History DeathByIrony / AnimeAndManga

** Envy commits suicide out of self-loathing because he envies his enemies.

* Anime/EscaflowneTheMovie: Folken spends the entire film as a DeathSeeker. When he finally gets his wish in the climax, however, he dies not by taking Gaea down with him as he'd planned. Instead, he ends up going out the same way he killed his people during his StartOfDarkness: Betrayed and murdered by a member of his own Clan.

*** How is [[BigBad DIO]] finally defeated? By having his head (the one thing that survived the events of ''Manga/PhantomBlood'') [[YourHeadAsplode violently explode]].

* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier''. You just ''had'' to poke the fourth wall, didn't you, Michel?

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':

* The ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' anime loves this, but the example that doesn't have a subcategory is Rubeus. He gave Koan/Katzi a bomb to kill herself with after giving her a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]]. Four episodes later, Esmeraude gives him a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] before leaving him to his death... by an explosion.

* Adiane from ''Anime/GurrenLagann'' was killed during her attempt to avenge Thymilph's death by cannon fire from his personal warship (which had been stolen by the heroes after his death).
* This happens many times in ''Anime/YuGiOh''. The biggest example is "The Seal of Orichacos" field spell. When it is played, the loser of the duel will lose their soul. In almost every duel, the one who ''played'' the card loses the duel.
* In ''Franchise/YuGiOh''
** In the manga of Duelist Kingdom, Panik threatens to kill Yugi with a noose around his neck if he lost while seeking safety from the darkness through his duel with Yugi. He ends up being hanged by a noose, surrounded by nothing but darkness when Yami uses a Penalty Game on him.

* Adiane from ''Manga/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' was killed during her attempt to avenge Thymilph's death by cannon fire from his personal warship (which had been stolen by the heroes after his death).

--->'''Kars:''' ''[charging up Hamon]'' This way of breathing... To send a Hamon user like you into the black pit of death... Hamon truly is a poetic vehicle!

*** Also, Kimblee came back to bite Pride too.

* In the first season finale of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' the priest of the Wall Church that has been harassing the heroes the whole season is preaching to his congregation that the Walls will protect them from the Titans, when the Female Titan crashes down through the temple roof and crushes all of them but the preacher.
** And it gets averted a few moments later. The wall gets damaged and it gets revealed that within the wall, there are titans. And not just the ordinary ones, we're talking about colossal ones here. Luckily, these are inactive and actually the reason why the wall could be built in the first place.

** The 2003 anime has a few examples:

* ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'''s "Eye Opening Arc" ends with local Yandere Shion Sonozaki falling from her apartment building to her death. The irony? She had spent the majority of the arc masquerading as her twin sister [[TheWoobie Mion]] so she could frame her for her infamous murder rampage, and she had just finished her grand plan by sneaking out and stabbing Keiichi. While she scales her apartment building to sneak back in, the fall is caused by the holster she is wearing (which is part of her disguise) snagging on the wall. Note this does not happen in "Cotton Drifting", or in the original Visual Novel or Manga adaptation of "Eye Opening".

* ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Kars from ''Manga/BattleTendency'' after he becomes the [[UltimateLifeform Ultimate Being]] and unlocks the ability to use [[ThePowerOfTheSun Hamon]], and attempts to kill [[TheHero Joseph]] with it.

** ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'':

** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'':
*** [[TheDragon Yoshihiro Kira]] spends the entire Part trying to protect his SerialKiller of a son, Yoshikage. He's defeated when [[TheHero Josuke]] tricks Yoshikage into blowing Yoshihiro up with one of his bombs.

** ''Manga/GoldenWind'':

** Jotaro Kujo spends most of the series as TheDreaded, being feared by many a Stand User for his powerful time-based Stand [[TimeStandsStill ability]]. So how does he finally meet his end in ''Manga/StoneOcean''? He's killed by [[SinisterMinister Enrico Pucci]], OnlyFriend of DIO, the person that pressured Jotaro into unlocking that ability in the first place, the same ability that DIO's stand had no less. And on top of that, Pucci kills him via an ''[[StoryBreakerPower even stronger]]'' [[TimeMaster time-based]] Stand.
** Prior to the events of ''Manga/{{JoJolion}}'', when Jobin Higashikata was a child, he was attacked by a bully who tried to light Jobin on fire. Jobin then awakened his Stand, Speed King, and nearly killed the bully by heating up his face.

* ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'': Cranberry was TheSocialDarwinist and was obsessed with fighting the most powerful magical girls. She eventually gets killed via a sneak attack by Tama, the weakest, most cowardly magical girl.

