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* A horrifically InvokedTrope in the ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio'' episode "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square": a woman who runs a home for unwanted babies has been poisoning her charges. She says that she loves them, which is why she kills them while they're still innocent and happy rather than letting them grow up and become part of the London poor.
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* A horrifically InvokedTrope in the ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio'' episode "The Saviour of Cripplegate Square": a woman who runs a home for unwanted babies has been poisoning her charges. She says that she loves them, which is why she kills them while they're still innocent and happy rather than letting them grow up and become part of the London poor.
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* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' establishes its ChildlessDystopia with a news report about the death of "Baby Diego", the world's ''youngest'' person at the age of 18, in a fatal stabbing incident in Buenos Aires -- the world has been struck with a plague that induces sterility in women, leaving humanity a depressed and futureless DyingRace. Although {{Subverted|Trope}} because apparently Diego's death was as a result of [[AssholeVictim refusing to sign an autograph and spitting in the man's face]]. Paraphrasing Jasper, "he was still the youngest wanker on Earth".

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* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' establishes its ChildlessDystopia with a news report about the death of "Baby Diego", the world's ''youngest'' person at the age of 18, in a fatal stabbing incident in Buenos Aires -- the world has been struck with a plague that induces sterility in women, leaving humanity a depressed and futureless DyingRace. Although {{Subverted|Trope}} {{subverted|Trope}} because apparently Diego's death was as a result of [[AssholeVictim refusing to sign an autograph and spitting in the man's face]]. Paraphrasing Jasper, "he was still the youngest wanker on Earth".
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* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' establishes its ChildlessDystopia with a news report about the death of "Baby Diego", the world's ''youngest'' person at the age of 18, in a fatal stabbing incident in Buenos Aires -- the world has been struck with a plague that induces sterility in women, leaving humanity a depressed and futureless DyingRace. Although {{Subverted|Trope}} because apparently Diego's death was as a result of [[AssholeVictim refusing to sign an autograph and spitting in the man's face]]. Paraphrasing Jasper, "he was still the youngest wanker on Earth".

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* The Boss from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. A warm-hearted, kind, and compassionate patriot through and through, but her [[{{Eagleland}} country]] branded her as a traitor and left her to die on [[GloriousMotherRussia foreign soil]] just to save face. Something that she willingly goes along with to prevent another world war.
* Yumemi (or [[FanTranslation Reverie]]) in ''VisualNovel/{{Planetarian}}'', she better belongs to the heaven of robots... no, to the Heaven where Humans and Robots live together, since that's what she wished for.
* Hinawa from ''VideoGame/Mother3''. It's all way too soon, and she barely got to be seen alive in a full chapter.



* Isara in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', who then becomes Welkin's dead little sister; unfailingly kind and forgiving, [[TheIngenue gentle and demure]]. Her death is more significant to the story and the development of the rest of the cast than her life.
* Faize Sheifa Beleth from ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'', who becomes the FinalBoss due to the amount of senseless death and destruction that he encounters throughout the course of the game.
--> '''Edge:''' "You were just too kind... kinder than anyone... anyone else. But... your kindness was too much for this universe..."
* Lirum, Kaim and Sarah's daughter from ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey''. Thought to be dead by the main character for most of the first disc, then dies of a chronic illness roughly five minutes after he finds her and realises that this isn't the case - talk about a PlayerPunch...
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Tikal from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''. A pacifist and FriendToAllLivingThings, it's implied she had to [[HeroicSacrifice give her life]] to seal [[EldritchAbomination Chaos]] and save the world.
** Maria Robotnik from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. Her last wish to Shadow was [[spoiler:to make sure that the inhabitants on Earth can have a chance to be happy.]]

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* Isara in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', [[spoiler:Mayu Suzumoto]] of ''VisualNovel/CorpseParty'' is an extremely sweet, caring, and sensitive soul, who then becomes Welkin's dead little sister; unfailingly kind and forgiving, [[TheIngenue gentle and demure]]. Her death is more significant to showed the story and the development ghosts of the rest murdered children sympathy, played with them, and would not leave them when her classmates came to get her out, despite the danger the children posed. What did she get in return for her kindness? [[spoiler:[[KillTheCutie Getting rammed into a wall at supersonic speed]] [[UngratefulBastard by the same children]]. It [[CruelAndUnusualDeath reduced her to nothing more than a mess of blood and organs that even her closest friend could not recognize]].]]
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'':
** [[spoiler:Chihiro Fujisaki]] in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. [[spoiler:He can't even bring himself to swat a mosquito while it's biting him, because it might have a family. He blames himself for the death
of the cast than culprit in the first trial when the entire class was forced to vote for someone to be executed under the threat of being killed en masse. His murder, by someone who's jealous of his unexpected strength of will and who ''deeply'' regrets it later, kicks off the second trial.]]
** [[spoiler:Chiaki Nanami]] in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''. [[spoiler:She is a BenevolentAI acting as TheMole of the group, but only to help with the student's rehabilitation process, and is immune to Monokuma's motives, thus disabling
her life.
* Faize Sheifa Beleth
from ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'', who becomes the FinalBoss due to the amount of senseless death and destruction that he encounters committing murder. Overall, she is [[NiceGirl a very kind-hearted girl, supporting Hajime throughout the course game.]] She ends up becoming the culprit of Chapter 5, but [[AccidentalMurder only because Nagito relied on his luck to make her the killer.]] Once this is revealed, along with her being the traitor, the remaining students (especially Hajime) are ''devastated''.]]
** [[spoiler:Gonta Gokuhara]] in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''. [[spoiler:Despite his menacing appearance, [[GentleGiant he is very gentle and friendly and dislikes the idea of harming or murdering his fellow students, even claiming to have never killed a bug.]] Unfortunately, he becomes the culprit of Chapter 4, but only because he intended to MercyKill everyone by graduating after he learned about (what seemed to be) [[CrapsackWorld the state
of the game.
--> '''Edge:''' "You were just too kind... kinder than anyone... anyone else. But... your kindness
outside world]]. Even worse is that he committed murder in a virtual world, but he mixed up the wires he was too much for this universe..."
* Lirum, Kaim and Sarah's daughter
supposed to plug into his headset, causing him to lose all of his memories from ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey''. Thought to be dead by the main character virtual world, including his crime. Once he finds out what he did, he's absolutely ''horrified''.]]
* [[spoiler: Leah]] of ''VideoGame/{{Diablo III}}'' is this. She was a good and nice girl [[spoiler: until her mother betrayed her and the entire team, including an [[AngelUnaware angel]], to bring back the Prime Evil [[BigBad Diablo]] into full power]].
* In ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'', [[spoiler:Miyuki is an EmotionlessGirl
for most of the first disc, then dies game, but only because she's missing half of a chronic illness roughly five minutes after he finds her soul. When she gets her complete soul back, she turns out to be a very sweet and realises that kind person, and even insists on going back into the digital world despite the danger because the other humans can't return to the human world without Miyuki's song]], and as per this isn't the case - talk about a PlayerPunch...
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Tikal from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''. A pacifist and FriendToAllLivingThings, it's implied she had to [[HeroicSacrifice give her life]] to seal [[EldritchAbomination Chaos]]
trope, [[spoiler:in 2 out of 4 routes, Miyuki dies]]. However, unlike most examples of this trope, [[spoiler:the player ''can'' avert this and save Miyuki; she dies on the world.
** Maria Robotnik from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. Her last wish to Shadow was [[spoiler:to make sure that
Harmonious and Wrathful routes, but she survives on the inhabitants on Earth can have a chance to be happy.]]Moral and [[GoldenEnding Truthful]] routes]].



* While it's optional, sacrificing Rosea in ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfileCovenantOfThePlume'' is pretty much this, as she gets to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence as one of Lenneth's Einherjar. She's probably the most {{Woobie}}ish characters in the series.
* [[spoiler: Leah]] of ''VideoGame/{{Diablo III}}'' is this. She was a good and nice girl [[spoiler: until her mother betrayed her and the entire team, including an [[AngelUnaware angel]], to bring back the Prime Evil [[BigBad Diablo]] into full power]].

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* While it's optional, sacrificing Rosea in ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfileCovenantOfThePlume'' is pretty much this, as she gets to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence as ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
*** The game provides
one of Lenneth's Einherjar. She's probably the most {{Woobie}}ish characters famous examples in gaming with [[WhiteMagicianGirl Aerith]] [[LoveInterest Gainsborough]]. She is kind, cheerful (despite her terrible upbringing), everyone in the series.
party likes her and she is the only of them who isn't some edgy AntiHero or troubled soul. So naturally she is also the only one of them to not live to see the credits roll; she dies about halfway through.
*** From ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', [[PlayerCharacter Zack Fair]]. Zack was a textbook example of TheAce, a [[SuperSoldier Soldier First Class]], a NiceGuy, beloved by his allies, and respected by his enemies. Unfortunately, he was DoomedByCanon and died fighting off a literal army of Shinra troops to protect Cloud.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has Lunafreya Nox Fleuret filling in a similar role as Aerith. Pure, adored, and always clad in a EtherealWhiteDress, she is killed in the middle of the game. As {{WebVideo/Dartigan}} points out at her death scene, "[[PersonAsVerb You just got Aerithed]]."
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'': Subverted with
[[spoiler: Leah]] of ''VideoGame/{{Diablo III}}'' is this. She was a good and nice girl Ninian]]. [[spoiler: until She dies after being practically forced via a BreakingLecture into her mother betrayed dragon form, dies forgiving the person who slew her (the guy whom she crushed on, for worse, and who did it while under the influence of a magical weapon)... and is brought BackFromTheDead right before the GrandFinale. (But might be played straight if she marries Eliwood and becomes Roy's mother, as any of Roy's moms is DoomedByCanon.)]]
** According to those who knew and loved him, [[spoiler: Prince Lyon]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' was this to a T. [[spoiler:He's frequently described as kind and gentle, and everything he did was in an attempt to help his country. Naturally, it [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]], nearly ''destroying'' his country instead and leading to his death.]]
** [[spoiler: Queen Emmeryn]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', via HeroicSuicide. [[spoiler: She survives, but she's suffered massive memory loss and brain damage, so in a sense she's still "dead" despite walking and breathing among them. Also, finding out about said survival is ''optional''.]]
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'':
*** Played straight with [[spoiler: Elise]] (specifically in the ''Birthright'' path). LittleSisterHeroine, sweetest and kindest of all the Nohr siblings and the most attached to the Avatar, [[spoiler: to the point where she takes a fatal blow meant for them and dies in her older brother's arms. Her last words are pleading with him and the Avatar to make peace with each other...unfortunately, after this Xander commits SuicideByCop, leaving her final wish unfulfilled.]]
*** From the same game, [[spoiler:Queen Mikoto]]. From everything we learn about her in supports, [[spoiler:she was a kind and caring mother, even to her step-children (who all refer to her as their mother) and her technical captive (and niece) Azura. She was also a good queen who ruled Hoshido peacefully. Naturally, the last thing she does in the game is [[TakingTheBullet jump in front of an explosion meant for the Avatar]], and her dying words are expressing relief that they're safe]].
*** Also [[spoiler:Lilith]], at least in ''Birthright'' and ''Conquest''. [[spoiler:She's lived with the Avatar for years and seems fairly close to them and the Nohr siblings, she's sweet and helpful, and it turns out that she's actually their sister (though Corrin [[SecretKeeper never learns that]]). Her last act in life is also [[TakingTheBullet jumping in front of an attack meant for Corrin]], and they nearly name-drop this trope in the ''Conquest'' version of the scene.]]
* Lirum, Kaim and Sarah's daughter from ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey''. Thought to be dead by the main character for most of the first disc, then dies of a chronic illness roughly five minutes after he finds
her and realises that this isn't the entire team, including an [[AngelUnaware angel]], case - talk about a PlayerPunch...
* The Boss from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. A warm-hearted, kind, and compassionate patriot through and through, but her [[{{Eagleland}} country]] branded her as a traitor and left her
to bring back the Prime Evil [[BigBad Diablo]] into full power]].die on [[GloriousMotherRussia foreign soil]] just to save face. Something that she willingly goes along with to prevent another world war.



