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** In a later chapter, Joe escapes from a visit with his parents, hides in the woods, hitchhikes, and makes his way to New York City, where a boy in Brooklyn provides him shelter for a few days. He's ''convinced'' that Elan's hired goons won't find him. [[spoiler:Except [[YankTheDogsChain they do.]] As it turns out, Elan's founder is ''very'' well connected.]]

* At the beginning of ''[[https://elan.school/chapter-1-5/ Joe vs. Elan School]]'', a survivor account of life in an abusive teen treatment facility, after being kidnapped by a "teen escort company" and taken to the title school, Joe fights off the people he's handed off to before making a break for it through the woods. Unfortunately, he is cut off and captured by men posted in the woods.

* At the beginning of ''[[https://elan.school/chapter-1-5/ Joe vs. Elan School]]'', a survivor account of life in an abusive teen treatment facility, after being kidnapped by a "teen escort company" and taken to the title BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, Joe fights off the people he's handed off to before making a break for it through the woods. Unfortunately, Elan School has men posted in the woods that quickly cut him off and capture him.

** [[spoiler:Nolan]] is [[DemonicPossession demonically possessed]] in chapter 4. After wreaking havoc on his friends, they are able to trap him and have a priest perform an exorcism. [[spoiler:Nolan]] is able to pray along with the priest and is freed from the demon however, he succumbs tos his injuries a moment later. Subverted when [[spoiler: Tim and Barry]]intervene to bring him back.

* At the beginning of ''[[https://elan.school/chapter-1-5/ Joe vs. Elan School]]'', a survivor account of life in an abusive teen treatment facility, after being kidnapped by an escort company and taken to the title BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, Joe fights off the people he's handed off to before making a break for it through the woods. Unfortunately, Elan School has men posted in the woods that quickly cut him off and capture him.

* At the beginning of ''[[https://elan.school/chapter-1-5/ Joe vs. Elan School]]'', a survivor account of life in an abusive teen treatment facility, after being kidnapped by an escort company and taken to the title BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, Joe fights off the people he's handed off to before making a break for it through the woods. Unfortunately, Elan School has men posted in the woods that quickly cut his escape short and capture him.

* At the beginning of ''[[https://elan.school/chapter-1-5/ Joe vs. Elan School]]'', a survivor account of life in an abusive teen treatment facility, after being kidnapped by an escort company and taken to the title BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, Joe fights off the people he's handed off to before making a break for it through the woods. Unfortunately for him, Elan School has men posted in the woods that quickly cut his escape short and capture him.

* Webcomic/LegioArcana: [[spoiler:Nolan]] is [[DemonicPossession demonically possessed]] in chapter 4. After wreaking havoc on his friends, they are able to trap him and have a priest perform an exorcism. [[spoiler:Nolan]] is able to pray along with the priest and is freed from the demon however, he collapses from his injuries a moment later, [[DyingasYourself dying as himself]]

--> '''Minerva''': What the matter dear, you look like you've seen a ghost? [[spoiler:''(She smiles and laughs, shuddering as her ears become [[PointyEars pointed]] and fangs form in her mouth)'') Or close to it hmm?]]

** In Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 4 the fighting on LOFAF ends with [[spoiler:Karkat, Kanaya, Aranea, Dave, Jane, and Jake]] all dying while Roxy manages to save [[spoiler:Rose who had been stabbed by the Condesce's trident]]. Roxy makes it away safely and meets up with John [[spoiler:but Rose bleeds to death anyway, having been stabbed while trying to avenge Kanaya, her death is labeled heroic and her immortality is negated.]]

* ''NanasEverydayLife'' has a '''lot''' of these in its short, heartbreaking run. One of them lasts a very long time.

** In this InfiniteCanvas [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0443.html here]]. When Roy [[spoiler:takes a huge fall after fighting BigBad Xykon in the sky]]. Roy tries one thing after another, desperately trying to [[spoiler:stop the fall or at least reduce fall damage]], only to run out of options. Then he realizes [[spoiler:he has a talisman that can summon an ally who can fly]]. Only his realization comes just a ''little'' too late. [[spoiler: Alas... it was too strong to be easily broken anyways, because mundane humans can't inherently cast lightning.]]

** The Resistance [[spoiler: manage to get Xykon's phylactery]] and return to their base, [[spoiler: only to find Redcloak got there and killed everyone. The Resistance then tries to hold Redcloak off while two of their number escape with the phylactery, only for one of them to turn out to be a polymorphed spy, who leads the other into a trap and takes the phylactery himself.]]

