History KilledOffForReal / LiveActionFilms

* The 1990s version of Franchise/{{Godzilla}} dies at the end of ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''. He is not revived for another film, [[HesJustHiding he's not faking it]], he does NOT get better. It's one of the few films in the Godzilla franchise in which Godzilla dies and stays dead. Although his son (who was THOUGHT to be dead) takes his place at the end of the film.

** Also, [[Film/{{Gojira}} the original 1954 film]]? Yes, folks, Godzilla dies. Even though the original film is considered canon across all continuities of the franchise, the Godzilla that shows up in any of the sequels; he's just another Godzilla. The first one really did die. Going by ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'', this also means Godzilla died for good twice.

%%* ''Film/JamesBond'':
%%** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'': The ColdOpen sees this happen to Ernst Stavro Blofield. He plans to use his helicopter to send 007 to his doom; instead, the chopper's skids hook onto his wheelchair, which is then transported over to a smokestack and neatly dropped off.
%%** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': Due to ''[[Creator/DanielCraig Daniel Craig's]]'' Bond adventures being a ''ContinuityReboot'' and having a 5-film story arc, the film makers chose to end his tenure with Bond himself dying from a missile strike to protect his girlfriend and child. Yes, ''TheHeroDies'' in this one.

* Every villain save Catwoman in the Creator/TimBurton [[Film/Batman1989 Bat]][[Film/BatmanReturns man]] films dies. The Joker famously averts [[JokerImmunity his own trope]], Max Schreck gets a FamilyUnfriendlyDeath, and The Penguin gets a tear-jerking death. Catwoman survived because [[CatsHaveNineLives she has nine lives]].

* Unlike many major movie monsters of the era which either survive or are resurrected, the titular beasts of the first ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' films are destroyed permanently at the end of [[Film/Alien1979 their respective]] [[Film/Predator1987 debuts.]] Unfortunately for mankind, those were just single specimens of entire races just like them. It allows the writers to keep bringing the characters back while avoiding JokerImmunity.

* Data in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''. Data is revealed to have been rebuilt in ''Star Trek: Countdown'', the canon prequel to the [[Film/StarTrek2009 reboot Star Trek film]], though. This was then retconned in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', where it is revealed that the download into B4 was unsuccessful.

* ''Film/{{Darkman}}'': It's clear that the helicopter crash Robert G. Durant is in at the end of the movie was supposed to kill him, but then he's [[BackFromTheDead revealed to have survived and been in a coma]] in [[Film/DarkmanIITheReturnOfDurant the sequel]]. That movie though ends with Darkman trapping Durant in his car with no means of escape whatsoever and blowing the car up with a bomb.

* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'': The ColdOpen sees this happen to Ernst Stavro Blofield. He plans to use his helicopter to send 007 to his doom; instead, the chopper's skids hook onto his wheelchair, which is then transported over to a smokestack and neatly dropped off.
** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': Due to ''[[Creator/DanielCraig Daniel Craig's]]'' Bond adventures being a ''ContinuityReboot'' and having a 5-film story arc, the film makers chose to end his tenure with Bond himself dying from a missile strike to protect his girlfriend and child. Yes, ''TheHeroDies'' in this one.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie Many of the bad guys die]], as do quite a few of the [[MentorOccupationalHazard mentors]] (often via DeathByOriginStory), but there are a few other established characters who die over the course of the franchise as well and stay dead[[labelnote:*]]Not counting AlternateTimeline versions of them who are still alive from [[TimeyWimeyBall time-travel shenanigans]][[/labelnote]]:
** Thor's and Loki's mother and Odin's wife, Frigga, is murdered by Malekith and Kurse in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''.
** Pietro Maximoff, a.k.a. Quicksilver, is killed by Ultron in a HeroicSacrifice to save Hawkeye in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', soon after he and his sister join the Avengers.
** Similarly in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', soon after Yondu Udonta officially joins the Guardians, he makes a HeroicSacrifice for his adoptive son Peter and dies from exposure to space.
** Peggy Carter is a benign example in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', as she dies from old age.
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' likewise also has Odin die from old age, though his death was likely accelerated due to Loki abandoning him on Earth. The same film also sees all three of the Warriors Three murdered by Hela.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has most of its deaths--all of those caused by The Snap--undone in the following movie; however, Thanos directly kills four other characters before performing the Snap, whose deaths all stick:
*** Heimdall and Loki are both murdered for trying to save the Hulk and Thor, respectively. Since Loki has faked his death multiple times in the past, Thanos explicitly states "No resurrections this time" to hammer it home. (though in the latter's case, [[Creator/TomHiddleston his actor]] was surprised that soon after filming his character being killed, he was approached to learn Marvel was planning [[Series/Loki2021 a Loki TV show]] - and indeed, [[Film/AvengersEndgame the follow-up]] showed it was an AlternateSelf created by TimeTravel, just like the example below)
*** Gamora is thrown off a cliff and falls to her death in a sacrifice for Thanos to obtain the Soul Stone. Though an alternate timeline version of her is brought into the main timeline in ''Endgame'', the Gamora who underwent the CharacterDevelopment of the two ''Guardians'' movies truly is dead.
*** Vision has the Mind Stone violently ripped out of his forehead, essentially destroying his brain. Once the body is repurposed and revived in ''Series/WandaVision'', there is downright an extensive discussion about [[TheseusShipParadox it's not the same entity]] because the revived corpse doesn't have the pre-death personality.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', while restoring victims of the Snap, kills off two founding members of the Avengers:
*** Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow dies to obtain the Soul Stone in the exact same ritual that killed Gamora in the previous film. In Nat's case, though, she willingly makes the sacrifice, and in fact has to physically fight Hawkeye to prevent him from doing it himself.
*** Tony Stark/Iron Man uses the Infinity Stones to perform his own Snap to kill AlternateTimeline-Thanos and his forces, and dies soon after thanks to the immense strain this puts on his body.
** May Parker is fatally impaled by the Green Goblin's glider in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''.

