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In a [[Prequel]], they may be [[Doomed By Canon]]: all characters who do not appear in the sequel and can not be disposed of otherwise will have to die.

In [[Tabletop Games]], this is called a [[Total Party Kill]]. [[Game Master|Game Masters]] who are ''really'' annoyed with their group (or just [[Killer Game Master|sadistic]]) may invoke [[Rocks Fall Everyone Dies]].

In [[Tabletop Games]], this is called a [[Total Party Kill]]. [[Game Master|Game Masters]] who are ''really'' annoyed with their group (or just [[Killer Game Master|sadistic]]) may invoke [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]].

A short historical digression: the words "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" ([[Ominous Latin Chanting|Latin]]: "Kill them all. God will know his own," popularly rendered as, "Kill 'em all, and let God sort 'em out.") are [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Latin_proverbs#Kill_them_all attributed] to Abbot Arnold Amaury before the massacre of Béziers during the [[The Crusades|Albigensian Crusade]] -- albeit not in any of the numerous contemporary accounts of it.

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** 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 ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'', ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1240132/1/One_Step_Too_Far One Step Too Far]'' plays with this by having Rowling realize she just killed the last available character... in the middle of book 6.

* ''[[Aeon Natum Engel (Fanfic)|Aeon Natum Engel]]'': Six words: [[Rocks Fall Everyone Dies|Alma Wakes Up, Everyone Gets Eaten]].

* ''[[Aeon Natum Engel (Fanfic)|Aeon Natum Engel]]'': Six words: [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|Alma Wakes Up, Everyone Gets Eaten]].

* Happens in ''[[That Guy With the Glasses In Space (Fanfic)|That Guy With the Glasses In Space]]''. Or at least until [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] goes back in time and fixes everything.

* A common goal to most people who [[Came Back Wrong|are resurrected]] in ''[[Immortality Syndrome (Fanfic)|Immortality Syndrome]]''.

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* The last few scenes of ''[[The Departed]]'' ends up with every main character but one getting shot by each other - then the very last scene has that final main character getting shot by the other main character's boss.

* ''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."

* ''[[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."

* ''Beneath the [[Planet of the Apes]]'' ends with pretty much the entire cast getting shot. And then Charlton Heston's dying act is to trigger a gigantic nuke that [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroys the entire planet]]. They still managed three more films, though (with only two main characters, who escaped through [[Time Travel]]).

** These two survivors die in a later movie. Basically, every character from the first two films ends up dead.

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** The recent video game based on the film picks up after Tony's 'death' and has the player control him as he attempts to rebuild his drug empire. This can be viewed as an alternate continuity.

* Those who do not die onscreen in the cult [[La Résistance|French Resistance]] movie ''Army of Shadows'' are killed off in the epilogue screen titles.

* ''[[The Wild Bunch (Film)|The Wild Bunch]]''. [[The Good ~~the~~ Bad And The Evil|Good guys. Bad guys. Worse Guys.]] Bystanders. Livestock. Only two named characters are still breathing as the closing credits roll.

* ''[[The Wild Bunch (Film)|The Wild Bunch]]''. [[The Good, The Bad, And The Evil|Good guys. Bad guys. Worse Guys.]] Bystanders. Livestock. Only two named characters are still breathing as the closing credits roll.

* In ''[[The Fall (Film)|The Fall]]'', Roy almost ends his story this way, much to Alexandria's horror. Only her confession of love convinces him to allow their avatars to live.

* In the ''[[Saw]]'' franchise, no one (up to and including the eponymous serial killer himself) survived all seven movies except one. Jigsaw nursed that one back to health after he survived, then he trained him as his apprentice, and by the time [[The Reveal|all this is revealed]] at the end of ''Saw 3D'' he's proven to be the one confirmed good egg out of Jigsaw's apprentices. The last scene has him leave a rogue apprentice, Hoffman, in a room he'd remember from the game in the first film.

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* Dario Argento's films seem to be rather fond of this, killing most of the main cast and rarely ever having a survival count higher than 2. The most egregious example of this being ''Suspiria'', where once the main heroine kills the head witch (Suspirorum, the Mother of Sighs), the building starts to collapse, and the moment she leaves, it bursts into flames, supposedly killing every single person within the building except for the main heroine.