* Repeatedly during the Sturmhalten arc in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. Wishing to avoid the notice of a prince who previously stole one of two valuable machines from them, the circus Agatha's traveling with uses Jägers as an excuse to bypass his city? [[spoiler: This irregularity is enough to warrant a report to the nefarious prince, who requests a command performance]]. The circus is unmolested, and the show goes smoothly? [[spoiler: It turns out that the prince is part of a secret society bent on using a particular girl to resurrect a SealedEvilInACan, a device in the theater surprises the prince by showing that Agatha IS that girl, and Agatha ends up being carted off. The prince is killed by his own daughter Anevka at the last second? Anevka killed him only so that she could ''do something else nefarious'' with Agatha. Agatha is saved from being tortured to death by Anevka's brother Tarvek? Agatha happens to run into some other prisoners of Anevka's just as she's about to escape? Who reveal that Agatha is the daughter of [[BigBad The Other]] and overwrite Agatha's mind. After managing to temporarily overcome The Other, Agatha and Tarvek are about to use a signal device they built to spoil the villains' plans and call for rescue? Tarvek betrays Agatha and reactivates her EnemyWithin]].

* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' does this with a series of spots during the assault on the ''White Diamond Crisis'' -- after being lured deep enough into the ship that [[spoiler: Gabriel is able to Tone the majority of the players into stupefied submission]], it's up to the remaining unaffected players to save the day. Jigsaw and Daisy manage to recover most of the others, but Daisy's 'snapbacks' backfire, [[spoiler: first on Cypress ([[RuleOfPool who dives into a pool full of aggressive nanotech]])]], and then after that problem gets solved, [[spoiler: it happens again on Jason, who mortally wounds her]]! After all of this, [[spoiler: GEISHA figures out a way to save them... but [[YouAreTooLate Gabriel's forces arrive just in time to capture the remaining vulnerable players before they can be ferried back]]]]. OUCH.

** The trolls were ''this'' close to claiming the reward for beating SGRUB before [[spoiler: he emerges from the other session, destroys the portal to the kids' universe, and kills all of their dream selves]].

** The Handmaid gets a particularly brutal one. [[spoiler: After years of imprisonment, she finally manages to escape from her foster father - only to run into the demon he was grooming her to serve.]]

* Webcomic/SluggyFreelance: Riff learns [[spoiler:Zoë]] is on life support; he's not too hopeful, but the audience is. After two years, he finds her - braindead, alongside a recording of his alternate self explaining that he's been here before, and he needs to let go. ''Then'' he poisons all his comrades to go back in time to save her, only to be told by the same alternate Riff that the rules of time travel are such that he'll just go back to the timeline in which she's dead. [[spoiler: Then subverted when it turns out he was aware of that, and his story of preventing her death was cover for his method of ''really'' saving her. He went back to that time to infect her with 4U City medical nanites before she came to the city, so they'd have a mental template to restore her to and she wouldn't be a vegetable. It works.]]

* In ''Webcomic/DraculaRulerOfTheNight'', the hunters find out that Dracula is within Carfax Abbey and go raid it, coming upon Minerva Westenra, Lucy's mother, in the process. Having apparently been kidnapped from an out of town errand she was on and unharmed, if not shaken by all the "fanged people". Soon the hunters find Dracula, only to be beset by both him, his vampire brides and a newly turned Lucy who's more then gleefully willing to attack them. Ultimately they're forced to run as the daylight dwindles and they try to go out through the basement of the building while barring the door they came in through to keep the vampires at bay. Harker assures Minerva they'll protect her [[spoiler: only to catch a glimpse off a metal surface and see her reflection fading till only her clothes are all that's floating in them.]]
--> '''Minerva''': What the matter dear, you look like you've seen a ghost? [[spoiler: ''(She smiles and laughs, shuddering as her ears become [[PointyEars pointed]] and fangs form in her mouth)'') Or close to it hmm?]]

* In ''Webcomic/DraculaRulerOfTheNight'', the hunters find out that Dracula is within Carfax Abbey and go raid it, coming upon Minerva Westenra, Lucy's mother, in the process, having apparently been kidnapped from an out of town errand she was on and unharmed. if not shaken by all the "fanged people". Soon the hunters find Dracula, only to be beset by both him, his vampire brides and a newly turned Lucy who's more then gleefully willing to attack them. Ultimately they're forced to run as the daylight dwindles and they try to go out through the basement of the building while barring the door they came in through to keep the vampires at bay. Harker assures Minerva they'll protect her [[spoiler: only to catch a glimpse off a metal surface and see her reflection fading till only her clothes are all that's floating in them.]]
--> '''Minerva''': What the matter dear, you look like you've seen a ghost? [[spoiler: ''(She smiles and laughs, revealing her fangs)'') Or perhaps, another beautiful walking corpse?]]

