History AnyoneCanDie / FIlm

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', when Helen reminds her children that this is not a cartoon and Syndrome's men [[WouldHurtAChild will kill them without hesitation]], given a chance. Although only one major character dies (Syndrome), the rest of the film racks up a high enough body count in ''minor'' characters. Syndrome is revealed to have killed at least dozens of supers offscreen, the number of evil henchmen whose deaths the heroes cause is well into the double digits, and Edna Mode even has a montage (which is PlayedForLaughs) entirely devoted to supers who died in the line of duty, some of them in [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath very unpleasant ways.]] And that's not even counting the people who can be assumed to have [[InferredHolocaust died in the Omnidroid's rampage through the city.]]

* The ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' is just as bad as [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil the video games]]. By the end of ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'', the only important characters still alive are Alice, Clear, and Wesker. And then ''Wesker'' died at the end of ''[[Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife Afterlife]]''. [[UnexplainedRecovery He got better somehow]], but still. He's finally put down for good in ''[[Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter The Final Chapter]]''.

!!As a DeathTrope, contains many spoilers. Tread with care.

* ''Film/TheProfessional[=/=]Léon''. Practically everyone except Mathilda and Tony are dead by the end: TheHero (Leon), the BigBad (Stansfield), most of the Big Bad's goons and the entirety of Mathilda's family (including her four year old brother).

* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''. Eight movies in total, and the only recurring character to survive to the end of it all is Lawrence Gordon, who only appeared in the [[Film/SawI first]] and [[Film/{{Jigsaw}} last]] ones.
* ''Film/{{Scream}}''. Any character regardless of the actor in the role can (and does) die in the first ten minutes. This is also referenced in ''Film/Scream3'' by resident horror movie buff Randy: In the third movie all bets are off and anyone can die. True to form the film proves this by killing off Cotton Weary, a major character from the first two, right off the bat.
** And Randy himself in ''Scream 2'', unexpectedly and right in the middle of the movie, dropping a bridge on him.
** Drew Barrymore was killed in the first 5 minutes of ''Scream'' to make this point. She was a popular actress so killing her off so quickly was unexpected.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}''. Sudden deaths instilled this trope in the second act of the movie and it runs to the end.
* In ''Film/SevenSamurai,'' only three of the titular seven make it to the end; the other four all die in combat. The American remake, ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]],'' also had only three of its main characters survive, but they are ''not'' all the counterparts of the characters who survived in the Japanese film.

* George Romero's Film/LivingDeadSeries is this trope in full force. In the original Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968, none of the main cast survive the movie. The rest of the series follows suit -- while some of the main cast of each movie make it to the end, you have no way of anticipating who. Even the remakes run on this

* ''Animation/VukTheLittleFox'': The beginning of this children's cartoon seems to imply that it will be something cuddly and cute. Besides maintaining a level of cuteness, over a dozen characters (including those with names, personalities and spoken lines) die, either killed by other animals or by human hunters. There is no CarnivoreConfusion or at least the main characters don't feel confused, as the main ''hero'' kills and eats equally sapient prey on-screen without any trouble.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' is a sneaky example, because it doesn't feel like one. But if you look at all the episodes as of this writing (I-VII), you'll see there's no category of characters that's completely safe, save maybe comedic sidekicks. In the original trilogy (IV-VI), you can say that main characters are safe [[MentorOccupationalHazard as long as they're not the mentor]]. But if you start with the prequel trilogy (I-III), you'll see basically all the main characters from there die on-screen, some making it as far as the original trilogy first but with Qui-Gon Jinn (again the mentor) starting it off in [[Film/ThePhantomMenace episode I]]. Also, with [[Film/TheForceAwakens episode VII]], we see [[spoiler: that the main characters from the original trilogy aren't safe either, as Han Solo becomes yet another victim of MentorOccupationalHazard.]] Now, it might be claimed that it tends to be the older, more experienced characters specifically who are affected by this, either ones who were so to begin with (Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, Yoda) or ones who'd become the older generation by the time they died (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, [[spoiler: and Han Solo]]). It's true that the protagonists of the current younger generation have been the least likely to die, ''almost'' to the point that you can trust it won't happen, but Padmé Amidala's fate in [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith episode III]] shows that's not impossible either.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' (1986) was famous principally for introducing this phenomenon to millions of Saturday-morning TV fans, when Optimus Prime dies, along with Megatron (the latter of which is reformatted as Galvatron), Starscream, almost all the Autobots and an entire planet of {{Red Shirt}}s in the first ten minutes, followed by the on-screen maiming of several more robots including the last survivor of aforementioned planet for good measure, in order to show that FictionIsNotFair.

*** This movie, by the way, was put in the "Kids and Family" category. If the children aren't traumatized by the doll/spider/snake (Seamstress), they'll be depressed by all the cute dying ragdolls.

* Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller'' ends with just about every major character dead except for Jenny (who is blind for good) and Inspector Li Ying (who was arrested by his fellow officers for killing Wong Hoi right in front of them).

* ''TheBakerStreetDozen'': Loyal government agents and helpful associates of clients aren't safe. Neither is [[spoiler:Kitty, the female lead]] in ''The Voice of Terror'' or [[spoiler:teenaged ingenue Marie]] in ''The Scarlet Claw.''