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== Fan Works ==
* Eliza Ingrid's driver in ''[[
== Film ==
* The helicopter pilot in ''[[
* [[Star Wars]]:
** Luke's snowspeeder copilot in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''. Instantly killed by blaster fire and crushed by an AT-AT's foot.
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** In ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'', when Obi-Wan and Anakin take a clone-piloted gunship in pursuit of Dooku, said gunship is blasted into flaming scrap within ten seconds of them being dropped off.
** Obi-Wan's droid copilot in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' might count since R units have some personality on their own.
* ''[[
** Also, the Russian who stays behind on the plane while everyone else bails out. He safely lands, but an ice shelf gives way under him.
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'': This was [[What Could Have Been|going to happen]] in an earlier version, with the pilot who flies the Incredibles to Nomanisan Island going down with the plane. In the end, they wrote him out entirely except as a voice on the other end of a phone, and had Helen fly the plane herself.
* Happens in the first movie of ''[[
* Possibly qualifies in the first ''[[Final Destination]]'', although I don't think we ever see the pilots.
* The "who's gonna fly the plane?" thingy is done by Castor Troy in ''Face/Off'', but it proves to be a subversion in that he murders the pilot, but it turns out Troy can't get the bird in the air either and he crashes it on the runway.
* Averted in ''[[Indiana Jones and
* In ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'', Moss hitches a ride with a bystander. Said bystander is killed at the wheel as Moss watches. Later, he hitches another ride with an entirely different man, who is also killed for his trouble, but that happens long after he was separated from Moss.
* The gunship pilot from ''[[Aliens]]''.
* In ''[[The Rocketeer (
* ''[[For Your Eyes Only (
* The Jeep driver in ''[[The Happening]]''. Bizarrely, he was played by Brian O'Halloran, whom you may remember as [[Clerks|Dante Hicks]].
* The villains in ''[[
* In 1953's ''Safari Drums'', a two-man canoe is flipped by a crocodile during filming of a big-game-hunting movie. The cameraman's narrow escape is shown in all its adventurous detail, but the rower becomes reptile chow in an immediate [[Gory Discretion Shot]] and is apparently forgotten about by all the witnesses.
* ''[[
* For an example of a plot-critical character, {{spoiler|[[
== Literature ==
* ''[[
* The chauffeur in ''The Wizard of Whitechapel'' gets killed off.
* Subverted with Hans Richter in ''[[1632|1633]]''. He is made a German national hero after he crashed his plane into a Danish warship, after he had been mortally wounded in his first attack.
* A darkly amusing example in ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'': Warmaster Varan's ( {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]], like all his minions}}) pilot is eventually revealed to have starved to death as he had been told to stay there until Varan's return. After Varan dies and [[Decapitated Army]] is noticeably averted, he continues to wait for orders that never come. The rest of the novels tend to avert this, with no other pilots dying (while Cain's riding with them anyway). Although they tend to be very minor characters anyway, when they're not [[Badass Driver]] [[Drives Like Crazy|Jurgen]].
* In ''[[Halo]]: [[The Fall of Reach]]'', Red Team's pilot gets a few throwaway lines before getting blown up in his cockpit, prompting Joshua to take over from inside the troop bay.
* In the novelization of ''[[
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Langoliers]]'', the original pilot and co-pilot were conscious when the plane went through the rift in time and space so they were both vaporized.
* Lampshaded in ''Dream Park'', in which the pilot's "death" in the opening act of the South Seas Treasure Game is dismissed as a "freebie" -- i.e. something written into the Game's plotline from the outset, rather than a casualty counted against the adventurers -- by the leader of the Gamers.
== Live Action Television ==
* ''[[
* ''[[No Ordinary Family]]'': The Powells get their powers after a plane crash in the jungle of Brazil. The pilot of their plane is never seen, implying this is what happened to them.
* On ''[[Warehouse
== Tabletop Games ==
* In Early [[
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* In ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'', Galen mentions that there were seven pilots before Juno.
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'': [[Inverted Trope]]: No matter if you get the [[Golden Ending]] or the [[Downer Ending]] (or anything in between), it is impossible for Joker or EDI to die while still completing the game, although it is possible to get literally every other member of the crew killed (including the Player Character).
* Jock from ''[[
** The same thing can happen to {{spoiler|Faridah}} in ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
* In the opening scene of ''Return To Mysterious Island 2'', the rescue chopper from the previous game's final scene crashes into the sea, killing its pilot.
* When your helicopter goes down in the ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' mission "Hunted", both pilots are always killed though most of [[Plot Armor|your squad survives]].
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* In ''Hopkins FBI'', early on, the player calls a helicopter for some bank robbers. They kill the pilot.
* Happens repeatedly in the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' game series, as so far we've lost Brad and Kevin in part 1, two unnamed pilots in parts 2 and 3, another anonymous pilot and Mike in part 4, and finally Kirk and Doug in part 5. Main character Chris Redfield is a notable aversion, as his backstory has him as a former Air Force pilot.
* The Valkyrie [[Player Character]] Captain Titus rides on one mission in ''[[
* Leonard, the elderly chopper pilot from the so-so Dreamcast game ''Carrier'', is killed by a mutant in the opening cutscene. Since this was also supposed to be [[Retirony|his last mission before retirement]], nobody got a gold star for guessing that he wouldn't make it, as those combined circumstances practically count as [[Quad Damage]].
* In the first ''[[
* [[Left 4 Dead]] and [[Left 4 Dead 2]] involve many pilots being zombified by the [[Player Party]] (carriers of the virus) and summarily killed, though these deaths are always offscreen. The only exception is in ''Dead Air'', in which a passenger jet crashes into the ground in front of the [[Player Party]], with appropriate reactions from each character.
* ''[[Halo|Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' plays it straight with the pilot ([[Red Shirt|and the rest of the passengers]]) of the escape pod in which you leave the ''[[Cool Starship|Pillar of Autumn]]''. It then averts it with [[Reporting Names|"Foehammer"]], a Pelican pilot who [[Mauve Shirt|actually survives until the final level]].
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