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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Creator/SeanBean Left to right]]: [[Film/GoldenEye Alec Trevelyan]], [[Film/{{Equilibrium}} Errol Partridge]], [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Boromir]], and [[Film/TheHitcher John Ryder]]. Not pictured: [[Series/GameOfThrones Ned Stark]].]]

->''"I could die for you in every way known to man, and in a few ways known only to scriptwriters. I could see now that provided I remained fit, the future held many more deaths yet. I could only hope that they would serve some purpose and that perhaps a reputation might come in the same way as a coral formation, which is made up of a deposit of countless tiny corpses."''
-->-- '''Creator/ChristopherLee'''

This actor's character always dies. Almost inevitable if the actor [[TypeCasting is confined to villainous roles]] or [[MentorOccupationalHazard ill-fated mentors]]...which explains the high number of [[EvilBrit British actors]] on this page.

See also VasquezAlwaysDies, when actresses that play {{Action Girl}}s meet this fate; BlackDudeDiesFirst, when it's a black character that gets offed; and TheyKilledKennyAgain, where the repeated deaths happen to a character rather than an actor. See also DeadStarWalking, and contrast ContractualImmortality.

Websites such as [[http://cinemorgue.fandom.com/wiki/Cinemorgue_Wiki Cinemorgue]] help put together [[https://cinemorgue.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Actors_with_10_or_more_deaths which actors are bound to this.]]

As of December 2016, the official count can be found [[http://nerdist.com/does-sean-bean-really-die-more-than-other-actors here]].

