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* [[spoiler: Mayuri]] from ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'', [[spoiler: repeatedly and at length, across several timelines]]. To the point that the very inevitability of [[spoiler: her]] death is a plot point; [[spoiler: Mayuri will die, [[ContrivedCoincidence no matter how painfully contrived the circumstances]], unless Rintaro can undo enough changes to the timeline to return from the "beta" world line to the "alpha" world line]].

'''This is a DeathTrope, so beware of spoilers.'''

* Shockingly enough, in ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/325408590-the-frozen-heart%27s-star The Frozen Heart's Star]]'', this happens to '''''[[spoiler:Franchise/{{Kirby}} KIRBY]]''''' in [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281488603-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-8-the-end-of-kirby Chapter 8]], where he ends up [[Main/HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself to save the other protagonists]], only to accept his fate as yet another frozen heart victim and freezing to death. Fortunately, this is ultimately averted in [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281494412-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-16-the-ultimate Chapter 16]] as our cute and sweet little pink puffball does end up being thawed and freed from the curse.

* Shockingly enough, in ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/325408590-the-frozen-heart%27s-star The Frozen Heart's Star]]'', this happens to '''''[[spoiler:Franchise/{{Kirby}}]]''''' in [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281488603-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-8-the-end-of-kirby Chapter 8]], where he ends up [[Main/HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself to save the other protagonists]], only to accept his fate as yet another frozen heart victim and freezing to death. Fortunately, this is ultimately averted in [[https://www.wattpad.com/1281494412-the-frozen-heart%27s-star-chapter-16-the-ultimate Chapter 16]] as our cute and sweet little pink puffball does end up being thawed and freed from the curse.

* ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''. [[spoiler:Penny.]] God''dammit'', [[Creator/JossWhedon Joss]]. He does seem to like killing off his sweet characters, and web original is no different from TV. She was an adorable girl.
* Season 2 of the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' introduces Ghostbur, the spectral counterpart of Wilbur Soot, who essentially [[LiteralSplitPersonality embodies many of his positive traits]] and the more innocent side of himself that he repressed during [[TookALevelInCynicism his spiral]]. For the rest of the season, he acts as the resident FriendlyGhost who loves his [[SweetSheep pet sheep]] and wishes to [[TheAtoner atone for his living counterpart's past crimes]]. [[spoiler:Of course, since the Dream SMP is a CrapsackWorld, Ghostbur gets sent on a [[AfterlifeExpress train trip]] to Wilbur's [[AndIMustScream torturous]] Afterlife when Dream brings Wilbur back to life halfway through Season 3, rendering the poor ghost [[DeathOfPersonality recursively dead]].]]

* Gilbert from ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'' had a [[BreakTheCutie really, really horrible life]]. Abandoned by his parents, raped by a friend and later by his uncle [[spoiler:who is really his actual father]] (repeatedly), abused in every way possible by said uncle, conditioned into some major StockholmSyndrome, raised without any understanding of the real world and left to fend for himself at a boarding school where he is either bullied, ignored or used sexually, [[BrokenBird he's not really all that sound of mind]]. Eventually, he does manage to find some form of happiness in a relationship with NiceGuy Serge, but the school rejects them and the two boys are forced to flee to Paris. There, he's [[spoiler:gang-raped, drugged, and returns to prostituting himself before running into the street while hallucinating where he's run over by a carriage and killed]].

* Creator/CharlesDickens: Nancy ''Literature/OliverTwist'', Paul Dombey in ''Literature/DombeyAndSon'', the death of Little Nell in ''Literature/TheOldCuriosityShop'', Dora in ''Literature/David Copperfield'', Smike in ''Literature/NicholasNickleby''. He plays with the trope in ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', in the Christmas Future scene where Tiny Tim is dead, but Scrooge's repentance averts the death.

* [[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables Rilla of Ingleside]] loses her favourite brother, Walter, in World War One. Made worse by the fact that [[TheWoobie Walter]] desperately didn't want to go, and had spent half the novel in a state of torment because he thought himself a coward. And he was always the kindest, gentlest of the children.

