History TonightSomeoneDies / ComicBooks

* Parodied on the cover of the ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' ''Doom Force'' special, where the "WHICH ONE OF THESE HEROES WILL DIE?!" cover blurb is inside [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/9116/899276-1.jpg a huge arrow pointing to the one who would bite it.]] Shasta the Living Mountain did indeed die in the story, but it was a one-off issue, so it hardly matters.

** In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin 85]]'', [[spoiler:The Joker, bored out of his mind during his imprisonment at the Slab, has a hilarious heart-to-heart with his therapist concerning how he views Robin. During said interview, the Joker acknowledges that there have been multiple Robins, and theorizes that there may have very well been multiple Batmen throughout his career as well, meaning that at certain points, he might have actually killed Batman once... or twice... or thrice. Cue a page of little doodles showing Joker killing Batman with various deathtraps, all of which take place strictly in his head.]]

* The cover of Comicbook/NewAvengers v2 #6 came decked out with a large caption declaring that one of the featured people would die. The characters on the cover? ComicBook/LukeCage, ComicBook/MsMarvel, Comicbook/DoctorStrange, {{Wolverine}}... as well as [[spoiler:[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Mockingbird and Brother Voodoo]]]]. Since [[spoiler:Mockingbird]] had only recently been resurrected, [[spoiler:Brother Voodoo]]'s fate was sealed.

* Similarly, the cover of ''X-Men Unlimited'' Vol 2 #9 declares "This issue: {{Wolverine}} ''dies''!" with Wolvie being blasted by a Sentinel. The story is a character piece about Logan reflecting on how often he's reached the point of death, only for his HealingFactor to bring him back.

* Parodied, along with other comic book death tropes, in the Marvel GLA (ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers) limited series. The series promised not one, but two characters would die each issue. However, one would be Mr. Immortal, who has ContractualImmortality as his power. As there were only four other members of the GLA, and issue one did kill member Dinah Soar off for real, the GLA would be more or less nonexistent by the end of the series. However, the team goes recruiting, and the next deaths would include Grasshopper, who was a member of the team for 5.8 seconds (in a parody of Marvel's penchant to give a complex background to a character only to kill him off to show AnyoneCanDie), and Monkey Joe, new member Squirrel Girl's pet squirrel - whom she had spent the issue trying to convince the GLA to accept as a genuine member (just when they did, guess what happened). The final issue saw original member Doorman die, but he was BackFromTheDead before the end of the issue.
* ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'' #10 featured the Initiative's most significant cadets on the cover -- and also promised one of them would die on the inside. [[spoiler:It was one of the Scarlet Spiders.]]

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the old ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}}'' series, which had one cover promise that nobody would die in that issue. [[spoiler:Someone dies.]]
** The point of the issue was that Batgirl had personal reasons for seeing to it that nobody died on that night (It was the anniversary of the day she killed a man as a little girl). [[spoiler: The man who was executed technically died the next day]].