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* ''[[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]].

** The author had, before his death, adapted the novel for a radio version; he had stated some dissatisfaction with the [[Downer Ending]] and, in the radio version, it is revealed that the Babelfish can teleport its host if they're about to die. Since all the main characters are using a babelfish for translation, they survive (landing at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe).

* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' went this way at full speed since ''A Storm of Swords'', and it's not like the first two books lacked corpses either.

** From [http://web.archive.org/web/20001005212114/eventhorizon.com/sfzine/chats/transcripts/031899.html Martin himself]: "No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves..."

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** 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.

* ''[[Blackadder|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 ''[[Blackadder]]'' 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''.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[24|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).

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

* The season one finale of [[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].