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* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'': During the "Hyper-Tension!" arc Kon is investigating the murder of an alternate version of himself, who made it to his reality with a warning he wasn't fully able to spit out before dying of his injuries. Kon quickly learns that his best friend ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} is dead in the first alternate reality he visits, and that his own alternate has become Batman's partner and started wearing elements from Tim's costume in remembrance.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'': The Justice Lords arc of ''Batman Beyond 2.0'' and ''Justice League Beyond 2.0'' (which serves as a follow-up of sorts to the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episod "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E11AndE12ABetterWorld A Better World]]") establishes that when the effects of the device Lex Luthor used to disable the Justice Lords' powers wore off, their world's version of Batman was killed when he opposed his teammates' methods after being shown the error of his ways by his main universe counterpart. The death of Justice Lord Batman comes off as an unpleasant surprise towards Terry [=McGinnis=] when he finds himself in the Justice Lords universe. It's also explained that Wonder Woman [[KillingYourAlternateSelf strangled her own Justice Lords counterpart to death]] with her magic lasso after [[WidowedAtTheWedding the latter married Lord Superman]].

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'': The Justice Lords arc of ''Batman Beyond 2.0'' and ''Justice League Beyond 2.0'' establishes that when the effects of the device Lex Luthor used to disable the Justice Lords' powers wore off, their world's version of Batman was killed when he opposed his teammates' methods after being shown the error of his ways by his main universe counterpart. The death of Justice Lord Batman comes off as an unpleasant surprise towards Terry [=McGinnis=] when he finds himself in the Justice Lords universe. It's also explained that Wonder Woman [[KillingYourAlternateSelf strangled her own Justice Lords counterpart to death]] with her magic lasso after [[WidowedAtTheWedding the latter married Lord Superman]].

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'': The Justice Lords arc of ''Batman Beyond 2.0'' and ''Justice League Beyond 2.0'' establishes that when the effects of the device Lex Luthor used to disable the Justice Lords' powers wore off, their world's version of Batman was killed when he opposed his teammates' methods after being shown the error of his ways by his main universe counterpart. The death of Justice Lord Batman comes off as an unpleasant surprise towards Terry [=McGinnis=] when he finds himself in the Justice Lords universe. It's also explained that Wonder Woman strangled her own Justice Lords counterpart to death with her magic lasso after [[WidowedAtTheWedding the latter married Lord Superman]].

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'': The Justice Lords arc of ''Batman Beyond 2.0'' and ''Justice League Beyond 2.0'' establishes that when the effects of the device Lex Luthor used to disable the Justice Lords' powers wore off, their world's version of Batman was killed when he opposed his teammates' methods after being shown the error of his ways by his main universe counterpart. The death of Justice Lord Batman comes off as an unpleasant surprise towards Terry [=McGinnis=] when he finds himself in the Justice Lords universe. It's also explained that Wonder Woman strangled her own Justice Lords counterpart with her own magic lasso after [[WidowedAtTheWedding the latter married Lord Superman]].

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'': The Justice Lords arc of ''Batman Beyond 2.0'' and ''Justice League Beyond 2.0'' establishes that when the effects of the device Lex Luthor used to disable the Justice Lords' powers wore off, their world's version of Batman was killed when he opposed his teammates' methods after being shown the error of his ways by his main universe counterpart. The death of Justice Lord Batman comes off as an unpleasant surprise towards Terry [=McGinnis=] when he finds himself in the Justice Lords universe. It's also explained that Wonder Woman's counterpart died after [[WidowedAtTheWedding marrying Lord Superman]].

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'': The Justice Lords arc of ''Batman Beyond 2.0'' and ''Justice League Beyond 2.0'' establishes that when the effects of the device Lex Luthor used to disable the Justice Lords' powers wore off, their world's version of Batman was killed when he opposed his teammates' methods after being shown the error of his ways by his main universe counterpart. The death of Justice Lord Batman comes off as an unpleasant surprise towards Terry [=McGinnis=] when he finds himself in the Justice Lords universe.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'': The Justice Lords arc of ''Batman Beyond 2.0'' and ''Justice League Beyond 2.0'' establishes that when the effects of the device Lex Luthor used to disable the Justice Lords' powers wore off, their world's version of Batman was killed when he opposed their methods after being shown the error of his ways by his main universe counterpart. The death of Justice Lord Batman comes off as an unpleasant surprise towards Terry [=McGinnis=] when he finds himself in the Justice Lords universe.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'': The Justice Lords arc of ''Batman Beyond 2.0'' and ''Justice League Beyond 2.0'' establishes that when the effects of the device Lex Luthor used to disable the Justice Lords' powers wore off, their world's version of Batman was killed when he opposed their methods after being shown the error of his ways by his main universe counterpart.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'': The “Fell Xenolouge” [[DownloadableContent DLC]] takes place in an AlternateTimeline where [[TheBadGuyWins Sombron actually wins]] and Elyos is in ruin. In this timeline, [[TheHero Alear]] has died, and when the Alear from the main timeline is horrified when [[DiscoveringYourOwnDeadBody they see their own grave]]. However, [[spoiler:It turns out that the Alear that died is the opposite sex as the main one, and was not even a Fell Dragon.]]

