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!!As a {{Death Trope|s}}, contains many spoilers. Tread with care.

Times where AnyoneCanDie in {{Film}}.
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* Movie critic Joe Bob Briggs has long made this trope his fundamental statement about what makes a good horror movie: "Anyone can die at any time."

!!Animated Films:
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}''. Out of the fifteen or so named characters, only ''four'' (the number, not the character) survive.
* Played a lot in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', where numerous characters have perished onscreen, a first for a Disney animated film.
** Kida's mother (the Queen of Atlantis) died after being fused into the Heart of Atlantis during the sinking of Atlantis that killed thousands of people who were trapped outside the crystal barrier.
** Milo stated that his parents died of unknown causes when he was a young boy, and he was taken in by his grandfather Thaddeus, who later died of a broken heart after being ridiculed and jeered by the Smithsonian Board for his claims about Atlantis. Even Thaddeus's old partner Preston Whitmore sympathizes over Thaddeus's loss and vows to carry on his legacy, which was the main reason why he was willing to help Milo prove the existence of Atlantis.
** The case can be said during the expedition, when almost all of the crewmembers were killed after the Leviathan destroyed the Ulysses, with the exception of the main characters and several dozens who escaped on an escape pod and subpod, and Rourke stated out that there were 200 people on board. Of course, they weren't the only ones who perished by the Leviathan's wrath as numerous sunken ships were seen surrounding the Leviathan's resting grounds, along with underground murals showing people from other civilizations perishing during their attempts to invade Atlantis. This implies that many people throughout the ages have died searching and trying to pillage Atlantis; this was shown in a deleted scene when a group of Vikings tried to search for Atlantis in their ship, only to end up being killed by the Leviathan itself.
** During the fireflies' attack, two of the explorers' trucks exploded, killing the two poor drivers in the process.
** The most tragic case is for Kida's father King Kashekim Nedakh, who was brutally punched in the chest by Rourke and suffered internal bleeding. He eventually succumbed to his injuries, but not before he passed his crystal to Milo so that he can stop Rourke from taking away the Heart of Atlantis. Also, during his death throes, he admitted that he wanted to use the Heart of Atlantis as a weapon of war, but his arrogance is what led his empire to crumble during the tidal wave that cost thousands of his people's lives (including his wife), an act that left him wracked with complete remorse; he even refused to be cured with his crystal's healing energy as he is more concerned about the well-being of Kida and their remaining people.
** During the battle inside the volcano, Milo, the crew and Atlanteans suffered few casualties as several Atlantean warriors were killed by Rourke's men using gunfire. However, the tides were turned when the heroes used the powers of the fish-mobiles to kill all of Rourke's men, one-by-one. And after sending Helga to fall to her death, Rourke ends up being crystallized by Milo and shredded to pieces by his blimp's propellers.
* A ShowWithinAShow example in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' in form of the junior ants. First, they make a painting of the good warrior bugs and bad grasshoppers battling, and they painted one of the good guys dead because their teacher said it would be more realistic that way. Then, they perform a play of the battle, in which apparently, EVERYONE dies.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'' [[spoiler:The Leafmen's queen dies, Mandrake's son dies, a Boggan is seen falling down onto a car windshield and is just wiped off like a swatted fly, and who ''knows'' how many more sacrificed their lives in this battle]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'', it doesn't matter if a character the BigBad, TheDragon, a pregnant cat or the most sympathetic character in the film. Anyone is vulnerable.
* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', when Helen reminds her children that this is not a cartoon and Syndrome's men [[WouldHurtAChild will kill them without hesitation]], given a chance. Although only one major character dies (Syndrome), the rest of the film racks up a high enough body count in ''minor'' characters. Syndrome is revealed to have killed at least dozens of supers offscreen, the number of evil henchmen whose deaths the heroes cause is well into the double digits, and Edna Mode even has a montage (which is PlayedForLaughs) entirely devoted to supers who died in the line of duty, some of them in [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath very unpleasant ways.]] And that's not even counting the people who can be assumed to have [[InferredHolocaust died in the Omnidroid's rampage through the city.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'': Most of the heroes are killed off ''in the opening'', and many more fall over the course of the movie itself two years later. The survivors at the end can be counted with both hands, and even fewer are left (physically) unmarred.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' (1986) was famous principally for introducing this phenomenon to millions of Saturday-morning TV fans, when Optimus Prime dies, along with Megatron (the latter of which is reformatted as Galvatron), Starscream, almost all the Autobots and an entire planet of {{Red Shirt}}s in the first ten minutes, followed by the on-screen maiming of several more robots including the last survivor of aforementioned planet for good measure.
