History KilledOffForReal / AnimeAndManga

** The Namekians Vegeta kills while on Namek are not revived by Shenron due to the ExactWords nature of Mr. Popo's wish acting as LoopholeAbuse, something Vegeta gloats over. Because Vegeta had denounced Freeza? He didn't count as one of his henchmen, when the wish specifically revive those killed by Freeza ''and his men''.

** In the ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross[=/=]Anime/{{Robotech}}'' episode, "Pineapple Salad/Goodbye Big Brother," it should have been obvious what was going to happen with Hikaru Ichijou/Rick Hunter's senpai/brother, Roy [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Focker/Fokker]], but the usual standard {{bowdlerization}} of 1980s American television animation made Western viewers assume that the show would take the safe route. When the show actually followed through and killed him off, it showed this was no ordinary animated series on North American TV. MoralGuardians raised a fuss and complained that it was bad for children.

* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' is quite cruel when it comes to this. There is no Imperial Arm that can bring people back from the dead. And to make matters worse, at least one death is guaranteed in an Imperial Arm fight. By the end of the series, only [[TheHero Tatsumi]], [[{{Tsundere}} Mine]], [[RedBaron Akame]], and [[BigGood Najenda]] are alive among the ten main characters. The anime is worse, as Tatsumi and Mine die as well, as well as Akame's sister, Kurome.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Tanjuro Kamado is the late father of the series’ protagonist Tanjiro Kamado, dying one year prior the series began, with that Tanjuro isn’t part of the tragedy that befell all the remaining Kamado family when they got killed by a particular notorious demon; Tanjuro’s importance is entirely in retrospect as Tanjiro recalls his teachings as the story goes, even the HighSchoolAu spin-off which is specifically about having the entire cast alive and well living through normal lives instead of a tragedy, still has Tanjuro be a late father, while Tanjiro has the rest of family alive in there.

* The final deaths of all the homunculi except Pride in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Hughes, Fu, Buccaneer, Kimblee and Hohenheim die as well, and the manga makes it very apparent [[AllDeathsFinal that they cannot possibly come back]].

* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' has this happen to a few important characters throughout the story.
** One of these is Sho Kanou, Kenichi's YOMI rival in the D of D TournamentArc, who pulls a HeroicSacrifice by jumping in the way of gunfire meant for Miu; his death affects the characters so much that Kenichi keeps [[TragicKeepsake Sho's birdcage earring]] as a reminder of his promise to Sho [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy to always protect Miu]], and Sho's master Akira Hongo (the "God Fist" of the One Shadow Nine Fists) is revealed to be AFatherToHisMen and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who didn't take his disciple's death very well and later expresses a wish that no more disciples should have to lose their lives.
** Another character who gets this treatment is Silcardo Junazard, the "Demon Fist" of the One Shadow Nine Fists. In this case it's a badly-needed case of KillHimAlready, he violates the unofficial rules which stipulate that master-class fighters must not interfere in fights between two other masters and (more seriously) must not meddle in fights between two disciples, and crosses the MoralEventHorizon by manipulating Akira Hongo into almost killing Kenichi--''almost'' because Hongo, who was fighting unconsciously at that time, realized what was about to happen and pulled back on his attack at the very last second--all so he can take advantage of Miu's resulting sense of mental chaos when she thinks Kenichi's been killed, kidnap her and brainwash her to become his newest student. In fact, the character is so bad in this regard that he ends up getting an utterly satisfying KarmicDeath at the hands of a vengeful Hongo during an EnemyMine with Ryozanpaku, possibly with sanction from the One Shadow ([[PapaWolf Miu's father]]) himself.

* Manga/MyHeroAcademia: During the climax of the Internship arc, as the heroes are fighting the main antagonist Overhaul, one of the heroes, Sir Nighteye, is impaled through the chest by a large spike. After the battle, as the heroes begin recovering in a nearby hospital, Nighteye dies after saying his final farewells to his friends, telling them to not mourn him and keep smiling, and using his Quirk, [[CombatClairvoyance Foresight]], one last time on his pupil, Miro Togata, to let him know that even though [[DePower he lost his Quirk]] for now, he will still be a great hero in the future.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' killed off Sayaka while the protagonist, Madoka, willingly erases her existence from both the physical world and the memories of (almost) everyone who knew her. Mami and Kyoko were seemingly Killed Off for Real only to be brought back in the final episode.

