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* Nana from ''[[Nanas Everyday Life]]''.
* Seita and Setsuko from ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]''.
* The first major arc of ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' ends with Light [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?|tricking Rem]] into killing L, the second with Light's own death at the hands of Ryuk. So by both interpretations - L as the hero and Light as the villain, or vice versa - the hero dies.
* Ash is killed by Shin's brother in the final chapter of ''Banana Fish''.
* Spike from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', though he may actually be a subversion. While there's a boatload of evidence that Spike is walking up the stairway to heaven, [[Word of God]] is that Spike's status is completely open to interpretation.
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** ''[[Series/Robin Of Sherwood|Robin Of Sherwood]]'' also died, and was replaced by a new Robin.
* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'''s John Crichton (one of the twinned two, anyway) died a hero's death at the end of Season 3's two-parter ''Infinite Possibilities''. Luckily, there was a backup "copy" on Moya.
* In the ''[[
** In "Father's Day", the Ninth Doctor is consumed by [[Clock Roaches]] after Rose created a paradox saving her father. After her father fixes this error, he and everyone else on Earth returns.
** In "The Impossible Astronaut" Eleven is killed to death, mourned, and cremated, only to show up a few minutes later, completely clueless as to why everyone is so upset. Their past, his future, cue plot arc.
* In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures (TV)|The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' story ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane'', the Trickster makes a deal with Sarah Jane's friend and switches places with 13-year-old Sarah Jane, making her fall to her death. She later relinquished her deal, causing time to return to normal.
* ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]]'' is a rare case where the hero died at the end of the first season, but the show still continued without him.
* Captain Jack of ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''. [[Back From the Dead|Repeatedly]]. Firstly by Dalek extermination on ''[[
** Owen Harper is shot by the leader of The Pharm, Aaron Copley, is made undead, and presumably dies again after being trapped in a nuclear plant control room flooded by radiation.
** Toshiko Sato is shot by Jack's brother Gray.
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* In [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Fire Emblem 4]], the main character, Sigurd, is betrayed and killed at the end of the first half of the game, along with most of his army, in [[Tear Jerker|one of the most depressing scenes in gaming]]. The second half of the game centres on his son, Celice.
* Soki did a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in ''[[Onimusha]]: Dawn of Dreams''.
* In ''[[Call of Duty]] 4: [[Modern Warfare]]'', [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|a nuclear explosion kills the American protagonist and his entire squad]], [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|as well as rendering their accomplishments moot]].
** ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'' is a doozy. Of the four heroes you control, two die, not to mention another character you control for all of five minutes. That's ''three'' out of five player characters dead by game's end, not to mention multiple NPC squadmates, but that's more [[Anyone Can Die]].
* The final story mission of ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' has John Marston walk out to face his doom at the bullets of an army, [[Heroic Sacrifice|in order to give his wife and son a chance to escape and live better lives]]. Widely considered to be a [[Dying Moment of Awesome]].
* Ash Crimson, the protagonist of ''[[The King of Fighters]] XIII'', [[Ret
** This deserves more of an elaboration. Ash Crimson, being an [[Gorgeous George|effeminate]] [[Bishonen|pretty boy]] who was toted as the new protagonist of the current saga (The Tales of Ash, which began with ''KOF 2003'') [[Replacement Scrappy|did not hold well with the fandom]] ([[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|the Japanese notwithstanding]]). [[It Got Worse]] when Ash started upstaging '''EVERYONE''', not by means of skill, but by having better flame powers than anyone else and giving ''zero'' effect in battle. He simultaneously hit [[Villain Protagonist]] and [[Creator's Pet|Creator's Pet-dom]] [[Brought Down to Normal|by stealing the powers]] of Chizuru and Iori. Then came ''XIII'', where it's revealed that he's a [[Fake Defector]] [[Guile Hero]] with a [[Jerkass Facade]] whose plans were carried out to protect [[The Rival|Elisabeth]], his older sister figure and the ''one person'' he cared about. With his [[Go Out
* Noble Six dies in a [[Last Stand]] at the end of ''[[Halo Reach]]''.
* ''[[Medal of Honor]] 2010'': Rabbit is captured by the terrorists and mortally wounded, and his rescuers encourage him to hang on while the rescue chopper arrives, with the first person view periodically blacking out, but he ultimately expires.
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* In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Victor Vance, the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is killed during an ambushed drug deal in the opening cutscene.
* [[Asura's Wrath]] titular character dies THRICE from his first betrayal to {{spoiler|his facing Yaksha the first time}} and his fighting against {{spoiler|and a third time if you consider his turning into a statue from the nuclear explosion from the gigantic Gohma's death}} he dies {{spoiler|one last and final time while in his [[Unstoppable Rage|Berserker Form which begins to kill him as he uses it.]]}}. [[It Got Better|He gets better]] from his [[Heroic Willpower]].
** {{spoiler|However in the end with the source of mantra destroyed he cannot continue to exist and dies for good. [[Go Out
* An interesting case in ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]''. {{spoiler|The protagonist Shulk was technically dead since long before the story began, only being kept alive by the god dwelling within him, who was also the one who killed him in the first place. When said god leaves his body, he becomes truly dead, but has his life force restored by a more benevolent god shortly after.}}
* [[Final Fantasy XIII]]: {{spoiler|[[Tall Dark and Bishojo|Fang]] and [[Stepford Smiler|Vanille]] end up as [[Taken for Granite|crystals]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|to save the world.]]}}
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* John Egbert's physical self in [[Homestuck]] ends up getting killed by Jack Noir. He gets better when his Dream Self replaces him, and in fact this event allows him to reach the [[Came Back Strong|god-tiers]]... and then his god-tier self is ''also'' easily killed by Jack Noir. Fortunately, god-tiered characters have [[Karmic Death|condi]][[Heroic Sacrifice|tional]] [[Resurrective Immortality]].
** All of the kids and all of the trolls die at least once. As of the current plot a lot of people have died twice, and most of these second deaths have proved to be permanent.
** Act 6 invokes this trope with the apparent death of a newly introduced main character. After about a month, it turned out that she actually did not die, but the fact that the event came out of nowhere certainly [[Wham! Episode|shocked readers]].
* [[Irregular Webcomic]]. Twice.
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* ''[[Transformers the Movie]]''. Optimus Prime dies.
** And that's just the ''first'' example. [[Legacy Character|Optimus]][[In Name Only|es]] die a ''[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_many_deaths_of_Optimus_Prime lot]''...
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Aang is killed by a lightning blast to the back from [[Hero
** He dies again before ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'', this time because [[Human Popsicle|sealing himself in an iceberg for several years]] did [[Cast From Lifespan|a number on his lifespan]]. The show follows the adventures of Aang's [[Take Up My Sword|successor]] and [[Reincarnation]] Korra, with Aang acting as her [[Spirit Advisor]]. Note that due to how Avatars are made, the very premise of the show required Aang to die.
* In ''[[Futurama]]: Bender's Big Score'', a future version of Fry named Lars dies because he is doomed [[Temporal Paradox]]. Time clones being doomed (DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMEEEEEED) is in fact central to the plot.
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