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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Devilman]]'' manages to kill off the entire main cast including Akira in the span of five volumes. [[Violence Jack]] technically bring many of them back... only for them to [[Crapsack World|go through hell again.]]
* The entire main cast of ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' dies by the last episode, leaving only a few of the supporting characters to narrarate the historical fates of the more prominent figures people most easily recall of the French Revolution.
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* By the end of the ''[[Kite]]'' movie, Every important character is dead except for the main heroine, who is so so screwed up inside it seems implied she will keep waiting for her dead boyfriend until she dies from starvation or dehydration.
* Baxinger ends with everyone but the team's tagalong kids dead.
* ''[[Toward the Terra]]'' introduces many characters over the decades of time and light-years of distance it spans. In the end, the only named survivors are a small handful of minor characters, one major character who's been there the whole time, and one major character who was introduced in the second half. Compare that to the dozens-strong kill count of named characters, [[The Hero Dies|including both main characters]], and it's [[Bittersweet Ending|a wonder the ending is as upbeat as it is]].
* The anime ''[[Gilgamesh]]'' killed all of the characters but one in an event that also wiped out everyone else on Earth, but gave birth to one new life, which was immediately strangled by the sole survivor. Since she would have died alone shortly after, I guess this counts as ''Kill'Em All'' + 1.
* In the [[Hentai]] ''[[Spy of Darkness]]'', the protagonist Anne sacrifices herself to kill the rampaging "sex-beast" known as Dragon after it brutally rapes and murders all of her companions. In the end, it's stated that the records of Anne and her comrade's deaths will be sealed away under top level clearance, which means that very few people will even ''know what happened to them.''
* Played with in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': Homura Akemi is stuck in a [[Groundhog Day Loop]], and in every single iteration thus far, she's been the only magical girl to finish alive and not a witch.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' comes very, ''very'' close. Eventually Father succeeds in turning everyone in Amestris into a Philosopher's Stone, tearing the souls out of and killing everyone who isn't him, his remaining homunculi and anyone who wasn't in the immediate vicinity at the time. Fortunately, Hoenheim had already had a plan to counter this, and manages to reverse the process, returning everyone's souls to their bodies.
* It is never actually made clear if this is how ''[[GaoGaiGar]] FINAL'' ends, but considering that the Brave Robots all get defeated in the quite brutal ways (Volfogg is impaled by 5 clones of one Soul Master, ChoRyuJin is cut in half vertically, after which both Enryu and Hyoryu use Supernova, destroying them both and their enemy). And even after the [[Big Bad]] is defeated, GGG is only able to send two people back to our own solar system, while the rest will be stuck in an alternate universe that is on the verge of collapsing. And you thought [[GaoGaiGar]] was a happy-go-lucky [[Super Robot]] Anime?
* In the
* ''[[DT Eightron]]'', another Sunrise show, does this in a particularly maddening way - it happens out of the blue in the last 2 minutes of the show!
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* The final issue of ''[[100
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* The final issue of [[100 Bullets|One Hundred Bullets]]. The only guaranteed survivors are Loop, Victor, and Will with Lono having a case of [[Never Found the Body]], and Graves and Dizzy at the mercy of a [[Bolivian Army Ending]].
* ''[[Pride of Baghdad]]'' ends with all four protagonists being gunned down by American soldiers without even achieving the freedom that they'd been dreaming of. It should probably be mentioned that the protagonists are lions.
* ''[[Coheed and Cambria]]: The Amory Wars - The Second Stage Turbine Blade''. Not only do Coheed and Cambria get tricked into ''brutally murdering their own children'', they also die mostly because Cambria destroys a spaceship's engine in a fit of rage. Secondary characters also die in a failed coup, by the truckload. And that's just one of the chapters in the story!
