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5[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/youkilledkenny_jpg.png]]]]
6[[caption-width-right:350:[[http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/2008/10/06/YouKilledKenny.jpg The bastards sure kill Kenny a lot.]]]]
7
8->'''Stan:''' Oh my god, they killed Kenny!\
9'''Kyle:''' You bastards!
10-->-- [[OncePerEpisode Almost every episode]] in the first five seasons of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
11
12A {{recurring|Character}} RedShirt.
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14Did your brain lock up for a second when you read that? This character is (and sometimes only exists to be) killed off repeatedly and [[SnapBack inexplicably comes back to life by the next episode]], as a RunningGag.
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16Usually found in shows with NegativeContinuity, particularly {{Sadist Show}}s - in more realistic shows, the character may be a robot who can be rebuilt or replaced between episodes, or {{immortal|LifeIsCheap}} in some way, unless there's a GroundhogDayLoop going on. The character does not need to die permanently as long as he appears to die in the narrative.
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18A ritualized form of StayingAlive. Could overlap with TheChewToy and CosmicPlaything. Often a by-product of DeathIsCheap. ChronicallyCrashedCar is a variant that refers to vehicles, and ChronicallyKilledActor one that refers to actors whose ''characters'' usually die.
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20Although similar to DeathIsCheap, wherein a character may 'die' and come back to life at least once, this trope refers to when a character is killed many times and usually as a RunningGag.
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22'''As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, Expect spoilers!'''
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24[[noreallife]]
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26!!Example subpages:
27[[index]]
28* TheyKilledKennyAgain/AnimeAndManga
29* TheyKilledKennyAgain/ComicBooks
30* TheyKilledKennyAgain/FanWorks
31* TheyKilledKennyAgain/{{Film}}
32* TheyKilledKennyAgain/{{Literature}}
33* TheyKilledKennyAgain/LiveActionTV
34* TheyKilledKennyAgain/VideoGames
35* TheyKilledKennyAgain/{{Webcomics}}
36* TheyKilledKennyAgain/WebOriginal
37* TheyKilledKennyAgain/WesternAnimation
38** ''TheyKilledKennyAgain/SouthPark''
39[[/index]]
40----
41!!Other examples:
42[[foldercontrol]]
43
44[[folder:Advertising]]
45* Advertising/LouieTheFly, in the Mortein insect spray commercials. For the character's 50th anniversary, Mortein had a public poll on whether to kill him off permanently. Luckily, [[ThrowTheDogABone he was spared]].
46* A common theme of commercials for Advertising/WilkinsCoffee, created by Creator/JimHenson, which involves a character named Wontkins who continuously keeps getting killed for refusing to drink the advertised product.
47* Pizza Hut's Advertising/ThePizzaHeadShow campaign had the eponymous Pizza Head who, if not killed each time, was at least in critical condition, often at the hands of Pizza Cutter Steve.
48* The TropeNamer suffers yet another death in Creator/ParamountPlus' "Mountain of Entertainment" entry "Storm" as he's crushed by the bucket used for ''Film/{{Flashdance}}''[='s=] iconic dousing scene, prompting Music/TimMcGraw to bemoan "Oh, no. They killed Kenny. Bastards."
49[[/folder]]
50
51[[folder:Card Games]]
52* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
53** It features a handful of cards whose FlavorText references the various deaths of a hapless goblin named Furt. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=39710 See]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=45123 several]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=43555 examples.]]
54** There's [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106473 Squee]], who eventually proved to be so popular he got his own card, complete with a returning-to-play mechanic.
55--->''"He is Yawgmoth's reward to me. I shall kill him a hundred times a day."''
56** The card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=false&recentpage=4&multiverseid=205066 Reassembling Skeleton]] lampshades a lesser-known rule regarding creature cards; if a non-token creature leaves play for any reason but returns at some point, the game state considers it a different creature. To sum up, same ''card'' does not equal same ''creature''.
57* ''TabletopGame/{{Chaotic}}'' has similar flavor text for some cards involving Bodal.
58[[/folder]]
59
60[[folder:Comic Strips]]
61* Bill the Cat in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' was a frequent example of this in his earlier days in the strip. Notably when he's electrocuted by his tongue being wired into an amplifier while rehearsing with Deathtongue...
62-->'''Steve Dallas:''' ...AW, FERCRISSAKES, he isn't dead [[OhNoNotAgain AGAIN]], is he?\
63'''Portnoy:''' ...Naw, naw...I'll get the Bactine.
64* ''{{ComicStrip/Brewster Rockit|SpaceGuy}}'' play this one for laughs with pretty much everyone, especially Winky, Dr. Mel's unfortunate assistant, who seems to be able to lose his spleen many, ''many'' times. The comic at least used to have an Ensign Kenny, but Winky basically fills in for him.
65* ShowWithinAShow version: In ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', Rat's "Angry Bob" stories tend to have the titular character die in all sorts of absurd and gruesomely comic ways, only to be alive and well at the start of the next story [[UnexplainedRecovery with no explanation]] (though on a few occasions Rat did write that Bob "undied")
66** The Brudderhood of Zeeba Zeeba Eata crocodiles either suffer from this or are defying the OneSteveLimit.
67** Many of Pastis' characters die multiple times. [[AuthorAvatar Including Pastis himself.]]
68* [[TheGenericGuy Generic Ted]] in ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' is fired frequently, and has actually died more than once. The cartoon suggested that the company has [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals several identical looking guys named Ted]].
