Killed Off for Real: Difference between revisions

* Captain James T. Kirk in ''[[Star Trek Generations]]''. Let's just say they... [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]].

** And then revived in a Star Trek novel written by...William Shatner!

* In ''The Black Hole'', Reinhardt's robot Maximilian drives a spinning blade attachment through Alex Durant's stomach.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* When the actor playing the part dies in real life, it ''usually'' [[The Character Died with Him|means the character dies as well]].

* Teri Bauer in ''[[24]]'' is the first in a very long line, which includes George Mason, President David Palmer, Sherry Palmer, Michelle Dessler, Bill Buchanan, Milo Pressman (introduced in season 1, killed when he returned in season 6) and Renee Walker. By the end of the series, Jack and Kim Bauer, Mike Novick, Tony Almeida and Agent Aaron Pierce are the only notable season 1 characters to have survived all eight seasons.

* Prue Halliwell in ''[[Charmed]]''. Also a case of being [[McLeaned]], since she was fired ''and'' an in-story reason was manufactured why her spirit couldn't come back to advise her sisters the same way their grandmother and mother did.

** Parodied in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Army of Ghosts"; when the Doctor is flipping through TV channels, he lands on ''EastEnders'', where Den Watts's ghost appears in the Queen Vic. Peggy, exasperated, yells, "GET OUT OF ME PUB!" at him.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' occasionally kills off a character for real, one example including Adric.

* Cigarette-Smoking Man and Alex Krycek of ''[[The X-Files]]'' are examples of characters who had cheated death (usually because they [[Never Found the Body]]) so many times that their real deaths (by being at ground zero of a missile blast and shot right between the eyes, respectively) had to be made very explicit, so as to make it clear that, yes, this time they were well and truly dead. And Krycek managed to kind-of return for the Finale anyway.

** William Mulder (Mulder's father) and the informants Deep Throat and X both died for real (even though Mulder sees Deep Throat in a dream and X as a ghost in "The Truth"). Mulder also cheated death by dying and then coming back to life after being abducted in season 8.

** And as of the end of season 3 Guy of Gisborne, Allan a Dale and Robin Hood himself

* ''[[Farscape]]'' set up a brilliant loophole for themselves by having main character Crichton doubled. NOT cloned; the resulting two people were one person made two, with both having an equal claim to being the "real" Crichton. Thus, when one was killed off the writers were able to fully play off the emotions surrounding that death while still keeping the character around. And D'argo is definitively [[Killed Off for Real]] in a [[You Shall Not Pass]] [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in The Peacekeeper Wars.

* Valerie Hogan in ''[[Valerie]]'', when Valerie Harper had a contractual dispute with the producers. Well, they kicked her off the show, her character was killed off, and eventually the show was renamed ''The Hogan Family''.

* ''[[Law and Order]]'' has had a few over the years: Max Greevey, Claire Kincaid and Alexandra Borgia. In a case of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]], Lennie Briscoe was written to have died offscreen after Jerry Orbach himself passed away from cancer.