->'''Timeline 23 Josh''': Look, Julia, in my timeline, you were the best student Brakebills ever had, at least until you were...horribly murdered.\\

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** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Brave New Metropolis", Lois Lane is thrown into an alternate universe where her counterpart was killed in an Intergang attack that she survived in the "proper" timeline. [[ForWantOfANail In this timeline, Superman was too late to save her]], [[KnightTemplar and afterwards, he aligned with Lex Luthor and started taking a more authoritarian approach to fighting crime]].
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' had "A Better World", where the League's counterparts, the Justice Lords, turned into an authoritarian group that controlled the world. What tipped them over into full KnightTemplar mode? The Flash dying, implicitly at the hands of President Lex Luthor.

* {{Exploited| Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. Rick takes advantage of this at the end of "Rick Potion #9"; [[spoiler:when he accidentally releases a plague that causes a [[ZombieApocalypse Cronenberg Apocalypse]], he and Morty escape to a very particular universe where their counterparts cured the Cronenberg plague ''and'' were killed almost immediately afterwards by an unrelated incident, and take their place after burying them in the backyard. Notably, while Morty is rightfully deeply disturbed by the whole thing, Rick takes it all in stride and resumes with business as usual immediately afterwards, implying that it isn't the first time he has pulled this trick]]. They end up using it again some time later, when Morty [[ItMakesSenseInContext accidentally compromises himself to the Squirrel Collective]], with Rick complaining that they can only do this a limited number of times.
* In the first-season finale of ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If?]]'', Uatu sends a variant of Natasha Romanoff to a universe where her counterpart had been killed rather than return her to her home universe (which had been utterly devastated by Ultron).

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* Fanfiction taking place in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' universe frequently writes off the counterparts to Twilight Sparkle and/or Sunset Shimmer as dead. This became somewhat {{jossed}} with ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]]'', which focuses on Twilight's counterpart.

!!Specific Examples:

* An important plot point of ''Anime/NarutoTheMovieRoadToNinja'' is that in the AlternateUniverse where the thick of the movie takes place, Naruto's parents are alive while Sakura's parents are dead, and Sakura struggles with the decision of [[YankTheDogsChain yanking this particular chain]] and hurt Naruto.

* In ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' issue 3, the Marvel and DC worlds have become combined, turning it into a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] utopia. When the characters learn how their realities are ''supposed'' to be, the character who argues for the restoration the most is Hal Jordan -- who is "supposed to" be dead. Barry Allen is there too, but he's not quite so eager to restore the realities.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMen'' sees the Peter Parker of Earth-616 trapped on Earth-1610, with his counterpart having recently died. And he doesn't have the heart to tell Gwen that her counterpart on his Earth is dead too.
** Something similar happens in Spider-Verse when ComicBook/SpiderGwen find out that her mainstream counterpart is dead.
* The [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Marvel universe]] as a whole is almost ''filled'' with dead versions of characters still alive in the regular Marvel Universe now, mostly thanks to ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' and the Ultimate continuity mostly avoiding DeathIsCheap.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'''s "Helter Skelter" arc involved several villains from alternate realities where they had killed Dredd come to take on the prime universe Dredd.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': In issue 50, Dr. Robotnik is KilledOffForReal, but eventually replaced with Robo-Robotnik/Dr. Eggman, a counterpart of his from an alternate universe with a near-identical backstory and all of the history with and hatred of [[ArchEnemy Sonic]] that the original Robotnik had; having succeeded in defeating the Freedom Fighters in his world, Eggman had [[VictoryIsBoring gotten bored]] with nothing left to conquer or destroy, and after discovering the death of his prime counterpart, made his way to Mobius Prime to "fill the void."
* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'': During the "Hyper-Tension!" arc Kon is investigating the murder of an alternate version of himself, who made it to his reality with a warning he wasn't fully able to spit out before dying of his injuries. Kon quickly learns that his best friend ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} is dead in the first alternate reality he visits, and that his own alternate has become Batman's partner and started wearing elements from Tim's costume in remembrance.
* The ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' miniseries ''Infinite'' involves Jem and the Holograms as well as the Misfits visiting an alternate reality where people are being enthralled by Emmett Benton's hologram technology, which is distributed by that reality's version of Eric Raymond. It is revealed that this world's versions of the Misfits and Jem and the Holograms have been killed by Eric Raymond to prevent them from ending his control over the populace, [[spoiler:though it later turns out that Kimber, Stormer and Pizzazz all survived.]] The trope is also inverted in that Emmett Benton's counterpart is still alive.
* Inverted in ''ComicBook/StarTrekGreenLantern'', where the first miniseries ''The Spectrum War'' has Ganthet die shortly after making his way to the ''ComicBook/StarTrekIDW'' universe and the second miniseries ''Stranger Worlds'' reveals that the Guardians of the Universe exist in this universe, including a still-living counterpart to Ganthet.