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Before being reincarnated as Myne, Urano Motosu's entire life revolved around [[{{Bookworm}} the consumption of books]]. Said hobby also became her undoing, as she was too engrossed in her latest book to notice an earthquake that sent a mountain of books crashing onto her, crushing her to death.

* ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'''s "Eye Opening Arc" ends with local Yandere Shion Sonozaki falling from her apartment building to her death. The irony? She had spent the majority of the arc masquerading as her twin sister [[TheWoobie Mion]] so she could frame her for her infamous [[KillEmAll murder rampage]], and she had just finished her grand plan by sneaking out and stabbing Keiichi. While she scales her apartment building to sneak back in, the fall is caused by the holster she is wearing (which is part of her disguise) snagging on the wall. Note this does not happen in "Cotton Drifting", or in the original Visual Novel or Manga adaptation of "Eye Opening".

*** And then the trope gets turned around on him several times over. The [[MacGuffin Red Stone of Aja]], the item that made it possible for him to become the [[UltimateLifeform Ultimate Being]] in the first place, is used to block his attack, triggering a volcanic eruption that sends him flying outside the atmosphere. And when he tries to fly away, he gets delayed by Joseph's severed hand, [[AnArmAndALeg which he himself severed]], long enough for volcanic debris to hit him and ensure he leaves the Earth. And finally, the AdaptiveAbility granted to him by his status as the [[UltimateLifeform Ultimate Being]] turns him to stone to protect him from the vacuum of space, preventing him from returning, and leaving him [[AndIMustScream forever drifting through space, alone and unable to move]].

*** Greed Mk.II performs a HeroicSacrifice after admitting that all he wanted were friends, and thus dies having everything he ever wanted.

* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier''. You just ''had'' to poke the fourth wall, didn't you, Michel?
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** Goku's first death. He's teamed up with Piccolo Jr., the final BigBad of the original series, to rescue his son from his long-lost brother Raditz. In the final stretch of the battle, Goku has Raditz in a full nelson and pulls a HeroicSacrifice by allowing Piccolo to unleash his new attack, the Special Beam Cannon on both of them. Here, Goku is willingly letting himself be hit by an attack that Piccolo developed specifically to kill him, and technically winning the battle by doing so. The real irony is in how the attack causes Goku and Raditz to be ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice so that Goku's son can be rescued, while the person doing the attack is the son of someone who died being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Goku himself, and designed the attack to invoke this irony for his revenge, but technically used it to help Goku's own son. It's complicated.
** In the regular timeline, Krillin marries Android 18. In the alternate timeline where Goku dies of a heart virus, he is killed by Android 17, Android 18's brother, in assistance with Android 18.
** Cell loses his BeamOWar with Gohan because he was distracted by an attack from Vegeta, the same person who helped him achieve his Perfect Form.
** Cell and Trunks killed each other twice. First, Cell killed Trunks to steal his time machine. Then Future Trunks (with Krillin) killed the present version of Cell as a fetus. Eventually, Cell kills Future Trunks. Finally, Future Trunks goes back to his timeline and kills Cell.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Ace's signature move (and the source of his epithet) was a flaming punch, and he was killed by a punch made of magma. He was also rescued from being executed, only to sacrifice himself minutes later to protect the person that rescued him.
** All Whitebeard wanted was a family, and one of his "sons" kills him. Admittedly he had already basically disowned the guy, but the point still stands.
** Fisher Tiger hated humans for enslaving him and treating Mermen badly in general. Despite this, he fought to free all slaves, fishmen and human alike, and tried to avert the ViciousCycle by not killing his pursuers. Then he was seriously injured in an ambush and his blood-type was unique among fishmen--''none'' of his crew had the right type of blood to save him. The only blood that could save him was from the very humans Fisher Tiger despised. Which he refused because--to his own shame--he could not let go of his hatred.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', the BigBad of the ''Gold/Silver/Crystal'' arc AKA [[spoiler:Pryce]] tries to control time itself. He ends up being forever trapped in the time stream, albeit with no regrets, as he accomplished his goal of reuniting his baby Lapras with its lost parents. [[spoiler:Celebi eventually lets him out so he can help prevent an even worse disaster in ''[=HeartGold/SoulSilver=]''.]]
** In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'', BigBad Cyrus gets close to undoing the world and creating his own, Palkia and Dialga open a dimension to start but cease when the heroes break Cyrus' mind control. Cyrus refuses to believe his plans have failed and jumps into the pocket dimension just as it closes, and while it's possible he's creating his own universe separate from the main one, it's far more likely the dimensional gate destroyed him when it shut.

