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* During the opening of ''[[Indiana Jones and The Raiders of The Lost Ark]]'', Indy is accompanied by two random native guides. They don't make it.

* In the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie, Kirk (in blue) and Sulu (in gold) are accompanied on a drop mission to take out a planetary drill with a character wearing red armor (to guard against the heat of reentry). Guess which one of the trio dies? At first it seems to be a subversion, as he survives {{spoiler|what seems to be the obvious fate of missing the platform and falling to his death from the upper atmosphere of a planet}}. Unfortunately for the poor guy, it's a [[Double Subversion]]; his final fate actually manages to be fairly spectacular. {{spoiler|His parachute catches on the platform, and he gets vaporized by the drill.}}

* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'': Two crew members die in a teleporter accident, although they aren't seen to be wearing red shirts (in fact, no-one is).

** This is an odd case, in that one of the victims of the transporter was Lt. Sonak, who would have been a main character in the aborted ''Star Trek: Phase II''. [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Mr. Sonak]] was to replace Cdr. Spock, as [[Leonard Nimoy]] would not reprise his role for the series. When Nimoy agreed to return for the feature, which was based on elements of ''Phase II'', Xon was killed so that there would be a vacancy for Spock to fill.

** {{spoiler|Also Richard. He wasn't even in the novel.}}

* Beth Emhoff in ''[[Contagion]]'' is both this and a dead [[Living MacGuffin]] at the same time, being killed off within the first few minutes. Her recent interactions are then investigated throughout the rest of the film, and then the cause is revealed to be {{spoiler|an infected pig being touched by a chef who then held her hand for a photograph}}.

 

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