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[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. May or may not herald a [[Downer Ending]]. This trope is an aversion of [[Decoy Protagonist]], [[Our Hero Is Dead]] and [[Not Quite Dead]]. May or may not be [[The Bad Guy Wins]]. Also note that the Hero doesn't have to die in order for the Bad Guy to win.
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* [[Ultimate Spider-Man]]
* And now ''[[Hellboy]]''...
* [[Captain America (comics)]], who died in his eponymous comic at the end of the [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]].<ref>Well, for at least three years, anyway...</ref>
* ''[[The Death of Superman]]'' (sometimes called ''The Death and Return of Superman'') due to his coming back.
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* [[Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]] as of the end of ''Changes''. He then spends the next book, ''Ghost Story'', solving his own murder. As a ghost.
* The novelization of the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', aside from many other differences from the plot of the anime, has Amuro Ray die several chapters before the end of the book. Despite [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]]'s reputation as "[[Kill'Em All]] Tomino", he said that he only did it because he thought it would be a single complete story and that if he had planned on making sequels from the start, Amuro would have lived.
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]''. Winston and Julia are caught, tortured and [[Mind Rape
* ''[[Outbound Flight]]''. [[Outbound Flight|Lorana Jinzler]] died in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. She was the only unambiguously good character in that half of the novel. The other major characters, who might be called heroes,
* In ''[[Firewing]]'', Shade the Bat kills himself in the Bat Underworld to give his son, Griffin, and his friend, Luna, life force to feed on and become living, breathing bats again. In the end, he still survives, but in the form of the foliage of the forest floor. When he's dead, he flies around the world and can be anything he wants to be.
* Jean Valjean dies at the end of ''[[Les Misérables]]''. Admittedly, [[Kill'Em All|so does almost everyone else]].
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* [[Xena]], after "dying" several times throughout the series, dies for the [[Killed Off for Real|final time]] in the series finale.
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] died at the end of the Season 5 episode "The Gift." The next season, they [[Back From the Dead|brought her back]]. She also died at the end of the first season, but only for a few minutes and was revived with CPR.
** A minor
* When Flower died on ''[[Meerkat Manor]]'', the show was completely shattered. Next Generation with Rocket Dog just wasn't/isn't the same... She was their star and the pillar that held the show up.
* Victor "I don't believe it!" Meldrew was stuck down by a car in the finale of [[One Foot in the Grave]]. Noticeably, the climax of the episode wasn't his death, but rather his wife's reaction to it.
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* Shinji Kido, the titular Rider of [[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]. Got better by way of [[Reset Button]] in the finale.
** Also, his [[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight|American counterpart]], Kit Taylor. Unlike Shinji, he [[Never Say "Die"|didn't actually die]]
* Jonah Gabriel from ''[[The Shadow Line]]'' was killed off in the final episode of the series.
* Bill Henrickson bites it in the last episode of ''[[Big Love]]'' after getting shot by an angry neighbor.
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* You literally go into ''[[Lufia]] 2: Rise of the Sinestrals'' [[Doomed Protagonist|KNOWING that Selan and Maxim will die at the end of]], [[Doomed by Canon|due to it being a prequel]] of Lufia & the Fortress of Doom, which starts off with a 100 years in the past flashback of their deaths.
* The end of ''[[BioShock (series)]] 2'' always involves Subject Delta dying, though it's his influence on Eleanor that determines how things end up and several of the endings involve her taking his essence so that he live on through her as a [[Spirit Advisor]].
* Possibly the ending of ''[[Driver|Driv3r]]'', where Tanner gets shot by the [[Big Bad]] and [[
** Subverted. He shows up alive and well in ''Driver: San Francisco''.
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]: The Last Revelation'' was supposed to be the end of the series(at least on the [[PS 1]]), with Lara suffering a [[No One Could Survive That]] fate. It ended up being an [[Our Hero Is Dead]] instead, with her [[Unexplained Recovery|getting better]] in ''Angel of Darkness''.
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance]]'', quite a few prominent heroes end up [[Anyone Can Die|dying]] over the course of the story arcs.
* ''[[Broken Saints]]'' ends with two of our four heroes committing [[Heroic Sacrifice
* Bree Avery sacrifices herself in the first ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' [[Season Finale]].
* Maddison Atkins and Adam Wilmott died in the original version of ''[[Maddison Atkins]]''.
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