* The original killer in the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series (who ISN'T Jason) dies at the end of the first movie, and stays dead throughout the rest.

* The ColdOpen of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' sees this happen to Ernst Stavro Blofield. He plans to use his helicopter to send 007 to his doom; instead, the chopper's skids hook onto his wheelchair, which is then transported over to a smokestack and neatly dropped off.

* The original killer in the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness (who ISN'T Jason)]] dies at the end of the first movie, and stays dead throughout the rest.
* After having the distinction of being the only character who appeared in every installment of the franchise, [[spoiler: Burt Gummer]] meets his end in ''Film/Tremors7ShriekerIsland'' when he is eaten by the Graboid Queen, saving Jimmy in the process, which then falls on some spikes and explodes when a bunch of dynamite is set off shorty afterwards.

*** Heimdall and Loki are both murdered for trying to save the Hulk and Thor, respectively. Since Loki has faked his death multiple times in the past, Thanos explicitly states "No resurrections this time" to hammer it home. (though in the latter's case, [[Creator/TomHiddleston his actor]] was surprised that soon after filming his character being killed, he was approached to learn Marvel was planning [[Series/Loki2021 a Loki TV show]] - and indeed, [[Film/AvengersEndgame the follow-up]] showed it was an alternate created by TimeTravel, just like the example below)

* In ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', the Indoraptor is impaled on a dinosaur skeleton, and to make sure the Indoraptor can't return via cloning the DNA for it's base species Indominus Rex is destroyed by Rexy.

*** Heimdall and Loki are both murdered for trying to save the Hulk and Thor, respectively. Since Loki has faked his death multiple times in the past, Thanos explicitly states "No resurrections this time" to hammer it home.

*** Vision has the Mind Stone violently ripped out of his forehead, essentially destroying his brain.

* After having the distinction of being the only character who appeared in every installment of the franchise, [[spoiler: Burt Gummer]] meets his end in Film/Tremors7ShriekerIsland when he is eaten by the Graboid Queen, saving Jimmy in the process, which then falls on some spikes and explodes when a bunch of dynamite is set off shorty afterwards.

*** Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow dies to obtain the Soul Stone in an alternate timeline in the exact same ritual that killed Gamora in the previous film. In Nat's case, though, she willingly makes the sacrifice, and in fact has to physically fight Hawkeye to prevent him from doing it himself.

** Pietro Maximoff, a.k.a Quicksilver, is killed by Ultron in a HeroicSacrifice to save Hawkeye in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', soon after he and his sister join the Avengers.

** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has most of its deaths--all of those caused by The Snap--undone in the following movie; however, there are four deaths that are not caused by the Snap and thus not undone:
*** Heimdall and Loki are both murdered by Thanos for trying to save the Hulk and Thor, respectively. Since Loki has faked his death multiple times in the past, Thanos explicitly states "No resurrections this time" to hammer it home.
*** Gamora is kidnapped and later killed by Thanos to retrieve the Soul Stone. Though an alternate timeline version of her is brought into the main timeline in ''Endgame'', the Gamora who underwent the CharacterDevelopment of the two ''Guardians'' movies truly is dead.
*** Poor Vision is killed ''twice'' in less than a minute: the first time, by a [[KillTheOnesYouLove heartbroken Scarlet Witch]], who destroys the Mind Stone in his head (killing him in the process) to prevent Thanos from getting it; the second time, by Thanos himself, who just uses the Time Stone to undo it, then rips the restored Mind Stone out of Vision's forehead, killing him for good.

*** Black Widow dies to obtain the Soul Stone in an alternate timeline in the exact same ritual that killed Gamora in the previous film. In Widow's case, though, she willingly makes the sacrifice, and in fact has to physically fight Hawkeye to prevent him from doing it himself.
*** Iron Man dies using the Infinity Stones to perform his own Snap to kill AlternateTimeline-Thanos and his forces, unable to survive the immense strain this puts on his body.

* Data in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''. Data is revealed to have been rebuilt in ''Star Trek: Countdown'', the canon prequel to the [[Film/StarTrek2009 reboot Star Trek film]], though. This was then retconned in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' Where it is revealed that the download into B4 was unsuccessful.

* Every villain save Catwoman in the Creator/TimBurton [[Film/Batman1989 Bat]][[Film/BatmanReturns man]] films die. The Joker famously averts [[JokerImmunity his own trope]], Max Schreck gets a FamilyUnfriendlyDeath, and The Penguin gets a tear-jerking death. Catwoman survived because [[CatsHaveNineLives she has nine lives]].

* Several characters in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse fall victim to this trope:
** Dr. Erskine in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', courtesy of Heinz Kruger.
** In ''Film/IronMan1'' after being deemed no longer useful by Obadiah Stane, Raza, the leader of the Ten Rings, is disposed of by Stane. Earlier, members of the Ten Rings kill Ho Yinsen.
** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki kills his biological father Laufey, so that he would become his adoptive father Odin's favorite son, and be able to be the true heir to the throne.
** Maya Hansen from ''Film/IronMan3'' is also killed off, courtesy of the self-proclaimed Mandarin himself, Aldrich Killian.
** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' sees Malekith the Accursed killing Queen Frigga during a raid on Asgard for the Aether.
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Jasper Sitwell is suddenly killed by the Winter Soldier.
** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Garthan Saal, an ally of the Guardians, dies while trying to hold back Ronan's ship from crashing onto Xandar. Earlier, Ronan kills Thanos's [[TheDragon Dragon]], the Other, who acted as Thanos's voice in both this movie and in ''The Avengers''.
** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Quicksilver is gunned down protecting Hawkeye and a 12 year-old kid from an Ultron-commandeered quinjet.
** Peggy Carter is a downplayed example in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' since she simply dies of old age, but considering she appeared in [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger four]] [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier previous]] [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron movies]] [[Film/AntMan and]] [[Series/AgentCarter her own TV series]], it still has an impact.
** The Ancient One in ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' is fatally wounded in a battle with Kaecilius and his men, and later dies from her injuries.
** Yondu in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', as he performs a HeroicSacrifice to save Peter Quill in the climax after Ego the Living Planet is destroyed.
** Odin is a downplayed example as well when he also dies simply of old age in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', but played straight with the Warriors Three when they all get stabbed by Hela.
** Zuri in ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' gets impaled by Killmonger when informing him the truth of N'Jobu's death.
** Anyone who died pre-snap in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' stays dead. This includes ComicBook/{{Loki}}, the Asgardians, Heimdall, main timeline Gamora, and ComicBook/TheVision. Thanos lampshades this when he snaps the [[DeathIsCheap often killed]] Loki's neck by saying, "No resurrections this time."
** By the end of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/BlackWidow, and both timelines' ComicBook/{{Thanos}} are all definitively dead with no way to be brought back. Iron Man snaps the gauntlet to kill Thanos which kills him, Black Widow sacrifices herself to get the Soul Stone, main timeline Thanos gets [[OffWithHisHead his head chopped off by Thor]] roughly ten minutes into the film, and past Thanos dies in Iron Man's aforementioned snap.

* Data in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''. Data is revealed to have been rebuilt in ''Star Trek: Countdown'', the canon prequel to the [[Film/StarTrek2009 reboot Star Trek film]], though.