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* Happens picture-perfectly in the second volume of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''. Joseph and Cesare accompany a young Nazi soldier and friend of Cesare to witness the Three Men In The Pillar, and the young man shows them a picture of his girlfriend. Guess who's among the first victims when the men awakens?
* Miaka takes a happy picture with her [[True Companions]] in the middle of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. {{spoiler|Four episodes later, Nuriko dies and triggers the death domino.}}
* Subverted in ''[[Zipang]]''. The American pilot of the Dauntless divebomber keeps looking at the picture of his wife just as it looks like he's about to [[Ramming Always Works|ram his plane]] into the ''Mirai''. However, he jumps off and parachutes to safety just before impact, carefully keeping his wife's photo before he does.
* Played with on ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''. During the final arc, we see a scene where one of the computer programmers none-too-subtly looks at a framed picture of him and his son and granddaughter, {{spoiler|which is actually used to cement the implication that his ''granddaughter,'' who appeared a few episodes earlier, was really [[Dead All Along]]. Nothing happens to the programmer in question.}}
* Done ridiculously fast in ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'''s early episode, where you literally can't count to six before the two Alliance gunners die after one shows the [[Fatal Family Photo]] to his friend.
* The manga of ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' has an accountant for the mafia show off a picture of his family to Train and Sven. Being, well, a runaway from the mafia, he gets killed by an assassin shortly after.
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'': While he doesn't have a photo to show off, Tomoe's fiance begins talking to his comrades about how the two of them were childhood sweethearts and that he was going to marry her once the war was over (a war he got himself involved in in order to impress her).... right when Battousai shows up.
** Later on, the events that took place would turn into a {{spoiler|[[Personal Effects Reveal]] for Kenshin, since he overheard Akira saying Tomoe's name - who would end up marrying Kenshin and later die for him - right before he killed him, though he never thought anything of it at the time.}}
* Happen in early episode of ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]'', a professor is killed after he shows D-Boy his families photo before his [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. While D-Boy's anger against the millitary because of said events is normal for well... Normal person, it feels REALLY out of character if we considers how D-Boy acts up to this point, and the fact that his rage is against the millitary member. {{spoiler|That is until you see what happen to D-Boy's later on the series.}}
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* Leads to a death in the film ''Sum of All Fears'', where an Israeli pilot's picture of his wife and kids falls off his plane's control panel, his brief distraction of quickly picking the photo back up and placing it into it's original place leads to him now seeing too late the surface to air missile that's flying towards him and he explodes.
** Tom Clancy himself states that this is the reason why various Air Forces do not allow pilots to bring up family photos, Making this the first in a series of [[Did Not Do the Research]]
* Parodied and [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Hot Shots]]!'' One of the pilots shows everyone pictures of his perfect family, and his beautiful, perky wife even shows up at the base to tell him how things are going with the house they just bought. He also puts off putting the single last signature needed onto the insurance on his life until after this flight, and takes some crucial evidence to the JFK assassination and a winning lottery ticket along with him; his call sign? Dead Meat.
** He also walks under a ladder, has a black cat cross his path, and accidentally breaks his wife's mirror.
* One of the cops at the beginning of [[The Last House on the Left]] remake is talking to his colleague about his daughters and their pictures are shown. Is done in such a hammy way it hurts.
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* {{spoiler|Nikolai}} from ''[[Predators]]'' shows a photo of his two children and becomes the next to die. {{spoiler|Edwin steals the photo and uses it to gain sympathy from Royce and Isabel. He too dies shortly afterwards.}}
* In Anthony Mann's ''Men in war'', American soldiers find the family photo on the corpse of a North Korean. So those [[Dirty Commies]] are simply ''men'' ?!
* Subverted in ''[[Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever]]''.
