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* Harry Kim from ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and his habit of dying and coming back to life. It's been exaggerated by the fans, though, to the point where someone who only knew the show through its fans would think Harry's grave says "Harry Kim: Born: 2341. Died: 2371, 2372, 2373, 2374..."
** The same could be said of [[Stargate SG
* ''[[Stargate SG
** Everett Young beat the crap out of Rush and left him to die on a desolate planet. The civilian population on the ship [[The Mutiny|didn't take it too kindly.]]
* A recurring joke about the Daleks in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was their inability to go up stairs. This weakness was addressed in the 1988 serial 'Remembrance of the Daleks', but the jokes persisted at least up until 2005, when 'Dalek' -- which also addressed this point -- was shown. It's perhaps worth pointing out that, by the time the first story aired, the audience of ''Doctor Who'' was roughly three guys and a dog, so it's possible that not enough people actually saw it for the change to sink in.
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* Megumi Misaki/Blue Dolphin of [[Choujuu Sentai Liveman]] is brought to tears in the first two episodes as nearly everything she's known and loved is destroyed all around her by three [[Face Heel Turn|former friends turned evil]]. She hardly ever cries after that, yet fandom seems to believe she did so nearly every episode thereafter.
** While we're on the subject of Liveman, it seems that the only thing Junichi Aikawa/Green Sai is known for is [[Mister Seahorse|being impregnated by a]] [[Monster of the Week]] [[Mister Seahorse|and giving birth to said monster's child.]]
** Also, ''[[Dai Sentai Goggle Five]]'' is actually a show based on science, about good science vs bad science in order to create a better future. But because their weapons are based on gymnastic apparatus (and only one of them ([[The Smurfette Principle|the sole girl of the team, Miki Momozono/Goggle Pink]]) is the actual gymnast), they were mistakenly thought as a team of rhythmic gymnasts and every single Sentai references are going will remember them as a gymnastic team (their actual jobs, aside of Miki, are as follows: Explorer, chess player, hockey athlete and zoo worker). Even ''[[
* In-universe example in ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'': A social worker is called to trial for placing a child in an abusive home, which eventually led to his death. The bad publicity and death threats she receives drive her to suicide, with her last words lampshading that she has saved hundreds of children but will only be remembered for this one.
** Very much [[Truth in Television]]. Whether justified or not, a person is expected to do their job well, and a disproportionate amount of attention is almost always placed on any and all mistakes.
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** Similarly, expect the fact that he slept with Claire Kincaid to pop up at least once a season.
** Mike Cutter also liked to point out the time that he held a bunch of [[The Mafiya|Russian gangsters]] without charge for weeks on end, and took it almost all the way to the Supreme Court.
** Mike Logan got [[Put
* During her time on ''[[General Hospital]]'', whenever Winifred and Maxie were on the same screen, she would always remind her that Winnie was the one who put Spinelli in prison (as part of her job as an FBI agent). By the end of her run, she wasn't even an FBI agent anymore. She was removed from the show [[The Scrappy|for]] [[Creator's Pet|other reasons]].
** Sam McCall is well known for kidnapping Jason's son Jake. This is brought up every time Jason and Samantha share screen time. Despite the fact that ''she didn't even kidnap the boy''; she merely kept quiet about who did. Even better, she would later save the same child from a burning building (in a separate incident), but she's still known as the one who kidnapped Jake.
* In-universe example: Agent Booth on ''[[Bones]]'' once, in a moment of personal stress, drew his weapon and fired two rounds into a robotic clown-head atop an ice cream truck. Several seasons later, after he'd completed counseling, got reinstated and received commendations for his work, it still gets brought up by folks from other government agencies when they want an excuse not to trust him with sensitive documents.
** Similarly, Brennan finds herself constantly reminded that she once shot an unarmed man (it's okay, though: he was trying to [[Kill It
*** And he was trying to destroy evidence!
* ''[[The Nanny]]''s Nanny Fine will occasionally rub Mr. Sheffield's nose in his decision to pass on producing ''[[Cats]]'' for Broadway.
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** If you went strictly by [[MST|MSTings]], Tom Servo's head exploded every other episode. It only happened four times in ten seasons: Two of them in [[Old Shame|the disavowed Season 1]], and none after Season 4.
*** Unless you also count [[The Movie]], where poor Tom kept getting hit by death rays.
* ''[[
{{quote| ''Rimmer:'' "Constantly fails the exam? I'd hardly call 11 times "constantly." I mean, if you eat roast beef eleven times in your life, one would hardly say that person "constantly" eats roast beef, would you?}}
* Lancelot from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has a reputation among the fandom for being something of a dolt. This is distinctly odd considering he is one of only ''two'' characters to have deduced that Merlin has magic, and picks up on the sparks between Arthur and Guinevere before even ''they'' are fully aware of it. Yet so many times you'll see him described as "a bit dim", perhaps because he takes the [[Honour Before Reason]] trope [[Up to Eleven]].
* Besides [[We Hardly Knew Ye|having died early]] during ''[[Star Trek:
** Though the "having died early" part does make it a bit hard for there to be a lot to remember about her.
* Some people will ''never'' forget the time Gwen Cooper of ''[[
** Jack? Yeah, he's that guy who dies once an episode, right? Now, not to say he ''doesn't'' die often, but saying he does so ''that'' frequently on the show is definitely stretching the truth. The ''Children of Earth'' miniseries is a special exception, but realise that most of Jack's team didn't even know he was immortal until the final episode of series 1. Prior to {{spoiler|his constant state of suffocation and rebirth}} in "Exit Wounds" (which is another special example where {{spoiler|he feasibly died millions of times while buried alive}}), he died nine times in seven episodes, plus twice in a flashback of one of those episodes; barely a quarter of the episodes that had aired up to that point. {{spoiler|Following ''Children of Earth'', there were only two episodes in ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day
*** In fairness, this is a little bit like A. J. Rimmer's roast beef. You'd hardly say that someone who eats roast beef nine times in two series is constantly eating roast beef, but anything more than one is a little on the excessive side, deathwise, so it's a justified trope. (Although actually, that much roast beef ''would'' be a little different, wouldn't it?)
* Though Tim Taylor of ''[[Home Improvement]]'' had had many, many, ''many'' accidents over the years, for some reason he never lived down that one time he glued his forehead to the table.
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