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* Done a few times on ''Series/MelrosePlace'', but most significantly midway through season four. Fox ran TV spots about killing off "two major characters" in the two-part "No Lifeguard On Duty" episode, but ultimately it was a partial cop-out: [[spoiler: Kimberly's stalker Vic, a minor character who hadn't been seen in months, and Brooke Armstrong-Campbell, Billy's estranged wife and an actual major (albeit hated at the time) character were the ones axed.]]
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' pulls this for its third-season finale. The promo specifically has Castle saying "Someone is gonna die." The producers promised that it wouldn't be a background character. [[spoiler:True to the formula, the line is actually only tangential, but the promise was kept: Captain Montgomery died while getting the bad guy. [[WhamEpisode And then...]]]]
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' pulls this for its third-season finale. The promo specifically has Castle saying "Someone is gonna die." The producers promised that it wouldn't be a background character. [[spoiler:True to the formula, the line is actually only tangential, but the promise was kept: Captain Montgomery died while getting the bad guy. [[WhamEpisode And then...]]]]
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* ''Series/ChicagoFire'': The promo season 11, episode 3 "Completely Shattered" had its promo literally say, "Someone... wont... make it." True to its word, the end of the episode has [[spoiler:recurring character Paramedic Chief Hawkins trapped in a collapsed structure as he tends to one more victim]].
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* ''Series/ChicagoFire'': The promo season 11, episode 3 "Completely Shattered" had its promo literally say, "Someone... wont... make it." True to its word, There's a brief fakeout which makes it look like Gallo is in trouble, but then the end of whole team manages to exit the episode has building. Cue [[spoiler:recurring character Paramedic Chief Hawkins trapped in having the facade of a collapsed structure as building fall on him just after he tends went to one more victim]].aid a victim who was coming out of it]].
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* ''Series/ChicagoFire'': The promo season 11, episode 3 "Completely Shattered" had its promo literally say, "Someone... wont... make it." True to its word, the end of the episode has [[spoiler:recurring character Paramedic Chief Hawkins trapped in a collapsed structure as he tends to one more victim]].
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** Taken UpToEleven in the first season finale. Casualties include [[spoiler: Anne's parents, Increase Mather, Isaac (the mallum's first victim), and possibly John Alden]].
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** Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated in the first season finale. Casualties include [[spoiler: Anne's parents, Increase Mather, Isaac (the mallum's first victim), and possibly John Alden]].
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* Announced prior to season 3 of ''Series/CobraKai''--three characters were going to die in the season. [[spoiler: They weren't lying, but the characters all died in a flashback to Kreese's Vietnam days.]]
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** And they did it again in Season 5. This time the character that died was Jenny Shepard, at the end of the first half of the two-part finale. [[spoiler: Shepard, however, died in a blaze of glory, taking down ''all'' of the bad guys with her. All the grizzled badass, Mike Franks(whom Shepard had asked for help), wound up doing was finish off two of the badguys who were bleeding out.]]
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** And they did it again in Season 5. This time the character that died was Jenny Shepard, at the end of the first half of the two-part finale. [[spoiler: Shepard, however, died in a blaze of glory, taking down ''all'' of the bad guys with her. All the grizzled badass, Mike Franks(whom Franks (whom Shepard had asked for help), wound up doing was finish off two of the badguys who were bleeding out.]]
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** The second season finale featured a plethora of tropes associated with Tonight Someone Dies, almost to the point of subversion. Ads for the show featured the requisite montage of major characters and promised one would not survive the finale. Throughout the episode, characters narrowly survived snakes, bombs, and gunfire, and kept talking and dreaming about each other's deaths. In the final minutes, Kate took a bullet but was revealed to be wearing a bulletproof vest (DisneyDeath) only to be shot between the eyes in the final seconds (KilledOffForReal). As this was precipitated by Sasha Alexander's decision to leave the show, it seemed to be an instance of DroppedABridgeOnHim (although she appeared for most of the third season premiere as a ghost/hallucination).