* According to those who knew and loved him, [[spoiler: Prince Lyon]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' was this to a T. [[spoiler:He's frequently described as kind and gentle, and everything he did was in an attempt to help his country. Naturally, it [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]], nearly ''destroying'' his country instead and leading to his death.]]
* [[spoiler: Queen Emmeryn]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', via HeroicSuicide. [[spoiler: She survives, but she's suffered massive memory loss and brain damage, so in a sense she's still "dead" despite walking and breathing among them. Also, finding out about said survival is ''optional''.]]
* Subverted with [[spoiler: Ninian]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade''. [[spoiler: She dies after being practically forced via a BreakingLecture into her dragon form, dies forgiving the person who slew her (the guy whom she crushed on, for worse, and who did it while under the influence of a magical weapon)... and is brought BackFromTheDead right before the GrandFinale. (But might be played straight if she marries Eliwood and becomes Roy's mother, as any of Roy's moms is DoomedByCanon.)]]
* Played straight with [[spoiler: Elise]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' (specifically in the ''Birthright'' path). LittleSisterHeroine, sweetest and kindest of all the Nohr siblings and the most attached to the Avatar, [[spoiler: to the point where she takes a fatal blow meant for them and dies in her older brother's arms. Her last words are pleading with him and the Avatar to make peace with each other...unfortunately, after this Xander commits SuicideByCop, leaving her final wish unfulfilled.]]
** From the same game, [[spoiler:Queen Mikoto]]. From everything we learn about her in supports, [[spoiler:she was a kind and caring mother, even to her step-children (who all refer to her as their mother) and her technical captive (and niece) Azura. She was also a good queen who ruled Hoshido peacefully. Naturally, the last thing she does in the game is [[TakingTheBullet jump in front of an explosion meant for the Avatar]], and her dying words are expressing relief that they're safe]].
** Also [[spoiler:Lilith]], at least in ''Birthright'' and ''Conquest''. [[spoiler:She's lived with the Avatar for years and seems fairly close to them and the Nohr siblings, she's sweet and helpful, and it turns out that she's actually their sister (though Corrin [[SecretKeeper never learns that]]). Her last act in life is also [[TakingTheBullet jumping in front of an attack meant for Corrin]], and they nearly name-drop this trope in the ''Conquest'' version of the scene.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'':
** [[spoiler:Chihiro Fujisaki]] in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. [[spoiler:He can't even bring himself to swat a mosquito while it's biting him, because it might have a family. He blames himself for the death of the culprit in the first trial when the entire class was forced to vote for someone to be executed under the threat of being killed en masse. His murder, by someone who's jealous of his unexpected strength of will and who ''deeply'' regrets it later, kicks off the second trial.]]
** [[spoiler:Chiaki Nanami]] in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''. [[spoiler:She is a BenevolentAI acting as TheMole of the group, but only to help with the student's rehabilitation process, and is immune to Monokuma's motives, thus disabling her from committing murder. Overall, she is [[NiceGirl a very kind-hearted girl, supporting Hajime throughout the game.]] She ends up becoming the culprit of Chapter 5, but [[AccidentalMurder only because Nagito relied on his luck to make her the killer.]] Once this is revealed, along with her being the traitor, the remaining students (especially Hajime) are ''devastated''.]]
** [[spoiler:Gonta Gokuhara]] in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''. [[spoiler:Despite his menacing appearance, [[GentleGiant he is very gentle and friendly and dislikes the idea of harming or murdering his fellow students, even claiming to have never killed a bug.]] Unfortunately, he becomes the culprit of Chapter 4, but only because he intended to MercyKill everyone by graduating after he learned about (what seemed to be) [[CrapsackWorld the state of the outside world]]. Even worse is that he committed murder in a virtual world, but he mixed up the wires he was supposed to plug into his headset, causing him to lose all of his memories from the virtual world, including his crime. Once he finds out what he did, he's absolutely ''horrified''.]]
* [[spoiler:Mayu Suzumoto]] of ''VisualNovel/CorpseParty'' is an extremely sweet, caring, and sensitive soul, who showed the ghosts of the murdered children sympathy, played with them, and would not leave them when her classmates came to get her out, despite the danger the children posed. What did she get in return for her kindness? [[spoiler:[[KillTheCutie Getting rammed into a wall at supersonic speed]] [[UngratefulBastard by the same children]]. It [[CruelAndUnusualDeath reduced her to nothing more than a mess of blood and organs that even her closest friend could not recognize]].]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' provides one of the most famous examples in gaming with [[WhiteMagicianGirl Aerith]] [[LoveInterest Gainsborough]]. She is kind, cheerful (despite her terrible upbringing), everyone in the party likes her and she is the only of them who isn't some edgy AntiHero or troubled soul. So naturally she is also the only one of them to not live to see the credits roll; she dies about halfway through.
** From ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', [[PlayerCharacter Zack Fair]]. Zack was a textbook example of TheAce, a [[SuperSoldier Soldier First Class]], a NiceGuy, beloved by his allies, and respected by his enemies. Unfortunately, he was DoomedByCanon and died fighting off a literal army of Shinra troops to protect Cloud.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has Lunafreya Nox Fleuret filling in a similar role. Pure, adored, and always clad in a EtherealWhiteDress, she is killed in the middle of the game. As {{WebVideo/Dartigan}} points out at her death scene, "[[PersonAsVerb You just got Aerithed]]."

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* According to those who knew and loved him, [[spoiler: Prince Lyon]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' was this to a T. [[spoiler:He's frequently described as kind and gentle, and everything he did was in an attempt to help his country. Naturally, it [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]], nearly ''destroying'' his country instead and leading to his death.]]
* [[spoiler: Queen Emmeryn]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', via HeroicSuicide. [[spoiler: She survives, but she's suffered massive memory loss and brain damage, so in a sense she's still "dead" despite walking and breathing among them. Also, finding out about said survival is ''optional''.]]
* Subverted with [[spoiler: Ninian]]
Hinawa from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade''. [[spoiler: She dies after being practically forced via a BreakingLecture into her dragon form, dies forgiving the person who slew her (the guy whom she crushed on, for worse, and who did it while under the influence of a magical weapon)... and is brought BackFromTheDead right before the GrandFinale. (But might be played straight if she marries Eliwood and becomes Roy's mother, as any of Roy's moms is DoomedByCanon.)]]
* Played straight with [[spoiler: Elise]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' (specifically in the ''Birthright'' path). LittleSisterHeroine, sweetest and kindest of
''VideoGame/Mother3''. It's all the Nohr siblings and the most attached to the Avatar, [[spoiler: to the point where she takes a fatal blow meant for them and dies in her older brother's arms. Her last words are pleading with him and the Avatar to make peace with each other...unfortunately, after this Xander commits SuicideByCop, leaving her final wish unfulfilled.]]
** From the same game, [[spoiler:Queen Mikoto]]. From everything we learn about her in supports, [[spoiler:she was a kind and caring mother, even to her step-children (who all refer to her as their mother) and her technical captive (and niece) Azura. She was also a good queen who ruled Hoshido peacefully. Naturally, the last thing she does in the game is [[TakingTheBullet jump in front of an explosion meant for the Avatar]], and her dying words are expressing relief that they're safe]].
** Also [[spoiler:Lilith]], at least in ''Birthright'' and ''Conquest''. [[spoiler:She's lived with the Avatar for years and seems fairly close to them and the Nohr siblings, she's sweet and helpful, and it turns out that she's actually their sister (though Corrin [[SecretKeeper never learns that]]). Her last act in life is also [[TakingTheBullet jumping in front of an attack meant for Corrin]], and they nearly name-drop this trope in the ''Conquest'' version of the scene.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'':
** [[spoiler:Chihiro Fujisaki]] in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. [[spoiler:He can't even bring himself to swat a mosquito while it's biting him, because it might have a family. He blames himself for the death of the culprit in the first trial when the entire class was forced to vote for someone to be executed under the threat of being killed en masse. His murder, by someone who's jealous of his unexpected strength of will and who ''deeply'' regrets it later, kicks off the second trial.]]
** [[spoiler:Chiaki Nanami]] in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''. [[spoiler:She is a BenevolentAI acting as TheMole of the group, but only to help with the student's rehabilitation process, and is immune to Monokuma's motives, thus disabling her from committing murder. Overall, she is [[NiceGirl a very kind-hearted girl, supporting Hajime throughout the game.]] She ends up becoming the culprit of Chapter 5, but [[AccidentalMurder only because Nagito relied on his luck to make her the killer.]] Once this is revealed, along with her being the traitor, the remaining students (especially Hajime) are ''devastated''.]]
** [[spoiler:Gonta Gokuhara]] in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''. [[spoiler:Despite his menacing appearance, [[GentleGiant he is very gentle and friendly and dislikes the idea of harming or murdering his fellow students, even claiming to have never killed a bug.]] Unfortunately, he becomes the culprit of Chapter 4, but only because he intended to MercyKill everyone by graduating after he learned about (what seemed to be) [[CrapsackWorld the state of the outside world]]. Even worse is that he committed murder in a virtual world, but he mixed up the wires he was supposed to plug into his headset, causing him to lose all of his memories from the virtual world, including his crime. Once he finds out what he did, he's absolutely ''horrified''.]]
* [[spoiler:Mayu Suzumoto]] of ''VisualNovel/CorpseParty'' is an extremely sweet, caring, and sensitive soul, who showed the ghosts of the murdered children sympathy, played with them, and would not leave them when her classmates came to get her out, despite the danger the children posed. What did she get in return for her kindness? [[spoiler:[[KillTheCutie Getting rammed into a wall at supersonic speed]] [[UngratefulBastard by the same children]]. It [[CruelAndUnusualDeath reduced her to nothing more than a mess of blood and organs that even her closest friend could not recognize]].]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' provides one of the most famous examples in gaming with [[WhiteMagicianGirl Aerith]] [[LoveInterest Gainsborough]]. She is kind, cheerful (despite her terrible upbringing), everyone in the party likes her
way too soon, and she is the only of them who isn't some edgy AntiHero or troubled soul. So naturally she is also the only one of them barely got to not live to see the credits roll; she dies about halfway through.
** From ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', [[PlayerCharacter Zack Fair]]. Zack was a textbook example of TheAce, a [[SuperSoldier Soldier First Class]], a NiceGuy, beloved by his allies, and respected by his enemies. Unfortunately, he was DoomedByCanon and died fighting off a literal army of Shinra troops to protect Cloud.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has Lunafreya Nox Fleuret filling
be seen alive in a similar role. Pure, adored, and always clad in a EtherealWhiteDress, she is killed in the middle of the game. As {{WebVideo/Dartigan}} points out at her death scene, "[[PersonAsVerb You just got Aerithed]]." full chapter.