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** Make that 70% of named ''mutants''. Looking at the casualty list on [[The Other Wiki]], there are nearly two dozen ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]'' characters dead (including Xavier, Magneto, Cyclops, and Wolverine), compared to a handful from ''[[The Ultimates]]'' (Ant-Man and Wasp), ''[[Ultimate Fantastic Four]]'' (Dr. Doom and Dr. Storm (Sue and Johnny's dad)), and miscellaneous heroes (Daredevil and Dr. Strange). The ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' cast got out relatively unscathed, even gaining a few [[Transplant]]s from the other series (Iceman and Human Torch).
* The ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' storyline "End of an Era", which rebooted the Legion, ended up by killing off everyone from the old history before restarting history.
* ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' pre-dated most of this by pulling a [[Total Party Kill]] in the ''[[Older Than They Think|Sixties]].'' All four of the actual members (The Chief, Rita Farr, Cliff Steele, Larry Trainor) were nuked saving a small fishing village.
* At the end of the prison arc in ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', every single character present during the attack from the Governor, including a ''baby'', were brutally murdered, save for Rick and Carl. That's seven of the main characters!
* The last issue of ''[[Fables|Jack of Fables]]'' kills off everyone but the [[Infant Immortality|baby]] and the [[Black Dude Dies First|black guy]].
* The [[Marvel Mangaverse]] "Rings of Fate" arc (which also was the [[Series Finale]] of that set of comics) wound up killing a good chuck of it heroes and some villains leaving only a handful left standing.
* [[Gotlib]] drew a ''Hamlet'' parody. The source material being what it is, it ends with all named characters death. The doctor who diagnoses all deaths as viper beat (yes, even Ophelia's) dies beaten by a viper. The gravedigger has an heart attack seeing all these corpses. Then the narrator shoots himself.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* The ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fanfic ''[[Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness]]'' has what can be described as a Kill'Em All ending, with some very nasty curses involved and some major [[Tear Jerker|TearJerkers]].
** The sequel, ''Sluagh'', is worse. Depending on how you look at it, ''none'' of Our Heroes are left standing after the Battle of Druim Cett, and if half of those creatures aren't out of the author's imagination, there's some funky stuff in water of those Irish springs.
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* A common goal to most people who [[Came Back Wrong|are resurrected]] in ''[[Immortality Syndrome]]''.
* The notorious ''[[Touhou]]'' [[Dark Fic]] ''A Bad End'' is... well, did you read the title?
* The [[Pokegirls]] were created by [[Mad Scientist|Sukebe]] and given one simple task: Kill'Em All. They eventually fail, narrowly, but humanity is so depopulated that even three hundred years later, which is where the 'modern era' is set at, a wide-scale relapse of [[Pokegirls]] into madness would finish the job.▼
* Pick any zombie movie and chances are, everyone dies at the end. The best anyone can hope for in those flicks is to be the last 1-2 survivors who will have to live through the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] with little chance of survival.
* ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'' killed off most of the [[Transformers Generation 1|first generation of Transformers]], Autobot and Decepticon alike, in order to facilitate the introduction of the new toy line.
** The later season of the cartoon series casts doubt on this, as many of the Transformers killed in the movie are seen up and walking around again, although some of these occasions are believed to have been animation gaffes.
*** And of course the impact of this is lessened since the highest-profile fatality, Optimus Prime, returned in the cartoon series. In the comics set after the movie, impressively, he stayed dead permanently.
** Oddly, although Jazz and Cliffjumper survived in the movie, Casey Kasem (Cliffjumper's voice actor) quit and all of his characters disappeared, and Scatman Crothers (Jazz's voice actor) died, so Jazz disappeared too.
* ''[[9
* ''[[Final Fantasy: The
* In
* In the 1967 ''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]'', The villain is tricked into eating an explosive pill, which blows up the Casino at the end with every main character in it. however, we then see all the good guys in heaven, strumming harps. Even the villain, until "Six of them went to a Heavenly spot, the seventh one is going to a place where it's terribly hot."▼
▲* In "Season of the Witch", everyone aside from an alter boy/Knight Wannabe and a girl that was possessed by demon dies rather horrible deaths.
▲* In ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'', The villain is tricked into eating an explosive pill, which blows up the Casino at the end with every main character in it. however, we then see all the good guys in heaven, strumming harps. Even the villain, until "Six of them went to a Heavenly spot, the seventh one is going to a place where it's terribly hot."