* In the first season finale of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' the priest of the Wall Church that has been harassing the heroes the whole season is preaching to his congregation that the Walls will protect them from the Titans, when the Female Titan crashes down through the temple roof and crushes all of them but the preacher.
** And it gets averted a few moments later. The wall gets damaged and it gets revealed that within the wall, there are titans. And not just the ordinary ones, we're talking about colossal ones here. Luckily, these are inactive and actually the reason why the wall could be built in the first place.
* ''Anime/HellGirl'' has banishment scenes that [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this in most episodes as a prelude to the targets being [[DraggedOffToHell boated off to]] [[IronicHell Hell]].

* The ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' anime loves this, but the example that doesn't have a subcategory is Rubeus. He gave Koan/Katzi a bomb to kill herself with after giving her a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]]. Four episodes later, Esmeraude gives him a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] before leaving him to his death... by an explosion.

* This happens many times in ''Anime/YuGiOh''. The biggest example is "The Seal of Orichacos" field spell. When it is played, the loser of the duel will lose their soul. In almost every duel, the one who ''played'' the card loses the duel.

* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', the death of Meruem, the king of the Chimera Ants, comes at the hands of a SuicideAttack performed by Netero, who blows himself up (killing the king via poisoning rather than the explosion itself). In real life, this is a tactic employed by certain types of ''ants''.

* Averted in ''Anime/DigimonFusion''. Blastmon gets blasted by Shoutmon [=X5B=], except while his body is destroyed, he survives as a head.
** Then played straight when Blastmon is destroyed in an explosion alongside Laylamon.
* In ''Manga/TalentlessNana'', Kiraru Habu is a "Talented" individual with the power to secrete lethal poisons from her body. She ends up poisoned to death while she's hunting for poisonous animals to eat and refill her body's stores.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': Corvus Jamian dies [[DisneyVillainDeath by falling off a cliff]]. [[AllThereInTheManual The manga inserts describing the cloths reveal]] that his cloth has wings (and Seiya proved that it's possible to fly with them, once he figured how to manifest them).

** Jotaro Kujo spends most of the series as TheDreaded, being feared by many a Stand User for his powerful time-based Stand [[TimeStandsStill ability]]. So how does he finally meet his end in ''Manga/StoneOcean''? He's killed by [[SinisterMinister Enrico Pucci]], who had just acquired an ''[[StoryBreakerPower even stronger]]'' [[TimeMaster time-based]] Stand.

** Sloth is worn out by a long fight.

** ''Manga/VentoAureo'':

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', this is how the Big Five lose their duels.
** Gansley frequently spends his duel against Yugi mocking Kuriboh. He would lose due to Kuriboh's Deck Master ability.
** Crump declares that Dark Magician Girl is useless without the Dark Magician. Tea manages to summon Dark Magician and both magicians tag-team together to end the duel.
** Nesbitt picks on Serenity for majority of the duel, because she is inexperienced, but it was her monster that ends up defeating him. Nesbitt also defeated Tristan by destroying his deck master. Serenity defeats him the same way.
** Lector considers himself superior than Kaiba and loses when Kaiba summons a monster with higher power than Lector's.
** In their combined duel against Yugi and Joey, they allowed Joey to join thinking Joey was weaker and would hold back Yugi. It was Joey's cards that powered up the Dark Magician to win the duel.

** Also, in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, BigBad Cyrus gets close to undoing the world and creating his own, Palkia and Dialga open a dimension to start but cease when the heroes break Cyrus' mind control. Cyrus refuses to believe his plans have failed and jumps into the pocket dimension just as it closes, and while it's possible he's creating his own universe separate from the main one, it's far more likely the dimensional gate destroyed him when it shut.

-->'''Kars:''' ''[charging up Hamon]'' This way of breathing... To send a Hamon user like you into the black pit of death... Hamon truly is a poetic vehicle!

** Cell and Trunks killed each other twice. First, Cell killed Trunks to steal his time machine. Then Future Trunks killed the present version of Cell as a fetus. Eventually, Cell kills Future Trunks. Finally, Future Trunks goes back to his timeline and kills Cell.

** Wrath dies at peace with himself and with no regrets, at the hands of someone who became a rage-driven SerialKiller because of Wrath's actions on top of it. On another, subtler level, Wrath declares several times that there is no God, but the Sun, the symbol of God in alchemy, plays an instrumental role in his defeat.