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*** And even that they tried to push, as it was mentioned that she was never seen again.
** To illustrate how associated Tomino is with this Trope, for a good time the picture for this page was of him smiling.
* By the end of ''[[
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' manages to avert this, sort of. The last two TV episodes and the movie all detail [[The End of the World as We Know It]], and while every human soul is merged into a giant amorphous sea of Tang, humanity manages to come out of it with most of its inhabitants surviving and whole. The main cast, however, is practically obliterated - only Asuka and Shinji are seen alive at the end, and most of the other mains were killed before Instrumentality even began, meaning that they probably couldn't come back even if they wanted to. However, the fact that the mysterious Quantum Rei "witnesses" their deaths implies that they might have another chance...
* The SDF-1 and its entire crew are wiped out at the end of the first third of ''[[Robotech]]''. (In the original ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', however, everyone is fine...which makes this the rare [[Macekre]] that ''ups'' the death count.)
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** The ''[[X 1999]]'' movie starts killing off its cast literally from its first scene - in some cases not even bothering to pause to introduce the characters first - and doesn't stop until everyone but Kamui is dead. The TV series is a little gentler, but as far as the manga is concerned, [[Anyone Can Die|all bets are off]].
** Also by those [[CLAMP|Sadistic Lady Mangaka]], ''[[RG Veda]]'' (which was also their debut longrunning manga). Some people were actually surprised that two major characters survived.
** ''[[
* Characters in ''[[Gantz]]'' die once to get involved in the story (and can possibly die again). Being a [[Mauve Shirt]] or even a main character is no protection from death. [[It Got Worse|Then came the Osaka arc,]] and after ''that'' [[Serial Escalation|came the Italy arc]].
* By the end of ''[[Akira]]'' ([[The Movie]], not the manga it's based on) the only survivors are Kaneda, Kei, Kai, and the Colonel. Everyone else is either killed by Tetsuo or killed when Akira sucks everyone else into a vortex; Tetsuo's fate is left ambiguous.
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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 (novel)|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.
* ''[[
* Happens in ''[[That Guy with the Glasses in Space]]''. Or at least until [[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]]''.
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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 [[Harry Potter
* 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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