History Main / CelebrityCasualty

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': For the fifteenth anniversary of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]", Russell T. Davies wrote an additional chapter to his novelization of the episode which depicts Boris Johnson as having been crushed to death by a steel beam as a consequence of said episode in 2005. As a result, Boris Johnson who became Prime Minister in 2019 is actually an Auton that absorbed his body to become a new entity.

* ''Literature/PlayerTwoStart'': Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto is killed in the year 2000 after he's hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Other celebrities killed off include Creator/ShondaRhimes (killed by Christine Weston Chandler, who also killed herself), Creator/AngelinaJolie (killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami), Creator/GordonRamsay (died in a fire at Las Vegas's Caesar's Palace), Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, Creator/NobunagaShimazaki, Creator/RisaTaneda, Creator/KenjiNojima, Creator/KenichiSuzumura, Creator/MaayaSakamoto, Creator/YuuKobayashi, Creator/TakumaTerashima, and Creator/TiteKubo (all died in the Kadokawa Massacre), and Creator/HideoKojima would die of a stroke on August 20, 2020.

** In "I Never Met the Dead Man", Meg runs over William Shatner and he dies.

** In "Treehouse of Horror IX," Jerry Springer is strangled to death by the alien Maggie.
** In "Treehouse of Horror X," the following people are incinerated by the sun: UsefulNotes/RossPerot, Creator/SpikeLee, Dan Quayle, Music/CourtneyLove, Tanya Harding, Al Sharpton, Creator/TomArnold, Creator/PaulyShore and Creator/RosieODonnell.
** In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E5HelterShelter "Helter Shelter"]], after TV ratings for the family's reality show begin to decline when the family stops fighting with one another, the producers send actor David Lander as his character Squiggy from ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' to stir things up. When that fails to get anybody fighting again, the producers deliberately set out to make the family miserable by relocating the 19th Century house to a river and watching it float downstream and over a waterfall, destroying the house and killing "Squiggy" in the process.
** The "Treehouse of Horror XIX" segment "How to Get Ahead in Dead-vertising" is built around this, as Homer gets the job of murdering celebrities so they can be used in advertising without their permission. We see three of these murders depicted: He drowns Creator/GeorgeClooney in extra-deep quicksand, then stabs, chokes, and bludgeons Music/{{Prince}} with his own guitar, and hits UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong with the golf club at the National Air & Space Museum.

* ''Hitler – Dead or Alive'': This 1942 movie has Hitler ironically die from getting shot by an SS officer who fails to recognize him after [[ItMakesSenseInContext his mustache gets shaved of by some American gangsters]].

* In "History" by Creator/IsaacAsimov, it is mentioned that UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler died on Madagascar (implied to be in exile after defeat, as later confirmed by the writer). The story was written in 1941.

* The final scene of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' has creator Creator/ChuckLorre crushed to death by a falling piano.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021 Inside Job]]'': In "[[Recap/InsideJobS1E6MyBigFlatEarthWedding My Big Flat Earth Wedding]]", Creator/{{Amazon}}'s founder, Jeff Bezos, is eaten by a {{Kraken|AndLeviathan}}.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' is set roughly in its release year of 1999 where "It's been six weeks since UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein was killed by a pack of wild boars, and the world is still glad to be rid of him." The real Saddam Hussein would be hanged in 2006. Bill Gates is shot to death in the film.

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* The Website/CollegeHumor video "Chris Brown's Publicist" features a hapless publicist trying to deal with Music/ChrisBrown's antics, including his killing Sisqo, Music/{{Usher}}, and Music/{{Mya}}, all of whom are still alive.
* The Website/CollegeHumor video "If Things Turned Out Differently" has President Howard Dean dying from avian bird flu.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has done this a lot. Justin Bieber was killed by Cthulhu, Rosie O'Donnell was eaten by Cartman's Trapper Keeper, Britney Spears was sacrificed to ensure a good harvest, the list goes on and on.
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* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Settling Accounts: Drive to the East'', UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter is an 18-year-old sailor in the Confederate States Navy and is killed by an army major in battle.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': In the original history, Jackie Kennedy was also assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. The episode was made two years prior to her real death.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Creator/BillMurray's "death" in ''Film/{{Zombieland}}''.]]

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* In the ''Series/{{Louie}}'' episode "Elevator Part 4" a news report appears about Hurricane Jasmine Forsythe, which destroyed Florida, causing the death of UsefulNotes/LeBronJames (and 12 million other people).

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* In ''Series/TheLastManOnEarth'', it is mentioned that President Mike Pence succumbed to the mysterious virus that wiped out most of humanity.

* In ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', President Al Gore is killed by aliens during the Fourth World War. He is succeeded by Vice President Mario Cuomo who ends up shooting himself.

* In John Birmingham's ''Literature/AxisOfTime'' novels, President Hillary Clinton is martyred by a suicide bomber.

* ''Film/Zoolander2'': Music/JustinBieber, Music/MileyCyrus, Music/LennyKravitz, Music/DemiLovato, Music/BruceSpringsteen and Music/{{Usher}} all are shot to death by assassins.

