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* ''Film/{{Underwater}}''. Before Paul dives underwater in a flooded tunnel, one of the monsters is shown to be swimming towards him. On the other side, his friends try to haul him through on a cable, but he appears to be stuck and his radio has stopped working. Just when the audience think Paul's dismembered corpse is going to appear, he comes out of the water alive. ''Then'' the monster seizes him.
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* ''Literature/CityOfNoEnd'': Near the end of Book 1, when Kavin Norn fires his barrage of spikes to destroy the boulder cover of the Kendar brothers, they are unharmed. Then [[spoiler: Ywain stands up, and abruptly gets shot and killed.]]
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not applicable - the bombings were days apart, not after another, and radiation poisoning is a slow, drawn-out death
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* Many people on the outskirts of Hiroshima survived the nuclear blast, took a train to Nagasaki, and were killed in the second blast. Others survived both, only to die of radiation poisoning.
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* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End Of Evangelion]]'', Asuka catches their death the moment she kills the last of the nine MP [=EVAs=]. '''[[DiabolusExMachina Out of nowhere]]''', a double-bladed parrying staff is thrown at and stopped by her AT Field - until it re-assembles itself as a synthetic Lance of Longinus, piercing her AT Field and running the EVA through its skull and [[EyeScream left eye]], subsequently popping Asuka's eye as well. Out of power, the [[CruelAndUnusualDeathEVA cannot move as the nine MP EVAs regenerate]], [[EatenAlive devour it alive]], [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and skewer it]] with its pilot. [[spoiler:Somehow, she gets better in the end.]]
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* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End Of Evangelion]]'', Asuka catches their death the moment she kills the last of the nine MP [=EVAs=]. '''[[DiabolusExMachina Out of nowhere]]''', a double-bladed parrying staff is thrown at and stopped by her AT Field - until it re-assembles itself as a synthetic Lance of Longinus, piercing her AT Field and running the EVA through its skull and [[EyeScream left eye]], subsequently popping Asuka's eye as well. Out of power, the [[CruelAndUnusualDeathEVA [[CruelAndUnusualDeath EVA cannot move as the nine MP EVAs regenerate]], [[EatenAlive devour it alive]], [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and skewer it]] with its pilot. [[spoiler:Somehow, she gets better in the end.]]
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While End of Eva could certainly be considered an example of "Shoot the Shaggy Dog" as a whole (and Asuka's character arc could be as well), Asuka's death in isolation, as a single event, is not that
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* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End Of Evangelion]]'', Asuka catches their death the moment she kills the last of the nine MP [=EVAs=]. '''[[DiabolusExMachina Out of nowhere]]''', a double-bladed parrying staff is thrown at and stopped by her AT Field - until it re-assembles itself as a synthetic Lance of Longinus, piercing her AT Field and running the EVA through its skull and [[EyeScream left eye]], subsequently popping Asuka's eye as well. Out of power, the [[ShootTheShaggyDog EVA [[CruelAndUnusualDeathEVA cannot move as the nine MP EVAs regenerate]], [[EatenAlive devour it alive]], [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and skewer it]] with its pilot. [[spoiler:Somehow, she gets better in the end.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', one of Lynne's [[TheyKilledKennyAgain several deaths]] involves her deftly backflipping out of the way of a crashing van... only to be crushed by a giant chicken a few seconds later.
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To clarify, this does NOT refer to just any sudden, shocking death. The death in question must immediately follow an escape from imminent peril, interrupting the peaceful tranquility of apparent success. However, the cause of death need not be the exact thing that was perilizing the heroes in the first place. They could be blindsided by a completely new threat or an older one about which they'd forgotten. Or a wound could suddenly catch up to them -- aversions of HardHead often produce this. If the incident doesn't take place immediately after ''and'' has a totally separate cause, see CheatedDeathDiedAnyway.
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To clarify, this does NOT refer to just any sudden, shocking death. The death in question must immediately follow an escape from imminent peril, interrupting the peaceful tranquility of apparent success. However, the cause of death need not be the exact thing that was perilizing imperilling the heroes in the first place. They could be blindsided by a completely new threat or an older one about which they'd forgotten. Or a wound could suddenly catch up to them -- aversions of HardHead often produce this. If the incident doesn't take place immediately after ''and'' has a totally separate cause, see CheatedDeathDiedAnyway.
