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* '' 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'' ends with most of the main characters dead. Shakespeare was downright tame next to some of the major Jacobean playwrights.
* Greek tragedies often killed off all or nearly all the main characters, leaving only one or two minor characters to carry on. Example: ''[[Antigone (Theatre)|Antigone]]''. Other times it was [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]].
** And if they don't die? Well, the wounds they carry aren't usually just of the psychological variety. Case in point, ''[[Oedipus Tyrannus (Theatre)|Oedipus Tyrannus]]'' (or ''Rex'', depending on the translator), who, after his mother/wife hangs herself, uses her cloak-pin to gouge out both of his eyes. Basically, when you get up and leave the theatre at the end of a Greek Tragedy? Expect to [
* 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.
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* Depending upon your interpretation of the ending of ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics]]'', it might be just this. Every villain is killed, possibly all of House Beoulve the entire playable cast might have been blown away by the Final Boss's death explosion in the Airship Graveyard, and as for Delita and Ovelia, they have a frank discussion of their mutual differences using knives.
** Not to mention the fact that just about every non-playable character you meet is murdered somehow. By the end literally the last surviving characters are the ones at Ramza's funeral - and one of them is said to have been executed by the Church in the frame story. Valmafra, Mustafo's dad, and ironically Aerith are the only confirmed survivors. Orran also survived long to have produced at least one son, but is mentioned in the epilogue to have been executed.
* At the end of its second part, ''[
* The two "worse" endings in [[Cave Story (Video Game)|Cave Story]]:
** In the "bad" ending, the only survivors are Quote and Kazuma
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