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'''As a [[Death Trope]], all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''
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* In ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Shadow Play", Dennis Weaver is on [[Death Row]] trying to convince people that the [[Only a Dream|world is a nightmare]] he keeps having, [[Groundhog Day Loop|night after night, over and over again]]. The Warden is finally convinced he must be insane, and calls the Governor to ask for a stay. The stay comes too late, the electric chair is fired up, and we find he was right: everyone else dies, and his nightmare starts all over again.
* Canadian comedy team Wayne and Schuster did a ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' skit in which everyone Holmes accused of being the murderer would then be murdered in a different way, in some cases a quite ridiculous way. When he finally got down to accusing the ''butler'', a B-52 flying overhead dropped a load of bombs, and the butler was crushed by rubble. Then Holmes realized the truth; as he told Dr. Watson: "We're in the wrong bloody house!"
* One episode of [[Psych]] had Shawn suspect a fashion mogul of killing her husband right up until she died at his funeral. He then commented "Okay, probably not the wife." Ultimately subverted when it's learned that she actually did kill him. She died from the [[Time
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Killed by Death", the Scoobies become convinced that the villain killing the sick children in the hospital is the creepy (and, it turns out, criminally negligent to the point of malpractice lawsuits) Doctor Backer... until Backer himself is killed by the invisible monster that is ''actually'' killing the children.
* In [[Sanctuary]]'s first season episode "Kush", there's a crash, followed by several murders. When they settle things down by supposedly catching the suspect, he's killed and they have to reexamine their 'fool-proof' method of determining the killer.
* The ''[[Columbo (TV)|Columbo]]'' episode "Last Salute to the Commodore" starts out as a normal episode, with us seeing Robert Vaughn disposing of the victim's body and setting up his alibi, Lt Columbo comes in and starts his usual harassing of the suspect, and then half way through Robert Vaughn turns up dead, and the episode suddenly turns into a [[Fair Play
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