** The Namekian Grand Elder Guru is an interesting case of this. He shouldn't have been able to be revived due to passing from natural causes (I.e. his old age) making it impossible for Shenron to bring him back. However, the actions of Freeza and his men caused him to die from the stress and despair of his people being murdered as he sensed their deaths. Because of this his death was premature and influenced by an outside force, allowing him to be temporarily revived in a BatmanGambit. Afterwards he dies again for real.

** Guru is the only good guy who dies and never comes back to life.

** In ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'', The Ninja is killed by Hanzo and has his face cut off.

** Goku's HeroicSacrifice to stop Cell from destroying the Earth ends up killing him, King Kai and his pet monkey Bubbles. While Goku is eventually revived, King Kai and Bubbles are not. This is more an annoyance to King Kai more than anything else, especially in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' which teases the idea of him being revived by Shenron, but it never happens.

** The Quincy Blood War arc has the highest body count among the arcs, as it serves as a SeriesFinale. These include most of the Wandenreich, Genshiro Okikiba (the Division 1 lieutenant), Yamamoto, Unohana, the Soul King (!), and Ukitake.

** In ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'', Princess Marie-Ange ends up this way, mostly because she split into three different people in an attempt to stop herself from turning evil.

* Played straight ''and'' subverted in ''Anime/CodeGeass''. One of the elements contributing to its BrokenBase status was the fact that sometimes a character would appear to be Killed Off for Real, explicitly or at least implicitly, when in fact it was a case of OnlyMostlyDead (Jeremiah Gottwald, Mao, Guilford G.P. Guilford, and Cornelia li Britannia) or NotQuiteDead / NeverFoundTheBody (Nunnally vi Britannia and Suzaku Kururugi). The characters who do die for real include, among others, Clovis la Britannia, Mao (the second time), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UV1sk8ZNo Euphemia li Britannia]], Andreas Darlton, Shirley Fenette, Luciano Bradley, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vrhIyYrJ4k Rolo Lamperouge]], Emperor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sSAD4FFpPw Charles zi Britannia, Marianne vi Britannia]], Bismarck Waldstein, Diethard Reid, and, finally, [[https://youtu.be/UElMxJTMT-c Lelouch vi Britannia]] [[TheHeroDies himself]].

* Played straight ''and'' subverted in ''Anime/CodeGeass''. One of the elements contributing to its BrokenBase status was the fact that sometimes a character would appear to be Killed Off for Real, explicitly or at least implicitly, when in fact it was a case of OnlyMostlyDead (Jeremiah, Mao, Guilford, and Cornelia) or NeverFoundTheBody (Nunnally, Suzaku). The characters who DO die for real include, among others, Clovis, Mao (the second time), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UV1sk8ZNo Euphemia]], Shirley, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vrhIyYrJ4k Rolo]], Emperor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sSAD4FFpPw Charles, Marianne]], Diethard and, finally, Lelouch.

*** And then there's the ''[[KarmaHoudiniWarranty well-deserved]]'' death of [[CardCarryingVillain Ali Al-Saachez]] near the end of the second season. The original Lockon's brother, Lyle, [[LastSecondChance tried to spare him]], but when [[ISurrenderSuckers Ali tried to use the opportunity to kill him]], [[BackstabBackfire Lyle quickdrew his pistol]] [[BoomHeadshot and shot him in the head]]. And then [[DoubleTap casually shot him a few more times in the torso]] to make sure he was finished.

*** And let's not forget the Trinity Siblings. Near the end of the Second Season, [[CuteAndPsycho Nena Trinity]] got her [[SoLastSeason antique]] Throne Drei [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally dismembered]] into just the cockpit by a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vengeful]] [[BrokenBird Louise Halevy]], who then [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed the cockpit for good measure]]. Naturally, the last we see of Nena is of her [[VillainousBreakdown cursing the hell out of her opponent]] ([[DyingCurse "DAMN YOU, YOU BITCH!"]]) with BloodFromTheMouth before her cockpit explodes. Conversely, her brothers suffered brutal fates as well long before her death; [[AxCrazy Michael]] suffered a [[OneHitKill a gunshot to the heart]] [[AssholeVictim from Ali]], and Johann underwent [[AlasPoorVillain a rather pitiful]] VillainousBSOD as he and his Throne Eins are destroyed by [[GrandTheftPrototype the Throne Zwei that Ali stole off Michael's corpse]].