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!!Specific Examples

* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku,'' the Izuku of Earth-2014.43 is devoured by Dracula before his Kryptonian NighInvulnerability fully grew in.

* "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30054501/ When it's Raining on Sunday]]" not only confirms that the 'Pietro' in ''Series/WandaVision'' is the displaced Peter Maximoff of [[Film/XMenFilmSeries another reality]], but also reveals that there was a version of Wanda back in that other world who was killed when she lost control of her powers.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', Marty returns to [[BadPresent a dystopian 1985]] where [[TheBully Biff]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive is a millionaire]] and ''[[GuessWhoImMarrying is married to his mother, Lorraine]]''. As he tries to figure out what went wrong, Marty asks her why she married him and where his father George is. Turns out George was killed in this timeline; [[spoiler:and Biff reveals that he shot him, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney and paid off the police to ensure that the truth never came out]].]]
-->'''Marty:''' Mom. I just want to know one thing: Where is my father? Where is George [=McFly=]?\\
'''Lorraine:''' Marty! George-- Your father is in the same place he's been for the past 12 years: [[WhamLine Oak Park cemetery]].
* ''Film/Cube2Hypercube'': On multiple occasions, characters meet versions of themselves in the hypercube from alternate universes who are then killed by one of its traps. At one point Kate enters a room, only to find [[TotalPartyKill thorougly decomposed corpses of everybody she's met, including herself]].
* ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'': Evelyn's counterpart in the Alpha Universe has died. Alpha Waymond also comments that several other alternate Evelyns and Waymonds have been lost in the conflict against Jobu Tapaki.
* Played with in ''Film/TheOne''. Creator/JetLi discovers that a whole pile of his alternates are dead. The twist being that they were all killed by the one remaining counterpart who is now out to kill him as well in order to become [[TitleDrop The One]]. The film ends with an interesting inversion of the trope crossed with ReplacementGoldfish. [[spoiler: The protagonist gets dropped into a universe where his counterpart is dead, but his wife's is still alive.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Vimes doesn’t physically go to the alternate timeline, but picks up the alternate Vimes’s Dis-organizer, to his horror as his decision not to go to Klatch gets the Watch - and eventually himself - killed in an invasion. Things To Do Today...Today...[[BrokenRecord Today]]...Die.
* In the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel ''Q-Squared'', Trelane causes several parallel universes to come together: the Prime 'verse, the "Klingon war" 'verse (nearly identical to the one shown in "Yesterday's Enterprise"), and a 'verse where Jack Crusher is alive and is in command of the ''Enterprise''. While Jack is alive in the third 'verse, Wesley died as a toddler, resulting in Jack and Beverly's divorce. As a matter of fact, Trelane notes that Jack is dead in ''every other universe'' but that one. [[spoiler:He [[AteHisGun eats his phaser]] at the end, after accidentally killing Beverly for sleeping with Picard, his NumberTwo]].

* Inverted in Season 2 of ''Series/DarkMatter2015'', when the ''Raza'' crew end up in an alternate universe through a glitch in their Blink Drive and find that the crew of the alternate ''Raza'' includes not only Two and Three's evil counterparts but also alternate selves of their old enemies Wexler, Tash and Jace Corso, who are all dead in the main universe. This is used to re-introduce their characters after they were killed off. The alternate crew manage to sneak their way into the main universe at the end of the episode and reappear in several episodes of Season 3.
** It's also played straight in the case of Six, since his counterpart was killed by Two's counterpart in the alternate universe months before our crew were transported there. And possibly Five, whose counterpart may have met a grimmer fate in the other universe than our Five did when she was discovered as a LittleStowaway; at least Five is implied to fear this was the case when she declines to research her counterpart, though it's also quite plausible that she simply never met the ''Raza'' crew.