* The 2010 ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' remake wastes no time in killing off characters, both major and minor. Both Perseus' and Andromeda's parents, the cult leader who tried to sacrifice her, the entire Praetorian guard and its captain Draco, the Jinn who accompanied Perseus on his journey,and even Io all face their demise along the course of the film. However, Io got better by the end and is reunited with Perseus. Hades doesn't count, however, since he was merely sent back to the underworld.

* The Hong Kong Kung Fu flick ''[[Duel to The Death (Film)|Duel To The Death]]'' is a film about a duel between the best swordsmen in China and Japan for bragging rights between the two nations. By the end everyone is dead except for the two leads, (well, aside from one character who has undergone a [[Break the Haughty]] experience and possibly [[Freak Out|gone insane]] as a result) and both of ''them'' are dying from wounds suffered in the duel as the credits roll.

* The Hong Kong Kung Fu flick ''[[Duel to The Death (Film)|Duel To The Death]]'' is a film about a duel between the best swordsmen in China and Japan for bragging rights between the two nations. By the end everyone is dead except for the two leads, (well, aside from one character who has undergone a [[Break the Haughty]] experience and possibly [[Freak-Out|gone insane]] as a result) and both of ''them'' are dying from wounds suffered in the duel as the credits roll.

* In the [[John Carpenter]] film ''[[Dark Star]]'' two out of four crew members are obliterated in a nuclear blast by a malfunctioning bomb that decides there is no point to existence. Ironically, this stems from a crew member trying to convince the bomb not to explode. Now floating around helplessly in space without a ship, one of the two remaining ones is sucked in by a group of asteroids to slowly drift off and die, while the other decides to surf into the nearby planet's atmosphere on a piece of debris to burn up.

* The 2009 French zombie movie ''The Horde'' ends with only 1 survivor left standing, possibly 0 as you can Heard the zombies approaching before the credits roll

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* ''The Mission'' might well be one of the most depressing cases of this, as it literally ends with every single one of the protagonists getting massacred by the Portugese soldiers, not to mention out of an ''entire tribe'' they'd been trying to help, only a handfull of women and children make it out alive. Worse still, [[Karma Houdini|the men responsible for the massacre get away with it]].

* Applied [[In Universe]] in the film ''Formula of Love'', where one of Caliostro's servants sing a song with nonsense words, and when asked by some woman what the song means (she presumes it's in Italian), he tells her a tragic story ending with "So in summation, everybody died."

* Subverted in ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'', where a [[Kill Them All]] ending is [[Ret Gone]].

* Subverted in ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'', where a [[Kill Them All]] ending is [[Ret-Gone]].

* In the Dolph Lundgren movie Diamond Dogs every main character except Dolph is dead by the end. 3 of them die within seconds of eachother.

== Literature ==

* The fourth, fifth and sixth ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' books each ended with an increasingly major character dying. Then along came [[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|the seventh]], which was a "bloodbath of epic proportions." It was so bad that Muggle Net took bets on character deaths before it even came out. Who died? Dobby, Hedwig, Mad-Eye Moody, Tonks, Remus Lupin, Fred Weasley, Colin Creevy, Peter Pettigrew, Severus Snape, Crabbe, Bellatrix Lestrange, Lord Voldemort, and oh, yeah, [[Near Death Experience|Harry Potter himself]] (sort of). Those were just the major characters. The complete list can be found [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_deaths#Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows here].

* The fourth, fifth and sixth ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' books each ended with an increasingly major character dying. Then along came [[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|the seventh]], which was a "bloodbath of epic proportions." It was so bad that Muggle Net took bets on character deaths before it even came out. Who died? Dobby, Hedwig, Mad-Eye Moody, Tonks, Remus Lupin, Fred Weasley, Colin Creevy, Peter Pettigrew, Severus Snape, Crabbe, Bellatrix Lestrange, Lord Voldemort, and oh, yeah, [[Near-Death Experience|Harry Potter himself]] (sort of). Those were just the major characters. The complete list can be found [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_deaths#Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows here].

* 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 Hitchhikers 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.

* 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.