* ''Animation/VukTheLittleFox'': The beginning of this children's cartoon seems to imply that it will be something cuddly and cute. Besides maintaining a level of cuteness, over a dozen characters (including those with names, personalities and spoken lines) die, either killed by other animals or by human hunters. There is no CarnivoreConfusion, or at least the main characters don't feel confused, as the main ''hero'' kills and eats equally sapient prey on-screen without any trouble.
* The entire message of ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'' being ''"Small Furry Animals Will Eventually Die Anyway, so get used to it,"'' so it includes all variants of on-screen cute rabbit death in order to drive home the message. It was felt that too many rabbits actually survived the book (Show, Don't Tell!) due to author's [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt reluctance]] to pull the trigger. So additional [[MauveShirt doomed]] characters are introduced and a particularly sympathetic {{Woobie}} who played a big part in the novel is highlighted in order to be gruesomely killed off near the climax.

!!Live-Action Films:
* ''Film/AgainstTheWall'': By the end of the film, half the cast is killed or has their fates left ambiguous, with only a few explicitly surviving.
* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'':
** ''Film/{{Alien}}''. The characters died in more or less reverse order of how famous the actors playing them were. Famous in 1979, that is. Creator/JohnHurt was hugely famous and popular in the US and Britain. Even Veronica Cartwright, whose career went back to playing Violet Rutherford on ''Leave It to Beaver,'' and had intersected with Audrey Hepburn and Creator/AlfredHitchcock, was familiar to audiences. Creator/SigourneyWeaver was entirely unknown, and the only entirely unknown actor in the cast, with just four minor credits. The deaths of the characters felt like a downward spiral, and Ripley's demise seemed inevitable. The tension of the last ten minutes (with the ship's computer voice counting them off) was almost unbearable. Ripley's survival was shocking, and until the end credits rolled, the audience still expected the alien to pop up somewhere.
*** In fact the original script DID have the alien kill Ripley, then do the log entry in her voice. The producers nixed this idea, a case of Executive Meddling [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools done right]].
** ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. Practically everyone dies, most in the initial catastrophic engagement with the aliens. Of the sixteen characters on LV-426, only four make it to the end credits, and two of them are seriously injured (one of whom, an android, is in bits).
** ''Film/Alien3''. The survivors of the previous film, after fighting through all of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and surviving, all die right in the beginning, except for Ripley. The prisoners are all killed one by one, with a lot of them completely unexpected. Clemens, the only sympathetic and interesting character in the film is among them. Ripley herself even dies at the end.
* Most of the main characters get killed by the end of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' in increasingly more brutal ways. First Clean gets shot and dies instantly, then Chief gets impaled by a spear, and finally Chef gets decapitated (judging from the expression on his face he was probably alive when they cut off his head).
* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has a massive body count to it, with several characters dying over the course of the film. In order: Thanos kills Heimdall and then Loki, Gamora is thrown to her death by Thanos to procure the Soul Stone, Thanos rips the Mind Stone out of Vision's head and kills him, then finally, Thanos uses the power of all six Infinity Stones to exterminate half of all life in the universe. Among those lost when Thanos's plan comes to fruition are the Winter Soldier, Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, Falcon, Groot, Mantis, Drax, Star-Lord, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Maria Hill, and Nick Fury. Among the casualties of the Snap retroactively confirmed in later movies or by the directors are Hope van Dyne/Wasp, Hank Pym, Janet van Dyne (these three in the mid-credits scene of ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp''), Betty Ross, Lady Sif, Laura Barton and her three children, Sharon Carter, Erik Selvig, Shuri, May Parker, Ned Leeds, Michelle Jones, Flash Thompson, Betty Brant, Jason Ionello, and the "Galaga Guy" from ''Film/TheAvengers2012''.