* By the end of John Carpenter's ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'', only two characters are left alive, and even they are most likely to freeze to death.
* The movie ''[[Children of Men]]'' leaves only one main character standing at its conclusion, unless you count her baby.
* The last few scenes of ''[[The Departed]]'' ends up with every main character but one getting shot by each other - then the very last scene has that final main character getting shot by the other main character's boss.
* ''[[Sidehackers]]'' was a brutal, gritty biker film in which almost every character (including the hero's extremely likable love interest, whose death ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' had to cut out of the aired version and have Crow explain) was gang raped and killed. The hero himself was gunned down by the fatally wounded villain whilst walking away from a [[Mexican Standoff]]. The three that lived (the black guy, the guy who told bad jokes, and the hero's friend) all ran off when the battle was in progress. ''Sidehackers'' incidentally, was the movie which prompted Best Brains to institute their policy of watching a movie ''all'' the way through before selecting it for their show.
* ''[[Rocketship X-M]]'' features a bunch of people going to the moon, but [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|ending up on Mars]]. They are able to find about people that are horribly mutated from a war and on the way back, and only have enough time tell the people of Earth about this, before [[Diabolus Ex Machina|a leak makes them run out of gas on the way home and they are unable to land]]. As Crow put it on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', "There's nothing more depressing then being stuck in a spaceship, watching people die in a spaceship."
* ''[[Planet of the Apes|Beneath the
** These two survivors die in a later movie. Basically, every character from the first two films ends up dead.
** Oh the irony... Heston actually '''re-wrote''' the ending to the script (in which Taylor destroys the entire planet) because he didn't want it to become a [[Franchise Zombie]], and would rather just end it then.
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* ''[[Cloverfield]]''. Although the ending is left intentionally ambiguous and divided audiences.
* ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]''. Of course, considering that the whole conceit of the movie is "Hey, we found this video camera out in the woods..." why would you expect anything else?
** It and ''Cloverfield'' actually share the premise that makes it inevitable: "hey, look, we found this camera in the woods" and "hey, look, we found this camera in the rubble." Of course, there wouldn't be new footage of the owners of said camera if they had been dug out alive at some point, so there's a chance.
* ''[[Star Wreck
* All eight characters who got a speaking part in ''[[The Descent (film)|The Descent]]'' died. At least in the original version, the US got a different ending.
** In the sequel, featuring the two main characters, everyone dies in an [[Ass Pull]] of epic proportions.
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** The "Alien" franchise in general seems to enjoy outright slaughtering their characters
* In the Russian film ''Zvezda (The Star)'', the eponymous scout unit is eventually cornered, shot, and [[Kill It with Fire|flamethrowered]] to death by SS and Wehrmacht troopers. The captain who sent their team out narrates the result of their sacrifice, then mentions that he also [[Posthumous Narration|died later in the war]].
* The events of the ''[[Cube]]'' series take place in a [[Alien Geometries|
* Dario Argento's films seem to be rather fond of this, killing most of the main cast and rarely ever having a survival count higher than 2. The most egregious example of this being ''Suspiria'', where once the main heroine kills the head witch (Suspirorum, the Mother of Sighs), the building starts to collapse, and the moment she leaves, it bursts into flames, supposedly killing every single person within the building except for the main heroine.
* The 2010 ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' remake wastes no time in killing off characters, both major and minor. Both Perseus' and Andromeda's parents, the cult leader who tried to sacrifice her, the entire Praetorian guard and its captain Draco, the Jinn who accompanied Perseus on his journey,and even Io all face their demise along the course of the film. However, Io got better by the end and is reunited with Perseus. Hades doesn't count, however, since he was merely sent back to the underworld.
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* ''[[The Human Centipede]] (First Sequence)'' sees Dr. Heiter shot in the head after killing two detectives, Katsuro slitting his own neck, and Jenny succumbing to blood poisoning, leaving Lindsay alone to either be rescued by police backup or die waiting.