* ''Literature/TheEnemy'' is a series of Young Adult novels set in a world where all adults [[note]]with the exception of the very elderly[[/note]] and older teenagers have turned into zombie-like creatures with an overwhelming urge to kill and eat children. Several real life adult celebrities are mentioned (including Jamie Oliver, Meryl Streep, Music/SouljaBoy and others) and, though their fate is not explicitly stated, it is implied that they are either dead or have joined the ranks of the "sickos" [[note]]an InUniverse term for those affected by the zombie plague[[/note]]. All of them were still alive when the books were written.

** In "Treehouse of Horror X," the following people are incinerated by the sun: Ross Perot, Creator/SpikeLee, Dan Quayle, Music/CourtneyLove, Tanya Harding, Al Sharpton, Creator/TomArnold, Creator/PaulyShore and Creator/RosieODonnell.

* ''Literature/TheEnemy'' is a series of Young Adult novels set in a world where all adults and older teenagers have turned into zombie-like creatures with an overwhelming urge to kill and eat children. Several real life adult celebrities are mentioned (including Jamie Oliver, Meryl Streep, Music/SouljaBoy and others) and, though their fate is not explicitly stated, it is implied that they are either dead or have joined the ranks of the "sickos" [[note]]an InUniverse term for those affected by the zombie plague[[/note]]. All of them were still alive when the books were written.

* ''Literature/TheEnemy'' is a series of Young Adult novels set in a world where all adults and older teenagers have turned into zombie-like creatures with an overwhelming urge to kill and eat children. Several real life adult celebrities are mentioned (including Jamie Oliver, Meryl Streep, Music/SoujaBoy and others) and, though their fate is not explicitly stated, it is implied that they are either dead or have joined the ranks of the "sickos" [[note]]an InUniverse term for those affected by the zombie plague[[/note]]. All of them were still alive when the books were written.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' is set roughly in its release year of 1999 where "It's been six weeks since Saddam Hussein was killed by a pack of wild boars, and the world is still glad to be rid of him." The real Saddam Hussein would be hanged in 2006. Bill Gates is shot to death in the film.

* In the 1996 comic book ''Warrior'', a demon takes over the body of The Ultimate Warrior and goes on a killing spree. Victims include Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela, and George W. Bush.

* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', President Ronald Reagan is killed by a bomb planted by Kang the Conquerer.
* In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', President George H.W. Bush dies of pneumonia.

* ''ComicBook/TheSecretService'' has Mark Hamill appear as a kidnapping victim, only to die when the rescuing agent's parachute doesn't deploy correctly.

* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': Film critic Leonard Matlin, who disliked the first ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', is shown giving the movie a bad review and is then mauled to death by Gremlins.

* ''Film/{{Jubilee}}'' takes place in an alternate timeline where Queen Elizabeth II was killed by muggers in the late seventies. As of 2022, the real Queen Elizabeth II is still alive.

* In ''Mega Python vs. Gatoroid'', Mickey Dolenz is eaten by a giant python during a benefit concert.

* In ''Film/{{Postal}}'', George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden (still alive at the time) are killed by a nuclear blast, Uwe Boll gets shot in the crotch and dies, and Verne Troyer is "violated to death" by chimpanzees.

* Plenty of celebrities die in ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice''. Alec Baldwin gets shot by Kim Jong Il, Samuel L. Jackson gets decapitated, Michael Moore blows himself up, Matt Damon's neck is snapped, Susan Sarandon falls to her death, Tim Robbins is burnt to death, George Clooney is blown up by a grenade, etc. Kim Jong Il, who is the BigBad, dies at the end of the movie, but [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnates]] as a cockroach.

* In ''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'', Bill Clinton dies of a heart attack at the 2004 Democratic Convention.
* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''And the Last Trump Shall Sound'', Donald Trump dies during a second coronavirus outbreak in 2024.

* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''The Psychotechnic League'', Richard Nixon is killed in a nuclear war.
* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Settling Accounts: Drive to the East'', Jimmy Carter is an 18-year-old sailor in the Confederate States Navy and is killed by an army major in battle.

* ''The Final Cut'', the last in the original ''Series/HouseOfCardsUK'' trilogy, opens with the state funeral of Margaret Thatcher who was still alive at the time.

* Jean-Claude Van Damme made a guest appearance on ''Series/LasVegas'' as himself in which a stunt was sabotaged and he fell to his death.

* In 2006, a six-part miniseries of Monty Python clip shows were released called ''Monty Python's Personal Best''. Each episode had a different wraparound format. The John Cleese episode features the actor in makeup that made him look twenty years older than he was, being interviewed. The final gag was Cleese supposedly dying of a heart attack on screen and the interviewer running away. Many viewers thought that Cleese had actually died, but he's still with us.
* In the ''Night of Too Many Stars'' TV special, Creator/SteveBuscemi dies after eating peanuts (to which he is allergic) and being shot by Vincent D'Onofrio. Also, Bob Barker dies after fighting Adam Sandler and Sandler dies of the Ebola virus.

** In "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", Stewie kills Denise Crosby with a laser.

** In "Treehouse of Horror X," the following people are incinerated by the sun: Ross Perot, Spike Lee, Dan Quayle, Courtney Love, Tanya Harding, Al Sharpton, Tom Arnold, Pauly Shore and Rosie O'Donnell.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has done this a lot. Justin Bieber was killed by Cthulhu, Rosie O'Donnell was eaten by Cartman's Trapper Keeper, Britney Spears was sacrificed to ensure a good harvest, the list goes on and on.