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* Rachel, who once bragged about being an excellent judge of character, dies in the finale because she assumed Keppler would follow orders in support of the Bigger Picture. Instead he is able to quietly sabotage Cutter's plans from the inside and allows Eiffel to work unfettered when he could have caught him early on. She doesn't figure it out until Keppler has her away from the others and give her a DeathByIrony, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood all because she didn't properly understand his stated motivation of protecting humanity.]]

** Keppler and Rachel both end up facing their certain deaths in the same scene. While Rachel, dying of two gunshot wounds, is DefiantToTheEnd and is KilledMidSentence trying to belittle Kepler one last time, Kepler, shoved into a cycling airlock by Rachael, faces his ObiWanMoment by cheerfully downing a flask of scotch, because it'd be a shame to let it go to waste.

** On top of all of the DeathTropes listed abobe, it is worth noting that Eiffel shares a birthday with Jesus Christ and voluntarily suffers his DeathOfPersonality to protect humanity. Further, he ended up stuck on ''Hephaestus'' to begin with because of his previous wrongdoings.

** And then there is Jacobi, who seemingly goes out on a irreverent joke, but manages to survive because he's ''very'' good at what he does, and that happens to be setting very precise explosives and being a meticulous plotter.

* Rachel, who once bragged about being an excellent judge fo character, dies in the finale because she assumed Keppler would follow orders in support of the Bigger Picture. Instead he is able to quietly sabotage Cutter's plans from the inside and allows Eiffel to work unfettered when he could have caught him early on. She doesn't figure it out until Keppler has her away from the others and give her a DeathByIrony, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood all because she didn't properly understand his stated motivation of protecting humanity.]]

* The fourth season has an ongoing theme of characters exploring the trope of "ThatManIsDead."
** Lovelace discovers that she is a doppelganger of the original Captain Lovelace, down to the memories and personality, and despite not believing she is really Captain Lovelace, she still sets out each day trying her bet to be the person Lovelace would be.

** Bob and the other Dear Listeners don't grok the concept of death, and don't understand the trauma they've caused by creating doppelgangers of human space explorers. Bob, under the constraints of the Psi-wave regulators, ends up being killed by Cutter, although Cutter allows for the possibility that [[DeathIsCheap he might come back to life.]]

* The fourth season has an ongoing theme of characters exploring the trope of "ThatManIsDead." Lovelace discovers that she is a doppelganger of the original Captain Lovelace, down to the memories and personality, and despite not believing she is really Captain Lovelace, she still sets out each day trying her bet to be the person Lovelace would be. When Eiffel loses his memories, he listens to his old log tapes and wonders if he is still Doug Eiffel, or even if he ''wants'' to be, given the impression the tapes give of his old character. Pryce, meanwhile, isn't given much screentime to ponder what her DeathOfPersonality means for her, but now has a clean slate and a chance to start things anew with her surrogate daughter Hera, who she was previously ''very'' abusive of in her previous life. Cutter, meanwhile, worked until his dying moments to forcibly reinvent humanity against their wills to make them his loyal servants.