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Disambiguation, and irrelevant - including a pun is no reason to pothole to "Pun".
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To clarify, this does NOT refer to just any sudden, shocking death. The death in question must immediately follow an escape from imminent peril, interrupting the peaceful tranquility of apparent success. However, the cause of death need not be the exact thing that was [[JustForPun perilizing]] perilizing the heroes in the first place. They could be blindsided by a completely new threat or an older one about which they'd forgotten. Or a wound could suddenly catch up to them -- aversions of HardHead often produce this. If the incident doesn't take place immediately after ''and'' has a totally separate cause, see CheatedDeathDiedAnyway.
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actually surprised this hasn't shown up in more places already. I'm adding this to Cruel Twist Ending and Not Quite Saved Enough as well.
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* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'': David successfully rescues Lucy from Arasaka tower, but is pursued by none other than [[HeroKiller Adam Smasher]] himself. After a frantic retreat punctuated by lots of StuffBlowingUp, they manage to escape by jumping down the side of the tower thanks to David's exoskeleton, seemingly losing him. Lucy even manages to snap David out of his cyberpsychosis on the way down! They reunite with Falco and Rebecca, with Rebecca expressing relief that Lucy is safe, if only for David's sake. Lucy smiles, everything seems like it'll be okay... [[spoiler: and then [[SquashedFlat Adam Smasher falls from the sky directly onto Rebecca,]] with the resulting shot of her mangled corpse revealing that yes, [[DeaderThanDead she is extremely dead.]] Smasher then effortlessly bitchslaps Falco away and knocks off his robotic arm, [[NoSell No Sells]] Lucy's attempt to quickhack him and burns out her cyberdeck, and then David, [[DeadlyUpgrade who has gone cyberpsycho again following Rebecca's death,]] proceeds to seemingly fight Smasher on equal footing... for all of a minute or so. Then Smasher effortlessly tears David's exoskeleton apart and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown proceeds to beat the everloving piss out of him]] while a cheerful montage recalling David's first time meeting each member of the crew and their resulting gruesome deaths [[SoundtrackDissonance plays to the tune of ''I Really Want To Stay At Your House.'']] [[YourHeadAsplode Then David gets his head blown off point blank.]] Lucy and Falco do manage to escape, but Falco isn't seen again afterwards, and Lucy gets to live out the rest of her days on the moon, completely alone and miserable.]] [[CruelTwistEnding Roll credits!]]
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* Caster of ''LightNovel/FateZero'' does this to a child in the second episode, claiming that the HopeSpot makes its death more satisfying.
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* Caster of ''LightNovel/FateZero'' ''Literature/FateZero'' does this to a child in the second episode, claiming that the HopeSpot makes its death more satisfying.
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* At the end of ''VideoGame/RayForce'', the protagonist blows up the core of the Con-Human system, destroying it and the Earth along with it (which was the mission all along, as Con-Human had irrepairably integrated with the Earth). Unfortunately for the pilot, the ship gets struck by debris on the way out. The last shot of the credits is from the exposed cockpit of the ship, with the words "MISSON COMPLETE" on its HUD.
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* At the end of ''VideoGame/RayForce'', the protagonist blows up the core of the Con-Human system, destroying it and the Earth along with it (which was the mission all along, as Con-Human had irrepairably integrated with the Earth). Unfortunately for the pilot, the ship gets struck by debris on the way out. The last shot of the credits is from the exposed cockpit of the ship, with the words "MISSON COMPLETE" on its HUD.
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* ''Series/MadMen'': During the Korean War, Dick Whitman and Don Draper (the real one) take cover from enemy fire. After the shooting halts, the two get up and breathe sighs of relief...until Dick accidentally drops his lighter and causes an explosion, killing Don.
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* ''Series/MadMen'': During the Korean War, Private Dick Whitman and Don Lieutenant Donald Draper (the real one) take cover from enemy fire. After the shooting halts, the two get up and up, breathe sighs of relief...until relief and prepare to smoke a celebratory cigarette, when Dick accidentally drops his lighter and causes an explosion, killing Don.Draper. Dick survives and takes Draper's identity.
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* In ''Film/DeathMachines'', the bomb used to kill Nathan Adams does not go off immediately when the countdown ends, but rather rings a gong for a few seconds and then goes off. Adams, who is handcuffed a few inches away, lets out a nervous guffaw, apparently thinking he was just being suckered.
