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{{quote|''"Deaths for all ages and occasions. Deaths of kings and princes ... and nobodies."''
''"The bad end unhappily, the good, unluckily."''
|'''The Player'''
When [[Anyone Can Die]] becomes "Everyone ''Will'' Die", you have '
Many series are noteworthy for the extremely high body count among the main cast that they rack up in their last few episodes. In some cases, ''all'' of the heroes make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], or otherwise find themselves wearing the [[Red Shirt]]. Occasionally, the protagonists simply fail to prevent [[The End of the World as We Know It]], resulting in a [[Downer Ending]]. (Possibly [[Dying Alone]] to cap it all.)
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The ''[[
** The sequel, ''Sluagh'', is worse. Depending on how you look at it, ''none'' of Our Heroes are left standing after the Battle of Druim Cett, and if half of those creatures aren't out of the author's imagination, there's some funky stuff in water of those Irish springs.
* Speaking of ''[[
* ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'': Six words: [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|Alma Wakes Up, Everyone Gets Eaten]].
* Happens in ''[[That Guy with the Glasses in Space]]''. Or at least until [[The Nostalgia Critic]] goes back in time and fixes everything.
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* ''[[Sidehackers]]'' was a brutal, gritty biker film in which almost every character (including the hero's extremely likable love interest, whose death ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' had to cut out of the aired version and have Crow explain) was gang raped and killed. The hero himself was gunned down by the fatally wounded villain whilst walking away from a [[Mexican Standoff]]. The three that lived (the black guy, the guy who told bad jokes, and the hero's friend) all ran off when the battle was in progress. ''Sidehackers'' incidentally, was the movie which prompted Best Brains to institute their policy of watching a movie ''all'' the way through before selecting it for their show.
* ''[[Rocketship X-M]]'' features a bunch of people going to the moon, but [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|ending up on Mars]]. They are able to find about people that are horribly mutated from a war and on the way back, and only have enough time tell the people of Earth about this, before [[Diabolus Ex Machina|a leak makes them run out of gas on the way home and they are unable to land]]. As Crow put it on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', "There's nothing more depressing then being stuck in a spaceship, watching people die in a spaceship."
* ''[[
** These two survivors die in a later movie. Basically, every character from the first two films ends up dead.
** Oh the irony... Heston actually '''re-wrote''' the ending to the script (in which Taylor destroys the entire planet) because he didn't want it to become a [[Franchise Zombie]], and would rather just end it then.
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* Zombie's ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]] II'' has everyone die... including Dr. Loomis, Michael Myers, ''and'' Laurie!
* The two ''[[Count Yorga]]'' movies ends with all the characters either dead or turned into vampires (most of the female cast for the latter).
* In Uwe Boll's ''[[
* ''Next Day Air'' ends with a [[Mexican Standoff]] that [[Blast Out|goes bad]] and kills half the cast (and almost kills half the rest).
* ''[[The Ice Harvest]]'': Charlie and Pete are the only main characters to survive.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The fourth, fifth and sixth ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books each ended with an increasingly major character dying. Then along came [[
* In [[Lloyd Alexander]]'s ''Westmark'' trilogy, any character with a name [[Anyone Can Die|had a fifty-fifty chance of making it out of book 3 alive]]. There were more deaths than in the previous two books combined - and the second book took place ''during a war''.
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Mostly Harmless]]''. At the end, most of the main characters and all possible Earths are completely obliterated from all possible timelines. Permanently. (The only possible survivor is a character who stepped into a teleporter in a previous book and wasn't seen again.) And then, to make it even worse, the ''author'' [[Author Existence Failure|died]].
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* [[Wuthering Heights]]. Out of the two families, 11 people die, leaving just one of each.
* In ''[[The Long Walk]]'', every contestant save for {{spoiler|Ray Garraty}} dies during the Walk, and it looks he won't have long to live either, even though he won. It's mentioned earlier in the story that most of the previous Walks' winners died not long after due to the immense physical and psychological strain it placed on them.
* Brian Keene's [[Zombie Apocalypse]] two-parter ''The Rising'' and ''City Of The Dead'' culminates with all the human characters being killed via means ranging from "[[Taking You with Me|self-immolation by firing a flamethrower at a gas line while surrounded]]" to "[[Non-Human Undead|eaten in their sleep by zombie rats]]" to "killed by zombie crocodile in the sewers". On the other hand, they did get an afterlife which... well, no details beyond the presence of loved ones are actually mentioned, but given that it presumably did ''not'' feature demonic spirits reanimating the dead, it can only have been an improvement.
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] used this trope a lot:
** ''Necromancy in Naat'': Only the [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombies]] remain in the end.
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** The "Tips for Traitors" section, when discussing how to manipulate the marching order for tactical advantage, includes a warning to ''not'' let the guy with the area-of-effect weapon take far left or right flank - the temptation to turn and wipe out all his teammates at once is way too high.
* ''[[FATAL]]'' has this as the eponymous spell, which destroys the universe. The spell can be cast as a random effect of a spell miscast.
* In the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] board game ''[[Arkham Horror]]'' (and the dice game ''Elder Sign'') the players are investigators trying to seal away a [[Eldritch Abomination]] before it awakens. If it does wake up, there's a last-ditch [[Boss Fight]] against it. Except Azathoth. Azathoth takes longer to wake than other
== [[Theatre]] ==
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* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' ends with the entire party dead and one's character sent to eternal punishment in the lower planes or erased from existence entirely. It's possible to save everyone but the main character, who goes to his eternal punishment if you do so. And that's the ''good'' ending. Though it is implied that he kicks ass in the afterlife, as well.
* ''[[Unreal II: The Awakening|Unreal II the Awakening]]'' ends with a massive [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|Bridge Drop]] on the whole squad except the main characters. While there was a vibe of [[The War Has Just Begun]], the sequel hook was surprisingly vague and no actual sequel materialized. [[Downer Ending]] all around.
* The Base Defense missions in the middle-late portions of ''[[
** [http://marathon.bungie.org/story/maptext.html The levels in the ''Marathon'' games frequently included interesting messages if you viewed them using a map editor.] The text for ''God Will Sort The Dead''? "Q: How do you tell the difference between the good Bobs and the bad ones? A: Good Bobs?" The first game had it's own share, namely Bob-B-Q's "BOB-JAM? APPLY GRENADES LIBERALLY!!", and yes, you were supposed to save the Bobs on that level, too...
* The [[Multiple Endings|bad ending]] of ''[[Persona 3]]'' has this happen to SEES, as well as about [[The End of the World as We Know It|six billion-plus]] extras.
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