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* ''Literature/TheSquiresTales'' gives one to the {{Scrappy}}, Sir Griflet, an older knight mostly concerned with wealth and fashion rather than aiding the helpless, who [[DirtyCoward flees Mordred's advancing army]] in the final book rather than joining Arthur's forces and isn't seen again...until almost the end of the book, when during a lull in the fighting Terence finds a beach strewn with bodies, Griflet's among them, and realises that not only had Griflet come ''back'', he had rallied a troop of other knights-for-show and they had come upon Mordred's flanking force and broken the attack, saving Arthur's army at the cost of their own lives. Gawain paints '''Griflet la Fise du Dieu, Hero of England''' on his shield [[CouldntFindAPen in blood]] as a makeshift headstone. AlasPoorScrappy indeed.
** Gawain doesn't do too badly himself: seriously wounded in the previous skirmish and left at camp while the rest of Arthur's army rides out to the last battle, he takes the hermit's blessing (that his strength would grow with the sun) given him as a teenager to its logical conclusion and charges alone onto the battlefield [[CueTheSun as the sun rises]], single-handedly turning the tide of battle long enough for Lancelot's French relief forces to arrive.
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* ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Clopin goes out during the battle to save Esmeralda by chopping through French soldiers and their horses with a huge weaponized farming scythe. It takes a hail of musket fire to finally kill him. He's said to lie dead in a circle of severed limbs.
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* The slasher novel ''Deadly Detention'' has six high schoolers named [[LovableJock Glen]], [[{{Delinquent}} Mike]], [[ExtravertedNerd Owen]], [[NiceGirl Fran]], [[AlphaBitch Jaclyn]] and Jill sent to detention under the watch of the despised [[SadistTeacher Mr. Crowley]]. Later Crowley is nowhere to be found and the students find themselves locked in the school, phone lines dead, threatened through the P.A. system by someone who sounds like Crowley and being murdered one by one. Eventually only [[spoiler: Fran and Jaclyn]] are left and confronted by Crowley, becoming separated. [[spoiler: Fleeing to the basement, Jaclyn finds Crowley dead, having been shot in the head, then she gets shot in the back by Fran. Fran casually talks about how she arranged situations that made everyone, including her, end up in detention so she could get the chance to kill them all and pin it all on Crowley, classic murder/suicide, all so she could win an upcoming academic competition (the other students in detention being the smartest in school besides her) that would win her a scholarship so she could go to her college of choice]]. As the murderer stages the scene and leaves the school, [[spoiler: Jaclyn is almost dead, but it turns out that she had her walkman hidden inside her jacket sleeve, and for some time now, she had set it on record, and she dies with the satisfaction that Fran thoroughly explained her plan, Jaclyn taped the whole thing and once the police investigate, Fran is utterly screwed]].

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* The slasher novel ''Deadly Detention'' has six high schoolers named [[LovableJock Glen]], [[{{Delinquent}} Mike]], [[ExtravertedNerd Owen]], Mike]], Owen, [[NiceGirl Fran]], [[AlphaBitch Jaclyn]] and Jill sent to detention under the watch of the despised [[SadistTeacher Mr. Crowley]]. Later Crowley is nowhere to be found and the students find themselves locked in the school, phone lines dead, threatened through the P.A. system by someone who sounds like Crowley and being murdered one by one. Eventually only [[spoiler: Fran and Jaclyn]] are left and confronted by Crowley, becoming separated. [[spoiler: Fleeing to the basement, Jaclyn finds Crowley dead, having been shot in the head, then she gets shot in the back by Fran. Fran casually talks about how she arranged situations that made everyone, including her, end up in detention so she could get the chance to kill them all and pin it all on Crowley, classic murder/suicide, all so she could win an upcoming academic competition (the other students in detention being the smartest in school besides her) that would win her a scholarship so she could go to her college of choice]]. As the murderer stages the scene and leaves the school, [[spoiler: Jaclyn is almost dead, but it turns out that she had her walkman hidden inside her jacket sleeve, and for some time now, she had set it on record, and she dies with the satisfaction that Fran thoroughly explained her plan, Jaclyn taped the whole thing and once the police investigate, Fran is utterly screwed]].

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