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See also [[Snuff Film]] for the mostly fictional cases where this is done ''deliberately''. Compare [[Not So Fake Prop Weapon]], which involves (so-far) entirely fictional examples of actors being murdered through the replacement of a harmless prop with a real deadly weapon.

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* In a literal example, a method actor visiting ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' asked for the chance to practice for the role of Dracula. He nearly drained his [[Love Interest]]'s blood with the vampiric abilities and appetites he received, although Mr. Rourke intervened before the "Fatal" part of this trope could play out.

* Used in one of the stories told on ''Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction'', where during a pro wrestling match, the guy who was booked to lose died during the match. Of course, the history between the two meant that the dead guy, who was always showing up his current opponent looked like he was just deciding to sell like a ragdoll, and since the guy who won thought he was legitimately winning that way, nobody knew he was dead until after the match. Upon finding out that he was only winning because he was fighting a corpse, the narrator then says "even in victory, he was a loser."

* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' has a game of this. The players play actors in a live stage play that all die as soon as they get on stage leading one player (usually Colin Mocherie) who is still alive to heft the "corpses" around and supply the dialog himself.

* In the ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' episode "Oh Oh Oh . . . It's Magic", a stage magician's act [[Gone Horribly Wrong|Goes Horribly Wrong]] and he ends up suffocated inside a block of cement. {{spoiler|Subverted when they crack open the block at the morgue and find no body inside . . . then [[Double Subverted]] when it turns out the wrong block was sent to the morgue.}}

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