* In ''Webcomic/DraculaRulerOfTheNight'', the hunters find out that Dracula is within Carfax Abbey and go raid it, coming upon Minerva Westenra, Lucy's mother, in the process, having apparently been kidnapped from an out of town errand she was on and unharmed. Soon the hunters find Dracula, only to be beset by both him, his vampire brides and a newly turned Lucy who's more then gleefully willing to attack them. Ultimately they're forced to run as the daylight dwindles and they try to go out through the basement of the building while barring the door they came in through to keep the vampires at bay. Harker assures Minerva they'll protect her [[spoiler: only to catch a glimpse off a metal surface and see her reflection fading till only her clothes are all that's floating in them.]]
--> '''Minerva''': What the matter dear, you look like you've seen a ghost? [[spoiler: ''(She smiles and laughes, revealing her fangs)'') Or perhaps, another beautiful walking corpse?]]

--> ''Minerva'': What the matter dear, you look like you've seen a ghost? [[spoiler: ''(She smiles and laughes, revealing her fangs)'') Or perhaps, a walking corpse?]]

* In ''Webcomic/DraculaRulerOfTheNight'', the hunters find out that Dracula is within Carfax Abbey and go raid it, coming upon Minerva Westenra, Lucy's mother, in the process, having apparently been kidnapped from an out of town errand she was on and unharmed. Soon the hunters find Dracula, only to be beset by both him, his vampire brides and a newly turned Lucy who's more then gleefully willing to attack them. Ultimately they're forced to run as the daylight dwindles and they try to go out through the basement of the building while barring the door they came in through to keep the vampires at bay. Harker assures Minerva they'll protect her [[spoiler: only to catch a glimpse off a metal surface and see her reflection fading till only her clothes are all thats floating in them. It's then she reveals she was long since bitten, the reason they never found any bite marks was because they closed up an hour ago. She was just in the midst of the last of her transformation and acting on Dracula's orders.]]

* BittersweetCandyBowl has December.

* In ''OurLittleAdventure'' Julie refuses to accept [[spoiler:Pauline's death]] and tries to get her Raised at a temple believing that the deceased's earlier refusal of Raising was due to blood loss addling the deceased's thinking. Everyone else in the party knows it's not going to work, and indeed it doesn't.

* In ''LookingForGroup'', Cale is leading an army to reinforce the Northlands allaince, several comics show them getting closer an closer ending in a dramatic pose complete with ralying battle cry as they are about to swarm over the last hill and reach the ensieged Bloodrage camp. [[spoiler:Next page they come over the hill only to find out they were to late and the entire area has been destoryed and the attacking Legarna forces are long gone, leaving only the charred bones of the fallen behind.]]

* ''LastRes0rt'' does this with a series of spots during the assault on the ''White Diamond Crisis'' -- after being lured deep enough into the ship that [[spoiler: Gabriel is able to Tone the majority of the players into stupefied submission]], it's up to the remaining unaffected players to save the day. Jigsaw and Daisy manage to recover most of the others, but Daisy's 'snapbacks' backfire, [[spoiler: first on Cypress ([[RuleOfPool who dives into a pool full of aggressive nanotech]])]], and then after that problem gets solved, [[spoiler: it happens again on Jason, who mortally wounds her]]! After all of this, [[spoiler: GEISHA figures out a way to save them... but [[YouAreTooLate Gabriel's forces arrive just in time to capture the remaining vulnerable players before they can be ferried back]]]]. OUCH.

** In the Empire of Blood Arc, [[spoiler:Durkon is turned into a vampire and enslaved by Malack]]. While he initially seems to be set free when [[spoiler:Nale kills Malack, a latter strip reveals that he is the High Priest to Hel while the original personality is caught in an AndIMustScream]].

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' plays with InfiniteCanvas [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0443.html here]], when Roy [[spoiler:takes a huge fall after fighting BigBad Xykon in the sky]]. Roy tries one thing after another, desperately trying to [[spoiler:stop the fall or at least reduce fall damage]], only to run out of options. Then he realizes [[spoiler:he has a talisman that can summon an ally who can fly]]. Only his realization comes just a ''little'' too late. [[spoiler: Alas... it was too strong to be easily broken anyways, because mundane humans can't inherently cast lightning.]]