History Main / TooCooltoLive

** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'' with the sole exception of Alyssa Ashcroft (who is confirmed to be alive in ''[=RE7=]''), the main cast: Kevin Ryman, David King, Mark Wilkins, George Hamilton, Cindy Lennox, Yoko Suzuki and Jim Chapman. All of them are very cool [[ActionSurvivor action survivors]], but are DoomedByCanon as the ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 RE2]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3 RE3]]'' protagonists are along with Alyssa the only known survivors of Raccoon City.

** Pietro Maximoff in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. BulletTime speed faster than anyone else in the MCU, has a RunningGag with Hawkeye about how the other "didn't see that coming", and eventually joins the Avengers and SHIELD...only to get mowed down by a minigun (thanks to OnceIsNotEnough moment by Iron Man, The Vision and Thor), which he ''didn't'' see coming. His death helps cement his twin sister's status as an Avenger.

** Also, in between the second and fourth films, CoolOldGuy HonestCorporateExecutive BigGood John Hammond also passed away.

** In [[Film/Godzilla1954 the original]], Dr. Serizawa, {{eyepatch|OfPower}}-wearing supergenius who pulls a HeroicSacrifice and ''evapourates Godzilla''.

* Vegeto (Vegerot in the VIZ translation) from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Yep. Guy comes, dominates Buu-Gohan (In his base form in the anime, he just transformed for kicks), even when turned into the world's most powerful candy, he lets himself get eaten by Buu so he can go save his friends. Unfortunately, he unexpectedly lets down his protective barrier and defuses. Story repeats itself in both ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', with both Vegeto Blue [[spoiler: which used all of his energy while battling Merged Zamasu]] and Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, who didn't take Omega Shenron seriously while fighting him and defused because his transformation costed too much energy.

* [[TricksterMentor Cross]] Marian in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' necessitated a hunt across half of Asia by the Black Order, then sauntered in and saved Allen's ass on the Ark. His superiors at the Black Order were not amused by his tendency to go truant and put him under house arrest, and he spent quite a while lounging around headquarters, [[ChivalrousPervert seducing women]], racking up insane amounts of debt on the Order's tab, and [[CoolMask completely]] [[BadassLongcoat outshining]] [[NiceHat every]] [[TheGunslinger damn]] [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority person]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter in the]] [[FourStarBadass whole]] place, as was aptly demonstrated when [[spoiler:Lulu Bell attacked.]] He was attacked at HQ and appeared to be dead, but his body disappeared, with his gun, and mask left at the scene. Komui exams the bullet hole in his mask, and tells other generals that all the blood belonged to Cross and that a wound of such magnitude would have been fatal. [[spoiler: However, it's been revealed that he survived the shot to his head, but has only been placed in a ConvenientComa because of it. Road reveals it when she states she wants him to keep sleeping, in chapter 222]]

* Boromir in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. The ''only'' member of the Fellowship to bite it, he combines this with RedemptionEqualsDeath. Taken UpToEleven in the film, where he's played by doomed-cool-guy extraordinaire Creator/SeanBean and has a glorious DyingMomentOfAwesome.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'''s RoguesGallery the Winds of Destruction Mistral (a multi-armed french cyborg femme fatale), Monsoon (a poetic sai-wielding MagnetismManipulation cyborg), Sundowner (a LargeHam [[ShearMenace sissor sword]]-wielding cyborg), Jetstream Sam (brazilian samurai BloodKnight) and the BigBad Senator Armstrong (a bare fisted and chested nanomachine-empowered MagnificentBastard) are this UpToEleven. Each of them are awesome to a [[RuleOfCool ludicrously badass extent]], with Sam, Mistral and Monsoon being characters who could easily be protagonists of any other HackAndSlash game. Sadly they're the antagonists trying to plunge in the world into conflict, so they gotta die.

** Also from ''Solid'' Liquid Snake. The BadassLongcoat donning, glorious hammy EvilTwin of Solid Snake, who steals and pilots a Metal Gear and almost enacts World War III, drives a jeep one handed while driving shirtless gets killed by the Foxdie virus after enaging in some fisticuffs with his brother. He was so cool he came back (kinda, its compilcated) as an arm possesing Ocelot in later games. FOXHOUND in general also counts, with members that Snake kills including Vulcan Raven a GatlingGood Alaskan Shaman, Sniper Wolf a beautiful DarkActionGirl who has a bunch of pet huskies and Pyscho Mantis a PsychicPowers EvilGenius [[BreakingTheFourthWall who reads your memory card]]. Not to mention TheDragon Vamp who is KilledOffForReal in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'' revels in this, as any character (espeically newly introduced ones) who aren't closely connected or related to the core group have a horribly high mortailty rate leading to TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth characters like [[KillTheCutie Barbara and Chrissy to die]] as well as nice guys like Bob or RatedMForManly hardcases like Billy to cark it (after at least redeeming themselves in Billy's case). The crowning example however is [[spoiler: [[EsembleDarkHorse Eddie]], a HeavyMetal enthusiast, excellent [[TableTop/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeon Master]], charmastic, sweet and hilarious wiseguy who has the most glorious SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwsome [[ThePowerOfRock shredding a guiter solo]] (dedicated to Chrissy) of Music/{{Metallica}}'s "Master of Puppets" in the [[{{Mordor}} Upside Down]] ''while lightning goes off in the sky''. Of course Eddie pulls a HeroicSacrifice shortly after and dies, because he was simply '''too goddamn awesome to live at that point'''.]]