* ''The Mission'' might well be one of the most depressing cases of this, as it literally ends with every single one of the protagonists getting massacred by the Portugese soldiers, not to mention out of an ''entire tribe'' they'd been trying to help, only a handfull of women and children make it out alive. Worse still, [[Karma Houdini|the men responsible for the massacre get away with it]].
* Applied [[In-Universe]] in the film ''[[Formula of Love]]'', where one of Caliostro's servants sing a song with nonsense words, and when asked by some woman what the song means (she presumes it's in Italian), he tells her a tragic story ending with "So in summation, everybody died."
* Subverted in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', where a [[Kill Them All]] ending is [[Ret-Gone]].
* In the Dolph Lundgren movie ''[[Diamond Dogs]]'', every main character except Dolph is dead by the end.
* ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'': The Jedi are massacred by Anakin/Vader and the clone troopers during Order 66. Also, everyone except the characters who showed up in the original trilogy, (almost) all the Separatists.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The fourth, fifth and sixth ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books each ended with an increasingly major character dying. Then along came [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|the seventh]], which was a "bloodbath of epic proportions." It was so bad that Muggle Net took bets on character deaths before it even came out. Who died? Dobby, Hedwig, Mad-Eye Moody, Tonks, Remus Lupin, Fred Weasley, Colin Creevy, Peter Pettigrew, Severus Snape, Crabbe, Bellatrix Lestrange, Lord Voldemort, and oh, yeah, [[Near-Death Experience|Harry Potter himself]] (sort of). Those were just the major characters. The complete list can be found [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_deaths#Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows here].
* In [[Lloyd Alexander]]'s ''Westmark'' trilogy, any character with a name [[Anyone Can Die|had a fifty-fifty chance of making it out of book 3 alive]]. There were more deaths than in the previous two books combined - and the second book took place ''during a war''.
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* In David Weber and John Ringo's ''Prince Roger'' series, they start with a full company of body guards. Throughout the four books, only 14 or so of the group are left. The planet was a great example of Everything Trying to Kill You
* From David Weber and Steve White, [[The Shiva Option|General Directive 18]].
* Has a lampshade hung on it by [[Mark Twain]] in the afterword to ''[[Pudd'nhead Wilson
* ''[[Moby Dick]]''. Everyone and every''thing'' except the narrator and the whale dies. There's a reason he starts the book by saying "Call me Ishmael."
* This is exactly the point of the eponymous [[Deadly Game|
** Not to be outdone, ''Catching Fire'' has even more people dying. Though, subverted slightly in the end of the Quarter Quell as the six remaining victor-tributes survive the end of the book. Of course District 12 is bombed so, more deaths. Though an estimate of survivors is not given until ''Mockingjay''.
** Though the one that really takes the crown in the trilogy is ''Mockingjay''. Finnick, Boggs, Prim, Cinna, Portia (along with the rest of Peeta's prep team), all except seven of the 41 living victors of previous Hunger Games, a random woman in the Capitol that Katniss shoots, quite a few Capitol children, Snow, Coin, all except for four other members of Katniss's team. And if your counting when we see it, almost 2/3 of District 12's citizens, including Madge and her family are all dead by the book's end. Really, you could tell someone who's never read the books "Everyone dies" and you wouldn't be too far off.
* ''The Hero of Ages'', the final book in the ''[[Mistborn]]'' trilogy. By the end, the series' body count includes, Kelsier, Dockson, Clubs, Ore'Seur, The Lord Ruler, Tindwyl, Zane, Preservation, Elend Venture, and ''Vin, the main character herself.'' Note that doesn't include outright villains, such as Straff Venture or Ruin.
** This is a mitigated case compared to many others, based on Sazed as a god explicitly informing the survivors that he has spoken with Vin, Elend, and Kelsier in whatever spiritual form they now exist, and they're apparently happy.
