to do something nasty to the character that they'd previously been afraid to do something irrevocable to. Or it could just be a way to [[Killed Off for Real|kill someone off for real]] with the impact of killing a major character without the plot inconveniences this usually causes. Occasionally it's because they need a character they previously [[Killed Off for Real]] briefly, so they pull an [[Not Quite Dead]] or [[Back
Compare [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]].
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* A famous example is Max Fenig, a fan favorite from an episode of the first season of ''[[The X-Files]]''. After being abducted at the episode's conclusion, he reappeared in the teaser at the beginning of a fourth season episode...as a dead body in the wreckage of an airplane. The rest of the two-parter dealt with reconstructing how this came to pass and dealing with its implications.
** There's also the Cigarette Smoking Man, who was killed off at the end of the seventh season. Two years later he was revealed to still be alive in the series finale, and then proceeded to get blown up by a missile.
* ''[[Star Trek: The
* The character of Carey from ''[[Star Trek:
** The writer of that episode wanted to kill someone off, and was given the choice of Vorik or Carey. He thought Carey would have more impact, since fans would relate to a human more than a Vulcan. Bad choice. He was obviously unaware of how much fans liked Vorik, and of how fans already thought Carey was dead. Furthermore, rumour has it that Carey's odd treatment was because the writers were for a long time confusing him with Lt. Hogan, who had indeed been killed off in Season 2.
* Lieutenant Ford from ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' was almost killed by Wraith and managed to leave hopped up on the Wraith enzyme (a nasty drug) in the season 1 finale. In the season 2 midseason two-parter Ford comes back, and ends up on a Wraith vessel as it explodes.
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** Whitney also qualifies: We see him die on-screen [[Not Himself|before the shapeshifter shows up]].
*** If Alicia counts, so do several other characters, including but not restrained to the above mentioned shapeshifter.
* The writing staff of ''[[Amar
* All of the surviving cortexifan kids from ''[[Fringe]]'' were brought back and killed in one episode.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' has an odd example. Jo and Ellen Harvelle, two characters from season 2, were let go at the end of the season for budgetary reasons and did not appear in seasons 3 or 4. They were brought back in season 5, and survived their return episode, only for both of them to be killed off in their next appearance.
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* In ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]'', Kara's pet pig, Hamlet, gets separated from her early on in the game, namely when Kara decides to [[Rebellious Princess|leave her castle]], but later manages to join up with the party. However, very soon after, the party is captured by cannibals, and are only saved when Hamlet sacrifices himself to be food for the cannibals instead of the party.
* Ortega, the hero's father in ''[[Dragon Quest III]]'' is missing and presumed dead for the bulk of the game. In the very last dungeon, you encounter him fighting one of the penultimate bosses and watch him get killed.
* In ''[[Framcjose The Legend Of Zelda]]'', every time Ganon somehow manages to break the [[Sealed Evil in a Can|seal on his can]] or to come [[Back
** The same happens to Dracula in the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series.
* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' has Misty Fey: She's an incredibly important character in the backstory then finally appears in the last case of ''Trials and Tribulations''...only to be murdered fifteen minutes later
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