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' doesn't have as many deaths as ''Infinity War'', but it's made clear beyond all doubt that the few characters that do die have no chance whatsoever of being resurrected. [[spoiler:The two major character deaths are Black Widow, who sacrifices herself to retrieve the Soul Stone, and Iron Man -- the main character of the franchise -- who succumbs to injuries caused by using the Infinity Stones to defeat Thanos and his army. Meanwhile, everyone who died in ''Infinity War'' outside of the snap remains dead, with the Hulk even clarifying that he tried to bring back Natasha but it proved impossible.]]
* ''Film/TheBakerStreetDozen'': Loyal government agents and helpful associates of clients aren't safe. Neither is [[spoiler:Kitty, the female lead]] in ''The Voice of Terror'' or [[spoiler:teenaged ingenue Marie]] in ''The Scarlet Claw.''
* By the end of ''Film/{{Balibo}}'', everyone is dead except for José and Juliana.
* ''Film/BladeTrinity'' starts with Whistler's death, who has been around for both previous films. Then again, he was thought to have committed suicide at the end of the first film.
* Only two of the eponymous bodyguards gathered to protect Sun Yat Sen in ''Film/BodyguardsAndAssassins'' are still alive by the time that he leaves Hong Kong (roughly two hours after arriving).
* Rocco and Il Duche from ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' and ''Film/TheBoondockSaintsIIAllSaintsDay'', as well as some secondary characters.
* In ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', main characters drop like flies, providing real tension in the third film as Nicky flees from the CIA assassin following her. Compare with the [[Literature/TheBourneSeries novel series]].
* Australian movie ''Film/{{Boytown}}'' has '''all''' the main characters die in a plane crash towards the end (although this is entirely PlayedForLaughs).
* This is actually a plot point in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'': save for the FinalGirl Dana (whose death is optional), all five of the group of friends heading [[DontGoInTheWoods into the woods]] ''must'' die in accordance with horror movie tropes, as that is necessary for the [[EldritchAbomination Ancient Ones]] to be appeased by the HumanSacrifice. Then, things [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong]], and by the end all of the Controllers are dead as well -- and ''then'' the Ancient Ones, angry over the lack of a proper sacrifice, rise to destroy humanity.
* Neil Marshall's ''Film/{{Centurion}}'' ends with only one major character alive. All the Centurion soldiers are dead except Quintus, and the only other people alive are the Pict leader Gorlacon, the exile Arianne, and the governor. The three of them have less than 10 minutes of screen time.
* By the end of ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' everyone is dead except Kee and her baby.
* In ''Film/CityOfAngels'' Meg Ryan's character, one of the two leads in the film, dies at the end.
* The 2010 ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' remake wastes no time in killing off characters, both major and minor. Both Perseus' and Andromeda's parents, the cult leader who tried to sacrifice her, the entire Praetorian guard and its captain Draco, the Jinn who accompanied Perseus on his journey, and Io all face their demise along the course of the film. However, Io got better by the end and is reunited with Perseus. Hades doesn't count, since he was merely sent back to the underworld.
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': And thanks to the [[ActingForTwo shared cast]], some of them arguably die ''multiple'' times.
* ''Film/Contagion2011'': Everyone besides Mitch Emhoff, the only person with real immunity, who gets truly infected dies.
* ''Film/TheCowboys''. First, one of the plucky youngsters goes, then at the end of the second act, John freakin' Wayne dies.
* Every film in the ''Film/{{Cube}}'' series is like this, in typical thriller fashion. The original ''Cube'', ''Film/Cube2Hypercube'', and ''Film/CubeZero''.
* ''Film/DaylightsEnd'': Out of the twenty-one named human characters, [[spoiler: only Rourke, Sam, Vince, Chris's wife and stepson, Harker's daughter, the half-insane Annabelle, and [[BolivianArmyEnding maybe but probably not]] Bishop and Frank survive to the end.]]
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': The [[BadFuture "Knightmare"]] timeline has a high body count, including [[spoiler:Lois Lane, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Vulko, Harley Quinn, Kilowog, and even Batman]] as confirmed casualties, and presumably several other named characters dead. However, [[spoiler:if Joker's speculation is of any indication, along with Mera indicating that Superman killed Aquaman (when we previously saw Darkseid stabbing him in an earlier vision), there may be [[AlternateTimeline multiple iterations]] of this timeline, and not all characters are necessarily doomed]].
** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': Not even an hour into the movie, and [[spoiler: all the members of Task Force X's A-team (minus Harley Quinn and Rick Flag) and President Silvio Luna, the supposed ''BigBad'',]] are all unceremoniously axed. Later in the film, [[spoiler: The Thinker, Rick Flag, Peacemaker, the Polka-Dot Man, and Starro the Conqueror]] are added to the casualty list. [[spoiler: However, [[TheStinger the post-credits scenes]] show that Weasel and Peacemaker [[NotQuiteDead ultimately survived.]]]]
* ''Film/DeepBlueSea''. Literally moments after [[SacrificialLion establishing himself as the leader of the group with an amazing speech]], Creator/SamuelLJackson's character gets sharked to pieces. And despite the usual male and female love interest making it to the end, Susan [=McCallister=] cuts her arm and jumps into the water to distract the shark. You can't help thinking she's going to be all right, right before she's chomped, torn in two and swallowed. R.I.P. SacrificialLion.
* Of the large cast of characters in ''Film/DemonKnight'' by the end of the movie Jeryline is the only survivor.
* As the name suggests, ''Film/TheDeparted'' is filled with death, and has a startling abundance of X's to go along with that theme.
* About halfway through ''Film/Drive2011'' starts playing this trope pretty hard until the end when all but two named characters are dead.
* The Hong Kong Kung Fu flick ''Film/DuelToTheDeath'' is a film about a duel between the best swordsmen in China and Japan for bragging rights between the two nations. By the end everyone is dead except for the two leads, and both of ''them'' are strongly implied to be dying from wounds suffered in the duel as the credits roll. (Actually there is one other character who is still alive... it's just that he has undergone a BreakTheHaughty experience and possibly [[FreakOut gone insane]] as well.)
* Only two named characters and a small amount of unimportant minor characters live to the end of ''Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010'', and one of the two characters was put in a coma she probably didn't get out of.
* ''Film/{{Feast}}'' dines heartily on this trope. In the opening scene, a badass protagonist bursts into the restaurant, proclaims himself the hero, is designated as such by the movie itself, and is then viciously dispatched. For the rest of the film you're never quite sure who'll survive and who won't because even the kid is swallowed whole.
* ''Film/TheFightingSeabees'': Several of Donovan's most prominent subordinates die. [[spoiler:Donovan himself [[TheHeroDies is no luckier]].]]
* The ''Film/FinalDestination'' movies. NOBODY EVER LIVES! Alex Browning and Clear Rivers survive the first one, but it's revealed that Alex was killed by a piece of falling masonry between films, and Clear is killed in a gas explosion near the end of the second one. Kimberly Corman and Thomas Burke survive the second one and are revealed to have died by falling into a woodchipper in the alternate ending end of the third film. The franchise has a 0 survivor rate.
* ''Film/{{Fortress 2012}}'', a low-budget but well-executed movie about a B-17 crew in North Africa in 1943, kills three members of the crew [[WeHardlyKnewYe in the first five minutes]]. They all get NewMeat replacements, who fly with the crew for several missions. Then a major air strike on Rome costs the lives of several guys you thought were safely encased in PlotArmor.
* ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' showcased this in the second half. Its sequels followed suit.
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043590/ Go For Broke!]]'' has a huge speaking-character death count by the end of the film, which unfortunately [[TruthInTelevision reflects the real casualty rate]] of the Japanese-American [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Regimental_Combat_Team 442nd Regimental Combat Team]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._100th_Infantry_Battalion 100th Infantry Battalion]]: ''9,486 Purple Hearts'' divided by 3,000 troops. Sadly, this is mainly due to them being treated as cannon fodder.
* ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' fills this trope. Only three of the characters escaped and everybody else involved bar a few get killed. Essentially, this was TruthInTelevision since the movie was BasedOnATrueStory.
* ''Film/GreenRoom'': [[spoiler:Three of the four band members]] don't make it. The Skinheads aren't so lucky either, with [[spoiler:Gabe and Werm]] being the only ones alive at the end.
