History Main / TheyKilledKennyAgain

** Peter often dies in the {{Cutaway Gag}}s, which are usually non-canon and not part of the episodes' main plot. Examples include snapping his own neck to avoid the book club, watching the video from ''Film/TheRing'', getting the death penalty for making a PrisonRape joke, having his head explode due to a severe case of brain freeze, and getting eviscerated in the neck by two regular-sized ants... somehow.

** Peter often dies in the {{Cutaway Gag}}s, which are usually non-canon and not part of the episodes' main plot. Examples include snapping his own neck to avoid the book club, watching the video from ''Film/TheRing'', getting the death penalty form makign a PrisonRape joke, having his head explode due to a severe case of brain freeze, and getting eviscerated in the neck by two regular-sized ants... somehow.

* All 8 of the housemates in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' are subjects to this, especially Toot and Ling-Ling.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In clips (which are usually not canon and/or unrelated to the overall story) involving the death of one of the main cast, Peter is usually it. Examples include snapping his own neck, standing between two very heavy battering rams, and getting eviscerated in the neck by two regular-sized ants... somehow. Meg, being [[ButtMonkey Meg]], has also died at the end of a few episodes that were otherwise "canon", such as "Jungle Love"; when the rest of the family manages to escape from a tribe of South American natives (in a parody of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''), she's last seen down floating face-down in the river, having been pierced by a whole bunch of darts and arrows.

* Scarface the Ventriloquist's puppet from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' is destroyed at the end of every episode he appears in. The creators said they went out of their way to give Scarface the most gruesome "deaths" they could, which they'd never get away with if he was a human, because hey, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman he's a puppet, so it's okay.]] Since he's ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane probably]]) just a projection of the Ventriloquist's addled mind, he comes back in the time it takes the Ventriloquist to carve a new dummy.

* Many characters in ''Anime/DragonballZ''. Android 17, Chiaotzu, Krillin, and Piccolo have ''all'' died about four times, including every ''Anime/{{Dragonball}}'' anime ever. The entire population of Earth has died ''twice'' (first by Kid Buu and then by Freiza). Counting ''Anime/DragonballGT'' the Earth was itself destroyed a third time, but in that instance they managed to get nearly everyone off the planet before it was destroyed.

* A lot of episodes from the British sitcom ''Series/Bottom'' have this trope happen to the two main characters Richie and Eddie right before the episode comes to an end (ranging from getting their skulls crushed by a man named "Skullcrusher" Henderson to falling from the top of a Ferris wheel), yet the next episode shows them alive as if the previous events didn`t take place. This trope even extended to the live stage shows, where the first three performances ended with the two characters electrocuting themselves to get out of a debt, getting blown up by a bomb and getting blown up by an atomic bomb.

* It's been removed now for being too interesting, but at one point the Wikipedia page on ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' had a tally of how many times the sisters had died. They were all in double figures.

* Kenny [=McCormick=] from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is the most well-known example and {{Trope Namer|s}}. During the first few seasons, Stan and Kyle would always give their trope-naming exchange (seen above), sometimes varying it depending on the situation. There's even a ''pie-chart'' devoted to the causes of each of his deaths at the top of this page! The formula was played with quite a bit over the years to keep it amusing--giving an obvious way he would die and then using something else instead, [[CameBackWrong having him come back as a zombie]] for a HalloweenEpisode and get killed again, [[ThrowTheDogABone having his girlfriend give him CPR]], etc. The show creators were aware that this could become an OverusedRunningGag though, and made one VerySpecialEpisode where Kenny's death [[KilledOffForReal actually stuck]]. His place in the Four Man Band was later filled by [[ProperlyParanoid Tweek]] or {{Butt|Monkey}}ers, but he then [[UnexplainedRecovery returned with no explanation]] after one season (WordOfGod has hinted that it might have had something to do with Jesus dying in the episode he comes back). Now he no longer dies...[[MauveShirt as often]]. [[WordOfGod Trey and Matt]] mentioned that they were originally planning to kill Kyle off at the end of season 5, but then decided to spare him and have Kenny bite the dust instead since they were getting tired of killing him off in every episode and were running out of original ways by which to do so.