* Nancy in Dickens' ''Literature/OliverTwist'' and its musical adaptation, ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}''.
** Dickens does this a lot. Paul Dombey in ''Dombey and Son'', the infamous death of Little Nell in ''The Old Curiosity Shop'', Dora in ''David Copperfield'', Smike in ''Nicholas Nickleby''. He plays with the trope in ''A Christmas Carol'', in the Christmas Future scene where Tiny Tim is dead, but Scrooge's repentance averts the death.

* Season 2 of the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'' introduces Ghostbur, the spectral counterpart of Wilbur Soot, who essentially [[LiteralSplitPersonality embodies many of his positive traits]] and the more innocent side of himself that he repressed during [[TookALevelInCynicism his spiral]]. For the rest of the season, he acts as the resident FriendlyGhost who loves his [[SweetSheep pet sheep]] and wishes to [[TheAtoner atone for his living counterpart's past crimes]]. [[spoiler:Of course, since the Dream SMP is a CrapsackWorld, Ghostbur gets sent on a [[AfterlifeExpress train trip]] to Wilbur's [[AndIMustScream torturous]] Afterlife when Dream brings Wilbur back to life halfway through Season 3, rendering the poor ghost [[DeathOfPersonality recursively dead]].]]

* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' takes this to a whole 'nother level of PlayerPunch. [[spoiler:Toroko is kidnapped by Misery at the start of the game after being mistaken for Sue, driving the player to try to get her back somehow on top of other plot threads. Things take a trip down [[DarkerAndEdgier Dark Way and Edgy Avenue]] when you get to the Sand Zone's Storehouse, where Balrog (compelled by the Demon Crown worn by the Doctor) stuffs a red flower down Toroko's throat. The player winds up fulfilling this trope as a {{mercy kill}}ing to keep Toroko from going completely berserk. From that point, secondary characters start dropping like flies. King dies from wounds he got trying to stop the Doctor, ''immediately'' after Toroko. Then you get sent to the Labyrinth, where Professor Booster will die in front of you. Then Curly Brace, your cute partner, will sacrifice herself to save you from drowning.]] Doing [[GuideDangIt a few unintuitive things]] can save some of them, but long odds you aren't going to know what those are the first time.

** This is implied to happen in the bad ending for the UsefulNotes/GameGear version of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2''. If you fail to get all the Chaos Emeralds before making it to the penultimate boss, the credits roll while Sonic runs alone until he eventually stops and sees [[spoiler:[[StarsAreSouls Tails' image in the stars]]. The [[PrettyLittleHeadShots strategically-placed star sprite on Tails' head]] makes it rather unsettling]].

** [[spoiler: Emerl]] in ''VideoGame/SonicBattle''. Which really sucks since not only was he one of the [[CharacterDevelopment best-developed]] characters in the series by a long shot, but [[spoiler: you had to do it [[MercyKill yourself]].]]

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' there is [[spoiler: Chihiro Fujisaki]], who's gentle that [[spoiler: he]] wouldn't even a mosquito because it might have a family, who breaks down in tears after [[spoiler: he's]] forced to vote in the class trial and send one of the students to their execution. [[spoiler: His murder in Chapter 2]] was seen as an awful act, and the trial becomes even more painful to witness when the killer, [[spoiler: Mondo,]] recounts the story and confesses that [[spoiler: he]] [[AccidentalMurder never even meant to hurt]] [[spoiler: him]]; poor [[spoiler: Chihiro]] unintentionally slammed [[spoiler: Mondo's]] TraumaButton during an intimate conversation, which made [[spoiler: Mondo]] snap and [[spoiler: strike him fatally.]] [[spoiler: Mondo]] feels absolutely despicable for what [[spoiler: he]] did, apologizes to everyone, and [[FaceDeathWithDignity doesn't put up a fight]] as [[spoiler: he's]] lead to the execution. [[spoiler: Chihiro]] may have died, but [[spoiler: he's]] such a sweetheart that [[spoiler: he]] definitely wouldn't have wanted [[spoiler: Mondo]] to die for something that [[spoiler: he]] did in the heat in the moment and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone immediately regretted.]]