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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'':
** Volume 3 is extensively focused on filling out the tragic backstory of Ophelia Salvadori and Carlos Whitrow, who end up TogetherInDeath at the end of the book.
** {{Subverted}} in volume 8, which is focused on filling out the backstory of Cyrus Rivermoore. However, rather than kill ''him'' off, Creator/BokutoUno introduces a new character, the ghost of a girl named Fau whom Cyrus has been [[SeeksAnothersResurrection working to resurrect for almost a decade]] so she can pass on long-lost secrets of {{necromancy}}. After he succeeds, he's then forced to MercyKill her to get TheGrimReaper to stop attacking.
** Volume 3 is extensively focused on filling out the tragic backstory of Ophelia Salvadori and Carlos Whitrow, who end up TogetherInDeath at the end of the book.
** {{Subverted}} in volume 8, which is focused on filling out the backstory of Cyrus Rivermoore. However, rather than kill ''him'' off, Creator/BokutoUno introduces a new character, the ghost of a girl named Fau whom Cyrus has been [[SeeksAnothersResurrection working to resurrect for almost a decade]] so she can pass on long-lost secrets of {{necromancy}}. After he succeeds, he's then forced to MercyKill her to get TheGrimReaper to stop attacking.
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* The ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' novels have [[MemeticMutation over 9000]] [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters 9000 characters]], but if the narrative abruptly switches to an unknown character, then it isn't really that hard to tell how they're going to end up. A specific example being the Havenite soldier on leave in ''At All Costs'' whose total experience in the limelight is getting in his air car and crashing it into a plot-relevant character's vehicle.
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* Several times over in ''Literature/GideonTheNinth'':
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* ''Literature/TheThebaid'':
** Book VIII focuses almost exclusively on Tydeus' vicious exploits in the war on Thebes and ends with him being abandoned to die after his goddess becomes disgusted by his savagery.
** Book XI follows on Polynices and Eteocles moreso than any of the books dealing with the war. Of course, it ends with the two brothers crossing arms in unlawful war, as mentioned in the first words of the epic.
** Book VIII focuses almost exclusively on Tydeus' vicious exploits in the war on Thebes and ends with him being abandoned to die after his goddess becomes disgusted by his savagery.
** Book XI follows on Polynices and Eteocles moreso than any of the books dealing with the war. Of course, it ends with the two brothers crossing arms in unlawful war, as mentioned in the first words of the epic.
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* Several times over in ''Literature/GideonTheNinth'':
** In Chapter 15, the Fifth House pair host a dinner party for their anniversary, which is the first time Abigail, the necromancer of the Fifth, gets a chance to speak, and alludes to her and Magnus being unable to conceive, a manuscript about Lyctoral history that she's been working on, and her necromantic specialty. She and Magnus are the first to be killed by the end of the next chapter.
** In Chapter 25, we finally spend more time with Jeannemary and Isaac, and get to learn more about their backstory. They're both dead by the end of the chapter.
** Chapter 28 has Gideon actually sit down and talk to the Eighth House pair for the first time, revealing a lot about their house and the relationship between Column and Silas. A few chapters later, Chapter 34 is the first time the Eighth show their fighting skills, and then end up dead.
** In Chapter 15, the Fifth House pair host a dinner party for their anniversary, which is the first time Abigail, the necromancer of the Fifth, gets a chance to speak, and alludes to her and Magnus being unable to conceive, a manuscript about Lyctoral history that she's been working on, and her necromantic specialty. She and Magnus are the first to be killed by the end of the next chapter.
** In Chapter 25, we finally spend more time with Jeannemary and Isaac, and get to learn more about their backstory. They're both dead by the end of the chapter.
** Chapter 28 has Gideon actually sit down and talk to the Eighth House pair for the first time, revealing a lot about their house and the relationship between Column and Silas. A few chapters later, Chapter 34 is the first time the Eighth show their fighting skills, and then end up dead.
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* ''Literature/{{Andersonville}}'': Some of the SwitchingPOV chapters feature as characters prisoners-of-war who are introduced, only to die in that chapter. One chapter features Eric Torrosian, a prisoner who successfully escapes the stockade by pretending to be dead, and then walks away from the corpse storage shed outside, only to blunder right into a guard and get shot through the heart.
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* ''Literature/DragonsOfRequiem'' will sometimes have a POV chapter focusing on a MauveShirt instead of a main character. Typically, whenever this happens it means the character will die at the end.