** In Season 5, Dean travels to the future to discover [[spoiler: that Bobby is dead and Sam is being used as Lucifer's vessel, which to Dean is a fate worse than death. Then, he hears Castiel being killed and then watches Lucifer kill his future self.]]

* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has[[spoiler: the main party]] traveling to alternate dimensions. In some of these, they're dead. In fact, [[spoiler: Ringabel hails from another dimension, in which Edea, Tiz, and Agnes were killed right in front of him, which is [[TraumaInducedAmnesia implied to be the cause of his memory loss]].]]

* A few instances of this is used in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''

** Chapter 12 involves the party heading to a fractured dimension that overall seems rather happy... except ''majority'' of the party is dead. Killed several years ago. The only ones who survived are Milla and Muzét, who returned to the spirit realm, and Gaius, who remains permanently crippled. [[spoiler: And this dimension's version of Ludger did it.]]

* {{Alternate Universe}}s play a big role in the "Maze of Many" arc in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', and several universes have different characters being alive/dead when compared to the prime universe. Alternate Universe #114 is probably the best example; Forgath, Complains and Big-Ears were killed during the battle at the goblin warcamp, while One-Eye (a minor character who died in the same battle in the main universe) survived and became an adventurer working alongside Minmax.

* During ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' Cell Saga, the main Cell makes a few mentions here and there (with even a few admittedly creepy flashbacks) of him killing his timeline's Trunks before taking his time machine. Just like from the source material, although it's arguably given more attention. Even Future Trunk's mentions it in the Epilogue, when creating a trap for his timeline's Imperfect Cell.

* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:

* Probably one of the most horrifying takes of this trope appears in the titular ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace''. As it turns out, it's ''filled to the brim'' with the corpses of various Gary Goodspeeds from countless different timelines, all having closed the breach [[spoiler: and also had their Earth's dragged into Final Space as well]]. As if all of them being in [[BodyHorror different states of decaying or mangled]] wasn't enough, [[FromBadToWorse Invictus possesses all of them to create a vicious and unrelenting horde.]] They're a regular and very deadly threat for the Team Squad during their stay in Final Space.
** Although in a later episode in Season 3, [[spoiler:Ash managed to exorcise one of the Zombie Gary's to learn some info about how he and the others died.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Tasha Yar from the reality where the ''Enterprise-C'' fell into a wormhole learns that in the soon-to-be-restored reality she was killed, she volunteers to go back through to help the ''C'' crew.

** The crux of the conflict in the second half is Miles discovering [[spoiler:that in practically all Spider-Man universes, a police captain close to him will commit a HeroicSacrifice. Since Miles hasn't been Spider-Man that long, it hasn't happened for him yet, but he realizes with horror that his father is about to be promoted to captain [[CelestialDeadline in two days]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' the Green Arrow died standing up to Superman making for some awkward moments with the Green Arrow from the main universe. The alternate universe's Joker also died, [[TheBadGuyWins at Superman's hand]], after drugging Superman to make him think that [[HappilyMarried Lois]] is [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday]]. The Lois of this world died because of that incident, while the Lois of Good Superman is alive.

* Inverted in Season 2 of ''Series/DarkMatter'', when the ''Raza'' crew end up in an alternate universe through a glitch in their Blink Drive and find that the crew of the alternate ''Raza'' includes not only Two and Three's evil counterparts but also alternate selves of their old enemies Wexler, Tash and Jace Corso, who are all dead in the main universe. This is used to re-introduce their characters after they were killed off. The alternate crew manage to sneak their way into the main universe at the end of the episode and reappear in several episodes of Season 3.

** The main version of Cell killed the Trunks from his native timeline in order to steal his time machine.
** Future Trunks returns the favor by killing the Imperfect Cell in his own native timeline, while Krillin kills the fetus Cell of his main timeline too, essentially stopping the chance of another Cell wreaking havoc on their timeline.

** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': An alternate version of [[spoiler:Gamora]] from an earlier timeline ends up in the present, taking her deceased counterpart's place in the final battle [[spoiler:though notably not taking her place in the Guardians of the Galaxy, leaving them to try and find her.]] While little screen time is devoted to how she'll fair in this new universe, especially since this version ended up in the present before her HeelFaceTurn, she does question some of her counterparts choices. [[spoiler:Such as falling for Starlord.]]

** And at the end of the fourth season, [[spoiler:Agent Lincoln Lee decides to stay in the alternate universe for good, where shortly before his counterpart was killed.]]