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See also [[Retirony]] and [[If We Get Through This]].

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** That doesn't stop him from becoming a major character, though.

* In ''[[Saikano]]'', all of the characters that carry the photos of their loved ones to war die horribly. {{spoiler|Their loved ones die too}}

* The first episode of ''[[The Tower of Druaga (Anime)|The Tower of Druaga]]: The Aegis of Uruk'' lampoons this trope heavily.

* 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 in [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Gaunts 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.

* {{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 (Literature)|All Quiet On the Western Front]]'': after Paul kills a French soldier, he founds pictures of his wife and daughter.

* On ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', generally when a team talks about how much they miss their family back at home, especially early in the race, you can expect them to get eliminated that episode.

* On an episode of ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'': As the victim of the week is pushed to the floor by her soon-to-be killer, the [[Rape Discretion Shot|camera pans away]] to a picture of her and her parents stuck to the refrigerator door. What makes this especially wrenching is that the girl's mother had died recently and she and her father had moved to a new town for a fresh start. The picture is the last one taken of them as a happy family. [[Fridge Horror]] kicks in full force when you realize that the father will now have to contend with the loss of his wife and daughter within one year.

* Given a twist in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]''. After Jasmine's spell over LA is broken, Connor talks a depressed cop out of killing himself. He then takes out a picture of his wife and daughter which sends Connor (who has some issues with his parents) into a rage.

{{quote| '''Connor:''' That's your family. That's your family, and you were just gonna leave them like that? How were they gonna feel if you didn't come back?<br />

 

== New Media ==

* There was something similar to this in a web game that used to be on [[My Chemical Romance]]'s website during ''The Black Parade'' era, only the trope is averted if you shot down enough enemies.

 

** The first [[Gears of War]] plays it straight with Rojas. The first mention of him is when you see an unidentified corpse from a bridge, and one of your squadmates says something along the lines of 'I hope that's not Rojas. His little boy turned two last week". The corpse you saw WASN'T Rojas, but you do find his mutilated body later.

* ''[[Ace Combat]] Zero'' has Patrick "PJ" James, who was the [[Butt Monkey]] of the Crow Team of fighter pilots due to his girlfriend back at the air base. Nevertheless, both as Crow 3 and as Galm 2, he's perfectly fine. Well, until after successfully destroying {{spoiler|the WMD controllers inside the Avalon Dam}}, he announces to you that he's going to propose to her when he gets back...

* Barry Burton of ''[[Resident Evil]]''. The guy's a nut for his family and keeps a photo of them in his pocket. Later in the game, If the player decided, Barry will be knocked off a cliff to his death, leaving the photo of his family behind. In a reverse example, in Jill Valentine's ending (if Barry survives, and if the player dosen't rescue Chris Redfield) Barry will show the same picture to Jill and talk a bit about his family

** In the original, if you do things wrong while playing as Jill, Barry will be fatally mauled by a monster and give you his family picture before dying.

** 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]]'', Sokolov shows Snake a picture of his wife and daughter. He gets tortured to death in the very next cutscene.

* 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.

* ''Heroes Over Europe'' plays it straight. Since the beginning of the game, a friend of one of the main characters keeps mentioning his beloved wife. Fast forward a few missions, and he gets hit by a german plane; he refuses to bail saying he can hold the plane together. Sure enough, a few minutes later his remains are inside the flaming wreckage.

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