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** ...and those are only some of the more prominent examples with the highest and the most total death tolls.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Blake's 7
** It is worth pointing out that this was unintended. The writers had a fifth season planned in which it would be revealed that only one character was definitely dead. The rest had merely been stunned and taken prisoner. However, the BBC decided to cancel the series at that point, so it was just assumed that almost everyone was dead. Also, Avon wasn't gunned down on screen (we only heard shots being fired) and in theory survived.
* ''[[Blackadder|The Black Adder]]'' ended with all but two of the main characters dying from drinking poison as a result of a convoluted power struggle. Later seasons of the ''[[Blackadder]]'' also tended to end with the wiping out of all or most of the cast. This was played for morbid laughs in ''Blackadder II'' (and averted ''Blackadder the Third''), but treated ''[[Tear Jerker|deadly seriously]]'' in ''Blackadder Goes Forth''.
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* ''[[Primeval]]'' is slowly heading this way. Claudia Brown, Tom Ryan, Stephen Hart, Nick Cutter, Helen Cutter, Sarah Page...well, to put it simply, there are three main characters left from series one. ''Three.''
* The only characters to survive the ''[[Masters of Horror]]'' episode "Cigarette Burns" are Kirby's theatre assistant, Bakovic's widow, and Henri, none of whom were present at the climax.
* ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'': Most of human civilization is killed off by Venjix.
== [[Music]] ==
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* [[Porcupine Tree]]'s "Strip The Soul," from the 2002 album ''In Absentia'': "Strip the soul, kill them all.."
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Queen's University campus newspaper [https://web.archive.org/web/20210126204236/http://goldenwords.ca/ Golden Words] attempted to [[Torch the Franchise and Run|fake their own demise]] in fall 1984, putting out a "final" edition in which they killed off primary characters in almost all of their original comic strips, or otherwise published a "farewell" to bring each to a conclusion. Undeterred by the ill-will this scheme (and the subsequent [[Retcon]] attempts to put everything back two weeks later) caused, they tried the same scam again in fall 1988 - assuming the original victims would've graduated and forgotten as the undergraduate programme is normally completed in four years.▼
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* Ragnarok involves almost every living being in existence dying, with the exceptions of Baldr (who returns to life after the battle) and a few guys who hide in a tree. Also bear in mind that, given the extremely robust roster of [[Norse Mythology]], the list of named characters who kick the bucket goes well beyond just the Aesir.
==
▲* Queen's University campus newspaper [https://web.archive.org/web/20210126204236/http://goldenwords.ca/ Golden Words] attempted to [[Torch the Franchise and Run|fake their own demise]] in fall 1984, putting out a "final" edition in which they killed off primary characters in almost all of their original comic strips, or otherwise published a "farewell" to bring each to a conclusion. Undeterred by the ill-will this scheme (and the subsequent [[Retcon]] attempts to put everything back two weeks later) caused, they tried the same scam again in fall 1988 - assuming the original victims would've graduated and forgotten as the undergraduate programme is normally completed in four years.
* See [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]].
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' lives for this. The [[Forever War]] nature of the setting means that horrific levels of death are the norm, and while there are a handful with [[Contractual Immortality]] for the vast, vast majority of characters a swift end could be literally around the next corner.
* Most games of ''[[Nuclear War]]'' end this way.
* ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' promised this end from the word go, and to its credit, most of the end-game scenarios defaulted to it.
** ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' promised nothing of the kind, but in a couple of the end-game scenarios the best you can really do is "life will someday evolve again."
* The "Wrath of God" card from ''[[Magic: The
** The biggest is are either [https://web.archive.org/web/20121028202423/http://sales.starcitygames.com/carddisplay.php?product=24744 Decree of Annihilation], which does about what you'd expect in such a way that not even indestructible creatures can survive it, or [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Apocalypse Apocalypse], which wipes out everything currently in play no matter what the card's type is and no matter what abilities it has.
* The basic premise of ''[[Exalted]]'' is that if things continue as they are, all that ends up happening is everyone keeps losing by inches, until one of three things happens: the Wyld dissolves the world, everything falls into the Abyss, or the Yozis take control of a blasted hellscape. In the first edition, it was a prequel to [[Old World of Darkness]], so this ending was set in stone. Now, as with most things in ''Exalted'', it exists mainly for the player characters to kick it in the nards and set it on fire.