* Vegeto (Vegerot in the VIZ translation) from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Yep. Guy comes, dominates Buu-Gohan (In his base form in the anime, he just transformed for kicks), even when turned into the world's most powerful candy, he lets himself get eaten by Buu so he can go save his friends. Unfortunately, he unexpectedly lets down his protective barrier and defuses. Story repeats itself in both ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', with both Vegetto Blue [[spoiler: which used all of his energy while battling Merged Zamasu]] and Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, who didn't take Omega Shenron seriously while fighting him and defused because his transformation costed too much energy.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'' revels in this, as any character (espeically newly introduced ones) who aren't closely connected or related to the core group have a horribley high mortailty rate leading to TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth characters like [[KillTheCutie Barbara and Chrissy to die]] as well as nice guys like Bob or RatedMForManly hardcases like Billy to cark it (after at least redeeming themselves in Billy's case). The crowning example however is [[spoiler: [[EsembleDarkHorse Eddie]], a HeavyMetal enthusiast, excellent [[TableTop/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeon Master]], charmastic, sweet and hilarious wiseguy who has the most glorious SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwsome [[ThePowerOfRock shredding a guiter solo]] (dedicated to Chrissy) of Music/{{Metallica}}'s "Master of Puppets" in the [[{{Mordor}} Upside Down]] ''while lightning goes off in the sky''. Of course Eddie pulls a HeroicSacrifice shortly after and dies, because he was simply '''too goddamn awesome to live at that point'''.]]

* ''Series/StrangerThings'' revels in this, as any character (espeically newly introduced ones) who aren't closely connected or related to the core group have a horribley high mortailty rate leading to TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth characters like [[KillTheCutie Barbara and Chrissy to die]] as well as nice guys like Bob or RatedMForManly hardcases like Billy to cark it (after at least redeeming themselves in Billy's case). The crowning example however is [[spoiler: [[EsembleDarkHorse Eddie]], a HeavyMetal enthusiast, excellent [[TableTop/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons Master]], charmastic, sweet and hilarious wiseguy who has the most glorious SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwsome [[ThePowerOfRock shredding a guiter solo]] (deicated to Chrissy) of Music/{{Metallica}}'s "Master of Puppets" in the [[{{Mordor}} Upside Down]] ''while lightning goes off in the sky''. Of course Eddie pulls a HeroicSacrifice shortly after and dies, because he was simply '''too goddamn awesome to live at that point'''.]]

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'''s RoguesGallery the Winds of Destruction Mistral (a multi-armed french cyborg femme fatale), Monsoon (a poetic sai-wielding MagnetismManipulation cyborg), Sundowner (a LargeHam [[ShearMenace sissor sword]]-wielding cyborg), Jetstream Sam (brazilian samurai BloodKnight) and the BigBad Senator Armstrong (a bare fisted and chested nanomachine-empowered MagnificentBastard) are this UpToEleven. Each of them are awesome to a [[RuleOfCool ludicrously badass extent]], with Sam, Mistral and Monsoon being characters who could easily be protagonists of any other HackAndSlash game. Sadly they're antagonists trying to plunge in the world into conflict, so they gotta die.

** Albert Wesker. The SinisterShades wearing, BadassLongcoat wearing, LargeHam, SmugSuper LightningBruiser, overaching BigBad MadScientist of the first six games meets his end during ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' in the most metal way possible being exploded by [=RPGs=]s inside an active volcano.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' has quite few of these such as Lady Dimitrescu and Hisenberg but the biggest example is [[spoiler: TheHero Ethan Winters himself the guy [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil7 who braved house full of mutant hicks to get his wife back]] and in ''Village'' decimated the RE equivalent to the Addams's Family to get his baby daughter back, even beating the BigBad Miranda with his heart ripped out. Ethan was cooler than Chris, Leon and most of the other protagionists combined, of course he couldn't be allowed to live.]]
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'' with the sole exception of Alyssa Ashcroft (who is confirmed to be alive in ''[=RE7=]''), the main cast: Kevin Ryman, David King, Mark Wilkins, George Hamilton, Cindy Lennox, Yoko Suzuki and Jim Chapman. All of them are very cool [[ActionSurvivor action survivors]], but are DoomedByCanon as the ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 RE2]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3 RE3]]'' protagonists are along with Alyssa are the only known survivors of Raccoon City.

