History Main / EverybodyDiesEnding

** ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' promised nothing of the kind, but in a couple of the end-game scenarios the best you can really do is "life will someday evolve again."

* Since it is set at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ''WesternAnimation/SixtyFourMillionYearsAgo'' naturally ends with all of the dinosaurs dying, leaving the mammals as the Earth's new dominant species.

* The last two chapters in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' are "In which practically everybody dies" and "In which everyone who didn't die in the last chapter dies." Most of the original characters die much earlier - inevitable, given that the book spans nearly a hundred years.

* ''WebVideo/LifeSMP'': It's a ForegoneConclusion that all but one of the perspective characters die, by the DeadlyGame premise of the series, usually by another player, mobs, by accident, or by mistake. However, there's been a tradition for each season to end on a LastSurvivorSuicide (either directly or by proxy), leaving ''all'' perspective characters dead. Limited Life (Season 4) plays this trope the straightest, where the gimmick is that ''everyone'' has 24 real-life hours to live and when the life-timer runs out, the player dies, so even the winner doesn't have to kill themself to die off in the end anyway. The only season in which this has been averted so far is Secret Life, where the winner ''doesn't'' do a LastSurvivorSuicide.

* ''WebVideo/LifeSMP'': It's a ForegoneConclusion that all but one of the perspective characters die, by the DeadlyGame premise of the series, usually by another player, mobs, by accident, or by mistake. However, there's been a tradition for each season to end on a LastSurvivorSuicide (either directly or by proxy), leaving ''all'' perspective characters dead. The exception to this is Limited Life (Season 4), where the gimmick is that ''everyone'' has 24 real-life hours to live and when the life-timer runs out, the player dies, so even the winner doesn't have to kill themself to die off in the end anyway.

Many series are noteworthy for the extremely high body count among the main cast that they rack up in their last few episodes. In some cases, ''all'' of the heroes make a HeroicSacrifice, or otherwise find themselves wearing the RedShirt. Occasionally, the protagonists simply fail to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, resulting in a DownerEnding. (Possibly DyingAlone to cap it all.)

The funny thing about this particular trope, however, is that knowing that ''everyone'' dies is somehow much less spoiler-ish than knowing that, say, only your favorite one does. The wonders of perception...as [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin some guy]] once [[BeamMeUpScotty allegedly]] said, "The death of one man is a tragedy; [[AMillionIsAStatistic the death of millions is a statistic]]."

* There are a few episodes of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' would either have nobody surviving an episode, or [[SoleSurvivor only one character survive an episode]].

* ''LetsPlay/LifeSMP'': It's a ForegoneConclusion that all but one of the perspective characters die, by the DeadlyGame premise of the series, usually by another player, mobs, by accident, or by mistake. However, there's been a tradition for each season to end on a LastSurvivorSuicide (either directly or by proxy), leaving ''all'' perspective characters dead.[[note]]The exception to this is Limited Life (Season 4), where the gimmick is that everyone has 24 real-life hours to live and when the life-timer runs out, the player dies, so even the winner doesn't have to kill themself to die off in the end anyway.[[/note]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheRainbowConnection'', a now-adult Stormy goes on a revenge slaughter for feeling that her friends abandoned her years ago. She kills all the Color Kids, mortally wounds Twink, and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills Canary Yellow's pet bird]]. Stormy herself ends up mortally wounded in a battle with Wisp, though Wisp didn't intend to kill her.

* ''LetsPlay/LifeSMP'': It's a ForegoneConclusion that all but one of the perspective characters die, by the DeadlyGame premise of the series, usually by another player, mobs, by accident, or by mistake. However, there's been a tradition for each season to end on a LastSurvivorSuicide (either directly or by proxy), leaving ''all'' perspective characters dead.

* Walrusguy's final WebAnimation/YouTubePoop is somewhat infamous for this.

Also see DwindlingParty, where the cast is killed off one by one from the start, and CharactersDroppingLikeFlies, when a work has a high body count throughout the story. Contrast EverybodyLives.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs2020}} ends this way. In the final episode as a form of EndOfSeriesAwareness, a metro strikes the Earth, killing everyone including the Warners.

!!This is a SpoileredRotten trope, that means that ''EVERY SINGLE EXAMPLE'' on this list is a spoiler by default and [[Administrivia/SpoilersOFF will be unmarked]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned This is your last warning]], only proceed if you really believe you can handle this list.

** The later season of the cartoon series casts doubt on this, as many of the Transformers killed in the movie are seen up and walking around again, although some of these occasions are believed to have been animation gaffes. The impact of this is lessened since the highest-profile fatality, Optimus Prime, returned in the cartoon series. In the comics set after the movie, impressively, he stayed dead permanently.

* In the final episode of ''WebAnimation/LlamasWithHats'', ''everyone'' on earth, including the two main characters, end up dead.

* In ''{{Fanfic/Pagliacci}}'', when the Prankster invites you to a party...don't show up. Brings new meaning to the phrase "TotalPartyKill", doesn't it? ''[[IncrediblyLamePun (rimshot)]]''

Compare EverybodysDeadDave, where everybody except the main characters are dead. If just one person survives, it's SoleSurvivor or FinalGirl. Compare the ClimacticBattleResurrection. Also compare the BolivianArmyEnding, only we actually see the attack of the Bolivian Army. Also see DwindlingParty, where the cast is killed off one by one from the start. When a SuddenDownerEnding is planned from the start, it usually happens this way.

See also SuicideMission, GottaKillThemAll, FinalSolution, and OmnicidalManiac (for whom "killing 'em all" is [[EvilPlan his goal]]). For RealLife examples, please see WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide instead. Contrast EverybodyLives.

* Played for laughs in one of the [[MultipleEndings alternate endings]] of the original ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' series. "Son of a bitch!"

When AnyoneCanDie becomes "Everyone '''''Will''''' Die".

** Everyone in Springfield dies when the meteor hits the Earth in "Deep Space Homergeddon". Earlier on, Homer killed two astronauts while on a spaceship in an attempt to stop a meteor, but the spaceship instead hits the building back on Earth and explodes.

** In "Black Sheep", Bart decides to shoot everyone in his school after having an awful day.

** In "Skinner's Sleazy Shenanigans", after Chalmers catches Skinner wanking off on stage in front of everyone and is about to reprimand him, Skinner kills him, making students ran out of class in panic and causing the school to be surrounded by people (including cops). Then Skinner decides to blow up the school and kill everyone there.