* This happens to one character in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', but you wouldn't know the full story of it unless you're on the [[GoldenEnding pacifist route]]. [[spoiler:Asriel Dreemurr, the son of Asgore and Toriel, was described as a young boy who was very kindhearted, possibly more so than his parents, and his birth brought happiness to his parents since they were now a family. Asriel also became best friends with a human child that the family adopted and was willing to do anything the human wanted, even when the pranks got less funny and more dangerous.[[labelnote:*]]Though Asriel somewhat knew the Fallen Child wasn't exactly a good person.[[/labelnote]] Eventually, the child hatched a plan to kill all the humans in their village by killing themself so Asriel could absorb their soul and gain the power needed to kill the humans. Asriel's goodhearted nature won out at the last moment and he could not go through with the plan. When Asriel brought the child's body back to the village, the humans thought Asriel had killed the child and attacked him in response. Asriel did not fight back and eventually went back to his home where he died from his wounds. His death kickstarts the entire plot and many characters in the game state that Asriel was very pure, innocent, and how tragedy washed over the entire monster kingdom when he died.]]

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* This happens Yumemi (or [[FanTranslation Reverie]]) in ''VisualNovel/{{Planetarian}}'', she better belongs to one character in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', but you wouldn't know the full story heaven of it unless you're on robots... no, to the [[GoldenEnding Heaven where Humans and Robots live together, since that's what she wished for.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Tikal from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''. A
pacifist route]]. [[spoiler:Asriel Dreemurr, and FriendToAllLivingThings, it's implied she had to [[HeroicSacrifice give her life]] to seal [[EldritchAbomination Chaos]] and save the son of Asgore and Toriel, world.
** Maria Robotnik from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. Her last wish to Shadow
was described as a young boy who was very kindhearted, possibly more so than his parents, and his birth brought happiness to his parents since they were now a family. Asriel also became best friends with a human child [[spoiler:to make sure that the family adopted and was willing inhabitants on Earth can have a chance to do anything be happy.]]
* Faize Sheifa Beleth from ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'', who becomes
the human wanted, even when the pranks got less funny and more dangerous.[[labelnote:*]]Though Asriel somewhat knew the Fallen Child wasn't exactly a good person.[[/labelnote]] Eventually, the child hatched a plan to kill all the humans in their village by killing themself so Asriel could absorb their soul and gain the power needed to kill the humans. Asriel's goodhearted nature won out at the last moment and he could not go through with the plan. When Asriel brought the child's body back FinalBoss due to the village, the humans thought Asriel had killed the child and attacked him in response. Asriel did not fight back and eventually went back to his home where he died from his wounds. His amount of senseless death kickstarts the entire plot and many characters in the game state destruction that Asriel he encounters throughout the course of the game.
--> '''Edge:''' "You were just too kind... kinder than anyone... anyone else. But... your kindness
was very pure, innocent, and how tragedy washed over the entire monster kingdom when he died.]]too much for this universe..."



* ''VideoGame/{{Wildstar}}'' has the Angel who played a role in the game's Shade's Eve (Halloween for Wildstar's universe) in-game story and event. She was a kind-hearted and compassionate girl based on her spirit's interaction with player. She was one of the few surviving settlers on Cassus when the plague struck on the planet. Due to her immunity from the plague, her blood can be used to create vaccine but her diminutive body meant that she will not survive in the process. Despite the risks, [[TearJerker she]] [[HeroicSacrifice agreed]] with her volunteering and her sacrifice immortalized her as the Angel of Shade's Eve celebration.
* Heather Poe in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' is the player character's ghoul and as much of a NiceGirl as you'll ever encounter in the World of Darkness - notably, she never does anything immoral unless she's under vampiric influence, and while she eventually ends up seducing potential victims for you, it turns out she literally can't bring herself to use a weapon to save her life. Guess who ends up horrifically killed, sending the [=PC=] on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for failing to protect her?



* In ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'', [[spoiler:Miyuki is an EmotionlessGirl for most of the game, but only because she's missing half of her soul. When she gets her complete soul back, she turns out to be a very sweet and kind person, and even insists on going back into the digital world despite the danger because the other humans can't return to the human world without Miyuki's song]], and as per this trope, [[spoiler:in 2 out of 4 routes, Miyuki dies]]. However, unlike most examples of this trope, [[spoiler:the player ''can'' avert this and save Miyuki; she dies on the Harmonious and Wrathful routes, but she survives on the Moral and [[GoldenEnding Truthful]] routes]].

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* In ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'', [[spoiler:Miyuki is an EmotionlessGirl for most of This happens to one character in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', but you wouldn't know the game, but only because she's missing half full story of her soul. When she gets her complete soul back, she turns out to be a very sweet and kind person, and even insists on going back into the digital world despite the danger because the other humans can't return to the human world without Miyuki's song]], and as per this trope, [[spoiler:in 2 out of 4 routes, Miyuki dies]]. However, unlike most examples of this trope, [[spoiler:the player ''can'' avert this and save Miyuki; she dies it unless you're on the Harmonious and Wrathful routes, but she survives on the Moral and [[GoldenEnding Truthful]] routes]].pacifist route]]. [[spoiler:Asriel Dreemurr, the son of Asgore and Toriel, was described as a young boy who was very kindhearted, possibly more so than his parents, and his birth brought happiness to his parents since they were now a family. Asriel also became best friends with a human child that the family adopted and was willing to do anything the human wanted, even when the pranks got less funny and more dangerous.[[labelnote:*]]Though Asriel somewhat knew the Fallen Child wasn't exactly a good person.[[/labelnote]] Eventually, the child hatched a plan to kill all the humans in their village by killing themself so Asriel could absorb their soul and gain the power needed to kill the humans. Asriel's goodhearted nature won out at the last moment and he could not go through with the plan. When Asriel brought the child's body back to the village, the humans thought Asriel had killed the child and attacked him in response. Asriel did not fight back and eventually went back to his home where he died from his wounds. His death kickstarts the entire plot and many characters in the game state that Asriel was very pure, innocent, and how tragedy washed over the entire monster kingdom when he died.]]
* Isara in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', who then becomes Welkin's dead little sister; unfailingly kind and forgiving, [[TheIngenue gentle and demure]]. Her death is more significant to the story and the development of the rest of the cast than her life.
* While it's optional, sacrificing Rosea in ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfileCovenantOfThePlume'' is pretty much this, as she gets to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence as one of Lenneth's Einherjar. She's probably the most {{Woobie}}ish characters in the series.
* Heather Poe in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' is the player character's ghoul and as much of a NiceGirl as you'll ever encounter in the World of Darkness - notably, she never does anything immoral unless she's under vampiric influence, and while she eventually ends up seducing potential victims for you, it turns out she literally can't bring herself to use a weapon to save her life. Guess who ends up horrifically killed, sending the [=PC=] on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for failing to protect her?
* ''VideoGame/{{Wildstar}}'' has the Angel who played a role in the game's Shade's Eve (Halloween for Wildstar's universe) in-game story and event. She was a kind-hearted and compassionate girl based on her spirit's interaction with player. She was one of the few surviving settlers on Cassus when the plague struck on the planet. Due to her immunity from the plague, her blood can be used to create vaccine but her diminutive body meant that she will not survive in the process. Despite the risks, [[TearJerker she]] [[HeroicSacrifice agreed]] with her volunteering and her sacrifice immortalized her as the Angel of Shade's Eve celebration.



* Klik of ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' is one of the all-around kindest, most loyal characters in the series. He is brutally and mercilessly killed while defending the severely wounded Dies Horribly from his (Klik's) psychotic, murderous offspring. His death is one of the most heart-wrenching scenes in the comic, at least as much as [[SenselessSacrifice Chief's]].



* Klik of ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' is one of the all-around kindest, most loyal characters in the series. He is brutally and mercilessly killed while defending the severely wounded Dies Horribly from his (Klik's) psychotic, murderous offspring. His death is one of the most heart-wrenching scenes in the comic, at least as much as [[SenselessSacrifice Chief's]].



* In ''WebVideo/BradJonesDemoReel'', Admiral Crackers suffered a drug overdose [[spoiler:but later turned out to have survived]], and Braddie says he was "too sweet for this Earth". Sid is annoyed by Braddie's schmaltz and tells him to fuck off.



* In ''WebVideo/BradJonesDemoReel'', Admiral Crackers suffered a drug overdose [[spoiler:but later turned out to have survived]], and Braddie says he was "too sweet for this Earth". Sid is annoyed by Braddie's schmaltz and tells him to fuck off.
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* ''Film/{{Pearl}}'' (2022): [[spoiler:Mitzy, Pearl's sister-in-law]], is a nice young [[spoiler:lady]] who leads a privileged life. [[spoiler:She]] is also good friends with [[spoiler:Pearl]] and gives [[spoiler:her]] information and support to help [[spoiler:her]] make something of [[spoiler:herself]] beyond [[spoiler:her dreary farm-bound]] life. Too bad [[spoiler:Mitzy]] has the bad luck of offering her company for [[spoiler:Pearl]] to vent [[spoiler:her]] frustrations on after the latter has already gotten comfortable with [[spoiler:murdering people]] by getting in three (3) tries.

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* ''Film/{{Pearl}}'' (2022): ''Film/Pearl2022'': [[spoiler:Mitzy, Pearl's sister-in-law]], is a nice young [[spoiler:lady]] who leads a privileged life. [[spoiler:She]] is also good friends with [[spoiler:Pearl]] and gives [[spoiler:her]] information and support to help [[spoiler:her]] make something of [[spoiler:herself]] beyond [[spoiler:her dreary farm-bound]] life. Too bad [[spoiler:Mitzy]] has the bad luck of offering her company for [[spoiler:Pearl]] to vent [[spoiler:her]] frustrations on after the latter has already gotten comfortable with [[spoiler:murdering people]] by getting in three (3) tries.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Tara Maclay was without a doubt the kindest, most mature, and most good-natured character of the series - and several critics have noted that of all the Buffyverse regulars, she's the only one never to be even temporarily seduced by evil, making her the only true MoralityChain for literally everybody else. And this being a Creator/JossWhedon show, she ends up getting shot and killed for no real reason by one of the evilest villains in the series. [[TearJerker Doesn't make it any less of a shock.]]

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Tara Maclay was without a doubt the kindest, most mature, and most good-natured character of the series - and several critics have noted that of all the Buffyverse regulars, she's the only one never to be even temporarily seduced by evil, essentially making her the only true MoralityChain for literally everybody else. the heroes. And this being a Creator/JossWhedon show, she ends up getting shot and killed for no real reason by one of the evilest vilest villains in the series. [[TearJerker Doesn't make it any less of a shock.]]
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* The Boss from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3''. A warm-hearted, kind, and compassionate patriot through and through, but her [[{{Eagleland}} country]] branded her as a traitor and left her to die on [[GloriousMotherRussia foreign soil]] just to save face. Something that she willingly goes along with to prevent another world war.