!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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!!Example subpages:
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!!Other examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* While she ''does'' have plenty of roles that avert this, Creator/HoukoKuwashima has a mild reputation with how she has a 'Star of Death' following her, which causes a lot of her characters to die messily. This is most prevalent in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise where she starred in the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED SEED]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Duology]], both of her characters (Fllay and Stellar) had incredibly tragic deaths.
** Her reputation must have been quite known amongst anime fandom that when ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' is announced to have a voice dubbing via ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'', [[spoiler:and that's the game with highest mortality count for its protagonists]], they picked her to do Tailtiu; the GenkiGirl who's [[spoiler:considered to have [[KillTheCutie the most heartwrenching unavoidable death]] amongst the death tolls of the game.]]
* Creator/MamoruMiyano is a mild example if ''Manga/DeathNote'', ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'', ''Manga/BlackButler'' and ''Anime/TekkenBloodVengeance'' are anything to go by.
* Creator/SomaSaito died in ''both'' of his big breakout roles (with one even being a DeathByAdaptation!), and has since been reliably typecast as the "best friend character who dies." If he's in a show where AnyoneCanDie, he's probably playing one of the bodies.
* Creator/MicahSolusod is famous for this; over half his roles have died. Though he's come out of it with roles like [[Manga/SoulEater Soul]] and [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Touma]], it's still a RunningGag with his fans.
* Creator/BrettWeaver is also made famous because of his roles as [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Roy Fokker]], [[Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico Gai Daigoji]] and [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Toji Suzuhara]], all of which die, even if he's occasionally got roles where he didn't die (although played with when he's playing [[Anime/{{Godannar}} Goh Saruwatari]], the guy isn't dead, but he came really close to it, cocooned by the Insania Virus and all). Up to the point that he was ''nearly'' chosen to play [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] until it was announced that Creator/KyleHebert got the role.
* A lot of anime series love casting Creator/YoshinoTakamori when they need an attractive mom type who gets killed off, [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Trisha Elric]] and [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Carla Yeager]] being the biggest examples.
* Creator/MichaelSinterniklaas has a knack for voicing several characters who often end up meeting violent ends, both with anime roles [[Anime/YuGiOh Priest Mahad]], [[Anime/TheSkyCrawlers Yuichi Kannagi]], [[Manga/BlackButler Dagger]], [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Utakata]] and ''any'' of his ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' characters, plus game ones such as [[VideoGame/SoulcaliburVI Curtis]], [[VideoGame/ValkyriaRevolution Godot Vilfort]], and [[VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria Oscar Dragonia]]. Even his Western Animation roles aren't completely immune to this, such as [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Leonardo]] (see [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S3E21SameAsItNeverWas "Same As It Never Was"]]) or [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros Dean Venture]] (see [[Recap/TheVentureBrosS1E13ReturnToSpiderSkullIsland "Return to Spider Skull Island"]] and ''especially'' [[Recap/TheVentureBrosS2E1PowerlessInTheFaceOfDeath "Powerless in the Face of Death"]]). And then he was cast as Jyushimatsu in the English dub of ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'', who has enough deaths to rival Dean. In other words, don't expect this status to go away any time soon.
* Creator/SatomiKoorogi has a few of her usual TokenMiniMoe roles exist [[KillTheCutie solely for them to tragically die by the end]], inluding [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 Nina Tucker]], [[VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno Cal Devens]], and [[VisualNovel/{{Clannad}} Ushio Okazaki]] - Nina and Ushio in particular get ranked for many's saddest anime deaths. That said, the latter two's demises can either be prevented or undone.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
!!!'''Actors:'''
* British actor Creator/JamieBamber has had so many of his characters get killed off (''eleven'' at last count) that they're apparently running out of ways to do it. ''Six'' have been shot--Tom from ''Ghost Rig'', Tony Dewhurst from ''Series/TheScarletPimpernel'' [[note]]adding insult to injury, Dewhurst ''[[DeathByAdaptation lived]]'' through the series of books the MiniSeries is based on[[/note]], Mitchell Hoban from ''Series/{{Outcasts}}'', Vincent Plowman from ''Series/TheMessengers'', Archie Kennedy from ''Series/HoratioHornblower'', and Matt Devlin from ''Series/LawAndOrderUK''. The final two even died in an eerily similar manner--BloodFromTheMouth and HeroicSacrifice, prompting a commentator in one of ''LOUK'''s forums to snark, "Jamie looks pretty good dying onscreen. As well he should, he's done it so many times already." And the other five? Two of them (on ''Series/ColdCase'' and ''Series/GhostWhisperer'') were ''[[PosthumousCharacter already]]'' dead when the show started, the third (on WebVideo/StarTrekContinues) was outright made a RedShirt (prompting ''their'' commentators to wonder if the producers were poking fun at this trend), the fourth, the titular ''Film/JohnDoeVigilante'', died after taking a CyanidePill, and the fifth, in the film ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'', was an AmoralAttorney murdered by criminals. His appearances on ''Series/{{House}}'' and ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' just barely subverted this, having his character become very ill on the first show and fall from a bridge in the second, only to recover/be rescued in the next episode.
* Noah Bean has died on four well-known shows already: a VictimOfTheWeek on ''Series/ColdCase'', as Ellen's fiancè David ''Series/{{Damages}}'', Fletcher on ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' and Regina's lost love Daniel on ''Series/OnceUponATime''.
* Speaking of Creator/SeanBean, the poster boy of this:
** Watching his star-making performance in ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'' while aware of this reputation can get pretty surreal. Scenes where the original audience would have been confident in our hero's PlotArmor -- such as his (faked) execution in ''[[Recap/SharpeS2E3SharpesHonour Sharpe's Honour]]'' -- can become surprising nail-biters today.
** A popular meme lampshading this trope is ''Richard Sharpe: So badass being played by Sean Bean couldn't kill him.''
** Creator/MichaelBiehn and Creator/SeanBean appear on ''Series/{{Curfew}}''. Bean's character dies at the end of the [[spoiler:third]] episode while Biehn's dies within ten minutes of his introduction.
** He gets killed off in the TV MiniSeries ''Literature/{{Scarlett}}'' also.
** He also dies as Robert Aske (the leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace executed for it) in the 2003 ''Henry VIII'' miniseries.
** His death as Ned Stark in the first ''season'' of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' was surprisingly shocking to fans of the show (less so to fans of the then 15-year-old [[Literature/AGameOfThrones book]]).
--->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOoA1OtcNjM Lary Williams]]:''' ''(sputters in disbelief)'' How is it that...the character that you portray as the central main character...as the protagonist of this fucking series...not to mention, Sean Bean is probably the highest...is probably among the highest if not '''THE''' highest paid actor on your payroll... He's on all the advertisements. Your press photos. He's on the goddamn cover of the '''''FUCKING BOOK!''''' And he doesn't make it past season one?