69* ComicStrip/{{Lio}} has been skeletonized from time to time, only to appear fine the next day. The comic has also included at least one explosion of Earth.
70* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': The "Deadly Trappings" segment in the magazine always features a character called "Joe Cocksure" as the victim of the various traps featured.
71[[/folder]]
72
73
74[[folder:Manhua]]
75* Every named character in the ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' comics, including - ''especially'' the titular character. Sliced to half, eaten alive, buried alive, incinerated by rockets, you name it.
76[[/folder]]
77
78[[folder:Music]]
79* Music/{{Vocaloid}}'s Len Kagamine has a reputation for getting killed off in many of his songs and music videos. Also overlaps with ChronicallyKilledActor, as the Vocaloids are often interpreted as AnimatedActors. Though some will come back with the claim that Rin Kagamine dies almost as much. Since they're the youngest Krypton Vocaloids, they're probably invoking DeathOfAChild.
80* "But {{the cat came back}}, the very next day. They thought he was a goner but the cat came back 'cause he wouldn't stay away!"
81* Music/{{Devo}}'s mascot, Booji Boy, has met many a gruesome end, getting stabbed at the end of the video that marked his first on-camera appearance, and then moving on to getting electrocuted, having his head crushed, and being beheaded by Osama Bin Laden.
82* Music/AliceCooper "dies" at the end of his concerts.
83* Most of Music/{{Rammstein}}'s videos end with keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz into some sort of death or harm.
84* As he was created by Music/{{Eminem}} in the wake of a failed suicide attempt, Em's Slim Shady character is constantly dying or [[SelfHarm committing suicide]] (sometimes MurderSuicide), but it never sticks. He hangs himself in the first verse and shoots himself in the head at the end of his EstablishingCharacterMoment IAmSong ("My Name Is"), dies from an overdose and digs himself out of his grave in "Role Model", and commits a mass shooting of his audience at the end of the ''Encore'' album before killing himself. Lampshaded in "Cum On Everybody":
85-->I tried suicide once and I'll try it again\
86That's why I write songs where I die at the end
87** Slim gets KilledOffForReal in "When I'm Gone", intended to retire the Slim Shady character as Eminem was withdrawing from rapping to focus on production and running his label. Eminem went on to have a CreatorBreakdown, a CreatorRecovery, and hinted in his autobiography ''The Way I Am'' that Slim Shady couldn't really die, as [[EnemyWithin he's just a part of Eminem]] (and yells at him to shut up if he starts crying). Slim returned [[DarkerAndEdgier worse than ever]] in 2009's ''Relapse'', with "My Darling" offering the explanation that Slim's real form is [[EnemyWithout an evil spirit]] (later named "[[EvilSoundsDeep the Monster]]") and therefore he can't be killed.
88[[/folder]]
89
90[[folder:Podcasts]]
91* ''Podcast/MissionToZyxx'' uses guest character Papa Derf in a few episodes. At the end of each he orchestrates his own death (apparently).
92* ''Podcast/JarOfRebuke'': Main character Dr. Jared Hel is incapable of staying dead after a mysterious encounter from his past, something which their employers frequently take advantage of (to Jared's chagrin).
93[[/folder]]
94
95[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
96* In Wrestling/BrayWyatt's ''Firefly Funhouse'' segments, the [[ButtMonkey Rambling Rabbit]] character dies an often CruelAndUnusualDeath at least once per episode.
97[[/folder]]
98
99[[folder:Radio]]
100* [[OlderThanTheyThink Long before]] ''South Park'', Bluebottle of ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' was doing this in every episode, though sometimes inverted when all the other characters died except him. Of course, this show was made of NegativeContinuity.
101-->'''Bluebottle:''' [[CharacterCatchPhrase You dirty rotten swine you, you have deaded me again!]]
102* The later British radio comedy series ''Radio/TheBurkissWay'' featured the character of Eric Pode of Croydon, most of whose appearances ended with him getting shot by whoever he was talking to, usually the long-suffering Fred Harris. On one single occasion, Pode shot Harris, announcing 'I had to do that, he was getting on me nerves.'
103* The early "Guy Noir" sketches on ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'' (and its 80s substitute, ''Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company'') were set up in this manner, with the title character and his then-sidekick, Jimmy, repeatedly accidentally killing each other. After the MoralGuardians protested these violent acts, Jimmy was KilledOffForReal and "Guy Noir" adapted its current format, with Noir getting by on his wits alone.
104* ''The MJ Morning Show'' has the character Milton Fludgecow, a Main/GrumpyOldMan whose calls usually involve him having difficulties on modern day household objects or situations, calling up anybody who can try and help him, [[Main/FromBadToWorse only for something to get in the way and make it an even bigger problem]], leading him to violently die at the end of a couple of his calls.
105[[/folder]]
106
107[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
108* A major part of ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''. Every player character has a set of auxiliary clones that are sent in to replace them when they die, meaning any player can find plenty of ways to die during a session without having to create a new character.
109* It's also possible in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' but resleeving is more often played seriously given [[CosmicHorror the nature of the setting]].
110* It's not uncommon for adaptations of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' to parody the relative ease in which dead [=PCs=] can be resurrected.
111[[/folder]]
112
113[[folder:Other]]
114* At the New York Renaissance Faire, Sheriff of Nottingham Philip De Marque has been killed off a number of times at the end of many years' story lines.
115[[/folder]]

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