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* [[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 childbirth—and we find out that her ''daughter'' is arguably the title character. After the "Bennifer" craze sprung up, the studio made [[Kevin Smith]] film more scenes so that they could push J-Lo's death to halfway through the film, which would have totally undone the whole point of the story. Fortunately the failure of ''[[Gigli]]'' combined with [[Ben Affleck]] and Lopez ending their relationship let Smith go back to his original idea. It also meant they had to spoil the death in the advertising to make it seem less like ''[[Gigli]]''.
* 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.
** Estevez isn't even ''credited''.
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* [[Morgan Freeman]] gets killed halfway through ''The Sum of All Fears''.
** And ''twice'' in ''[[RED (film)]]''. At the beginning, we think he has been killed, then he pops up again and shortly after performs a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] at around the halfway mark of the film.
* Arguably [[Val Kilmer]] and Christian Slater in ''[[
* ''[[Alien]]''. Tom Skerritt is top-billed during a period in his career where audiences would naturally assume he was the main character. The Xenomorph (and the scriptwriters) disagreed.
** The cast dies in reverse order of their credit billing. At the time, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton and Tom Skerritt were all relatively well-known actors, while Sigourney Weaver was a complete unknown.
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* Parodied on ''[[Police Squad!]]'': in each episode's [[Title Montage]], a different celebrity [[Special Guest]] is killed off ''as they are being introduced''.
* 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:
* 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 eps—all women. Unlike ''[[Spooks]]'', ''Thief'' was not renewed beyond its initial 6 ep run.
* 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.
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