* ''Film/TheIceHarvest'': Charlie and Pete are the only main characters to survive.
* The ''Film/JamesBond'' series generally averts this, as although some of Bond's significant allies can be killed, usually the [=MI6=] regulars and main Bond Girls are safe.
** However, it's definitely played straight in the Creator/DanielCraig era, with the deaths of [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Vesper Lynd]], [[Film/QuantumOfSolace René Mathis]], [[Film/{{Skyfall}} M]], [[Film/NoTimeToDie Felix Leiter, Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] and even ''[[Film/NoTimeToDie Bond himself]]!'' Making this extra shocking is the fact that apart from Vesper and Blofeld, [[DeathByAdaptation none of these characters were ever killed in the original novels]].
* In ''Film/{{Juon}}'', and its remake series ''Film/TheGrudge'', anyone can be killed by the ghosts at any moment. Even the ghost's beloved crush from her college days is no exception.
** The only characters not killed by Kayako (in the ''Ju-on'' series, at least) is her crush's wife and unborn son; they were killed by Kayako's deranged husband.
* Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/{{The Killer|1989}}'' ends with just about every major character dead except for Jenny (who is blind for good) and Inspector Li Ying (who was arrested by his fellow officers for killing Wong Hoi right in front of them).
* In ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'' (1992), all the main characters die ''except'' the romantic leads and the eponymous character.
* As seen in ''Film/LegendOfEightSamurai'' and ''Film/BattleRoyale'', Kinji Fukasaku lived by this trope.
* George Romero's Film/LivingDeadSeries is this trope in full force. In the original Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968, none of the main cast survive the movie. The rest of the series follows suit -- while some of the main cast of each movie make it to the end, you have no way of anticipating who. Even the remakes run on this.
* ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'', as it progresses, continues to find new ways to kill off the cast, who usually all have it coming in some capacity. By the end of the film, only seven of the Feebles are alive.
* In ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. It becomes evident further in the franchise that we aren't sure who lives and who dies. Whilst some may survive a movie, like Nancy, Kristen, Kincaid, Joey and Don (Nancy's father) they don't survive the next one they feature in, whilst others simply don't even live through one. Although, Alice managed to feature in two films, even surviving by the end of her second one. Part of this reason is that we can easily be tricked into thinking an established main character will live in regards to PlotArmor, so the fact that this trope is played with is clues to the awareness of a growing peril of the situation as characters are constantly picked off. If a few of the main characters survive a film, it's justified in regards to their integral role in the plot.
* ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'': no character was safe -- even Anton Chigurh. And the movie lets you know it.
* ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' is an interesting case. The series has a tendency of killing off most (if not all) of the main characters, but spares the minor characters who show up in three scenes or less. Four movies in all, and the only main character still confirmed alive and not possessed by the demon is Ali.
* ''Film/PennAndTellerGetKilled'' lampshades this with the title and [[spoiler: Creator/PennAndTeller do indeed get killed.]]
* Practically everyone except Mathilda and Tony is dead by the end of ''Film/TheProfessional'': TheHero (Leon), the BigBad (Stansfield), most of the Big Bad's goons and the entirety of Mathilda's family (including her four-year-old brother).
* In ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', the death of [[SacrificialLion Marion Crane]] was nearly as shocking and unexpected as the TwistEnding. [[ItWasHisSled Naturally, these aren't secrets anymore.]]
* In ''Film/RedState'', almost all the main characters die quickly and suddenly at various intervals in the plot. It has has characters played by big stars that die incredibly early on and have little screen time.
* The ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' is just as bad as [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil the video games]]. By the end of ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'', the only important characters still alive are Alice, Claire, and Wesker. And then ''Wesker'' died at the end of ''[[Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife Afterlife]]''. [[UnexplainedRecovery He got better somehow]], but still. He's finally put down for good in ''[[Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter The Final Chapter]]''.
* Unsurprisingly, as ''Film/{{Salvador}}'' is set during UsefulNotes/TheSalvadoranCivilWar, a bloody civil conflict that took the lives of an enormous amount of innocent people, over the course of the film many characters die, usually being horribly murdered.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''. The first major scene in the movie establishes the tone pretty well, if the fact that's a war movie didn't tip you off first. Most of those who die in the opening barrage are unknown to to the audience. The later battle at the radar site, and over the village account for characters they've come to know.
* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': Eight movies in total, and the only recurring character to survive to the end of it all is Lawrence Gordon, who only appeared in the [[Film/SawI first]] and [[Film/{{Jigsaw}} last]] ones.
* ''Film/{{Scream}}'': Any character regardless of the actor in the role can (and does) die in the first ten minutes. This is also referenced in ''Film/Scream3'' by resident horror movie buff Randy: In the third movie, all bets are off and anyone can die. True to form the film proves this by killing off Cotton Weary, a major character from the first two, right off the bat.
** And Randy himself in ''Film/Scream2'', unexpectedly and right in the middle of the movie, dropping a bridge on him.
** Drew Barrymore was killed in the first 5 minutes of ''Film/Scream1996'' to make this point. She was a popular actress, so killing her off so quickly was unexpected.
* ''Film/Serenity2005'': Sudden deaths instill this trope in the second act of the movie, and it runs to the end.
* In ''Film/SevenSamurai'', only three of the titular seven make it to the end; the other four all die in combat. The American remake, ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'', also had only three of its main characters survive, but they are ''not'' all the counterparts of the characters who survived in the Japanese film.
* The films of Creator/GuyRitchie, his ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 Sherlock Holmes]]'' movies aside.
* ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' isn't shy about its nature of being DarkerAndEdgier than normal for usual ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fare, a family is shown dying when Godzilla first comes on land, and the Prime Minister and most of the Cabinet die when Godzilla unleashes his Atomic Breath on Tokyo following being injured by bunker busters.
* Only five characters live to the end of ''Film/SmokinAces''.
* Its prequel, ''Film/SmokinAces2AssassinsBall'', is even worse. It introduces several new characters who don't appear or were even mentioned in the original film (except Lester Tremor and Lazlo Soot, [[ForegoneConclusion obviously]]). Besides those two, only ''two'' characters survive the bloodbath in the film.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Film/StarTrek2009'': [[EarthShatteringKaboom The planet Vulcan]], including Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, who may be a more appropriate example for this page. Especially shocking due to the finger it gave to StatusQuoIsGod: you thought it would be your standard {{Prequel}} and then they go and do ''that.''
** It similarly destroyed Romulus and Remus -- the twin planets at the heart of the Romulan Star Empire, in the prime universe to get the plot started in the first place.
** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': While it doesn't feature a ton of main character deaths -- the TNG cast comes out intact -- the universe does lose the recurring villains Lursa and B'etor, and oh, by the way, ''James T. Kirk.''
** ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', as the final TNG movie, ups the ante by killing off [[spoiler: Data in its climax]]. The movie had the feel from early on that someone was going to die but the who ended up rather surprising, with most of the foreshadowing and suspense being pinned on another party.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' is a sneaky example, because it doesn't feel like one. But if you look closely at all the episodes of the Skywalker Saga, you'll see there's no category of characters that's completely safe, save maybe comedic sidekicks. In the original trilogy (IV-VI), you can say that main characters are safe [[MentorOccupationalHazard as long as they're not the mentor]]. But if you start with the prequel trilogy (I-III), you'll see basically all the main characters from there die on-screen, some making it as far as the original trilogy first but with Qui-Gon Jinn (again the mentor) starting it off in [[Film/ThePhantomMenace episode I]]. Also, with [[Film/TheForceAwakens episode VII]], we see [[spoiler: that the main characters from the original trilogy aren't safe either, as Han Solo becomes yet another victim of MentorOccupationalHazard.]] Now, it might be claimed that it tends to be the older, more experienced characters specifically who are affected by this, either ones who were so to begin with (Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, Yoda) or ones who'd become the older generation by the time they died (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, [[spoiler: and Han Solo]]). It's true that the protagonists of the current younger generation have been the least likely to die, ''almost'' to the point that you can trust it won't happen, but Padmé Amidala's fate in [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith episode III]] shows that's not impossible either.
** ''Film/RogueOne'': [[spoiler:''Every named character'' that isn't SavedByCanon]] is killed during their mission, including [[spoiler:the film's protagonist]]. This is due to the movie being more warlike in nature.
** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' proves that ''Rogue One'' was not a fluke or one-off when it comes to killing characters, as [[spoiler: Admiral Ackbar, Supreme Leader Snoke, Vice-Admiral Holdo, Captain Phasma, and finally Luke Skywalker]] are all dead by the time the movie ends.
** ''Film/{{Solo}}'' carries on this newly established tradition by killing off quite a few major characters in unexpected ways, showing that even a LighterAndSofter LowerDeckEpisode doesn't mean anyone is safe. Of the newly introduced characters, [[spoiler: Rio Durant, Val, L3-37, Dryden Vos, and Tobias Beckett]] all die -- the only major characters not SavedByCanon who survive are [[spoiler: Qi'ra and Enfys Nest.]]
* ''Film/StreetKings'' should've been named ''[[DeadStarWalking Dead Star Walking: The Movie]]''. Every single character played by a well-known actor (excluding Keanu Reeves and Hugh Laurie) dies. ''Every. Single. One.''
* Supposedly the whole point of ''Film/SuckerPunch'', leaving none but one protagonist, one anti-hero, and the antagonists alive in a massive DownerEnding.
** Subverted though, since WordOfGod stated that the characters who died only died in Babydoll's imagination, not in reality.
* ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'': Once Kaneda died, everyone knew this was coming.
* Creator/DarioArgento's films seem to be rather fond of this, killing most of the main cast and rarely ever having a survival count higher than 2. The most egregious example of this being ''Film/Suspiria1977'', where once the main heroine kills the head witch (Suspirorum, the Mother of Sighs), the building starts to collapse, and the moment she leaves, it bursts into flames, supposedly killing every single person within the building except for the main heroine (thankfully, the students were watching a play in the theatre, so they weren't there).
* Creator/QuentinTarantino is clearly a fan of this trope.
** All but one character dies in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''
** Before killing the titular Bill, nearly every other character in ''Film/KillBill'' is killed either by The Bride herself, or by a different member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.
** The most [[ShootTheShaggyDog shaggy-dog extreme]] of this trope is the film ''Film/DeathProof'', the whole first half of which is spent following characters who don't survive into the second half, just to establish this trope for the film. It then makes up for it with one of the best car chases ever put on film.
** ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': Not even Hitler survives this film. About half the cast is killed in a tavern shootout. The ones who survive that are blown to bits in the climactic theater explosion (or various shootouts and stranglings taking place moments before). Only three of a twenty-member ensemble cast make it to the end, and one is a fairly minor character who has maybe ten lines tops.
** ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. Once [[BigBad Calvin]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Candie]] ''and'' [[TooCoolToLive Dr.]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse King]] [[RevengeBeforeReason Schultz]] were killed within the span of twenty seconds, it was apparent that the Grim Reaper was hovering directly over the rest of the characters' heads.
** ''Film/TheHatefulEight'': In true Tarantino fashion, only two of the main characters survive to see the credits roll, but due to their heavy wounds and isolated location, it's doubtful they'll last much longer.
* ''Film/TheThinRedLine'', the film even more so than the book.
* By the end of John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', only two characters are left alive, and they are most likely to freeze to death.
** Given the nature of the titular Thing, there's a good chance that one of them is already dead.
* ''Film/TruthOrConsequencesNM'' kills off a huge chunk of its cast, especially during the last act. Only three major characters live in the end, and only one of those three was a member of the original gang from the start of the film.
* ''Film/{{Volhynia}}''. No one can feel safe, and everyone, regardless of age and gender, can die in a very brutal way. ForegoneConclusion given the [[UsefulNotes/VolhynianSlaughter historical events]] it was based on.
* By the time the credits roll on ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'', only five characters with names and personalities are left in Caesar's tribe of apes: Maurice, Rocket, Bad Ape, Nova, and Cornelius. Everyone else is dead, including [[TheHeroDies Caesar]].
* In the real life Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington's officer corps and aides were devastated by the battle, with a large number of them either being killed or wounded. This carries over to the movie ''Film/{{Waterloo}}''. Also, all those {{Mauve Shirt}}s who humanize the encounter and both armies? Don't hold out too much hope for them either.
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