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=== '''As a [[Death Trope]], all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.''' ===

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[Runaways (Comic Book)|Runaways]]'', the main characters are snooping around Gert's house and accidentally activate her parents' [[Video Wills|holographic will]] when they guess the secret chamber's ([[The Password Is Always Swordfish|easy]]) access code.

* In the [[Tintin]] comic book "Explorers on the Moon", Wolfe leaves a letter stating he has "left the rocket" to conserve oxygen. In the BBC's radio adaptation, this becomes a message on the logging machine (which didn't exist in the comic) stating "...by the time you listen to this, you will be listening to the voice of a dead man."

* In the [[Tintin (Comic Book)]] comic book "Explorers on the Moon", Wolfe leaves a letter stating he has "left the rocket" to conserve oxygen. In the BBC's radio adaptation, this becomes a message on the logging machine (which didn't exist in the comic) stating "...by the time you listen to this, you will be listening to the voice of a dead man."

* ''[[Blake and Mortimer]]'': Mortimer receives a letter from his deceased nemesis Miloch, entrusting him with a functional time machine as a post-mortem conciliatory gesture. In fact, the time machine has been sabotaged.

* ''[[Watchmen (Comic Book)|Watchmen]]''. Rorschach's last journal entry: "If reading this now, whether I am alive or dead, you will know truth. Whatever precise nature of this conspiracy, Adrian Veidt responsible. Have done best to make this legible. Believe it paints disturbing picture. Appreciate your recent support and hope world survives long enough for this to reach you, but tanks are in East Berlin, and writing is on wall."

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* The NES game ''[[The Guardian Legend]]'' has one of these after you complete the introductory space shooter level, when you first enter the labyrinth.

* Mary's letter in ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'', though we don't get to read it all until James lets himself read it all. The very first thing James says in the game is that it can't be possible he got a letter from Mary, since she's been dead for years now. But near the end, we find out that she's only been dead about a week.

* Your foster father Gorion in ''[[Baldurs Gate]]'' leaves one of these kinds of letters for you to pick up late in the game. (He also apparently ''lies''--[[Fanon]] is divided on whether the two stories of your mother can be reconciled--but then he is [[The Obi Wan]].)

* Your foster father Gorion in ''[[Baldurs Gate]]'' leaves one of these kinds of letters for you to pick up late in the game. (He also apparently ''lies''--[[Fanon]] is divided on whether the two stories of your mother can be reconciled--but then he is [[The Obi-Wan]].)

** The whole thing smells of [[Retcon]]. Probably done in order to be able to say that Sarevok and the PC could have exchanged places but for the smallest accident of chance.

* Near the very end of [[System Shock]] 2, as SHODAN starts warping reality, the player finds another of the [[Apocalyptic Log|Apocalyptic Logs]] left by Delacroix, although earlier in the game the player found her body and final log. This one, floating in the air all on its own, starts, "Re: some small assistance. If you are receiving this, I am already dead. When I realized SHODAN had betrayed me, I integrated these comments into her primary data loop." Her messages then guide the player.

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* As a rule, every NCR soldier in ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' must carry a letter to their loved ones, to be read only in the event of their deaths.

* John's letter to Ada in ''[[Resident Evil 1]]''.

* ''[[Armored Core (Video Game)|Armored Core 4]]'''s Maximilian Thermidor leaves the player this type of message in the ORCA path, stating that, as the sole remaining member of [[La Résistance|ORCA]], [[~~Its~~ Up to You]] to complete the Closed Plan. {{spoiler|If you're playing hard mode, you find out that Thermidor has both lied and inexplicably decided to kill you as you attempt to complete the mission he assigned you}}.

* ''[[Armored Core (Video Game)|Armored Core 4]]'''s Maximilian Thermidor leaves the player this type of message in the ORCA path, stating that, as the sole remaining member of [[La Résistance|ORCA]], [[It's Up to You]] to complete the Closed Plan. {{spoiler|If you're playing hard mode, you find out that Thermidor has both lied and inexplicably decided to kill you as you attempt to complete the mission he assigned you}}.

== [[Western Animation]] ==