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* The three suicidal people in ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'', in an especially ironic twist on this trope. [[Mind Screw|Maybe...]]
* Appears in the hentai manga ''Alice in Sexland'', of all places. The comic opens with Alice running away from her life of forced prostitution and falling into a hole, as per the original story. Near the end, however, the Queen of Hearts reveals that Alice broke her neck in the fall and that Wonderland is simply Purgatory - and that it's only big enough for one real person, who fills the role of the Queen of Hearts, meaning that the current Queen went through the situation herself and now has to move on to make room for Alice.
* May apply to the Seo Kouji one-shot debut manga, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100401100528/http://www.onemanga.com/Half_and_Half/0/01/ "Half and Half."]'' The two protagonists are hit by a delivery truck right from the get-go, and in what smacks heavily of a [[Fridge Logic]]-inducer, Kami-sama gives them one week to sort out which one of them gets to die for keeps.
* ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''' Alice is thought to be a ghost. She was incredibly pale, and literally disappeared after she did all that she could to help the Tamers. It is also hinted by several characters that she was already dead.
** Shibumi was going to be one of these, with his body dead and his mind uploaded to the digital world. This is openly foreshadowed quite a bit, but in the end the writers liked him so much that they didn't want to shelve him for the entire (earth centric) finale.
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== Web Originals ==
* The twist ending of movie critic/indie filmmaker Brad Jones' (aka The Cinema Snob) suspense thriller [https://web.archive.org/web/20140724080148/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/bs/33788-paranoia-the-writers-cut Paranoia].
* Subverted in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Reconstruction'', in which it turns out that Church (who had been a ghost ever since about halfway through season one) was not dead all along, but was actually an AI program who only believed that he had been a real person due to the memories of the person he was based on.
** Then played somewhat straight when it's revealed Tex is really just an AI created from the Director's memories of his dead love.
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