** [[spoiler:Except it didn't really take the first time around. So he was too cool to live and too cool to stay dead.]]

* Vegetto (Vegerot in the VIZ translation) from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Yep. Guy comes, dominates Buu-Gohan (In his base form in the anime, he just transformed for kicks), even when turned into the world's most powerful candy, he lets himself get eaten by Buu so he can go save his friends. Unfortunately, he unexpectedly lets down his protective barrier and defuses. Story repeats itself in both ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', with both Vegetto Blue [[spoiler: which used all of his energy while battling Merged Zamasu]] and Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, who didn't take Omega Shenron seriously while fighting him and defused because his transformation costed too much energy.

** Same goes for The Boss in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. She could just stand there and look at her enemies, and every soldier would throw away his weapon and surrender.

* ''One'' from ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'', The character was in the movie for all of fifteen minutes (and the evil AI had to cheat to kill him), but the actor's strong performance made a lasting impact. ''Film/ResidenEvilRetribution'' revisits the cloning subplot, so One and Rain (who was also too cool to live) do return... [[EvilIsCool As villains.]]

* [[spoiler:Brian]] could become an example in ''Film/FastAndFurious7'', for the same reason mentioned directly above. [[spoiler: [[CharacterOutlivesActor He ultimately]] [[SubvertedTrope doesn't]].]]

* [[GuestStarPartyMember Teddy]] from ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}''. Appropriately enough, his appearance in the popular ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' fancomic ''Webcomic/TheChosenFour'' is a hilariously blatant CaptainErsatz of [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]].

* Tristan, the cool dude with the hawk in the 2004 ''Film/KingArthur'' movie. 'Course, he's played by Creator/MadsMikkelsen, so what're you expecting?

* [[spoiler:Tackleberry]] between ''Mission to Moscow'' and the next ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' film, [[ActorExistenceFailure and for good reason]].

** It's not so much canon as firmly implied that he won't live long, but Godot.

** ''Film/Alien vs. Predator'' (2004): The general opinion people have of Adele Rousseau, with most reviewers stating that she's the only character they liked. So of course she's one of the first to die. And Scar, for somewhat obvious reasons.

** This also applies to Aerith. For the period she's with the group, she's one of the most useful members (being the best magic-user and the primary healer), not to mention her loveable tomboyish personality and status as LastOfHerKind. It makes it very easy to get attached to her, until... well.

* ''One'' from ''Film/ResidentEvil'', The character was in the movie for all of fifteen minutes (and the evil AI had to cheat to kill him), but the actor's strong performance made a lasting impact.
** The fifth movie revisits the cloning subplot, so One and Rain (who was also too cool to live) do return... [[EvilIsCool As villains.]]

* WordOfGod for ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'' is that [[spoiler: Charlie McGee]] was killed for having [[StoryBreakerPower story-breaking power levels]]: ([[spoiler:epic-level pyrokinesis and massive heat tolerance, mind reading, a CompellingVoice, and developing telekinesis too]]). It's possible that [[spoiler: Carrie White]], with epic-level telekinesis, faced a similar problem.

** [[spoiler:Caesar Zeppeli: Used the last of his Hamon to create a bubble of blood containing his headband and antidote for Joseph after being mortally wounded by Wamuu.]]

** [[HandicappedBadass Gazelle]], the CrazyAwesome, lethal DarkActionGirl.

* Let's be honest, the moment you saw Creator/JohnCReilly playing a badass, funny CrazySurvivalist and war veteran who [[CrazyAwesome kills pterodactyls with a samurai sword]] in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', you knew he was a goner ''long'' before he pulled out the [[FatalFamilyPhoto photo of his beloved wife.]] [[spoiler: Which is it what makes it all the more shocking and satisfying when he [[DefiedTrope makes it off the island]] [[EarnYourHappyEnding and is happily reunited with his family.]]]]

* Really, all the Doctors from ''Series/DoctorWho'', being CrazyAwesome, qualify to a certain extent. They all get replaced by another awesome incarnation right after regeneration, though, so it's all good.

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': [[CrazyAwesome Sho]] [[MadMathematician Minamimoto]]. Zetta duh.

* Johnny Gat spends the first two ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' games establishing himself as a CrazyAwesome badass, only to die in the first half hour of ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''. [[spoiler: Part IV reveals that he was in fact Too Cool To Die, and he actually survived the events of the third game.]]

%%** [[FanNickname GARserker]] from ''LightNovel/FateZero'' definitely qualifies. [[ItsAllAboutMe Gilgamesh]] qualifies too, as does [[CrazyAwesome Rider]].

* This happens frequently on ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' what with the writers' remarkable gift of writing fascinating {{One Shot Character}}s, casting veteran actors to play them, and promptly [[CharacterDeath killing them off]]. Notable examples include the druid Aglain (played by Creator/ColinSalmon), the WarriorMonk Alator (Gary Lewis) and the sorcerer Ruadan (Liam Cunningham). That last one was an incredibly rare example of a magic-user who was opposed to Camelot and the Pendragons, but not overtly evil, making his death all the more frustrating. There was also Finna, a CoolOldGal and Isolde, one of the show's few {{Action Girl}}s.