* Played straight ''and'' subverted in ''[[Das Boot]]''. Lieutenant Werner looks at family photos from Cadet Ullman, Navigator Kriechbaum and the Chief Engineer. At the end, {{spoiler|Ullman gets killed in an air raid, Kriechbaum gets wounded and is rushed into an ambulance that leaves just before the air raid, and the Chief survives.}}
* [[Hostel|Oli]] makes the mistake of showing off pictures of his daughter, and to an Elite Hunting ''customer'', no less. Of course, given that this is ''Hostel'', keeping the photo hidden probably wouldn't have helped.
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** Tangential example: {{spoiler|In the film version of ''[[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix]]'', Sirius gives Harry a photo of the Order (including Harry's parents, whom Sirius thought of as family). [[It Was His Sled|Sirius dies at the end.]]}}
* Played with in [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''Straight Silver''. {{spoiler|Gutes}} laments that he has no photographs of his dead daughter and granddaughter; they had intended to send him some after, but then Chaos destroyed their planet. Then he dies.
* Inverted in ''The Things They Carried''. In one section, Tim O'Brien is showing Kiowa a picture of his girlfriend when an attack on the camp begins. O'Brien survives, but Kiowa doesn't.
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Ultramarines (novel)|Ultramarines]] novel ''Warriors of Ultramar'', a Guardsman has just such a photo. {{spoiler|He survives the battle, and Uriel tracks him down in the hospital and is shown it. And then he survives the war and tracks down Uriel in the hospital, and Uriel is [[Green-Eyed Monster|envious]] of him, having a family to go to.}}
* {{spoiler|Beckendorf}} from ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]''. Before moving out on their mission to {{spoiler|blow up the ''Princess Andromeda,'' Beckendorf}} pulls out a picture of his girlfriend, {{spoiler|Silena.}} A mere fifteen pages later, he is dead. The worst part? {{spoiler|''Silena was a spy,'' and because of the spy, teh mission was expected, which lead directly to him getting killed.}}
* Appears somewhat differently in ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'': after Paul kills a French soldier, he founds pictures of his wife and daughter.
** Don't forget the boots ! The uncle of the schoolmate of Paul give his boots to his nephew when he enlist, needless to say, he die and then one another take the boots... and die too...and so on.
* In the ''[[Halo]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novels, some of the otherwise nameless soldiers and personnel have families back home, but are still just as expendable in the novels as they are in the games. To name an example, the first guy you see die from the first game dies while clutching a picture of his family.
* Referenced in [[Tanya Huff]]'s ''[[Confederation of Valor]]'' series. The first book has one of the soldiers offering to show another one a video of his four-year-old doing a silly dance - until a more [[Genre Savvy]] soldier stops the both of them.
* In ''Laura and the Silver Wolf'', the father of an [[Ill Girl]] Laura brings her their photo from earlier days. {{spoiler|This is the [[Tear Jerker|last time she is awake]] in the real world.}}
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** In ''[[Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake]]'', Snake and Natasha/[[Retcon|Gustava]] take cover in a sewer and she tells him about her mother and ex-fiance. As soon as she leaves the sewer, she gets blown up.
** In the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' radio drama, Snake teams up with an original character named Allen Iishiba to save Meryl after she and a crew of UN Peacekeepers crash lands on a hostile territory. While resting, Allen talks about his childhood girlfriend waiting for him at home. Needless to say, Allen doesn't get to see his girlfriend again.
** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'', Sokolov shows Snake a picture of his wife and daughter. He gets tortured to death in the very next cutscene.
*** Also in ''MGS3'', [[Recurring Character|Johnny Sasaki]] shows Snake a photo of his family if you trigger the cutscene. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|If you feel like being a complete asshole]], you're free to kill him as soon as you escape afterwards. [[Video Game Caring Potential|Otherwise]], feel free to subvert it.
* One of the items you can get from the Cola Wars battlefield in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' is the "picture of a dead guy's girlfriend", found in the backpack of a dying soldier.
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== Real Life ==
* Major Dale Buis is reported as "showing his new friends pictures of his three young sons" shortly before being attacked and gunned down by six [[Vietnam War|Viet Cong guerrilla fighters]].
* Let's be honest: [[Truth in Television|this happens to almost every soldier who doesn't make it home.]]
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