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A character whose pet, unfortunately, has died. [[Enemy to All Living Things|Just like the last one]]. [[Animals Hate Him|And the one before that]], and the one before that...
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Natalie Portman]]'s character in ''[[Garden State]]''.
* The young Michael Meyers in Rob Zombie's ''[[Halloween (
* Darla in ''[[Finding Nemo]]''.
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* The Death of Rats in ''[[Discworld]]'' reaps the souls of a lot of mice, gerbils and hamsters that run into this. Susan has to replace the class pet at her school regularly.
** It's noted in ''Hogfather'' that the Death of Rats isn't very busy on Hogswatch Eve, but business picks up about three days later, when all the children who got mice, gerbils, or hamsters for Hogswatch start forgetting to feed their pets.
** In ''[[Discworld
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Drusilla on ''[[
** Also Buffy ''"I killed my Giga Pet"'' Summers, herself.(This was part of an arc that drew parallels between these two protagonists left and right, so probably an afterthought rather than normal characterization.)
* Cady in ''[[
* They're not exactly pets, but GOB from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' has terribly bad luck with animals used in his magic acts.
* George and Reggie from ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' are noted to be like this.
* Dwight Schrute from the American version of ''[[The Office]]''.
* There was a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' bit called "The Mellow Show" where the host would always forget to feed his pets...
* Spencer from ''[[
== [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Ariel of ''[[
* Prince Ricardo of [[No Rest for The Wicked (
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Timmy from ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' was this, although he was told his pets just ran away. Really, all his animals died and were buried ''in the garden'' by his dad while Timmy was away at summer-camp... camp... camp...
** To be fair, nothing suggested that Timmy himself was that bad of a pet owner. His [[Bumbling Dad|dad]] on the other hand...
* In the Screwy Squirrel cartoon "Lonesome Lenny", a big dopey dog named Lenny keeps accidentally killing his companions. Whenever one of them would die, he would say, "You know, I had a little friend once, but he don't move no more". This is an unsubtle [[Shout
* A variant in ''[[South Park]]'', where it turns out that all the [[Paris Hilton]]'s pets had committed suicide rather then putting up with their obnoxious owner.
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