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Blake's Seven ~~(TV)~~|Blakes Seven]]''. They even threw in a line of dialogue which revealed that the only previous regular character to make it out of the series alive had [[Dropped a Bridge On Him|died off-screen at some point since]].

* ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]]''. They even threw in a line of dialogue which revealed that the only previous regular character to make it out of the series alive had [[Dropped a Bridge On Him|died off-screen at some point since]].

** It is worth pointing out that this was unintended. The writers had a fifth season planned in which it would be revealed that only one character was definitely dead. The rest had merely been stunned and taken prisoner. However, the BBC decided to cancel the series at that point, so it was just assumed that almost everyone was dead. Also, Avon wasn't gunned down on screen (we only heard shots being fired) and in theory survived.

* ''[[Black Adder|The Black Adder]]'' ended with all but two of the main characters dying from drinking poison as a result of a convoluted power struggle. Later seasons of the ''[[Black Adder]]'' also tended to end with the wiping out of all or most of the cast. This was played for morbid laughs in ''Blackadder II'' (and averted ''Blackadder the Third''), but treated ''[[Tear Jerker|deadly seriously]]'' in ''Blackadder Goes Forth''.

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* ''[[Six Feet Under]]'' features a doozy of an finale, as the audience finds out how every main character died: Ruth, David and Federico die of natural causes, Keith is shot to death as he exits a security van, Brenda is literally 'talked' to death by her brother, and Claire dies at the age of 101.

* ''[[V]]: The Series'' had numerous secondary characters being killed off during the series, including resistance fighters who had been present since the original miniseries (not to mention other long-term characters simply leaving, never to be seen again). At the end, the viewer is left to infer that resistance member Robin's child, Elizabeth (a.k.a. "The Star Child") and her boyfriend were killed when they boarded a transport with a hidden bomb on it.

* A number of ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' stories end like this. It's worth noting that in these cases the Doctor's actions usually prevent a far greater number of casualties, and the Doctor and his companions (almost) always survive, but the high body is rather unsettling for what is ostensibly [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|a family program]].

* A number of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' stories end like this. It's worth noting that in these cases the Doctor's actions usually prevent a far greater number of casualties, and the Doctor and his companions (almost) always survive, but the high body is rather unsettling for what is ostensibly [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|a family program]].

** "Pyramids of Mars" leaves only one survivor other than the Doctor and Sarah... and he (a bit part) only survives because he's in ''Egypt'' while the action takes place in England. The novelisation states that this character is killed off-screen by cultist henchmen later.

** In "Horror at Fang Rock", the entire guest cast dies. The Doctor and Leela sail off, leaving a lighthouse full of corpses behind them.

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* ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]''. In the final episode, Wesley and Lindsey are both killed in the final battle, and Eve refuses to leave the collapsing building, and may or might die. Doyle, Cordelia and Fred have all died previously. Connor escapes, as does Lorne. The last thing we see is Angel, Spike, Illyria and a mortally wounded Gunn facing off impossible odds. Although [[Joss Whedon]] later wrote comics in which most characters survive (sort of, but in the process the entire city of Los Angeles was literally sent to Hell), this was the end for a lot of the TV audience.

* ''[[Lexx]]''. By the end of the miniseries everyone seen on-screen except the main characters wind up dead. It became a signature of the second season that nobody that the main characters met would survive to see the end credits (there's only one exception, a child who escapes in a small spacecraft only to reappear and be killed in the opening sequence a few episodes later). An entire ''universe'' gets destroyed at the end of the season, killing everyone who'd lived there. While many of the supporting characters make it through to the end of the third season they all die at the end when the Lexx blows up the afterlife. Similarly, season four takes place in just one locale and many of the characters survive until the end of the season when the Lexx blows up Earth. One of the three protagonists dies for good too, though perhaps in trade some of the named supporting characters actually survive to escape for a change.

* ''[[~~Twenty Four~~ (TV)|Twenty Four]]''. Virtually every major, recurring character introduced in the first four seasons has been killed off, with the exceptions of Jack, Kim, Chloe, and Tony (who is now in prison for probably several consecutive life sentences).