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** The mission debriefing offers one last chance for the PCs to hand each other a death sentence, by bringing up all the evidence of treason they collected earlier and hadn't already presented. It also encourages them to kill each other during the mission to set up a [[Deceased Fall Guy Gambit]].
** The "Tips for Traitors" section, when discussing how to manipulate the marching order for tactical advantage, includes a warning to ''not'' let the guy with the area-of-effect weapon take far left or right flank - the temptation to turn and wipe out all his teammates at once is way too high.
* ''[[FATAL]]'' has this as the eponymous spell, which destroys the universe. The spell can be cast as a random effect of a spell miscast.
* In the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] board game [[Arkham Horror]] (and the dice game Elder Sign) the players are investigators trying to seal away a [[Eldritch Abomination]] before it awakens. If it does wake up, there's a last-ditch [[Boss Fight]] against it. Except Azathoth. Azathoth takes longer to wake than other [[GO Os]], but if he does then ''everyone dies immediately''.
== [[Theatre]] ==
▲== Theater ==
* [[William Shakespeare]] was famously a fan of this:
** By the end of ''[[Hamlet]]'', the only major character left alive is Horatio. Hamlet's Dad is dead before the curtain goes up in the first place, Polonius is murdered by Hamlet in a case of mistaken identity (though Hamlet's not too unhappy about that), which causes his daughter Ophelia to commit suicide. The final scene then ends with a bloodbath that kills off Hamlet's mother, his uncle, Ophelia's brother Laertes and finally Hamlet himself.
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* All the characters of ''Le Père Noël est une ordure'' (Santa Claus is an asshole) die: one is shot half-way through the play, the others die at the end when the depressive upstairs neighbor who's been trying to get help all night finally gives up and blows up the whole building. The ending was changed for the big screen adaptation, which makes for funny conversation when someone who's only seen the play talks to someone who's only seen the movie.
* [[PDQ Bach]]'s "half-act opera" ''The Stoned Guest'' kills off its four principal characters in a minute and a half: Donna Ribalda strangles Carmen Ghia to death. In revenge, Don Octave tries to stab Donna Ribalda, but she dodges and he is [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]. Il Commandatoreador draws a pistol and fells Donna Ribalda in one shot, but he then succumbs to an overdose of alcohol. Then all four of them inexplicably get better and sing a happy finale.
* The show ''[[Urinetown: The Musical]]'' ends with the rebels, led by the villain's daughter avenging the death of the Protagonist and throwing the Big Bad off a building. Unfortunately, it turns out the "evil" measures the villain had taken to ensure water conservation really were the only sensible choice. Everyone, save for the secretary Mr. McQueen who moves to the amazon, ends up dying slowly of dehydration whilst singing a gospel of how the only water they need is inside them. Yeah, it's not.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]''. By the end of the first of three episodes every single living character, no matter how minor, is confirmed dead. That's every single one of the scientists your crew was sent to check up on, every single one of your teammates no matter what station, and the protagonist himself is killed in the episode finale to boot.
* ''[[Drakengard]]'s'' fourth ending does this to all the main characters. Hell, even all the ''supporting'' characters are gone.
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* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' ends with the entire party dead and one's character sent to eternal punishment in the lower planes or erased from existence entirely. It's possible to save everyone but the main character, who goes to his eternal punishment if you do so. And that's the ''good'' ending. Though it is implied that he kicks ass in the afterlife, as well.
* ''[[Unreal II: The Awakening|Unreal II the Awakening]]'' ends with a massive [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|Bridge Drop]] on the whole squad except the main characters. While there was a vibe of [[The War Has Just Begun]], the sequel hook was surprisingly vague and no actual sequel materialized. [[Downer Ending]] all around.