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%%* One of the best-known examples is Evangeline St. Clare, alias Little Eva, of ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin''.
%%** Also from Alcott is Ed from ''Jack and Jill''. He dies from typhoid because he's basically a male, less-known Beth and too good and pure for the world.
%%* ''Literature/TheLittlePrince''.
%%** This was rather scathingly [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] by the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''.
%%* Remedios "The Beauty" Buendia from ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude.'' ... while Fernanda watches horrified as she is taking the clean sheets away with her.
%%** Remedios Moscote, Colonel Aureliano's wife, also received this treatment, since she was married and died [[{{Ephebophile}} horrifically young]] (we're talking ''ten'') due to [[DeathByChildbirth a risky pregnancy]]. (The agreement had been that she'd marry him when she began menstruating. She started at nine, so that was that.)
* Tiny Tim in ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' by Creator/CharlesDickens. His presence inspires goodwill and faith in a way that can only be compared to christian allegory and the possibility of his untimely death removes the last emotional defenses of an already largely remorseful Ebenezer. Except that, at the end of the story, Scrooge's knowledge of the future allows him to prevent Tiny Tim's death.
** Played straight with Scrooge's little sister Fan, his sole living relation based on mutual affection, whose DeathByChildbirth is offscreen and only alluded to, but clearly instrumental in driving Scrooge to detach himself emotionally from the rest of the world. (We only think it's in the book because it's shown vividly in the [[Film/Scrooge1951 1951 Aleister Sim film]]).
%%* Also from Dickens, Little Nell Trent from ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' exemplifies the Victorian fascination with this trope. Creator/OscarWilde's opinion on the trope in general and Little Nell, in particular, was that "one must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without [[{{Narm}} laughing]]."
%%* Melanie from ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' is yet another example.
%%* Yalith in Creator/MadeleineLEngle's ''Literature/ManyWaters'' is a possible example, when she is whisked away by God to avoid death by the Flood.
%%* Diamond in Creator/GeorgeMacDonald's ''Literature/AtTheBackOfTheNorthWind''.
%%* The protagonists of ''Literature/TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas''.
%%* Creator/CliveBarker's Literature/{{Abarat}} series: Princess Boa. [[spoiler: Averted as of ''Absolute Midnight''.]]
* Creator/VCAndrews:
** In Literature/TheCasteelSeries, Leigh (known as "Angel") suffers a tragic life and is eventually raped by her stepfather. She succumbs to DeathByChildbirth at the tender age of just 14.
** A variant in ''Literature/{{Celeste}}'': the rather bratty and annoying Noble does not fit the usual image of this trope, but his mother certainly considers that he does, and when he dies suddenly she forces his twin sister, Celeste to dress as a boy and "replace" him.
%%** The saintly Laura Logan from ''Literature/MusicInTheNight''.
%%** Gabriel(le) Landry in ''Literature/TarnishedGold''.
%%** Eugenia Booth in ''Literature/DarkestHour''.
* Almost literal in ''Literature/{{Awakened}}''; Jack is killed by Darkness because Neferet needed to give Darkness a soul she could not taint (as payment for trapping Kalona's soul). Later, when Nyx appears to the crowd at Jack's funeral, she tells his boyfriend Damien that he is one of the happiest souls she's known.
* In Eddings's ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad Belgariad]]'' series there is mentioned (very briefly) to be a member of the good guy army who is a young, brain-damaged lad with a transcendent musical talent, playing songs of exquisite beauty. He sits and plays one of the most lovely songs the world had ever heard during a battle and is killed by an enemy ignoring it. This is presented as an indication of how cruel war is.
* Georgiana, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Literature/TheBirthmark", had a birthmark on her cheek. When her MadScientist husband eventually removes it, she dies, going directly to heaven since she has no other flaws separating her from being an angel. At least, in this case, it is clear from the start that Georgiana and her husband Aylmer are allegorical figures rather than realistic human beings. Often mistaken on superficial readings as a ScienceIsBad, the story actually deals with obsession and hubris; for modern readers, the story works as an allegory for the often-fatal obsession with cosmetic surgery.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in the ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'' novel ''A Morbid Taste for Bones''. In the end, the monks assume that this is what has happened to the beautiful and saintly Brother Columbanus. In fact, Columbanus was a murderer, and after his KarmicDeath Cadfael [[MagnificentBastard fakes his assumption into Heaven to stop the other monks asking awkward questions]].
* Invoked in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' to explain why boy babies are so often stillborn. It is more likely to be due to [[GaiasLament environmental issues]], but the characters have no idea and thus look for a supernatural explanation.
* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'': Tommy Ross is easily the nicest character in a story [[WorldOfJerkass full of assholes,]] and he dies due to a [[UndignifiedDeath bucket falling on his head.]] This happens in all the film adaptations as well, and in 2013, it's what ultimately sets Carrie off, even more than getting covered in blood.
* In ''Literature/TheCastleInTheForest'', UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's sweet youngest brother, Edmund, dies of an illness in childhood. His father takes it very hard.
* [[spoiler: Roy Meritt]] from ''Literature/{{Daemon}}''. In ''Freedom'' Loki/Gragg muses that his idealism and nobility were too far at odds with the nature of the world.
* Briana in ''Literature/TheDeadAndTheGone'', a book about an asteroid hitting the moon. She gets adult-onset asthma due to the ash in the air from volcanoes. She never stops believing that her parents are alive, despite Alex and Julie's warnings and prays for everyone. One day, when the electricity comes back on, she goes down to their old basement apartment to write her parents a letter. As she is going back up, the power goes out and she dies in the elevator. Alex and Julie find her 3 days later.
* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', this is averted with Ciarra. She's a CuteMute, born that way, acts like a twelve-year-old although she's sixteen, doesn't like shoes, is the only one who can see the family ghost, and is the [[spoiler: go-to option gods use when they need to take over someone to talk to the protagonists.]] Seems like she's in danger of becoming this trope, doesn't it? However, the longer she stays away from castle Hurog, with which something is ''seriously wrong'' the more she looks and acts her actual age of sixteen instead of twelve, and is in the middle of the novel seen being as much of a LittleMissSnarker as she can be, considering that she's mute.
* In Edith Pattou's ''East'', the main character, Rose, was born to replace her dead older sister Elise, her mother's favorite child. In one of the sections, Rose narrates: "Mother was always telling me about Elise -- how good she was, how she always did as she was told, how she stayed close by, and what a great help she was to Mother in the kitchen."
* Creator/DavidEddings's ''[[Literature/TheElenium Elenium]]'' series gave us a minor character named Sir Parasim, a young knight stated by the (male) main character [[EvenTheGuysWantHim to be beautiful]], with a singing voice to match. The words "clear" and "pure" are used to describe him more than once. Turns out, he's the youngest of 12 knights destined to give their lives to help keep the Queen of the kingdom alive. You know the rest... This turn is heavily foreshadowed by Eddings, who has his ''characters'' actually discuss Parasim with language like "He's too good for this world" and "God will probably call him home very soon." It's actually a comfort to Sparhawk when he finds out (after the fact) that Parasim's death was in a good cause. What's especially notable in that this reveals more about the other characters than Sir Parasim himself. As old professionals, they've seen the good ones die young often enough to recognize the signs.
* In ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'', The triplet sons of Agape are all doomed to short lives despite being the kindest and most functional family we see in the story. They fight for others, never quarrell amongst themselves, and only seek to adventure to help others, yet the Fates decided their mother should live to watch each of them die in youth.
* The ''Literature/{{Fallocaust}}'' series pulls this with Finn in ''Garden of Spiders.'' He's specifically chosen to be Elish's sengil due to being sweet and kind and gets [[spoiler:gunned down after refusing to abandon Elish during an assassination attempt as a reward.]]
* ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'':
** Augustus alludes to this, saying, "Like, are you familiar with the trope of the stoic and determined cancer victim who heroically fights her cancer with inhuman strength and never complains or stops smiling even at the very end, ''et cetera''?"
** [[spoiler:"According to the conventions of this genre, he kept his sense of humor until the end, did not for a moment waver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul. But this was the truth..."]]
* John Coffey of the book and movie ''Literature/TheGreenMile'' is a stellar example. Although not a child, he is a childlike GentleGiant on death row for a crime he couldn't reasonably have committed, with magical healing powers and rather obvious SignificantMonogram.
* Raamo in Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''Literature/GreenSkyTrilogy''. Even by Kindar standards, he is quiet, humble, and completely without a violent bone in his body. Snyder killed him off at the end of the trilogy...but then realized she made a mistake with that and inverted the trope with possibly the first ''canonical'' video game sequel to a book.
* The "twist" death of Willow in Creator/JodiPicoult's ''Literature/HandleWithCare'' has strong overtones of this -- several reviews have mentioned that the character was so wise and saintly that the story felt unrealistic.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter''. If you are a kind, loving, sympathetic, well-liked character chances are YOU WILL DIE. This happens to [[spoiler: Cedric, Dumbledore ([[TheAtoner In his later years anyway]]), Hedwig, Dobby, Fred, Sirius, Lupin, and Tonks]]. The only obvious aversion/subversion is [[spoiler:Hagrid]], who appears to be killed off a couple of times but manages to survive until the end.
* Quasimodo and Esmeralda are the most sympathetic of the cast in ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. They both die tragically due to Paris' injustices.
* [[spoiler: Prim]] in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. Another beloved, sweet, and innocent [[spoiler: little sister]], as well as a [[spoiler: natural healer and FriendToAllLivingThings]].
* Murder victim Susan Althorp in ''Literature/IHeardThatSongBefore'' is treated as such by the media and even her mother views her this way; a beautiful, clever, charming eighteen-year old with her whole life ahead of her, until it was cruelly cut short. As it turns out, the truth is [[PlayingWithATrope less rosy]]; [[spoiler:it's revealed that Susan was addicted to cocaine and tried blackmailing a man for money when her father Charles cut off her allowance, in a futile attempt to control her addiction. Charles explains he concealed this information from his wife because he didn't want to tarnish Gladys's image of her as a perfect child. Drug addict or not, Susan definitely didn't deserve what happened to her, though]].
* ''Literature/InDeath'' series: Poor Marlena Kolchek. She was beautiful, innocent, and pure. Unfortunately, a gambling syndicate that Roarke was in a rivalry with kidnapped her, and performed a torture-murder on her that involved breaking her kneecaps and raping her. When they were done, they left her body on Roarke and Summerset's doorsteps. Her father Summerset wanted them punished, but the Inspector who was called in was a DirtyCop in the syndicate's pocket, and he made sure the investigation led to nowhere. What a horrible thing to happen!
* Invoked in ''Literature/InTheTimeOfTheButterflies'' by Julia Alvarez (based on the true story of the Mirabal sisters from the Dominican Republic). Mama says that she thought Patria was going to die at a young age because she was such a good child.
* Helen Burns, Jane's best friend in ''Literature/JaneEyre'', dies of tuberculosis right before a typhoid epidemic kills many girls in the BoardingSchoolOfHorrors. But Helen still has time to impress on Jane the importance of dedication to God and trusting in her own conscience more than the love of others.
* When Princess Sophia dies in ''Literature/KingdomOfLittleWounds'', the kingdom acts like this is the case, going so far as to call her "The Perished Lily."
* ''Literature/LesMiserables'': Hugo seemed to have a thing for beautiful [[WideEyedIdealist idealists]] who are exposed to the realities of this cruel world and die tragically young.
** Fantine is driven by her love for Tholomyes and later Cosette. She lives in awful conditions and prostitutes herself to provide for Cosette, and eventually dies when she learns she won't get to see Cosette.
** Enjolras [[IncorruptiblePurePureness does not allow any vice to distract him]] from his fight against oppression. His beauty and courage in the face of certain death make enemy soldiers hesitate to kill him, but not for long.
* The title character of "Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl" by Creator/HansChristianAndersen carries it off. Well, the narrative does not so much carry this trope as flamboyantly juggle it while singing the complete score to Handel's Messiah. Few works treat a little girl freezing to death as such an unequivocally wonderful thing.
* ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', by Hans Christian Andersen, subverts this trope. The innocent and sweet mermaid who sacrifices her undersea life for love ends up giving up the boy she loves and sacrificing herself instead. However, the story makes it clear throughout that she doesn't have a soul -- and upon her death, she is given a purgatorial afterlife where she might, with hard work and dedication, win a soul and go to heaven. So after her death, she begins to work her way ''up'' to Too Good For This Sinful Earth. Depressing, but not hopeless -- which could well be the point.
* Beth, the sweet, saintly doomed March sister, from all the various iterations of ''Literature/LittleWomen'' is extremely saintly and pure, and since she has no ambitions other than to be at home with her sisters, adulthood just isn't going to happen for her.
* Simon from ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' is the purest of the boys, who is senselessly murdered by the others. Subverted, however, in that Ralph is the only one of the group who actually cares... and aside from Piggy, seems to be the only one who ''notices'', or at least, be willing to admit noticing. Simon was a full-fledged [[MessianicArchetype Christ figure]]. Seriously, there have been professional literary critics who've written essays on this very point.
* Creator/LMMontgomery:
** In the ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series, Walter, the poetic, sensitive, whimsical second son of Anne and Gilbert, is killed in action during World War I.
** In Montgomery's ''Literature/EmilyOfNewMoon'', there is a Murray cousin who died young. This trope is invoked, almost by name, and the young boy is described as being more handsome and more virtuous than anyone. Ever. So naturally, he had to die.
* In ''Literature/{{Odtaa}}'', Carlotta de Leyva, who is DoomedByCanon to be dead by the end of the book, is a young woman of remarkable beauty and grace, loved by all who meet her. (Except the villains, of course.)
* Little Nell, in Literature/TheOldCuriosityShop, is a all loving angel who wastes away of an unknown disease.
* The book and movie ''Film/PayItForward'', where the little boy at the story's center is killed while performing his third and final good deed... and is all but canonized by ''everyone else in the story''.
* So many of the women from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's stories and poems. Poe himself wrote: "The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world"-"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).
* Joshua in Creator/SidneySheldon's ''Rage of Angels'' dies at the age of seven after a blow to the head during a vacation. He was not only a perfect little boy (incredibly intelligent, good at sports, insightful, said the darndest things, etc.) but didn't lose his cheerful disposition despite being kidnapped and almost murdered -- his mother Jennifer was so desperate to prevent it that she asked a ''Mafia prince'' to do everything he could to rescue him, up to and including killing the kidnapper. Jennifer sees his ultimate demise as karmic payback for, during the aforementioned trip, spending a night with his father Adam (the boy was the product of an illicit affair).
* PlayedWith in ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'': The congregation believes Dimmesdale's health is declining because God wants to take such a good man to his eternal reward, but the actual reason for his coming death is his inner torment over hiding an affair.