* ''[[24 (TV)|Twenty Four]]''. Virtually every major, recurring character introduced in the first four seasons has been killed off, with the exceptions of Jack, Kim, Chloe, and Tony (who is now in prison for probably several consecutive life sentences).

* Out of 25 main characters and several minor ones on ''[[Harpers Island|Harper's Island]]'', 4 make it out alive (2 due to [[Infant Immortality]]). There are 29 deaths on screen.

** Note that the promos had heavily implied that '''everyone''' was going to die, although the writers opted not to go there.

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== Tabletop Games ==

* See [[Rocks Fall Everyone Dies]].

* See [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]].

* ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'' lives for this. The [[Forever War]] nature of the setting means that horrific levels of death are the norm, and while there are a handful with [[Contractual Immortality]] for the vast, vast majority of characters a swift end could be literally around the next corner.

* Most games of [[Nuclear War]] end this way.

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* The [[Multiple Endings|appropriately named Armageddon Ending]] in ''[[Live a Live]]''. The worst part is that ''You're playing as the bosses, it's you who gives out the command and to gain access to the ending, you must let the heroes beat you within an inch of your life, so you must deliberately search for the ending.'' [[The End of the World As We Know It|You sick filthy bastard]].

* In ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'', he 'bad ending of the Demon Path leads to the killing of most of the cast on-screen, followed by [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|Revya destroying both worlds and killing everybody else, him/herself included]]. Note that this happens if you ''[[Villain Protagonist|win]]''.

** Also the [[Secret Character|Asagi]] Route; in a divergence from her normal characterization, Asagi spitefully destroys the world, forcing you to start a [[New Game ~~Plus~~]] with her on the team.

** Also the [[Secret Character|Asagi]] Route; in a divergence from her normal characterization, Asagi spitefully destroys the world, forcing you to start a [[New Game+]] with her on the team.

* In ''[[Far Cry]] 2'', every named character (except for one) is dead, including all of your buddies and the player character. In fact, you kill them all yourself, other than the Jackal - who was the one you were sent to Africa to kill in the first place...

* Same thing happens in the original ''Far Cry''.

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** Actually, it's not that much worse than the other two routes. Rin, Sakura and one of Ilya or Shirou survive, and none of the minor non-magi characters are known to have been killed. Saber dies, yes, but Rider survives (which isn't true in any other route), and all of the servants bar one die in every route anyway (that's the point of the war). The only person who dies in HF and no other route (other than Shirou) is [[Complete Monster|Zouken]], and that's hardly a great loss....

** The prequel ''[[Fate Zero]]'' is even worse. The protaganist Kiritsugu is [[Your Days Are Numbered|diseased]], and everyone else except for [[Big Bad|Kotomine]] and another main character dies.

* ''[[Muv Luv Alternative]]'' ends with one final, [[Suicide Mission]] for Takeru and his squadmates: Operation Cherry Blossom. [[Dwindling Party|One by one]], you see each of the girls - characters developed over the course of three games and friends who Takeru (and the player) has come to care for very deeply - perform a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to let Takeru go on, and get killed in ways so brutal and graphic that an outcry from the fans resulted over the [[Gorn]], culminating in Takeru [[Player Punch|being forced to]] [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|to blow up Meiya (the girl he cared for the deepest aside from his girlfriend Sumika)]] [[Shoot the Hostage|to kill the Big Bad]]. Only three make it out of the Original Hive alive: Takeru, Sumika and Kasumi, and of ''them'' Takeru [[Ret Gone|ceases to exist]] and Sumika dies due to [[No Ontological Inertia]]. Of the unit Takeru and his squadmates joined, all (except the three who spent the operation hospitalized) are dead (including the commanding officers), and the three ''may'' follow suit if the sidestories released by the makers are any indication.