* The Base Defense missions in the middle-late portions of ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon
** [http://marathon.bungie.org/story/maptext.html The levels in the ''Marathon'' games frequently included interesting messages if you viewed them using a map editor.] The text for ''God Will Sort The Dead''? "Q: How do you tell the difference between the good Bobs and the bad ones? A: Good Bobs?" The first game had it's own share, namely Bob-B-Q's "BOB-JAM? APPLY GRENADES LIBERALLY!!", and yes, you were supposed to save the Bobs on that level, too...
* The [[Multiple Endings|bad ending]] of ''[[Persona 3]]'' has this happen to SEES, as well as about [[The End of the World as We Know It|six billion-plus]] extras.
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* ''[[Infinite Space]]'' quite possibly the biggest body count in any video game ever. By the end, literally ''billions'' of people and entire planets are dead.
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* In ''[[Nobody Scores]]'', the main characters have a low chance of surviving any [[Negative Continuity|single]] comic. As the author puts it, each scenario is a "more or less intricate machin[e], the end result of which is always failure".
* ''[[CRFH]]'' seems to be heading in this direction - with Mike murdered by April and Marsha gunned down by Mike's mother to keep her from killing April... before she could. They all recovered. For a given value of "recovered", of course; this being CRFH!!!.
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* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209193157/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3523 Crimney complains about a ] [[Zombie Apocalypse]] thrown into a story to achieve this.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
▲* The [[Pokegirls]] were created by [[Mad Scientist|Sukebe]] and given one simple task: Kill'Em All. They eventually fail, narrowly, but humanity is so depopulated that even three hundred years later, which is where the 'modern era' is set at, a wide-scale relapse of [[Pokegirls]] into madness would finish the job.
* This is pretty much the premise of ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' usually only one character survives an episode.
* In [[Klay World]]'s movie, 95% of the cast dies at the end. Almost all of the Klaymen, Marv, Mr. Black, Smiling Gary, Vince, all the Aliens, Rick, the armless guy, a news anchor, one of the cavemen at the beginning, Dr. Brown, the ax guy, and the long arms guy, leaving Chip, Pick, and Dr. Bob as the only survivors.
* ''[[Madness Combat]]'':
** Episodes 3 and 4 are straight Kill'Em All episodes.
** Through the series as a whole, every character except Sanford and the [[Memetic Bystander|Hot Dog Vendor]] dies at least once, with some characters
* Played for laughs in one of the [[Multiple Endings|alternate endings]] of the original ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' series. [[Famous Last Words|"Son of a bitch!"]]
* In ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]'', the ending credits point out that only one character survived the movie. Everyone else died in explosions, head explosions, car accidents, explosions, crushing, and explosions.
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* Pretty much the entire premise of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' (although it's something of a given, considering it is based off of ''[[Battle Royale]]''). By the end of the game, only one student it going to be left alive, something which entails the death of over 100 named characters to get to that point. Even then, one of the winners was thrown back into the game and hasn't been heard from since that version's conclusion, and another winner was killed a year after their game.
* Several episodes of ''[[Teen Girl Squad]]''. [[Played for Laughs]] thanks to [[Negative Continuity]].
** In ''[[Strong Bad's
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* By the time ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'' wrapped up, only 6 characters of importance - Killface, Xander, Simon, Stan, Wendell and Valerie - were left standing.
* "[[SpongeBob SquarePants|Once there was an]] [[The Ugly Barnacle|ugly barnacle]]. [[Eldritch Abomination|He was so ugly]] [[Downer Ending|that everyone died]]. [[The End]]."
* ''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood]]'', while it
== [[Real Life]] ==
* About 65 million years ago, all of the dinosaurs became extinct after a large meteorite collided with Earth.
* The biggest mass extinction in Earth's history actually
** More than twice that long ago, another mass extinction apparently killed off ''all''
* According to most scientists, all life on Earth will end in about 5 billion years, as that is when the Sun is expected to leave the main sequence stage and become a red giant. The last living things expected to die out will be bacteria, which were also the first to appear on Earth.
** To reiterate an old joke: ''How'' many? Oh, one billion? Whew. [[Comically Missing the Point|I thought that said one million.]]
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