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** Poor little Cassie from "Help", rescued effortlessly from both an evil cult and arrow booby-trap, only to die from shock due to a heart condition (which was mentioned) as the arrow trap (which one of the villains sets up and discusses) activates. Buffy catches it without even blinking but it is too much for Cassie.
** Tara was lethally shot through a window and died almost instantaneously while in the middle of the room on the second floor. The gunman was outside on the ground shooting a pistol randomly into the air and yet on pure luck managed a hit so precise that a Marine sniper perched on the opposite rooftop with a rifle would have been hard-pressed to match it. Seriously, this one's a [[Trope Codifier]].
*** Worse. Given where the shooter was standing, where the bullet entered the house (which we clearly see on-camera -- its through the lower half of the bedroom window), and where Tara was standing, that shot is not possible by the laws of physics. The bullet would literally have had to make a right-angle turn in mid-air.
**** ''Two'' right-angle turns. The bullet enters Tara's back and exits out her chest, but Willow -- who is standing directly in front of Tara, and close enough to catch the blood spatter -- doesn't catch the bullet as well. Which means the bullet has to either turn or stop in mid-air directly after leaving Tara's body.
** In one of the Buffy comics, Halfrek the vengeance demon has cursed somebody that every descendent of his will die on their 30th birthday, and to ensure this happens she sends a variety of demons and monsters after one particular descendent. Spike wants to stop her mainly out of spite and figures that if he can keep the guy alive until midnight, he's off the hook. Then, after Halfrek has given up, at one minute past midnight, the guy falls out of a window for no reason, and dies anyway...
** Tara's sanity gets sucked out, but despite being attended to by Dawn for some time, waits until Glory punches a hole in her wall to start babbling about how Dawn's the [[MacGuffin Girl|glowing green energy girl]].
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* This is the driving force behind the plot, and the source of much of the humor, in ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]''.
* [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]: In the episode "Duet," Aamin Maritza [[Xanatos Gambit|pretends to be Gul Darhe'el so that a war crimes trial can be put on and Cardassia can admit to the atrocities it committed]]. Kira decides to be the one to try to end the cycle of violence between Bajorans and Cardassians by letting him go and telling everyone that he's actually Maritza, so an innocent man won't be executed for crimes he did not commit. Everything seems to be wrapping up, as Maritza realizes that he can work with the Bajorans to try to atone for the past in a different way. However, [[Chekov's Gun|a Bajoran drunk who we hadn't seen since the beginning of the episode]] comes up behind him and stabs him in the back, killing him, not because he was Darhe'el, but simply because he was a Cardassian.
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