Dead Man Walking: Difference between revisions

Invoked by [[Dead Star Walking]]. Sometimes used to describe a state in a game that's [[Unwinnable by Design]].

== [[Film]] ==

* As a dog is being led away to be put down at the [[Pounds Are Animal Prisons|pound]] that Lucky's taken to in the Eddie Murphy film version of ''[[Doctor Dolittle]]'', one of the dogs comments "dead dog walking."

** [[Cloning Blues|It helps that all Kriegers are cloned.]]

* Another WH40K example: Within the [[Night Lords]] legion there was a practice of placing a suspended execution upon legionaries who warranted death, but were too valuable to be executed at present. Their gauntlets were painted [[Mark of Shame|arterial, or "sinner's" red]] and their lives continued at the whim of their primarch.

{{quote|Vimes realized he was a dead man bathing.}}

* One of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books features a pair of red-shirts called Dedman and Walken, who are (obviously) doomed.

* On ''[[MythBusters]]'', the Narrator often intones the phrase jokingly when referring to the (inanimate) victim of the day's experiment - usually Buster the crash test dummy but there's been [[The Alleged Car|"Dead Car Driving!"]] and others.

* An ''NCIS'' episode titled "Dead Man Walking" involves a victim who has gotten radiation poisoning and the team has to figure out whodunit before he dies.

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