History KilledOffForReal / AnimeAndManga

** You forgot the 'coughs up blood, makes a final 'I love you' speech, does the ReallyDeadMontage and has a memorial shot at the end with his glasses. You know, because [[Film/{{Alien}} it's the only way to be sure.]]

* The character Cosmo is killed in the last episode of ''SonicX''. By a shot fired by Tails, using a cannon for which Sonic and Shadow were the ammo, no less]]. Though this is [[{{Macekre}} completely wiped out in the dub]].

* Non-minor characters from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' that [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism somehow managed to die]] instead of simply getting [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended]]: The first Reinforce, Zest. Non-minor characters from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' that seem to be dead: Precia. Reinforce, in particular, is shown to be doomed to die even in [[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable continuities where she survives past her original time of death]], while other characters related to the Book of Darkness, such as the Wolkenritter and the Materials, would prove to be especially resilient to death, surviving several {{Near Death Experience}}s and, in the case of the Materials, [[BreakoutVillain death itself]].

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': There are several methods for returning the dead back to life. When [[CameBackWrong Kikyou]] and [[BrokenBird Kagura]] end up dying in RedemptionEqualsDeath storylines, the in-universe methods that exist can't save them as both of them end up being a case of NoBodyLeftBehind.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': There are several methods for returning the dead back to life. When it finally comes time for [[CameBackWrong Kikyou]] and [[BrokenBird Kagura]] to be KilledOffForReal in RedemptionEqualsDeath storylines, the in-universe methods that exist can't save them as both of them end up being a case of NoBodyLeftBehind.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': If you're a villain your chances of dying are ''very'' high. However, it took 485 chapters before protagonists started dying. Now Choujirou Sasakibe and [[BadassGrandpa Genryuusai Shigekuni Yamamoto]] ''himself'' have died.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': RumikoTakahashi isn't afraid of this trope (though she takes a looong time before using it.) Not only do major villains get Killed Off for Real, but so do characters going through redemption arcs such as [[CameBackWrong Kikyou]] and [[BrokenBird Kagura]].

* Non-minor characters from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' that [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism somehow managed to die]] instead of simply getting [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended]]: The first Reinforce, Zest. Non-minor characters from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' that seem to be dead: Precia. Reinforce, in particular, is shown to be doomed to die even in continuities where she survives past her original time of death, while other characters related to the Book of Darkness, such as the Wolkenritter and the Materials, would prove to be especially resilient to death, surviving several {{Near Death Experience}}s and, in the case of the Materials, [[BreakoutVillain death itself]].

* Non-minor characters from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' that [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism somehow managed to die]] instead of simply getting [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended]]: The first Reinforce, Zest. Non-minor characters from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' that seem to be dead: Precia.

* The GetterRobo franchise has Musashi Tomoe, who in nearly every continuity dies in some form of awesome HeroicSacrifice.

** Just when they're getting developed, Gundam 00 also has the deaths of both Lichty and Christina via point-black gunshot from a ''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.

*** ''DigimonTamers'' counts as a meta example,all deaths are final as opposed to every other series where everyone can be reborn.It just so happened that Leomon was the first time a main characters digimon got killed off
**** The only exception is Vajramon who comes back for no reason the first time, but is destroyed for good the second time.

*** In a sense Devimon returns as a ghost, but is destroyed for the second time along with Kimeramon
** ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' also works sort of like the first two seasons,until Kurata figured out how to permanently kill off Digimon,which he did to [[SacrificialLamb Frigimon]], [[NobleDemon Merukimon]], Eldradimon, [[AssholeVictim SaberLeomon]], and countless others.

** And Byakuya Kuchiki - just to prove it, we see Ichigo reach the morally-wounded man and hear his LastWords before he finally gives out.
*** And then he survives anyway. Kira however, seems to have been killed.

