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Always keep in mind the second one. If our ill-fated supporting hero took out a couple dozen mooks, held their own (but then lost) a knock-down drag out fight, put three barrels in the shark before being eaten, or otherwise put up a decent fight before dying, they do not fit this trope.
[[Almost-Dead Guy]] is a downplayed relative - could tell more about what exactly is going on, but now can't. Compare/contrast [[The Obi-Wan]], who is also wise to the threat and often killed by it nonetheless, but The Obi-Wan's death, if and when it comes, is often a [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]], [[Obi-Wan Moment]], or at least dramatic. Compare also [[The Worf Effect]], which is where an enemy dispatches a more generally established badass with ease, rather than one specialized against them. Finally, consider [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]], which is the tendency of mentors to the hero to die.
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* [[South Park]] has a more unusual example with Kenny, in that getting killed almost every episode for the first few seasons has made him [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|an expert on ways in which he might get killed.]] Not that that's helped him much
* Parodied in ''[[American Dad]]'' where the helicopter carrying the CIA's top code-breaker crashes as he's arriving at the scene. Any remaining hope then falls on Scott who's "pretty good at the jumble". Scott promptly gets hit with debris flying from the helicopter.
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* Lampshaded in [[Nip and Tuck]] when their [[
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