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** There's also a rumor that Takanori would've prefer to play a bigger role (especially in Destiny), but couldn't spare much time from his ''very'' tight touring and recording schedule, so he had to stick to this trope.
* Amuria in ''[[Simoun]]''.
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' kills the lead character's two love interests, best friends, enemy, most of the cast of the first episode... in the best example of
* Yet another anime example is Seki Ray Shiroe from ''[[Toward the Terra]]'', played by [[Marina Inoue]]; it seems as though he might even become the protagonist's protege, and failing that, he begins to cultivate a relationship with the antihero as well - however, he is heartlessly (and, in the manga and original movie, a bit abruptly) snuffed out. (Savvy fans may predict this trope when they observe that [[Cross-Dressing Voices|Inoue]] is the only voice actor credited for Shiroe, indicating that he's not going to live long enough for his voice to change.)
* In ''[[Baccano!]]!'', [[Masakazu Morita]]'s character gets his face blown off [[Gory Discretion Shot|during the closing]] of [[Sacrificial Lamb|the very episode he first shows up in]]. Or did he?
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** He dies about a quarter of the way into ''[[Kingdom of Heaven]]''.
* [[Christopher Lee]] in ''[[Honeymoon Academy]]''.
* Jennifer Lopez in ''Jersey Girl''; not only does Lopez get second billing in promotional material, but upon first glance she appears to be the title character of the movie. Ten minutes in, she dies during
* In the 1996 ''[[Mission Impossible]]'' movie, [[Tom Cruise]]'s backup team includes Kristin Scott-Thomas, Emilio Estevez, Emmanuelle Béart and Jon Voight, all of whom are massacred early in the movie. Of course, the latter two turn out not to be dead after all, but are instead pulling a [[Xanatos Gambit]].
** The third movie does the same with Keri Russell, and ''Ghost Protocol'' does it with Tom Wilkinson and Josh Holloway.
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* In ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'', [[Drew Barrymore]] is killed off ten minutes into the movie. [[Throw It In|She came up with the idea]], having been initially cast as [[Final Girl|Sidney]].
** Pffft, that's nothing. The '''''[[Sarah Michelle Gellar|Slayer]]''''' bites it in the second film.
** The fourth film kills off five
* In the 2005 action film ''Stealth'', Jamie Foxx's character, Henry, is killed off suddenly while trying to pilot his aircraft through a canyon, less than halfway through the film. Although Stealth was made before ''Ray'' (which was one of Foxx's breakout roles), the film was released afterwards, and shocked audiences who expected Foxx's character to survive.
* Perhaps the most impressive occurrence is in the first ''[[Superman]]'' movie; [[Marlon Brando]] received top billing, and what was at the time the highest salary ever paid to a motion picture actor, to play a character with 8 minutes of screen time who dies before the end of the first act. Furthermore, Christopher Reeve was relegated to ''third'' billing even though he plays the lead character of the film. Fortunately, people caught on quickly to how much he was responsible for making the film so good.
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* Detective Terry Crowley in ''[[The Shield]]'' seems to be set up as one of the main characters of the series in the pilot episode when he's assigned to the Strike Team as a mole with the intention of exposing their corrupt activities, and gets more than his fair share of screen time in the process... until the final minute of the episode, where Vic Mackey and Shane Vendrell kill him and frame an also-deceased drug dealer as the killer. Crowley's death isn't brushed aside, though, as it haunts the Strike Team for the rest of the series and the character himself appears in flashback episodes.
* An unusual variation: in the fourth season of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' (Trek itself having numerous examples played straight), Jennifer Lien, cast regular for the first three seasons, is billed as a "special guest star." Her character [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|violently evolved into an energy being and abruptly left the show]] in the second episode of that season, once her [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] was settled.
* Like ''[[Spooks]]'', FX Network's ''[[Series/Thief|Thief]]'' had a 6-episode first season. Like ''[[Spooks]]'', it bumped off a name performer by the 2nd episode: Linda "Terminator 1 and 2" Hamilton as the handler. Unlike ''[[Spooks]]'', Hamilton was just the latest in a rather misogynistic streak. Including the handler, there were three surprising deaths in the first two
* In ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', [[Terminator|Robert Patrick]] plays Colonel Sumner in the pilot. He's supposed to be the head of the military unit attached to the Atlantis team, and naturally is killed off before the end of the second episode.
** Fans expected the same trick to be pulled in the premiere of ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' with Lou Diamond Phillips, who didn't seem to have an appropriately large role for a name-actor. However, his character lived, and the one who actually died in the pilot was [[Hey, It's That Guy!|that guy who played]] [[Jerk Jock|Shooter McGavin]] in ''[[Happy Gilmore]]''.
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