* While ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has several [[DisneyDeath Disney Deaths]], it also has several examples of this trope, including The Third Hokage, Asuma, Jiraiya, Itachi, Pain, and Danzo to name a few.
** Not anymore . . . Asuma Itachi and Nagato/Pain were brought back to life, though this trope is true for Jiraiya and The Third Hokage, and possibly Danzo.
*** That doesn't count; if they were truly brought back to life, they wouldn't be fighting the good guys like they are. They're walking among the living again thanks to Kabuto's Edo Tensei jutsu, which DOES let them have/keep their memories and bloodline abilities(if applicable) and stuff, but they're still not really alive and Kabuto can strip them of their will for absolute control if he so chooses. TLDR: The Killed Off for Real characters weren't really brought back, they're essentially [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot super-powered zombie ninjas]].
*** So in other words, they were brought back as ironically better versions of themselves? Interestingly, the original character's personality is still intact, and the jutsu is intensified to subdue their personalities. In one case, such as Itachi, this is thwarted by [[DeusExMachina]]. In another, Madara, he keeps himself from dissolving once the technique ends and retains his personality. Madara is more-or-less as good, if not BETTER than when he was alive, now that he has limitless stamina and won't age, in addition to his expanded EyePower.
**** Meanwhile, characters like Jiraiya and Hiruzen weren't brought back ''most likely'' because Kabuto couldn't get his hands on their corpses/DNA. Albeit, the Third Hokage isn't the best example, but he pretty much got the DNA of everyone else except for him and Jiraiya.
**** Not exactly. The Third couldn't be brought back (along with the rest of the dead Hokage), because he was stuck in the Shinigami's stomach due to the Reaper Death Seal. Jiraiya couldn't be brought back because his body stuck in a deep, bottomless river in Ame and so Kabuto couldn't get his DNA.

* In a subversion of NeverSayDie, in the English dub of ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', Cecelia Pegasus is killed by an illness (prompting Pegasus to begin Duelist Kingdom as an elaborate ruse thrown together at the last minute so that he can get his hands on Yugi's Millennium Puzzle and resurrect her), Gozaburo and the Big Five are all destroyed along with the virtual world they are trapped in as it is destroyed (Noah isn't listed here because he is speculated to have saved his mind on a backup file, whether or not he did, and therefore invokes NeverSayDie), and also Yami Marik, the Great Leviathan, Yami Bakura, and Zorc are all destroyed near the end of their arcs (although [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman how far these four can be subverted to Never Day Die is debatable]]. Ahmet is also eaten by a monster in a flashback during Season 5.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': If you're a villain your chances of dying are ''very'' high. However, it took 485 chapters before protagonists started dying. Now Choujirou Sasakibe and [[BadassGrandpa Genryuusai Shigekuni Yamamoto]] ''himself'' have died

* The final deaths of all the homunculi except Pride in ''FullmetalAlchemist''. Hughes, Fu, Buccaneer, Kimblee and Hohenheim die as well.

* If you're a villain in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', your chances of dying are ''very'' high, but if you were on the side of the protagonist, you were spared from whatever gruesome injury that you suffered during a fight.
** At least, that's what it ''used'' to be. It took 485 chapters, but it's official - Chojiro Sasakibe's death finally confirmed that good guys can die, even in ''Bleach''. He wasn't the only death either - we're now at a point where ''[[BadassGrandpa Shigekuni Yamamoto]]'' has died

** At least, that's what it ''used'' to be. It took 485 chapters, but it's official - Chojiro Sasakibe's death finally confirmed that good guys can die, even in ''Bleach''. He wasn't the only death either - we're now at a point where ''[[BadassGrandpa Shigekuni Yamamoto]]'' and '''[[AloofBigBrother Byakuya Kuchiki]]''' have died. Sure, Yamamoto was likely to die, but ''Byakuya''? Neither the Vandenreich nor Kubo are screwing around, especially considering the fact that this is the last arc of the manga.

** And Nena. She got her [[SoLastSeason antique]] mobile suit brutally dismembered into just the cockpit by Lousie who then stabbed the cockpit for good measure. Naturally, the last we see of Nena is cursing the hell out of her opponent with BloodFromTheMouth before her cockpit explodes.

* 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), Euphemia, Shirley, Rolo, Emperor Charles, Marianne, Diethard and, finally (possibly), Lelouch.

* The GetterRobo franchise has Musashi Tomoe, who in nearly every continuity dies in some form of awesome HeroicSacrifice.

** At least, that's what it ''used'' to be. It took 485 chapters, but it's official - Chojiro Sasakibe's death finally confirmed that good guys can die, even in ''Bleach''. He wasn't the only death either - we're now at a point where ''[[BadassGrandpa Shigekuni Yamamoto]]'' and '''[[AloofBigBrother Byakuya Kuchiki]]'''

** ''Lagann-Hen averted this [[spoiler:by keeping the rest of Team Dai-Gurren (save for Kittan) alive until the final battle.]]