* In ''Literature/ASeparatePeace'', the main character Gene reflects on the death of his best friend Finny and comes to the conclusion that Finny had to die because he was too good-hearted to be able to live during a war.
* In ''Literature/SharpObjects'', Marian was one of the sweetest little girls in Wind Gap, and dies tragically in childhood. The trauma of her early death is acutely felt by her family and loved ones decades later.
** PlayedWith [[spoiler: for Ann and Natalie. They were also little girls who died in horrific ways, and they both had loved ones who miss them terribly. However, they were both regarded as being tough cookies with tempers and not just sugar and spice, with Natalie in particular having violent behavioral issues her family was working to control]].
* In ''Literature/SomeoneElsesWar'', Otto is undeniably the kindest and most compassionate of the ChildSoldiers. His offscreen death comes as a total shock later in the book.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' and its TV adaption ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Eddard Stark is a naive idealist who is horribly out of place in the DecadentCourt that makes the Westeros aristocracy. Naturally, [[RhymesOnADime Ned loses his head and ends up dead]].
** Elia Martell as well. She was a DelicateAndSickly girl who was married to the handsome and beloved crown prince and secondhand accounts of her recall she possessed a sort of "sweet wit" that made her endearing to many in the King's Landing court. In the series' GreatOffscreenWar backstory, she ended up suffering a horrible and gruesome death at the hands of a pair of [[PsychoForHire the most brutal and bloodthirsty attack dogs]] of the noble family that held a grudge against hers, a fate everyone agrees was one she ''really'' didn't deserve.
* The characters in Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' speculate the pequeninos are ritually killing the humans that did the most good as an act of gratitude that will free them from a world of suffering and malice.
* In ''Literature/{{Spin}}'' after [[spoiler:Wun Ngo Wen, the man from Mars]], gets killed by highway bandits, people start to see him this way. He would probably have disapproved.
* Creator/HenryDarger's ''[[Literature/InTheRealmsOfTheUnreal Story of the Vivian Girls]]'':
** The book includes a subplot about a turbulent, half-mad girl named Jenny, who is killed (in a weather disaster, naturally) at the very end of the story. She lingers for a time, saying lovely Little Eva-like goodbyes to everyone. Her final words (and the last words in the book) are ''Oh, I see God!...''
** Henry's got boatloads of characters like this. Six-year-old Jennie Anges, who is "already marked for heaven", snatches consecrated communion hosts out of a church tabernacle to protect them from enemy soldiers who would desecrate them. Naturally, she gets desecrated instead.
* Creator/JohnGrisham's ''The Testament'': Rachel Lane, a beautiful, saintly missionary doctor and long-lost daughter of tycoon Troy Phelan, dies of dengue fever and malaria in the penultimate chapter.
* Subverted in Jerome's ''Literature/ThreeMenInABoat'' with the narrator's dog Monmorancy. When the narrator first got the dog, he was sure it was so good and fragile it would die shortly... until he witnessed the fox-terrier's aggressive nature.
* [[spoiler: Jenny]] in ''Literature/TheTruthOfRockAndRoll'': “And that was good. That was right. [[spoiler: Jenny]] was made for another time and another place. She never fit in here.”
* In the ''Literature/VitaNuova'', Beatrice dies young as [[HumbleHero her humility and magnanimity]] made her too noble to suffer life on fallen Earth. Instead, she passed into [[{{Heaven}} the realm of the angels]] as was befitting her.
* ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'' contains a particularly egregious example. When Little Eva falls sick, the author treats us to a whole page of waxing lyrical about children who die young because they are too good for this world, then there is a deathbed scene during which Eva has literal visions of heaven and preaches to the rest of the cast about them. Then there's a funeral scene in which Topsy, the little slave girl cries out that she wishes sh had died too, as she can't bear losing Eva.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Badgerfang mainly exists to both be a tragic example of a cat who [[DeathOfAChild died too young]] and to show how evil Brokenstar is. Badgerpaw was a three-month-old kitten who was [[ChildSoldiers forced to become an apprentice]] three months too soon. He was accidentally killed in battle. In [=StarClan=], he was renamed "Badgerfang" because that would have been his warrior name if he had survived into adulthood.
%%* [[spoiler: Celia]] in the novel ''Literature/WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin''.
* The poem "Ye xu" ("Perhaps") by Chinese poet [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Yiduo Wen Yi-duo]], written as an elegy for his young son.
-->''Perhaps you've tired from your cryings.\\
Perhaps, perhaps you need a sleep.\\
...\\
Perhaps, listening to the earthworms burrowing\\
The root-tips of young grass seeping water\\
Listening to the music of such\\
Is better than the curseful sound of humanity.''
* Lennon Rose in ''Literature/GirlsWithSharpSticks'', with her HairOfGoldHeartOfGold, her sunny disposition, and her flowery name. So of course she's the first one to go missing after breaking down in tears during the open house.
* [[NiceGirl Berenice Hollis]] and [[CoolOldGuy Jacques Deberiue]] are the only two genuinely decent human beings in ''Literature/TheBurntOrangeHeresy''. Berenice winds up beaten to death with a tire iron by her cruel boyfriend, while Jacques is sent to a nursing home by [[AmoralAttorney Cassidy]] where he dies only a year after being admitted.
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'' does this with both [[ItWasHisSled Misuzu Kamio]] and Michiru.
* [[PosthumousCharacter Menma]] from ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay'', a painfully-cute GenkiGirl who always put others before herself until she one day drowned at the age of ten. She hangs around as a ghost for most of the series, invisible to most people, ultimately for the purpose of playing through the trope all over again as she writes heartfelt final letters for all her friends [[spoiler:and "dies" a second time as her ghost departs for heaven]].
* Marco Bott, from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. Idealistic, kindhearted, genuinely selfless without any sort of complex, always there to encourage the others, and pivotal in holding the 104th Trainees Squad together emotionally during their first battle. His best friend, Jean, discovers [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe what's left]] of Marco on the second day of cleaning up after the battle, and is horrified when he cannot [[DyingAlone find anyone]] that saw his final moments. This tragedy serves as a catalyst for Jean's evolution from a selfish {{Jerkass}} into TheLeader Marco always believed he could become. Later events suggest something more [[TheMole sinister]] may have been involved in his death...
* In ''Manga/BarefootGen'', there is Tomoko Nakaoka, along with Shinji, Eiko, and many children who were vaporized in the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath effects.
* Same in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' for [[spoiler:Fuko]], [[spoiler:Nagisa]] and [[spoiler:Ushio]]. Thankfully, they got better.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has two prominent examples:
** [[spoiler:Shirley, who serves as Lelouch's most obvious tie to his civilian life. Kind, supportive, and always wanting to help him, Shirley's death signifies a change in Lelouch that also leads into the Zero Requiem.]]
** [[spoiler:Euphemia]]. It was her naivete and goodwill that led her to do something that led to the political need to meet with the man who could control people's minds, which ultimately led to her death. [[spoiler:Ironically, that same compassion leads to the man admitting his defeat, a claim none of her more ruthless or intelligent siblings can make.]]
* ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'': Given that this is the grand finale of the storyline started in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', this trope pops up more than a few times.
** Daisaku Bandai was the former Ultimate Farmer and the Future Foundation branch leader in charge of distributing food in the post-apocalyptic world. Despite [[GentleGiant his intimidating appearance]], he's a very kind and easygoing guy with the voice of a small child and a habit of creating random proverb-esque sayings that make zero sense.[[spoiler: He's the second victim in the Final Killing Game, dying an extremely cruel and unfair death when his Forbidden Action is triggered and poisons him.]] [[spoiler:His Forbidden Action code was "witness violence by participants"; he died because he was present when Juzo Sakakura kneed Ryota Mitarai the chest.]] [[spoiler:Given that at least half the participants in the Killing Game were either prone to violence or saw violence as the answer to everything (including actual violence itself) the poor guy never stood a chance.]]
** The Great Gozu (the latest GentleGiant character in the tradition of Sakura and Nidai) is the large and immensely strong former ultimate wrestler. Despite the fact that he wears a bull mask and can be ''very'' scary if provoked, he's actually a rather gentle and polite soul with strong morals and a deep sense of loyalty to his comrades. Once the Final killing Game starts, he declares that he won't kill anyone, even if it costs him his own life, and protects Makoto Negaei and Aoi Ashina from Sakakura. After finding a hiding place and encouraging them to have hope, he [[spoiler: is killed by the attacker during the second sleeping phase. He has his eyes slashed out, a knife stabbed through his heart, and his body is then thrown into the exposed cables hanging from the ceiling.]] Tragically, it's later revealed that, like all the other victims of the attacker, [[spoiler: Gozu's death was really an extremely gory brainwashing-induced suicide.]]
** [[spoiler:Chiaki Nanami, or rather, the ''real'' one]] continues to be this. If you've already played ''Danganronpa 2; Goodbye Despair'' (see the Video Games entry), you already know just how sweet and caring [[spoiler:Chiaki is/was]]. [[spoiler:''This'' Chiaki was just as kind and similarly reached out to the brooding Hajime when he was still a reserve student, and was the light of her class. Junko's brutal execution of her becomes a tool to drive the rest of the class into despair, and even makes Izuru Kamukura, who should have forgotten everything as Hajime by then, feel upset. The way the ending of ''Danganronpa 2'' was set up gave the player the impression that she may have been able to come back along with the rest of the class, but that Chiaki was born from her classmates' memories and will never return.]]
** Seiko Kimura is the former SHSL Pharmacist who, despite being part of the radical faction of the Future Foundation, is willing to treat her ideological rivals wounds. Despite her creepy appearance and demeanor, she is actually a very caring person with zero self-esteem who simply wants to be useful to everyone. While she does end up chasing and trying to kill her former friends Ruruka and Sonosuke, it's out of long-repressed anger at Ruruka's apparent "betrayal" in high school and how she used her throughout their friendship, and Seiko ends up giving up without harming them. As the third sleeping phase approaches she curls up in a hallway and thinks about how all she wanted was to have one true friend. She had actually loved Ruruka dearly and still wished that they could somehow make up. As she is knocked out by the sleeping drug, the last thing that she thinks about is the deaths of [[spoiler: Bandai]] and [[spoiler: Chisa]] and how she was unable to help them. [[spoiler: She never wakes up, becoming the third victim after being brutally crucified, meaning that she died feeling worthless and thinking that she was unable to help anyone. And just like Great Gozu, it turns out that Seiko's death was caused by being brainwashed into suicide.]] For added insult, in the finale, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the seemingly dead Kyoko actually survived due to taking a cure for the poison in the NG code bracelets that Seiko made during the killing game. She died not knowing that she had actually saved someone.]]
* [[GentleGiant Android 16]] from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' - made to be a killing machine, somehow ended up a FriendToAllLivingThings. If he didn't have a soul when Dr. Gero built him, he would most likely have earned one by the time Cell brutally murdered him. To drive it home further, his is one of the few deaths to stick in a franchise notorious for its [[DeathIsCheap revolving-door afterlife.]]
** Turns out that Dr. Gero based him off of his own son, who died in the Red Ribbon Army. If he was anything like Android 16 was in personality, it would help to explain how his death would drive Gero off the deep end.
* Spoofed in ''Literature/FateZero'''s Einzbern Consultation Room extra. Lancer learns from Irisviel that the source of his suffering was not actually from [[BlessedWithSuck his curse]]. As it turns out, being noble [[MrFanservice fangirl bait]] voiced by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa in an "[[Creator/GenUrobuchi Urobutcher]]" series makes his likelihood of dying horribly and tragically 170%.
-->'''Irisviel:''' [[{{Bishonen}} If you're good-looking]], your bad end karma will increase 20%. [[NiceGuy If you have a nice personality]], it'll increase another 30%. [[ChickMagnet If you make girls want it, even when you don't]], that's another 30%. And if you're voiced by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa, that's 90%.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has this in several flavors.
** [[spoiler: Nina and Alexander]], an adorable girl and her dog, who suffer and die in a gruesome way in one of the most infamous scenes. They are literally [[spoiler:''fused'' together by her father, to the point their brains are combined and are mercy killed soon after.]] This event haunts Ed and Al arguably as much as their mother's death.
** [[spoiler:Maes Hughes, who is an unusual case in that he is a veteran of an exceptionally atrocious war and a bit of a DeadpanSnarker. All the same, he is a loving family man who brags endlessly about his wonderful wife and young daughter and tries to help his friends and country the best that he can. So, naturally, he dies not even a quarter of the way into the series, in a cruelly ironic way to boot.]]
*** [[spoiler: Hughes earns triple points because his death is because he's "too good" in three separate ways. (1) [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished He's too good a friend to the Elric brothers.]] (2) [[GovernmentConspiracy He's too good at his job.]] (3) He's too good of a family man, at the worst possible moment.]]
* Played upon in ''Gestalt''. Ohri, the resident CuteMute and ManicPixieDreamGirl starts as a slave girl, offered to Oliver, the main character. As Oliver flatly refuses to accept her (as he's staunchly opposed to slavery), Ohri, willing to follow him, describes this trope point-by-point, telling him that being too cute and helpless to thrive in a world so sinful to accept slavery, she would be eventually sold to someone else, without Oliver's morality, and die in the most {{Anvilicious}} manner possible. Oliver finally relents and accepts her as one of the TrueCompanions.
* Shuu from ''Manga/GetBackers'', when he is killed by Kumon Horii.
** Many childhood friends of Ginji, during his childhood in the Limitless Fortress, especially a girl who was a close friend of his.
* Shouyo-sensei in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is shown in flashbacks as an oasis of kindness, patience, and wisdom for his students during the Amanto war. He is perhaps the ''only'' purely gentle and caring character without any bizarre personality defects in the series. His death is a driving motivation for the serious storylines, particularly how his students responded to it: Gintoki accepts the sinful earth that killed his teacher and protects it anyway; Takasugi thinks an earth so sinful should only be destroyed completely. [[spoiler:Even when he is revealed to be one of BigBad Utsuro's many lives, Shouyo is still portrayed as innocent, as it was the one life Utsuro enjoyed fully and was mostly devoid of the horrors and tortured existence Utsuro suffered through millenia.]]
* [[spoiler: Hare]] in episode 15 of ''Anime/GuiltyCrown''. When a group of students fears they'll be allowed to die because their voids aren't useful enough, they go out to try and get more vaccine from a hospital and prove they aren't useless. Shu and [[spoiler: Hare]] head out to stop them so they won't get killed pointlessly. Before Shu can get them to listen to reason, they are found and attacked by the Antibodies. Souta, having been among the group going to the hospital, asks [[spoiler: Hare]] to use her void in order to [[spoiler:[[MrFixIt "heal" a car]]]] so they can escape. She gets targeted by Daryl, Shu sees this, and he dives to save her. They both get caught in an explosion and get badly hurt. [[spoiler: Hare chooses to use her void to heal Shu ''while she's bleeding out of her stomach'' and talks about a picture book she read once about a "kind king" who tries to make everyone happy, but his kindness ends up ruining his kingdom and angering his people. she says she liked him despite this and loved Shu because he was similarly kind to a fault. she then dies and starts to crystallize, only completely disappearing after Shu wakes up to see her dead body.]] What helps prove how good she is is that the sight of her fading from existence causes Shu's worst HeroicBSOD yet, sends him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and quite possibly (at time of writing) led to a StartOfDarkness in Shu as he seems to lose all hope and kindness.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''