** "Holidays of Futures Past" reveals this is also the case with future Ralph.

* The ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' fan YouTube channel Tolarian Community College occasionally does skits with The Professor seeing one or more characters from the game in his office, many of which involve him dying at the end. Death by [[{{Necromancer}} Liliana]], death by [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur]], death by [[TheVirus Phyrexian oil]], death by [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Gruul raiders]], death by [[TheMafia debt to Teysa]]...

* The ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' fan YouTube channel Tolarian Community College occasionally does skits with The Professor seeing one or more characters from the game in his office, many of which involve him dying at the end. Death by [[{{Necromancer}} Liliana]], death by [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur]], death by [[TheVirus Phyrexian oil]], death by [[TheMafia debt to Teysa]]...

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* Music/{{Vocaloid}}'s Len Kagamine and Kaito both have a reputation for getting killed off in many of their songs and music videos.

** In ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', getting killed off is actually part of Mysterion's (Kenny's) gameplay. Whenever he dies, he becomes "Dead Mysterion", a floating spectre that has it's own moveset different from regular Mysterion. He can return to life with his LimitBreak, which consists of his soul rising to heaven only to change his mind at the last second and reviving as regular Mysterion, which also heals the rest of the team.

* TheNostalgiaCritic has died numerous times and in his ''Film/DoubleDragon'' review even [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges it.]] There is one episode that shows him being revived by Optimus Prime.

* ''Manga/GetterRobo'' has an unusual subversion in the form of [[TheBigGuy Musashi Tomoe]]. Musashi is unfailingly KilledOffForReal (usually by way of a CrowningMomentOfAwesome Heroic Sacrifice), only to show up alive and well to repeat the process... In the next ''[[AlternateContinuity continuity]]''.

** The crowning member of the cast is Rory Williams-Pond. First, he was killed, then he was erased from existence, then he came back [[spoiler: as a plastic duplicate]], then ''that'' timeline was erased from existence, and then he died again, and then he killed himself (but knew he'd get better-[[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]), and after that he died (presumably) of old age.

* Though he (usually) dies once per book and for real, Yuri Semetsky is a character who appears (and dies) in a whole lot of works by many post-Soviet authors. It started when Creator/SergeyLukyanenko "killed" a man randomly named Semenetsky in his ''Literature/AutumnVisits'' and soon met a very real person, book seller Yuri Semetsky. Semetsky jokingly asked Lukyanenko to "kill" his avatar in his next books. The RunningGag quickly transcended to other Russian writers, and for almost two decades "killing Semetsky" has been played straight (ranging from a passing mention to RedShirt to HeroicSacrifice), subverted (Semetsky lives, suffers from DisneyDeath, is "killed" in videogame, an animal named after him (yursem) is hunted to extinction) and zig-zagged (Semetsky has ResurrectiveImmortality or is cloned a hundred thousand times, so he can be killed over and over again in the same book...), although now it's on its way to DeadHorseTrope.

* In the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' "Meet the..." shorts, the entire BLU team.
** Especially the BLU Soldier.
** The BLU Spy deserves a mention, too.
** And BLU Heavy, who was killed in ''Meet the Soldier'' (off-screen), ''Meet the Demoman'' (gets caught in a sticky bomb explosion), ''Meet the Engineer'' (shot off-screen), ''Meet the Sniper'' (shot in the head), ''Meet the Spy'' (stabbed off-screen), and ''Meet the Pyro'' (axe to the head).

* Anton the toast from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is often eaten alive, but he always gets better. In the third season episode "The Recipe", we see his parents replace him with a clone (made by a toaster) every time he dies.

** In ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', getting killed off is actually part of Mysterion's (Kenny's) gameplay. Whenever he dies, he becomes "Dead Mysterion", a floating spectre that has it's own moveset different from regular Mysterion. He can return to life with his LimitBreak, which consists of his soul rising to heaven only to change his mind at the last second and reviving as regular Mysterion.

* In ''Series/MacGyver1985'', the recurring villain Murdoc is killed at the end of each episode he appears in. Each time, they NeverFoundTheBody. He promptly returns some time later.