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** The second season finale featured a plethora of tropes associated with Tonight Someone Dies, almost to the point of subversion. Ads for the show featured the requisite montage of major characters and promised one would not survive the finale. Throughout the episode, characters narrowly survived snakes, bombs, and gunfire, and kept talking and dreaming about each other's deaths. In the final minutes, Kate took a bullet but was revealed to be wearing a bulletproof vest (DisneyDeath) only to be shot between the eyes in the final seconds (KilledOffForReal). As this was precipitated by Sasha Alexander's Creator/SashaAlexander's decision to leave the show, it seemed to be an instance of DroppedABridgeOnHim (although she appeared for most of the third season premiere as a ghost/hallucination).
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** The Australian Network 10 announced on every ad in the 3 weeks before the finale of this show's season 3, "[[spoiler:Marissa]] is going to DIE." Yes, everyone knew [[spoiler: Mischa Barton]] was leaving the show, but this advertising strategy completely undid the finale's setting up of [[spoiler: Marissa going to live with her dad]], a plausible explanation for the departing actor which would have made the death something of a shock.
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** The Australian Network 10 announced on every ad in the 3 weeks before the finale of this show's season 3, "[[spoiler:Marissa]] is going to DIE." Yes, everyone knew [[spoiler: Mischa Barton]] Creator/MischaBarton]] was leaving the show, but this advertising strategy completely undid the finale's setting up of [[spoiler: Marissa going to live with her dad]], a plausible explanation for the departing actor which would have made the death something of a shock.
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** Possibly a JustifiedTrope in the episode ''No Rest For The Wicked''. It's the finale and Dean's year was up; how else do you expect them to advertise it?
** This trope was also used in Australia to advertise the episode ''Mystery Spot'', although to be fair saying that 'tonight someone dies' was a bit of an understatement really, in its own way. Plus, the whole thing ended up being subverted. TonightSomeoneDies... 104 times in a row.
** This trope was also used in Australia to advertise the episode ''Mystery Spot'', although to be fair saying that 'tonight someone dies' was a bit of an understatement really, in its own way. Plus, the whole thing ended up being subverted. TonightSomeoneDies... 104 times in a row.
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** Possibly a JustifiedTrope in the episode ''No "No Rest For The Wicked''.Wicked". It's the finale and Dean's year was up; how else do you expect them to advertise it?
** This trope was also used in Australia to advertise the episode''Mystery Spot'', "Mystery Spot", although to be fair saying that 'tonight someone dies' was a bit of an understatement really, in its own way. Plus, the whole thing ended up being subverted. TonightSomeoneDies... 104 times in a row.row.
* ''Series/TheGrandTour'' special "A Massive Hunt" had a vehicular variant: promotional material teased that, for the first time ''ever'', one of the presenters' cars would irreparably break down and fail to make the finish. Given that all three of them arrived in Madagascar with impractical cars - Clarkson in a 3-ton Bentley Continental GT, Hammond in a Ford Focus RS, and May in an open-cockpit Caterham - it really could have been any one of them. It ended up being [[spoiler:Hammond's Focus RS]], after its clutch broke.
** This trope was also used in Australia to advertise the episode
* ''Series/TheGrandTour'' special "A Massive Hunt" had a vehicular variant: promotional material teased that, for the first time ''ever'', one of the presenters' cars would irreparably break down and fail to make the finish. Given that all three of them arrived in Madagascar with impractical cars - Clarkson in a 3-ton Bentley Continental GT, Hammond in a Ford Focus RS, and May in an open-cockpit Caterham - it really could have been any one of them. It ended up being [[spoiler:Hammond's Focus RS]], after its clutch broke.
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* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Previews for one episode of season 3 focused on a supermarket hostage situation where an AxCrazy woman is threatening to shoot any of a number of characters. By the end of the episode, one character gets fatally shot, and it's [[spoiler:Lynette's babysitter]].
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* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Previews for one episode of season 3 focused on a supermarket hostage situation where an AxCrazy woman is threatening to shoot any of a number of characters. By the end of the episode, one character gets fatally shot, and it's [[spoiler:Lynette's babysitter]].[[spoiler:Nora, the mother of Lynette's husband's other child]].
