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=== '''As a [[Death Trope]], there may be unmarked spoilers ahead. Beware.''' ===
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In an anime-only episode of ''[[Ranma
* A non-comedic usage: In ''[[Paranoia Agent (Anime)|Paranoia Agent]]'', a news anchor is reporting on the mysterious wave of destruction proceeding through Tokyo when it engulfs him.
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', when Cell makes his first appearance.
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** "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S2 E12 Army of Ghosts|Army of Ghosts]]" has not only the news, but any broadcast program in which the eponymous ghosts are featured suddenly turn into one of these when the ghosts are revealed to be interdimensional Cybermen.
** Set during the same day as "Army of Ghosts", the online, extra scene for "Doomsday" shows a news report on the ensuing chaos at the hands of the Cybermen and the Daleks. As the reporter speaks, the studio shakes and crumbles. Suddenly, a Dalek appears and approaches her while crying "EXTERMINATE!". The screen goes dead ... and clearly, so does the poor reporter.
** In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E17 E18 The End of Time|The End of Time]]'', Part One, the newsreader and [[Barack Obama]] are turned into Master [[
* In an episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' the news station is stormed by government forces during a live broadcast.
* Appears in ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'', episode "[[Attack of the Fifty Foot Whatever|Kitten Kong]]". Although it's Michael Aspel who gets attacked by the titular beast, so there's pedigree (no pun intended) behind this one.
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* In the ''[[All That]]'' spinoff ''[[The Amanda Show]]'', They would have a segment called When ______s attack (sometimes hula girls, [[The Brady Bunch]], etc) They would watch the clips of people being attacked and then at the end the subject would attack the newscaster.
* Parodied in ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'''s famous episode "Turkeys Away", when the station manager's plan to free twenty turkeys as a Thanksgiving promotion turns out to mean dropping them from a helicopter ("As God is my witness... I thought turkeys could fly.") Les Nessman's breathless report from the scene is cut off mid-sentence when disgusted onlookers attack him, following which the helicopter lands and the surviving turkeys lay into him too.
{{quote| '''Les:''' Oh, no, Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! [[Oh, the Humanity!]] The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!}}
* In the [[Made for TV]] movie ''[[Special Bulletin]]'', a reporter is covering the scene where the assault team is attempting to deactivate a terrorist nuclear bomb on a boat in the harbor, mentioning how they're supposed to have over an hour, but not realizing the team has tripped one of the fail-deadlies, arming the mechanism and shortly thereafter, cutting off his report in mid sentence.
** Even better, the viewers (us) got to see in split-screen with the reporter a live feed from a camera in the compartment with the bomb, as the rad-suited technicians were working on it. Everything's okay, then the voltage across a circuit starts to fluctuate wildly, the technicians become a lot more tense, one of them panics and actually runs away, and then boom.
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* In ''[[Lexx]]'', a [[Red Shirt Reporter]] gets [[Distracted By the Sexy]] of a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|50-foot woman]], and dies under her foot.
{{quote| '''Anchor:''' We'll get right back to the scene, courtesy of... someone else. (smiles blandly)}}
* Russell Edgington pulls off a juicy one in the third season of ''[[True Blood]]'' as he [[Killed Mid
* ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' features the death of a newscaster when a captive bear gets loose. {{spoiler|Subverted--him wetting himself in fear while standing by a power socket kills him before the bear gets close enough.}}
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* On ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' its a [[Running Gag]] for Lance Thunder, weatherman, to get sent out to cover whatever ghostly invasion is occurring. Forecast says that we have a 100% chance of seeing him get attacked over the course of the 'Ghost Watch'.
* In ''[[Batman:
** The newspeople learn their lesson, though, and [[Continuity Nod|we see on a later TV broadcast]] that a reporter is wearing a [[World War I]]-era gas mask.
** In the episode "Beware the Creeper", of ''[[Batman:
* The ''[[Young Justice (Animation)|Young Justice]]'' episode "Failsafe" features a Keystone City news reporter (Kid Flash's Aunt Iris of all people) becoming a victim of the alien invasion she's covering in the middle of her report. It comes with the nice touch of her coworker shouting at her to watch out before the camera cuts out.
* In ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' "[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)/Recap/S1 E6 And the Winner Is|And the Winner Is...]]", when Equalists attack the [[Fictional Sport|pro-bending finals]], the [[Combat Commentator|radio commentator]] covers the attack as it happens, even when one of the Equalists enters his booth to silence him.
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* On August 11, 1999, every news studio and reporter in Salt Lake City had front row seats to a tornado [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gTeXwdtPw sweeping] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8HgzXzZQgc through] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSorTVDSJqQ the downtown core.]
* On July 15, 1974, chronically depressed [[Only in Florida|Sarasota, Florida]] anchorwoman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck Christine Chubbuck] [[Driven to Suicide|shot herself in the head]] during a live [[News Broadcast]].
{{quote| "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of [[If It Bleeds, It Leads|bringing you the latest in blood and guts]], and in living color, you are going to see another first -- attempted suicide."}}
* [[Al Jazeera]] lost several reporters during the [[Arab Israeli Conflict|Second Intifada]], some of which were recording at the time. Since reporters are required to give their locations to the IDF, the already-Israeli-critical network took it [[
* On July 27, 2007, Reuters reporters interviewing Iraqi citizens (some of whom were armed) were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike mistaken for militants by a US Army helicopter crew and fired upon]. The story really became infamous when WikiLeaks posted the gun camera footage of the incident, given to them by Bradley Manning.
* In late 2011 a group of reporters found their hotel in the Middle East taken over by terrorists. This didn't stop them from continuing to transmit reports back to America with news of what was going on in the hotel.
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