*** Also "Red Wedding" related, this quote from WebVideo/HonestTrailers:
--->'''Honest Trailers:''' Ride along on an adventure where any lead character can die, whether you're Sean Bean, [[spoiler:Sean Bean's wife, Sean Bean's best friend, Sean Bean's son, Sean Bean's daughter-in-law, Sean Bean's family dogs, or Sean Bean's unborn grandkid.]] [[ArcWords All men must die]]...who are in any way close to Sean Bean![[note]]And this precedes ''another'' of Sean Bean's sons -- as well as his nephew-raised-as-a-son who comes back to life -- dying in the subsequent seasons![[/note]]
** ''{{Series/Medici}}'' has him as the BigBadWannabe of its Season 2, Jacopo de Pazzi. Like Robert Aske above, he was historically executed for his crimes.
** Even the advertising of some of his recent projects has gotten into this: TNT's advertisements for their TV series ''Series/{{Legends}}'' featured the hashtag #[=DontKillSeanBean=].
** Actually defied in ''Series/{{Snowpiercer}}'' at the end of season 3. Bean, as the villainous Mr. Wilford at the mercy of the protagonists, is deliberately put in suspended animation rather than killed for fear of making a martyr out of him.
** One of his early roles was in ''Series/InspectorMorse,'' where he played a prisoner who was accidently poisoned. Despite what you are now thinking, he actually survived that and somehow made it all the way to the closing credits.
** He was KilledOffscreen between seasons in ''Series/WorldOnFire''.
** Played with in ''Series/TheFrankensteinChronicles''. His character is killed, but brought back to life, and continues to be part of the story.
* Creator/KristenBell has died in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', and her 2 appearances in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' have earned her brutal fatalities. Even video games aren't exempt since her character gets KilledOffForReal in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood''. Anna in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' even comes very close to getting killed, by freezing into an ice statue. ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' goes a bit further with Bell's character dying ''before'' the show takes place.
* Michael Coleman is a go-to for walk-on deaths in Canadian productions including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''Series/{{Eureka}}''.
* Creator/RickCosnett has died in, so far, all three of his regular/recurring roles on American TV; killed as Wes Maxfield on ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', suicide on both ''Series/TheFlash2014'' as Detective Edward 'Eddie' Thawne and ''Series/{{Quantico}}'' as Elias Harper.
* Alan Dale has now died of a heart attack on three different shows (''Series/{{Neighbours}}'', ''Series/TheOC'' and ''Series/UglyBetty''), and, oddly enough, each show had his character in a relationship with a gold-digger and in a strained relationship with his adult children at the time. He's also shot dead on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. On ''Series/Dynasty2017'' meanwhile, his character is killed in a car crash. (Averted on ''Series/TwentyFour'' of all things.)
* Despite having a relatively small number of tv and film credits to his name, Creator/ColinDonnell is developing a reputation for this trope; most notably, his characters on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and ''Series/TheAffair'' were both series regulars whose death had a significant impact on the show. He's died in at least one other guest star role (''Series/{{Unforgettable}}'') as well.
* Creator/ChristopherEccleston almost always ends up dying in whatever movie or TV series he's starring in, so much so that this isn't really considered a spoiler anymore (from a certain point of view, even including the end of his tenure as [[Series/DoctorWho the]] [[TheNthDoctor Doctor]]). If the story is dark enough to feature character deaths, the question isn't ''if'' his character will die, just ''how''. One could easily list at least 16 death scenes of varying brutality or (rarer) characters that die off-screen. His mini-series ''Blackout'' is probably an intentional subversion in this regard. His character ends up deciding not to commit suicide at the very last second.
* Actress Jasmine Guy doesn't necessarily die chronically, but several films/series immediately preceding or following ''Series/ADifferentWorld'' have killed her characters off. Namely, "Dominic La Rue" in ''Film/HarlemNights'', "Roxie" in ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', and "Grams" in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''. In the latter two series, her character continues to exist after being killed, however.
* Creator/KeeleyHawes very rarely survives to the end credits in her TV roles.
* Creator/JacobKogan, at least in some of his television roles.
** In the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Blood Brothers", Tripp Raines is killed with a rock to the head by his [[spoiler:half-brother]] Arturo.
** In the final episode of ''Series/{{Delocated}}'', David is choked to death by his father.
** It remains to be seen whether his character Luca Jameson will live or die in ''[[TheTomorrowPeople2013 The Tomorrow People]]''.
* [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Lok-lam Law Lok-lam]] is probably the TropeCodifier in UsefulNotes/HongKong that [[http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/hong-kong-actor-dies-five-times-in-24-hours-20110411-1dag4.html he 'died' five times in different dramas in a 24-hour period]] ''only by coincidence''...Though this can be justified by the fact that he has played a lot of roles for many years, and the company he works for has a shortage of elderly actors at that time period.
* Creator/JaimeMurray has died in ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' (ok she gets better but still), ''Series/SpartacusGodsOfTheArena'', ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' and ''Film/FrightNight2NewBlood''. Several jokes were made when Hustle finished that she had actually survived the show's run.
* Creator/PedroPascal lampshades this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stLw-2Ob8xQ a WIRED interview]] that he usually dies in his TV roles such as ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' and its two spin-offs (''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''). He's not even safe in some of his movie roles such as ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'' and ''Film/TheEqualizer2''. His ''Film/TripleFrontier'' co-star, Creator/OscarIsaac, jokingly mentions that Pedro made a career of dying spectacularly.
* Michael Shanks is this for TV roles - ''Series/StargateSG1'', ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''[[BackFromTheDead Stargate SG-1]]'', ''Series/BurnNotice'', ''[[DeathIsCheap Stargate SG-1]]'', ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', ''[[OverlyLongGag Stargate SG-1]]'', ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', plus that Little Red Riding Hood remake. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5foL_vM4FE Seriously not kidding]] about SG-1. (It's said that Dr. Daniel Jackson doesn't have a medical ''history'', he has a medical ''encyclopedia''.)
* Creator/KevinTighe. With the exception of ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' and Roy Desoto, Kevin seems to die in the majority of the roles he plays. He often chooses villain roles, probably to distance himself from Roy, and that is partly the reason.
* Creator/IndiraVarma has racked up a few. Among her most notable performances she’s died in include ''Series/GameOfThrones, {{Series/Rome}}'', ''{{Series/Torchwood}}'' and ''Series/ObiWanKenobi''. Extra credit for the third one, having died ''twice''.
* Creator/JaredHarris has died multiple times across multiple series and films, and apparently earned the nickname "[[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny]]". His most famous deaths have been [[Series/MadMen suicide by hanging]] ([[Series/{{Chernobyl}} twice!]]), [[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows being thrown over a waterfall by Sherlock Holmes]], and [[Series/TheCrown2016 lung cancer triggered by smoking and unexpectedly having to be king during World War II]], but he's been killed at least a dozen times by his count:
--> "So far I've been shot 6 times, (by a Gatling gun, & by a U-Boat), eaten by sharks, hurled over the Reichenbach Falls, bludgeon with a chair leg, roasted by Mt. Vesuvius, hung twice, & died in my sleep. But my personal favourite — [[Series/{{Fringe}} being split in half by the space-time continuum.]]"