** Angelica is the first of the cyborgs, and everyone at the newly formed agency loves and dotes on her [[FlawedPrototype until her conditioning starts to break down]]. All the cyborg girls have their quirks and flaws, but Angelica is never portrayed as anything but nice, making her slow demise all the more tragic. However this is also the fate of the other cyborg girls who won't die in action, rather than a fate reserved for Angelica alone.
** Subverted with [[PosthumousCharacter Enrica]]; for the first several volumes of the manga, we only know Enrica through Jose's flashbacks, all of which portray her as incredibly innocent. When the manga begins to detail the Croce family's backstory, Enrica is portrayed with a lot of human flaws that weren't initially shown. Not that her dying in the backstory doesn't suck, mind you.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'':
** According to [[BigBad Dio]], his mother was this. A truly kind woman who was ultimately worked to death by his abusive father.
** George Joestar was a kind man who lent mercy to the otherwise [[{{Jerkass}} awful]] Dario and his [[TheSociopath even worse son]], Dio, while wishing he and his own son would eventually get along, [[spoiler:something that is not rewarded as the ungrateful adoptee decides to kill him in order to become a vampire]]. This is even acknowledged in-universe by Speedwagon, believing that a kind man like him didn't deserve what happened to him.
** [[spoiler:[[TheHero Jonathan Joestar]], in his final moments, despite all the horrible things Dio did to him throughout his life, felt only brotherly love rather than hatred for him, as well as pleading his pregnant wife to take care of a stranger's orphaned baby girl. A truly kind and gentle soul like his father before him, also murdered by his ungrateful brother. Notably, Dio ''agrees'', having only come to truly understand how much of a kind and gentle soul Jonathan was at the end, regarding him as the [[WorthyOpponent greatest of his adversaries]], and in his own twisted way ''does'' love and respects him as a noble paragon]].
* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The Countess of Wellington was a kind lady who bonded with Sandybell over their love of flowers. She passed away in a traffic accident while she was very young. And this was the start of the [[ImpoverishedPatrician problems]] [[GoldDigger for]] [[AbusiveParents her]] [[ArrangedMarriage son]] [[HomelessHero Marc]]...
* Lady Hamona of ''Anime/WolfsRain'' was the only one of the four Nobles who was actually a good person. She was a gentle, soft-spoken woman unlike her sister, Jaguara, and was a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her lover Darcia. But that didn't prevent her fate, as when she visited Darcia's villa, [[spoiler: she catches Paradise sickness from him as a part of his family curse, an illness that took away her soul, rendering her comatose.]] If that wasn't enough, her EvilTwin Jaguara became a GreenEyedMonster because she was in love with Darcia too. So Jaguara takes the opportunity to [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Hamona while she was sick.]]]]
** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]] and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.
** And also Cheza, the flower maiden. She and the wolf she loved, Kiba, were mortally wounded by Darcia in the GrandFinale, and when she finally starts blooming, Darcia hauls her around by her spine. As soon as Kiba reaches her, and they share one last tender moment together, [[spoiler: [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Cheza disintegrates into seeds in Kiba's arms.]]]]
* Tatara Totsuka of ''Anime/{{K}}'' was an extremely kind and well-meaning young man who just happened to be friends with some dangerous people, the clan of the Red King. He was the light of their group, who kept them at least calm enough to not blow up ''everything''. So when he dies, all hell breaks loose - [[spoiler: just as the Colorless and Green kings wanted]].
* Susannah Julia Von Wincott from ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh'' falls under this trope. Can almost be called the MessianicArchetype. It is said that she was too pure for the Shoushu, the BigBad of the show, to possess her. Thus, making Yuuri the last hope. She sacrificed her life trying to help injured soldiers.
* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', due to its large cast, has several examples, the absolute crowning example of which is [[spoiler:Siegfried Kircheis]], who serves as the series' first SacrificialLion. He's repeatedly touted, in-universe no less, as a shining ideal of friendship, kindness, and loyalty and one of the greatest military thinkers in the show, and his death [[spoiler:trying to save Reinhart von Lohengramm from an assassin]] haunts an entire half of the cast for most of the series' run. "If only [[spoiler:Kircheis]] had lived..." becomes ArcWords concerning [[spoiler:Reinhart]]'s fate for the rest of the show.
* Goro's father Shigeharu Honda in ''Manga/{{Major}}''. [[GoodParents A loving father]] whose son looked up to and wanted to follow his footsteps. He was finally moving on from his wife's death to marry again and give his son a new mom, and when it seemed he was going to make a successful comeback as a pinch hitter, he got hit in the head by a dead ball that ended his life.
* ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'': From Taiyo's memories, it's clear that the Asanos were a close-knit family. Hide and Akari worked as a pharmaceutical worker and a nurse respectively to help ill patients to the point that one of them, Shirai, considered them her family, while Hikaru was by all counts a cheerful, happy child. Then they lost their lives in the car accident that leaves Taiyo the SoleSurvivor.
* Haku of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' was incredibly selfless and kind. His death to protect Zabuza was what spurred the man into his SelfDestructiveCharge and revealed the humanity he had long since buried. And then, as if the double-death scene wasn't poignant enough, [[SnowMeansDeath it snowed]]. Furthermore, it was Haku's words that helped Naruto become the good and kind man he became. Kakashi himself lampshades it when [[spoiler: the two are brought back to life during the 4th Shinobi War, thanking for meeting them.]]
* [[spoiler:Ace]]'s death in ''Franchise/OnePiece''. While not having a happy childhood, with nearly everyone unknowingly telling him that his father [[spoiler:Gold Roger]] was a cruel, unsympathetic bastard and with the World Government claiming that a child of [[spoiler:Gold Roger]]'s didn't deserve to live, this character was a relatively friendly, polite and all-round nice person.
* Amber and her clone Ambertwo in ''Radio/PokemonTheBirthOfMewtwo'' and its animated adaptation in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. Amber was her dad's MoralityPet and she died getting hit by a car. Her father tried to create a ReplacementGoldfish, but human cloning wasn't advanced enough for Ambertwo to survive long. Ambertwo was Mewtwo's CheerfulChild best friend when he was still developing.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' subverts this in a couple of different ways.
** Mami, a rare example of a strong but also kind and heroic magical girl, [[TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled gets decapitated and eaten by a witch]] to kick off the darker parts of the story. But it later turns out she was capable of some pretty horrifying acts after a good FreakOut, such as [[spoiler:killing her friends so they won't become witches. And, in the end, she comes back to life, so the trope no longer applies]].
** Madoka, the poster child for IncorruptiblePurePureness in a CrapsackWorld, seems doomed to this fate, and [[spoiler:does suffer it ''many'' times in [[GroundhogDayLoop previous timelines]]. In the end, though, she sacrifices herself voluntarily to save all magical girls from becoming witches, [[LoopholeAbuse cleverly saving herself in the process]] and literally becoming a god. She "dies" in the sense of being erased from the mortal realm, but there's no remaining sense of the cruel world punishing her for her goodness]].
* Anchan of ''Manga/RainbowNishaRokubouNoShichinin'' is this, full stop. You come to realize fairly early on that someone so good and inspirational and beloved and constantly in danger isn't going to make it for very long.
* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' has Kaworu "[[MemeticMutation Bishonen space Jesus]]" Nagisa. Although his morality was far more ambiguous in the anime series and the manga adaptation, all ''Rebuild'' Kaworu wanted was to see Shinji happy. And where his death in the TV series came by his own request, ''after'' he had attempted to cause Third Impact, in ''Rebuild'' it was basically because of a mistake on Shinji's part that he died.
* The [[LittlestCancerPatient Dauphin]] in ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' died before the Revolution started.
%%* Sayo aka Magdaria from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''.
%%* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Lillias, in the anime series.
* [[PosthumousCharacter Princess Iria]] from ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky''. She brought hope to everyone who knew her and died trying to save a kid.
* Hokuto is afraid something like this will happen to her brother Subaru in ''Manga/TokyoBabylon''. [[Manga/{{X1999}} Given what happened,]] [[BreakTheCutie this trope might have been more merciful.]] [[spoiler: And in a sense, that's what happened to '''her''' instead.]]
* Hide in the AlternateContinuity of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' √A. Kaneki's only friend since childhood, he has always been there to cheer him up and protect him. He spends the entire series completely devoted to helping Kaneki, even as the other pulls further and further away from him to keep him safe. When Kaneki goes missing, he becomes an Intern at [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]] to gather information, and ends up on the battlefield during the finale. The friends ''finally'' reunite, with him acting like nothing is wrong and revealing he knew about Kaneki becoming a Ghoul all along -- but it never mattered to him. He's then [[MortalWoundReveal revealed]] to be fatally wounded, and dies in Kaneki's arms.
* Yuuki from ''Anime/TokyoMagnitude8'' is the sweet, CheerfulChild brother of the cynical protagonist. He died due to [[spoiler:complications arising from getting hit on the head on a piece of falling rubble a few days prior.]]
* Rubina from ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' -one of the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' sequels-. All she ever wanted was people to stop killing each other and being happy with the man she loved. What did she get for her efforts in stopping the war and try to convince everybody to forgive, forget, and rebuild? [[spoiler:She got killed.]]
* ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'' loves this trope so much that some wonder if the writers had problems with these kind of people.
** First we have Aina, the character who deemed the hero's curse as a blessing and was one of the few people accepted Saki Rukino. She is blown to bits, and Kyuma's scream when he finds her is enough to do the same to your heart.
** Then we have Lieselotte, a member of an alien-like clan who wanted her people to coexist with humans. She dies sacrificing her life to protect a person who she once saved as a child.
** Then we have Kyuma Inuzuka, who had a crush on Aina and wanted to prove his curse is also a blessing by protecting the people who five minutes ago wanted him dead for that curse.
** Think that's enough? ''Nope''. In the finale, the hero Haruto loses all his memories as a result of his curse in his final fight. He dies shortly afterwards.
* Kolulu from ''Manga/ZatchBell''. Even though she was only sent back to the Mamodo World when her book was burned, this is still treated as the equivalent of the death in the series, [[TearJerker not to mention the impact it has on people]].
* The ''Anime/YourName'' side novel ''Another Side: Earthbound'' reveals that Mitsuha's late mother Futaba was WiseBeyondTheirYears and very well-respected, revered even, by the people of Itomori. After her death by illness, some of the townspeople started saying this of her InUniverse.
* ''Anime/ReCreators'': [[MagicalGirl Mamika Kirameki]] is the kindest, selfless, and has the strongest moral compass of all the characters that come to the real world. She dies first, in one of the most painful ways possible. For extra tragedy, she gets killed by the same person she was trying to help.
* ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': Several of the characters in this show definitely qualify.
** Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, [[MercyKill forcing Akira to kill them both.]]
** Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his HorrorHunger, he starts ''eating his mother''... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive DespairEventHorizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being ''seconds'' too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, [[PoorCommunicationKills who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun,]] resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
* The ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'' has Nera, one of the fallen angels who serve [[BigBad Temozarela]] and the only genuinely good character in the entire series. She refuses to infect the village close to her caravan with [[TheVirus the Dark Doctrine]] despite given the order to do so and in fact protects it from any harm. Nevertheless, [[HumansAreBastards the villagers]] mistake her as a witch, slaughter her friends, and hang her. Even then, she refuses to spite people; when Temozarela himself appears to Nera as a vision and offers to free her if she declares her hatred against God, she tells him that despite [[RageAgainstTheHeavens everything Temozarela has done]], deep down he still wants forgiveness from God and then calmly accepts her fate.
* ''TAL'' brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. He was only following Ja Gwi to ensure survival for himself and his two children, Haje and Jenna, and hopefully be freed from him by having their marks somehow removed [[spoiler:even though Ei Mae had already removed Jenna's mark]]. Attempting to hide Yu Jin's identity from Ja Gwi, however, resulted in Ja Gwi detonating Hiljo's mark, killing him. Haje was so angered he was about to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but was stopped by [[spoiler:Yu Jin "awakening" as the Second King and disabling Ja Gwi, followed by Chau Yoong arriving and sending Ja Gwi to Hell for eternity.]] Chau Yoong stated he would ensure Hiljo's soul was taken care of, before taking him away to properly bury him.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
** In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
** Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their lives to the fullest and quickly gathers fame as the strongest swordfighter in all of Alfheim Online, never losing a single duel. In the end, she succumbs to her AIDS, but her friends and just about every player in the server comes to pay her respects when her time comes.
** In ''Ordinal Scale'', there's also Yuuna, who gets this twofold. First, during the SAO incident, she did her best to cheer her fellow players through her music. During a boss raid she used her abilities to [[DrawAggro draw the boss's minions away from the other players]] which allowed them to beat it [[HeroicSacrifice but costed her life]]. And then in the movie proper, her VirtualGhost helps Kirito and his friends to thwart her father's plans to revive her, and since her data is tied to that of Aincrad's final boss, she disappears for good once Kirito destroys it, though not before she gets the chance to fulfill her dream of singing on a stage for a large crowd.
* ''Manga/FutureDiary'' has two examples:
** Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
** Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confronted on what happened to their son.
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' revolve around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. [[spoiler:She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. [[DrivenToSuicide She then commits suicide.]]]]
* ''Anime/VoltesV'': Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Having a husband that [[PrincelingRivalry rivalled Zambajil]] for the throne.
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*''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The Countess of Wellington was a kind lady who bonded with Sandybell over their love of flowers. She passed away in a traffic accident while she was very young. And this was the start of the [[ImpoverishedPatrician problems]] [[GoldDigger for]] [[AbusiveParents her]] [[ArrangedMarriage son]] [[HomelessHero Marc]]...
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*''Anime/VoltesV'': Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Having a husband that [[PrincelingRivalry rivalled Zambajil]] for the throne.