* ''[[Muv Luv Alternative]]'' ends with one final, [[Suicide Mission]] for Takeru and his squadmates: Operation Cherry Blossom. [[Dwindling Party|One by one]], you see each of the girls - characters developed over the course of three games and friends who Takeru (and the player) has come to care for very deeply - perform a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to let Takeru go on, and get killed in ways so brutal and graphic that an outcry from the fans resulted over the [[Gorn]], culminating in Takeru [[Player Punch|being forced to]] [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|to blow up Meiya (the girl he cared for the deepest aside from his girlfriend Sumika)]] [[Shoot the Hostage|to kill the Big Bad]]. Only three make it out of the Original Hive alive: Takeru, Sumika and Kasumi, and of ''them'' Takeru [[Ret-Gone|ceases to exist]] and Sumika dies due to [[No Ontological Inertia]]. Of the unit Takeru and his squadmates joined, all (except the three who spent the operation hospitalized) are dead (including the commanding officers), and the three ''may'' follow suit if the sidestories released by the makers are any indication.

* A traditional end to your fort in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' is when goblins/orcs/megabeasts/kobolds/zombie-carp massacre pretty much everyone in the fortress.

** Also demons, ''dwarves'' themselves and ''player himself''.

* Depending upon your interpretation of the ending of ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics]]'', it might be just this. Every villain is killed, possibly all of House Beoulve the entire playable cast might have been blown away by the Final Boss's death explosion in the Airship Graveyard, and as for Delita and Ovelia, they have a frank discussion of their mutual differences using knives.

** Not to mention the fact that just about every non-playable character you meet is murdered somehow. By the end literally the last surviving characters are the ones at Ramza's funeral - and one of them is said to have been executed by the Church in the frame story. Valmafra, Mustafo's dad, and ironically Aerith are the only confirmed survivors. Orran also survived long to have produced at least one son, but is mentioned in the epilogue to have been executed.

* At the end of its second part, ''[[~~Traffic Department 2192|~~Traffic Department 2192]]'' kills off [[Apocalypse How|the entire population of the planet on which it was set]], except for a few members of the Traffic Department who escape. In part 3, everyone in the Traffic Department except [[Villain Protagonist|Velasquez]], [[Robot Buddy|Bob]], and Velasquez's [[Infant Immortality|young son Ian]] dies, but they take with them all of the [[Alien Invaders|alien chain of command]] in their region of space except [[Redemption Earns Life|Orlok, who wants to reform the invaders from within]], and Mala, another child. Between the two factions an entire species of [[Silicon Based Life]] is completely annihilated. Velasquez's [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|cybernetic implants are damaging her brain and will kill her soon]], so that leaves a grand total of four survivors out of everyone who appears onscreen.

* At the end of its second part, ''[[Traffic Department 2192]]'' kills off [[Apocalypse How|the entire population of the planet on which it was set]], except for a few members of the Traffic Department who escape. In part 3, everyone in the Traffic Department except [[Villain Protagonist|Velasquez]], [[Robot Buddy|Bob]], and Velasquez's [[Infant Immortality|young son Ian]] dies, but they take with them all of the [[Alien Invaders|alien chain of command]] in their region of space except [[Redemption Earns Life|Orlok, who wants to reform the invaders from within]], and Mala, another child. Between the two factions an entire species of [[Silicon Based Life]] is completely annihilated. Velasquez's [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|cybernetic implants are damaging her brain and will kill her soon]], so that leaves a grand total of four survivors out of everyone who appears onscreen.

* The two "worse" endings in [[Cave Story (Video Game)|Cave Story]]:

** In the "bad" ending, the only survivors are Quote and Kazuma

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** The Chaos ending is similar, with the entire sub-sector subjected to Exterminatus.

** The original ''Dawn of War'' isn't much better, with the majority of the planet's population either slaughtered or corrupted, the planet itself about to be eaten by a [[Negative Space Wedgie]], and all but three characters dead.

** The Ork ending of ''Winter Assault'' has every character except Gorgutz and his unnamed [[Yes Man]] dead.

** The Ork ending of ''Winter Assault'' has every character except Gorgutz and his unnamed [[Yes-Man]] dead.

** The Necron endings of both ''Dark Crusade'' and ''Soulstorm'' have the [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicidal]] [[Killer Robot|Killer Robots]] do what they do best.

* Almost every protagonist in ''[[Eternal Darkness (Video Game)|Eternal Darkness]]: Sanity's Requiem'' is killed off. Technically there are three survivors (and Alex), as the three characters don't die on-screen, though the final character implies that even if they're still alive in the present day, they'll be hunted down for the rest of their lives.

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