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* In the [[Cal Leandros]] book ''[[Doubletake]]'', we find out via flashback from Grimm that he killed Georgia awhile back. However, she did some [[Mind Manipulation]] on him to make sure he never told Cal what he did, and it seems somewhat implied that maybe things didn't end as Grimm thinks they did.

 

* Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) leaves ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' because his tour of duty is up, he has enough points for an honorable discharge and can go home. At the episode's end, Radar O'Reilly comes in to inform the cast that [[McLeaned|Henry was killed]] when his plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan.

** To keep the rest of the episode sad about Col. Blake leaving, but [[War Is Hell|happy about him going home]], the only cast member told about this before the episode started shooting was Alan Alda, (McLean Stevenson himself apparently wasn't even told) instead believing that Henry was merely going home. The final, sad scene was filmed last, and the actors were only told of Henry's fate just before then (the fact that they ''weren't told at all'' is an [[Urban Legend]]). It's said that the traditional wrap party was canceled because of the gloomy mood after the scene was shot. Apparently, while there was some resentment from the production crew over Stevenson's leaving the show, the official reason for the [[Shocking Swerve|shocking twist]] was to hammer home the [[Anyone Can Die|capriciousness of war]]. Showrunner Larry Gelbart explicitly said in an interview soon after that he didn't want Blake going back to Bloomington because "a lot of guys didn't get back to Bloomington."

* Seems to be popular on the [[Police Procedural]]: ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' did it to Daniel Baldwin's character, Beau Felton. He left with several other cast members, allegedly on administrative leave after some bad behavior at a police convention, but turned up as the [[Victim of the Week]] a few seasons later. A shotgun blast to the head even obviated the need to have Baldwin play his own corpse. Likewise, Jon Polito's character, Steve Crosetti, took a holiday for the first three episodes of season three then drowned himself.

* In the [[Big Finish]] ''[[The Tomorrow People]]'' line, we are told that Kenny, one of the early Tomorrow People, has been killed by an assassin.

** He had a ''ton'' of adventures in the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]], though, one of which involved this trope. Former companion Sam Jones is revealed, in the very last book (which is to say, the 73rd, or, [[Continuity Snarl|continuity-wise]], the 75th), to have died in her twenties. Fitz is terribly upset, but the Doctor, having [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]], doesn't remember and therefore shows no response whatsoever, [[The Stoic|not even to his best friend's distress]]. Fitz gets absolutely furious (and he's usually rather slow to anger).

** "The Empty Child" demonstrates that the Eighth Doctor isn't the only character to have died in the planetary Bus Crash that was the [[Great Offscreen War|Time War]].

{{quote|'''Dr. Constantine''': Before this war began I was a father and a grandfather. Now I am neither, but I'm still a doctor.

'''The Doctor''': I know the feeling. }}

* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', after Jonas Quinn departs he comes back for one season 7 episode, then doesn't appear again. In season 10 his home planet is mentioned as falling to the Ori, and "their allies" on the planet could not be contacted, implying that they were killed.

** Though not stated on the show, [[Word of God|one of the producers stated in an interview]] that Jonas was part of [[La Résistance|an underground movement set on resisting the Ori]].

* On the last episode of ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'', it's mentioned in passing that [[Put on a Bus|Bobby Caldwell]] has died of AIDS.

* Another strange one: Kahlan's sister Denee from ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'' was the focus of an episode after Kahlan learned that she was still alive, having apparently been killed in the pilot episode. The episode in question involves the main characters going to great lengths to save her and her newborn baby, only for their deaths to be off-handedly mentioned towards the end of season one.

* [[Crossing Jordan]] - A show that had only it's original core group as the regulars with added characters who were in and out, Crossing Jordan was not one to be afraid of writing a character off, doing this at least once if not twice, though one died in a plane crash and the other died semi on screen from really bad food poisoning.

** Similarly, Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri, a vampire who appears repeatedly in the second series, is left behind when the group moves to Wales, and a vampire-hunter later refers to her as one of his kills.

* In the final series of ''[[My Family]]'', Susan's mother Grace is revealed to have suddenly died offscreen - supposedly from falling into crocodile-infested waters after her cord snapped during a bungee jump.

 

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