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* Angelica and [[spoiler:[[SuicidePact Henrietta]]]] in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''.

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See also EvilDesiresInnocence.
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* The ''Manhwa/{{Priest}}'' has Nera, one of the fallen angels who serve [[BigBad Temozarela]] and the only genuinely good character in the entire series. She refuses to infect the village close to her caravan with [[TheVirus the Dark Doctrine]] despite given the order to do so and in fact protects it from any harm. Nevertheless, [[HumansAreBastards the villagers]] mistake her as a witch, slaughter her friends, and hang her. Even then, she refuses to spite people; when Temozarela himself appears to Nera as a vision and offers to free her if she declares her hatred against God, she tells him that despite [[RageAgainstTheHeavens everything Temozarela has done]], deep down he still wants forgiveness from God and then calmly accepts her fate.

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* The ''Manhwa/{{Priest}}'' ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'' has Nera, one of the fallen angels who serve [[BigBad Temozarela]] and the only genuinely good character in the entire series. She refuses to infect the village close to her caravan with [[TheVirus the Dark Doctrine]] despite given the order to do so and in fact protects it from any harm. Nevertheless, [[HumansAreBastards the villagers]] mistake her as a witch, slaughter her friends, and hang her. Even then, she refuses to spite people; when Temozarela himself appears to Nera as a vision and offers to free her if she declares her hatred against God, she tells him that despite [[RageAgainstTheHeavens everything Temozarela has done]], deep down he still wants forgiveness from God and then calmly accepts her fate.
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** Played straight with Scrooge's little sister Fan, his sole living relation based on mutual affection, whose DeathByChildbirth is offscreen and only alluded to, but clearly instrumental in driving Scrooge to detach himself emotionally from the rest of the world. (We only think it's in the book because it's shown vividly in the [[Film/Scrooge1951 1951 Aleister Sim film]).

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** Played straight with Scrooge's little sister Fan, his sole living relation based on mutual affection, whose DeathByChildbirth is offscreen and only alluded to, but clearly instrumental in driving Scrooge to detach himself emotionally from the rest of the world. (We only think it's in the book because it's shown vividly in the [[Film/Scrooge1951 1951 Aleister Sim film]).film]]).
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' mixes this trope with SacrificialLamb, introducing a deformed, yet powerful robot with a child-like innocence that starts off its episode not even knowing good from evil. It winds up befriending [[KnightInShiningArmor Silverbolt]] and [[AxCrazy Rampage]], who both want to protect it for different reasons. Silverbolt cherishes its innocence, while the insane mutant Rampage feels ASharedSuffering. By the end of the episode, [[spoiler:it winds up sacrificing itself to stop its two friends from fighting.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' mixes this trope with SacrificialLamb, introducing a deformed, yet powerful robot known as Transmutate, with a child-like innocence that starts off its episode not even knowing good from evil. It winds up befriending [[KnightInShiningArmor Silverbolt]] and [[AxCrazy Rampage]], who both want to protect it for different reasons. Silverbolt cherishes its innocence, while the insane mutant Rampage feels ASharedSuffering. By the end of the episode, [[spoiler:it winds up sacrificing itself to stop its two friends from fighting.]]
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* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Apparently there's no justice or sense of proportion in the world of ''Stranger Things'', hence why purely good characters like Barb and Bob are unfairly killed off.

