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* [[Superboy]]'s first love, Tana Moon, got this treatment.
** To make matters even worse, the woman who killed Tana did it because she felt Superboy, as a clone of her father, Cadmus Director Paul Westfield, was a huge disappointment. Recent retcons show, however, that Superboy is not Westfield's clone at all, but a joint DNA clone of Supes and Lex. So Tana's death was not only nasty brutal and ugly, but the very reason she was targeted was just dead wrong!
* She's not dead, but in ''[[Batman]]'', {{spoiler|Hush ''cut out [[Catwoman (Comic Bookcomics)|Catwoman]]'s heart''. She was somehow gotten to a machine in time}}. An example of an [[Invoked Trope]], as {{spoiler|Hush was ''deliberately'' looking for the most traumatic thing he could do to Batman}}. It was then subsequently subverted {{spoiler|as when she recovered, Selina was the one who went for revenge, not Bruce. She pretty much ''ruined'' Hush, to boot}}.
* The [[Alan Moore]] story ''[[The Killing Joke]]'', where [[The Joker]] shoots and cripples [[Batgirl (Comic Book)|Barbara Gordon]] in an effort (which includes photographs of her lying naked and wounded) to drive her father insane. [[Even Evil Has Standards]] [[Alan Moore]] regrets its brutality.
** The fact that Babs survived and developed greatly as a character doesn't matter, because at the time, DC was essentially trying to remove her altogether. When Moore asked his editors if it was okay to include the shooting, their response was "Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch."
* Golden Glider from ''[[The Flash]]'' is a supervillain version of this; she's killed off mainly so that her brother Captain Cold can angst about it.
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* In the ''[[Civilization]] 4'' mod ''[[Fall From Heaven]]'', Einion Logos' flavor text describes him returning from making a truce with the demon civilization, only to find his wife [[Nightmare Fuel|brutally]] murdered - a ploy by the demons to incite him into breaking the truce right out of the gate. Even worse, [[Word of God|Word of Kael]] says that it was another human civ (the Amurites) that did it, not the Infernals. [[False-Flag Operation|It only looked like the demons did it]] so that Einion would take the Amurites' side against the infernals.
* The death of Hildi towards the end of ''[[Dead to Rights]]''. Stuffed through a window, to be precise. In fact, this happens with [[Cartwright Curse|nearly every female character Jack encounters]], save for one in the ''Retribution'' reboot.
* The death of {{spoiler|Lucien Lachance}} in ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion|The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]''.
* Before your first mission on the Dread Isle in ''[[Fire Emblem]]: The Sword of Flame'', {{spoiler|Matthew's love interest Leila, whom is spying on the enemy organization}} is not only found dead, but is left in such a way that the main characters don't realize this and try talking to her before realizing what has happened.
** An interesting use in this case as {{spoiler|Matthew}} is the one most affected by this rather than one of the three main characters, and asks the next mission off to pay her proper respects. You are not forced to, but conversation elements would be different based on whether you brought him along on the next mission or not, having a similar effect to [[Player Punch]] only more indirect.
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* ''[[Futurama]]'' did a jokingly literal version of this in "Jurassic Bark". When Fry's dog is annoying the hung-over cryogenicist, he turns to his partner and tells him to freeze the dog until the owner arrives. The partner claims that he can't solve all his problems by freezing him, to which the cryogenicist points out the company motto: "You can solve all your problems by freezing them." The camera then pans to a housewife stuck in one of the tubes, frozen in mid-nag.
* The second season of ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' has been doing this after a five-year [[Time Skip]].
** [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Beast Boy]] is now on the Young Justice team after getting his superhero origin last season. But the episode "Earthlings" reveals through flashbacks and dialogue that his mother, who shared his original spotlight episode, was killed in an accident that was really orchestrated by supervillains. This traumatized Beast Boy deeply. But he ''is'' [[Death Byby Origin Story|an orphan in the comics]], so his mom was sadly [[Doomed by Canon]].
** In the episode "Alienated", we learn that [[Aquaman|Aqualad]] [[Face Heel Turn|now works for the bad guys]] partly because of the death of Aquagirl. She previously appeared in the first season as a [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|close friend he had unrequited love for]]. (The other reason was [[Luke, I Am Your Father|discovering his real father was a supervillain]] and feeling betrayed by everyone.) Unlike with Beast Boy's flashback, this has only been conveyed through dialogue (so far, with only three season 2 episodes). The show's version of Aqualad [[Canon Foreigner|was also created for the show]] so [[Armed with Canon|there's no comics canon to fall back to.]] (Except perhaps that Aquagirl did die during the ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'' in the Eighties.)
* In the ''[[Wakfu]]'' special "Goultard the Barbarian", the villain Katar kidnapped and murdered Goultard's wife and children just to piss him off. {{spoiler|Katar wanted to make Goultard look like a more appetizing host for the parasitic rage eating demon inside him. It worked, but Katar only got to enjoy a few seconds of freedom before Goultard finished him off.}}
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