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* ''Literature/InDeath'' series: If the book looks through the viewpoint of anyone who isn't Eve or Roarke, then there's a 90% chance this trope will occur. The viewpoint may be the killer, a victim, or sometimes both.
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* ''Literature/InDeath'' series: If the book looks through the viewpoint of anyone who isn't Eve or Eve, Roarke, or one of the other recurring major characters, then there's a 90% chance this trope will occur. The viewpoint may be the killer, a victim, or sometimes both.
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* Simpkin the foliet in TheBartimaeusTrilogy is the only character outside of the main three to have a chapter told entirely from his point of view. He dies at the end of it.
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* Simpkin the foliet in TheBartimaeusTrilogy ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' is the only character outside of the main three to have a chapter told entirely from his point of view. He dies at the end of it.
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* Goes all the way back to ''[[{{Homer}} The Iliad]]'', though technically inverted: Many characters (most relatively minor) are sometimes given some rather detailed obituaries in the narrative right after someone kills them.
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* Goes all the way back to ''[[{{Homer}} The Iliad]]'', ''Literature/TheIliad'', though technically inverted: Many characters (most relatively minor) are sometimes given some rather detailed obituaries in the narrative right after someone kills them.
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* In ''ASongOfIceAndFire'', the POV character of every prologue and epilogue dies at the end of it. Granted, the series tends to practice AnyoneCanDie in general.
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* In ''ASongOfIceAndFire'', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the POV character of every prologue and epilogue dies at the end of it. Granted, the series tends to practice AnyoneCanDie in general.
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* ''InDeath'' ''Literature/InDeath'' series: If the book looks through the viewpoint of anyone who isn't Eve or Roarke, then there's a 90% chance this trope will occur. The viewpoint may be the killer, a victim, or sometimes both.
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* A chapter in ''TheMalloreon'' focuses about a sailor carrying a deadly plague to Mal Zeth.
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* In ''Literature/{{Noob}}'', the third novel gives development to General Helkazard, the Coalition's leader... only to explain why killing him off is necessary for the BigBad's plans, that will work better with someone with more radical beliefs leading the Coalition.
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** Firestar comes back into the spotlight in ''The Last Hope'' only to die from his fight with Tigerstar at the very end of the book.
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* ''Literature/JoeGolemAndTheDrowningCity'': Joe and Molly get virtually all of the POV in the book's chapters. The exception are in four chapters, two for Felix Orlov the magician, and two for Simon Church the occult detective. At the end of his second chapter, Felix is overtaken by higher forces and he turns into a EldritchAbomination, losing his humanity fovever. Meanwhile in his chapters, Church's organs are shutting down and both chapters are spent in his final actions before he kicks the bucket, which he does at the end of his second.
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* In the [[HiveSeries HIVE series]], [[spoiler:Lucy Dexter]] suddenly becomes [[spoiler:Otto's love interest]], when she previously had only mild to moderate character development. Predictably, [[spoiler:she dies in the same volume.]]
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* In the [[HiveSeries HIVE series]], ''Literature/HIVESeries'', [[spoiler:Lucy Dexter]] suddenly becomes [[spoiler:Otto's love interest]], when she previously had only mild to moderate character development. Predictably, [[spoiler:she dies in the same volume.]]
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* Literature/RacingTomTurkey: The entire story is set in a funeral and centers around describing the deceased.
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* In the [[HiveSeries HIVE series]], [[spoiler:Lucy Dexter]] suddenly becomes [[spoiler:Otto's love interest]], when she previously had only mild to moderate character development. Predictably, [[spoiler:she dies in the same volume.]]
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* ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles The Queen of the Damned]]'' gives Baby Jenks one chapter, which ends with Akasha killing her.
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* The final ''Literature/AgeOfFire'' book, ''Dragon Fate'', makes use of several ADayInTheLimelight chapters, but only one has its focus character die: [[spoiler: [[BigBadWannabe NiVom]]]].
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* Simpkin the foliet in TheBartimaeusTrilogy is the only character outside of the main three to have a chapter told entirely from his point of view. He dies at the end of it.
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* The Shaara (Michael and his son Jeffery) AmericanCivilWar novels do this:
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* A common complaint about Steven King is that he will introduce a character, complete with backstory, only to kill that character off in the next chapter.
