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Of course, if this happens in the ''[[Grand Finale]]'', then yeah. They're dead. For good.
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May lead into [[Personal Effects Reveal]], [[Meaningful Funeral]], [[To Absent Friends]], and [[Dead Guy, Junior]].
See also: [[Tonight Someone Dies]], [[Disney Death]], [[Not-So-Small Role]], [[Really Dead Montage]]. The [[Video Game]] version would be [[Final Death]].
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* If you don't count her clone or her lookalike daughter, [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Gwen Stacy]] is, miraculously, still dead.
* [[Marvel]]'s [[Captain Mar-Vell|Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell), Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell)]], Wasp (Janet Van Dyne), Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly), Banshee (Sean Cassidy), Thunderbird (John Proudstar), Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde), Unus (Angelo Unuscione), Abomination (Emil Blonsky), Baron Heinrich Zemo, George Stacy, Synch (Everett Thomas), Destiny (Irene Adler), Hornet (Eddie McDonough), Goliath (Bill Foster), Iron Monger (Obadiah Stane), Jean DeWolff, Karen Page, Lilandra Neramani, Microbe (Zachary Smith Jr.), Pyro (St. John Allerdyce), Robert Kelly, and Moira MacTaggert are all, at the moment, very much dead, among others.
* [[The Other Wiki]] [
* In a move that surprised those who were still reading it, Master Splinter was killed off from old age in Volume 4 of the Mirage ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' comic--perhaps the highest point in that volume of the series. The Shredder and Baxter Stockman--unquestionably the franchise's most prominent antagonists--are also dead.
* Several of the [[G.I. Joe|G.I. Joes]] have been [[Killed Off for Real]] over the years. And not just ones created for the comic book, like Mangler. Those with actual figures. The most notably would probably be Lady Jaye, who was killed by Dela Eden, member of the Red Shadows.
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* ''[[Scream (Film)|Scream]]''. The [[Genre Savvy]] heroine makes sure the villain ''stays dead''.
{{quote| '''Randy Meeks:''' Careful. This is the moment when the supposedly-dead killer comes back to life for one last scare.<br />
[''Billy starts to rise, only to receive a [[Boom! Headshot!|headshot]] from Sidney.'']<br />
'''Sidney Prescott:''' Not in my movie. }}
* Captain James T. Kirk in ''[[Star Trek Generations (Film)|Star Trek Generations]]''. Let's just say they... [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]].
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* Cilla in "[[I Miss You I Miss You]]".
* Most Americans are unaware that Geralt was [[Killed Off for Real]] at the end of ''[[The Witcher]]'' novel series (mainly because only the first book has been translated from Polish). [[The Witcher (Video Game)|The game]] [[Retcon|retconned]] this to an [[Unexplained Recovery]].
* Balefire in the [[Wheel of Time]] combines this trope with short-term [[Ret
== 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]].
* ''[[Blake's Seven
* Teri Bauer in ''[[Twenty Four|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 (TV)|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.
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* Any number of doctor deaths on ''[[ER]],'' including Lucy Knight (victim of a mental patient), Mark Greene (brain tumor), Robert Romano (helicopter fell on him, ''twice''), and Michael Gallant (roadside bomb while serving in Iraq).
* Den Watts was [[Killed Off for Real]] in ''[[Eastenders]]'', but as proof of just how hard it is to kill a soap star, he was resurrected many years later with the [[Retcon]] that he was hiding in Spain. But after this miraculous recovery from the choir invisible, he was finally really, ''really'' killed, and just to hammer it home to future writers not to bring him back, there was a whole arc around the disposal, discovery and then burial [[Disposing of a Body|of his body]]. So he can't be brought back this time... [[Zombie Apocalypse|we hope]].
** Parodied in the ''[[
* ''[[
** This was originally intended for the Daleks in ''[[Doctor Who
* Cigarette-Smoking Man and Alex Krycek of ''[[The X Files|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.
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* 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.