*** Just when they're getting developed, Gundam 00 also has the deaths of both Lichtendahl Tsery and Christina Sierra via point-blank gunshot from a ''GN-X Mobile Suit''. It's made all the more tragic considering Lichty [[HeroicSacrifice used his body]] to shield Christina, but [[SenselessSacrifice she got a large piece of debris jabbed into her back anyway]]. Just in case there was any thoughts they could survive, ''the cockpit also exploded''. This series is obviously fond of deaths by explosions.
*** And then there's the ''[[KarmaHoudiniWarranty well-deserved]]'' death of [[CardCarryingVillain Ali Al-Saachez]] near the end of the second season. The original Lockon's brother, Lyle, [[LastSecondChance tried to spare him]], but when [[BackstabBackfire Ali tried to use the opportunity to kill him]], [[BoomHeadshot Lyle quickdrew his pistol and shot him in the head]]. And then [[DoubleTap casually shot him a few more times in the torso]] to make sure he was finished.

** The original Lockon Stratos, Neil Dylandy, was offed near the end of the first season in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSraFV8AOvM It's arguably the most tragic moment in the whole series]].

*** And then there's the ''[[KarmaHoudiniWarranty well-deserved]]'' death of [[CardCarryingVillain Ali Al-Saachez]] near the end of the second season. The original Lockon's brother, Lyle, tried to spare him, but when [[BackstabBackfire Ali tried to use the opportunity to kill him]], [[BoomHeadshot Lyle quickdrew his pistol and shot him in the head]]. And then [[DoubleTap casually shot him a few more times in the torso]] to make sure he was finished.

** The Cosmic Era is hands down the [[BloodierAndGorier bloodiest]] and [[DarkerAndEdgier darkest]] of the [[AlternateUniverse Non-UC timelines]]. ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'' in particular saw the death of more main characters than the most violent of the Universal Century series, ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]''. Thanks to higher technological capabilities at the time of production, all of the carnage was visible in high definition.

*** Just when they're getting developed, Gundam 00 also has the deaths of both Lichty and Christina via point-blank gunshot from a ''GN-X Mobile Suit''. It's made all the more tragic considering Lichty [[HeroicSacrifice used his body]] to shield Christina, but she got a large piece of debris jabbed into her back anyway. Just in case there was any thoughts they could survive, ''the cockpit also exploded''. This series is obviously fond of deaths by explosions.

*** On the other hand, Tieria Erde was shot similarly a while earlier but [[VirtualGhost survived]] and came back in TheMovie to kick some more ass... only to die ''again'' when his Gundam went into [[SuperMode Trans-Am]] [[ExplosiveOverclocking overload]] to avoid [[TheAssimilator being assimilated by the ELS aliens]]. He didn't stay dead this time either, unlike [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTREnsljqWk Graham]] [[spoiler:(presumably)]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80vHif4TldY Andrei]].

** And let's not forget [[CuteAndPsycho Nena Trinity]]. She got her [[SoLastSeason antique]] Throne Drei [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally dismembered]] into just the cockpit by Louise Halevy, who then [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed the cockpit for good measure]]. Naturally, the last we see of Nena is of her [[VillainousBreakdown cursing the hell out of her opponent]] ([[DyingCurse "DAMN YOU, YOU BITCH!"]]) with BloodFromTheMouth before her cockpit explodes. Conversely, her brothers suffered brutal fates as well, with [[AxCrazy Michael]] suffering a [[OneHitKill a gunshot to the heart]] [[AssholeVictim from Ali]], and Johann suffering a VillainousBSOD as he and his Throne Eins are destroyed by [[GrandTheftPrototype the Throne Zwei that Ali stole off Michael's corpse]].

*** And then there's the ''[[KarmaHoudiniWarranty well-deserved]]'' death of [[CardCarryingVillain Ali Al-Saachez]] near the end of the second season. The original Lockon's brother, Lyle, tried to spare him, but when [[BackstabBackfire Ali tried to use the opportunity to kill him, Lyle quickdrew his pistol]] [[BoomHeadshot and shot him in the head]]. And then [[DoubleTap casually shot him a few more times in the torso]] to make sure he was finished.

** And let's not forget Nena Trinity. She got her [[SoLastSeason antique]] Throne Drei [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally dismembered]] into just the cockpit by Louise Halevy, who then [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed the cockpit for good measure]]. Naturally, the last we see of Nena is of her [[VillainousBreakdown cursing the hell out of her opponent]] ([[DyingCurse "DAMN YOU, YOU BITCH!"]]) with BloodFromTheMouth before her cockpit explodes. Conversely, her brothers suffered brutal fates as well, with [[AxCrazy Michael]] suffering a [[OneHitKill a gunshot to the heart]] [[AssholeVictim from Ali]], and Johann suffering a VillainousBSOD as he and his Throne Eins are destroyed by [[GrandTheftPrototype the Throne Zwei that Ali stole off Michael's corpse]].