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* In ''Webcomic/TheWarriorReturns'', Dohoon Lim is a teenager who sacrifices decades of his lifespan and suffers RapidAging without regret to save the Time World. He's a loving son to his parents and a selfless hero who gave up what few years he had left in an attempt to create a safer world for his family. His kindness and generosity make him LovedByAll, with the leaders of Time World begging forgiveness for [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone forcing him to suffer so much to save them.]]

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* In ''Webcomic/TheWarriorReturns'', Dohoon Dohun Lim is a teenager who sacrifices decades of his lifespan and suffers RapidAging without regret to save the Time World. He's a loving son to his parents and a selfless hero who gave up what few years he had left in an attempt to create a safer world for his family. His kindness and generosity make him LovedByAll, with the leaders of Time World begging forgiveness for [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone forcing him to suffer so much to save them.]]]] He's ultimately sent to die fighting against Minsu by the South Korean government, his name and face largely unknown to the general populace despite coming close to killing Minsu outright.
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%% * [[DeathByNewberyMedal Neil Perry]] in ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.

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%% * [[DeathByNewberyMedal Neil Perry]] in ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' wishes to be an actor above everything, and has been TheDutifulSon to his EducationMama father otherwise. For his act of rebellion (playing Pan in ''A Midsummer's Night Dream'', which gets him a standing ovation) his father causes a massive scene dragging him away from the theater and gets ready to send him to MilitarySchool, and makes clear that he will tighten the leash even harder until Neal is ''twenty-eight'' at the least. For this, [[DrivenToSuicide Neil decides to blow his brains out]] with his dad's revolver.



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%%* * [[spoiler: Trevor]] in ''Film/PayItForward''''Film/PayItForward'' is one of the kindest members of the cast and a perfect example of ChildrenAreInnocent, creating the titular scheme of having people doing kind favors to each other. [[spoiler:He gets fatally stabbed with scissors by a bully in the film's third act (although the bully appears later in the film, some time after Trevor is buried, quite visibly [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretting his actions]]).]]



* ''Film/{{Snatch}}'': [[spoiler:Mickey's [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]]]] is the only member of the Irish Traveler clan [[TokenGoodTeammate who is not a con artist]] and is one of the nicest members of the cast. She also is the collateral damage of the film's biggest DramaBomb [[spoiler:when Brick Top sets her caravan on fire (while she was sleeping in it) to make damned clear to Mickey that he ''will'' take the dive he is ordering him to take in the up ok’ing underground boxing match, or Brick Top will kill everybody else in the trailer park. Let's just say that [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Traveler revenge is a hell of a thing]].]]

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* ''Film/{{Snatch}}'': [[spoiler:Mickey's [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]]]] is the only member of the Irish Traveler clan [[TokenGoodTeammate who is not a con artist]] and is one of the nicest members of the cast. She also is the collateral damage of the film's biggest DramaBomb [[spoiler:when Brick Top sets her caravan on fire (while she was sleeping in it) to make damned clear to Mickey that he ''will'' take the dive he is ordering him to take in the up ok’ing underground boxing match, or Brick Top will kill everybody else in the trailer park. Let's just say that [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Traveler revenge is a hell of a thing]].]]
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* Though it might fall more under MentorOccupationalHazard, Abuela Claudia in ''In The Heights'' is probably the most selfless, good-hearted person in the entire barrio, and probably the most beloved person in the entire community. Guess what happens to her at the beginning of Act 2? But she's not a completely straight example, in that she's an older woman to begin with (and what this means is that her death is more understandable than these other examples).

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* Though it might fall more under MentorOccupationalHazard, Abuela Claudia in ''In The Heights'' ''Theatre/InTheHeights'' is probably the most selfless, good-hearted person in the entire barrio, and probably the most beloved person in the entire community. Guess what happens to her at the beginning of Act 2? But she's not a completely straight example, in that she's an older woman to begin with (and what this means is that her death is more understandable than these other examples).
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* Deconstructed [[spoiler: and ultimately subverted]] with Rose Quartz[[spoiler:/Pink Diamond]] in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. [[DeathByChildbirth She gave up her physical form to birth Steven]], and is described by Steven's dad and the Crystal Gems as the most kind, beautiful, and strongest person they'd ever known. As the series goes on [[spoiler: however, Steven finds out that his mother left behind quite a few skeletons in her closet and was lacking in emotional intelligence]].

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** Series/KamenRiderFaiz has the group using the Kaixa gear in its debut all shown as nice people willing to do the right thing. The fact they all end up dead after one use tells you [[{{Jerkass}} what type of person]] will be the permanent user.

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** Series/KamenRiderFaiz ''Series/KamenRider555'' has the group using the Kaixa gear in its debut all shown as nice people willing to do the right thing. The fact they all end up dead after one use tells you [[{{Jerkass}} what type of person]] will be the permanent user.user.
** Takeru Tenkuuji and Kanon Fukami from ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' are both virtuous, selfless, and died as young teenagers; leading to a conflict in the show's first arc as to which of the two should be resurrected via the use of magical artefacts.



** Takeru Tenkuuji and Kanon Fukami from ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' are both virtuous, selfless, and died as young teenagers; leading to a conflict in the show's first arc as to which of the two should be resurrected via the use of magical artefacts.

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* The characters in Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' speculate the pequeninos are ritually killing the humans that did them most good as an act of gratitude that will free them from a world of suffering and malice.

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** Elia Martell as well. She was a DelicateAndSickly girl who was married to the handsome and beloved crown prince and secondhand accounts of her recall she possessed a sort of "sweet wit" that made her endearing to many in the King's Landing court. In the series' GreatOffscreenWar backstory, she ended up suffering a horrible and gruesome death at the hands of a pair of [[PsychoForHire the most brutal and bloodthirsty attack dogs]] of the noble family that held a grudge against hers, a fate everyone agrees was one she ''really'' didn't deserve.
* The characters in Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' speculate the pequeninos are ritually killing the humans that did them the most good as an act of gratitude that will free them from a world of suffering and malice.
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* ''Film/TheRoom'': [[PuritySue Johnny commits suicide over his fiancée having an affair.]]

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%%* Tiny Tim in ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' by Creator/CharlesDickens. Except that, at the end of the story, Scrooge's knowledge of the future allows him to prevent Tiny Tim's death.
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%%* * Tiny Tim in ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' by Creator/CharlesDickens.Creator/CharlesDickens. His presence inspires goodwill and faith in a way that can only be compared to christian allegory and the possibility of his untimely death removes the last emotional defenses of an already largely remorseful Ebenezer. Except that, at the end of the story, Scrooge's knowledge of the future allows him to prevent Tiny Tim's death.
%%** ** Played straight with Scrooge's little sister Fan, his sole living relation based on mutual affection, whose DeathByChildbirth is offscreen and only alluded to.to, but clearly instrumental in driving Scrooge to detach himself emotionally from the rest of the world. (We only think it's in the book because it's shown vividly in the [[Film/Scrooge1951 1951 Aleister Sim film]).



* ''Literature/HarryPotter''. If you are a kind, loving, sympathetic, well-liked character chances are YOU WILL DIE. This happens to Harry's parents Lily and James pre-series, and later, [[spoiler: Cedric, Dumbledore ([[TheAtoner In his later years anyway]]), Hedwig, Dobby, Fred, Sirius, Lupin, and Tonks]]. The only obvious aversion/subversion is [[spoiler:Hagrid]], who appears to be killed off a couple of times but manages to survive until the end.

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* ''Literature/HarryPotter''. If you are a kind, loving, sympathetic, well-liked character chances are YOU WILL DIE. This happens to Harry's parents Lily and James pre-series, and later, [[spoiler: Cedric, Dumbledore ([[TheAtoner In his later years anyway]]), Hedwig, Dobby, Fred, Sirius, Lupin, and Tonks]]. The only obvious aversion/subversion is [[spoiler:Hagrid]], who appears to be killed off a couple of times but manages to survive until the end.

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* A rare non-child example, is [[ComicBook/TheVision Vision]] in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. He is, to be fair, technically only 3-5 years old, chronologically. Vision is the robot created by Tony Stark to defeat Ultron, which he does with the help of the other Avengers. He is saintly, being a combination of the best qualities of all the Avengers all filtered through the Mind Stone. [[spoiler: He dies by HeroicSacrifice to protect the Stone, but unfortunately it is meaningless, as Thanos reverses time to get it anyway. Being killed before the Snap, he also isn't brought back when Tony and Bruce undo it in the following installation and isn't able to be rebuilt once the Stones are gone.]] A huge part of the reason everyone hates Thanos so much is because of Vision's death because it's very hard to not love the guy.

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* A rare non-child example, is [[ComicBook/TheVision Vision]] (Creator/PaulBettany) in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. He is, to be fair, technically only 3-5 years old, chronologically. Vision is the robot created by Tony Stark to defeat Ultron, which he does with the help of the other Avengers. He is saintly, being a combination of the best qualities of all the Avengers all filtered through the Mind Stone. [[spoiler: He dies by HeroicSacrifice to protect the Stone, but unfortunately it is meaningless, as Thanos reverses time to get it anyway. Being killed before the Snap, he also isn't brought back when Tony and Bruce undo it in the following installation and isn't able to be rebuilt once the Stones are gone.]] A huge part of the reason everyone hates Thanos so much is because of Vision's death because it's very hard to not love the guy.



* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': [[spoiler: Superman]], the entire film's running theme is this given [[spoiler:how much the general public distrusts and even hates Superman, all of which is contrasted by the unflinching love everyone seems to have for him after his sacrifice to stop Doomsday and save the world... again.]]



* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': [[spoiler: Superman (Creator/HenryCavill)]], the entire film's running theme is this given [[spoiler:how much the general public distrusts and even hates Superman, all of which is contrasted by the unflinching love everyone seems to have for him after his sacrifice to stop Doomsday and save the world... again.]]
** ''Film/{{The Flash|2023}}'': The murdered Nora Allen (Creator/MaribelVerdu) was a kind and loving mother to Barry, and she was also incredibly open-hearted, offering a shoulder to cry on to a total stranger she'd met in the supermarket (Barry himself, unbeknownst to her).



* ''Film/IntoTheWild'' leans into this in its portrayal of Christopher [=McCandless=], the young college graduate who abandoned all his possessions and attempted to live off the land in the Alaskan wilderness, only to starve to death.

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* Franchise/MonsterVerse: [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Dr. Graham]] is described by supplementary information as one of the nicest characters around in the setting. She survives the events of ''Film/Godzilla2014'', but in ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 King of the Monsters]]'', she's one of the unlucky few who gets killed off when Ghidorah chomps on her.

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* Franchise/MonsterVerse: [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Dr. Graham]] (Creator/SallyHawkins) is described by supplementary information as one of the nicest characters around in the setting. She survives the events of ''Film/Godzilla2014'', but in ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 King of the Monsters]]'', she's one of the unlucky few who gets killed off when Ghidorah chomps on her.

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