* The new ''[[
* On ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'', Kate Todd is sniped in the head while talking to Gibbs and Tony. Combines with [[Wham! Episode]] and [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]], since the fight was over, she had already dodged one bullet, and prior advertisements did not employ [[Tonight Someone Dies]]. Just in case anyone had any doubts, the following episode has her body shown in autopsy and the director recommending a posthumous military award.
** Yes, the same director who was killed off herself in the fifth season.
** And Mike Franks, too.
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* As of ''[[Castle]]'''s third season finale, Commissioner Montgomery.
* ''[[Game of Thrones (TV)|Game of Thrones]]'': Episode 9 left many viewers (save those who read the novel) in complete and utter disbelief. [[Decoy Protagonist|You know exactly who]].
* ''[[Primeval]]'' is fond of this. To date, the show has killed Captain Ryan, Stephen Hart, ''main character'' Nick Cutter, Sarah Page, Helen Cutter, Christine Johnson, Oliver Leek, loads and loads of minor and [[Victim of the Week]] characters, and, [[Ret
* In ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Shawn Hunter's father Chet dies in season 6.
* So far ''[[Damages]]'' has really enjoyed using this on both its guest stars and main characters with only three of the major characters from the first season still alive at the end of season 3 (and one of them in prison for murder). So far {{spoiler|David Connor, Ray Fiske, Gregory Molina, George Moore, Uncle Pete, Rick Messer, Agent Harrison, Marylin and Louis Tobin, Danielle and Tessa Marchetti and Patty's unnamed main body guard}} have all had major roles in the seasons they've been in, bit the bullet and not come back save for an occasional flashback.
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** Zack and Angeal similarly are dead for good, though only the former can communicate beyond the grave.
** Despite Aerith's death being the most popular permanent death of a party member in Final Fantasy games, the very first such death in the series dates back to ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]]'', in which Minwu makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. In fact, for a large part of ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]]'' the 4th party slot existed solely to accommodate a character whose job was to die in some heroic fashion for the sake of the 3 main characters at some point. There were so many that a party could have been formed from the dead which, in the ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]]'' GBA and PSP remakes, actually happens.
** In ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'', [[Heroic Sacrifice|Tellah dies]] after casting [[Eleventh
*** To add insult to injury, [[Senseless Sacrifice|Golbez survives]].
** In ''[[Final Fantasy IV the After Years]]'', a number of characters can be [[Killed Off for Real]] if you screw up. In Rydia's Tale, Calca and Brina will, after glitching due to magic, be scrapped in order to repair the airship, unless you get the Mythril parts. In Edge's tale, All fo the ninja under Edge will die for real if you die during their mission before meeting back up with Edge. Time for some [[Save Scumming]]! And in the final chapter, It's possible to lose Golbez forever.
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* The upcoming [[PS 3]] exclusive ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' will feature permanent death, even making it possible to have a standard ending with all of the playable characters dying.
** Funnily enough, two of the characters have [[Plot Armour]] that doesn't come off until endgame. Those two are Ethan - who can be killed by the police or commit suicide - and Shelby - who dies either by getting shoved into a grinder by Jayden, shot by Jayden/Ethan/Lauren or impaled by Madison.
* After being an immortal villain for almost the entire series up until ''[[Resident Evil]] 5'', Albert Wesker turned into a monster and was finally -according to [[Word of God]]- [http://ps3.ign.com/articles/100/1006931p1.html killed for good]. Word of God ''also'' said ''[[Resident Evil]]'' would definitely [[Flip
* In ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'', all the Players are already dead and are playing the Reaper's Game to win another chance at life. However, Players erased by the Noise are killed off permanently and their entry fee is lost forever. Notable victims of Erasure include Rhyme in the first week (she recovers though), Sota and Nao in the second (as well as that Reaper)) and all three Game Masters (Sho also gets recovers) as well as Megumi.
* In the ''[[Suikoden]]'' series, your characters may randomly die for real if defeated in a large-scale war battle.
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