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* A chapter in TheMalloreon focuses about a sailor carrying a deadly plague to Mal Zeth.
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* ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' has a few chapters like this. One notable one is Mizuho's, which is only ''three pages long'' and ends in her getting gunned down by Kazuo.
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* ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' has a few chapters like this. One notable one is Mizuho's, which is only ''three three pages long'' long and ends in her getting gunned down by Kazuo.Kazuo very shortly after her introduction.
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* The Shaara (Michael and his son Jeffery) AmericanCivilWar novels do this:
** In ''Literature/TheKillerAngels'', General Armistead only gets one chapter from his point-of-view in which he is mortally wounded.[[note]]The chapter ends with his apparent death, but the real Armistead died in the hospital after the battle was over.[[/note]]
** In ''Literature/TheLastFullMeasure'', J.E.B. Stuart gets the same thing that Armistead did: one chapter to himself at Yellow Tavern, where he is mortally wounded. A few enlisted men are also given scenes in which they quickly die.
** In ''Literature/TheKillerAngels'', General Armistead only gets one chapter from his point-of-view in which he is mortally wounded.[[note]]The chapter ends with his apparent death, but the real Armistead died in the hospital after the battle was over.[[/note]]
** In ''Literature/TheLastFullMeasure'', J.E.B. Stuart gets the same thing that Armistead did: one chapter to himself at Yellow Tavern, where he is mortally wounded. A few enlisted men are also given scenes in which they quickly die.
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* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, individual Ghosts are brought forward, by name, with details for a scene or a few scenes before their deaths. This is not distinguishable from the characters who are named and developed to play more important roles in the books until the character dies. In other words, sometimes it's just a DayInTheLimelight, and sometimes it's a Death.
* The ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' novels have [[MemeticMutation over 9000]] [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters characters]], but if the narrative abruptly switches to an unknown character, then it isn't really that hard to tell how they're going to end up. A specific example being the Havenite soldier on leave in ''At All Costs'' whose total experience in the limelight is getting in his air car and crashing it into a plot-relevant character's vehicle.
* Goes all the way back to ''[[{{Homer}} The Iliad]]'', though technically inverted: Many characters (most relatively minor) are sometimes given some rather detailed obituaries in the narrative right after someone kills them.
* The twenty-second ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Night Whispers'' focused on EnsembleDarkhorse Flametail's attempts to unravel a mysterious prophecy. At the end, he drowns.
* In ''ASongOfIceAndFire'', the POV character of every prologue and epilogue dies at the end of it. Granted, the series tends to practice AnyoneCanDie in general.
* ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' has a few chapters like this. One notable one is Mizuho's, which is only ''three pages long'' and ends in her getting gunned down by Kazuo.
* ''InDeath'' series: If the book looks through the viewpoint of anyone who isn't Eve or Roarke, then there's a 90% chance this trope will occur. The viewpoint may be the killer, a victim, or sometimes both.
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* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, individual Ghosts are brought forward, by name, with details for a scene or a few scenes before their deaths. This is not distinguishable from the characters who are named and developed to play more important roles in the books until the character dies. In other words, sometimes it's just a DayInTheLimelight, and sometimes it's a Death.
* The ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' novels have [[MemeticMutation over 9000]] [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters characters]], but if the narrative abruptly switches to an unknown character, then it isn't really that hard to tell how they're going to end up. A specific example being the Havenite soldier on leave in ''At All Costs'' whose total experience in the limelight is getting in his air car and crashing it into a plot-relevant character's vehicle.
* Goes all the way back to ''[[{{Homer}} The Iliad]]'', though technically inverted: Many characters (most relatively minor) are sometimes given some rather detailed obituaries in the narrative right after someone kills them.
* The twenty-second ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Night Whispers'' focused on EnsembleDarkhorse Flametail's attempts to unravel a mysterious prophecy. At the end, he drowns.
* In ''ASongOfIceAndFire'', the POV character of every prologue and epilogue dies at the end of it. Granted, the series tends to practice AnyoneCanDie in general.
* ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' has a few chapters like this. One notable one is Mizuho's, which is only ''three pages long'' and ends in her getting gunned down by Kazuo.
* ''InDeath'' series: If the book looks through the viewpoint of anyone who isn't Eve or Roarke, then there's a 90% chance this trope will occur. The viewpoint may be the killer, a victim, or sometimes both.
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