!!!'''Series:'''
* Creator/DenisOHare has died onscreen in three of his five ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' roles. (Granted, he [[DeathIsCheap came back as a ghost]] in two of those.) In the other two seasons, his characters [[AmbiguousSituation may have survived]], though one had an inoperable brain tumour and the other had been heavily mutilated.
* Geoffrey Palmer has appeared as three different characters in three different ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories and each time been killed off early on[[note]][[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians "Doctor Who and the Silurians"]], "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E4TheMutants The Mutants]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]"[[/note]]. By the third time it was a RunningGag.
* An in-universe example in ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In the 100th episode, Randy shows up with an actress girlfriend whose specialty is getting killed in TV shows. [[spoiler: It becomes a BrickJoke at the end of the episode when Stottlemeyer and the culprit of the week are wrestling with a gun; it goes off randomly and she certainly looks like she's been shot by accident. But then she recovers and admits, embarrassed, that she acted like she'd been shot on reflex.]]
* ''Series/{{Chucky}}'' doesn't believe in ContractualImmortality - just because the ''actor'' is returning next season doesn't mean that they're going to still be playing the same character. In particular, Creator/DevonSawa has played four different characters so far and every single one of them has died a gruesome death.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Many of Music/IceNineKills' music videos star frontman Spencer Charnas' girlfriend Nadia Teichmann, often playing somebody who gets killed. This actually becomes a plot point in the music videos for their album ''Welcome to Horrorwood'', which have a StoryArc where Spencer is charged with her murder. The cops are trying to figure out exactly which video actually depicts the crime, and needless to say, they get fed up real fast.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* It would probably not surprise anyone that Creator/SeanBean's debut acting role after graduating from RADA in 1983 is Tybalt from ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. He would later follow up as Romeo himself in 1986 and as ''{{Theatre/Macbeth}}'' in 2002.
* InUniverse, Mortimer from ''Theatre/TheFantasticks''. He specializes in death scenes and is known as "the man who dies."
* Creator/LeaSalonga always lands roles in Broadway where her character dies, whether she's Fantine or Eponine on ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' or Kim in ''Theatre/MissSaigon''.
* Creator/SamanthaBarks has played Eponine and also Nancy from ''Oliver!''. Of her role on ''Film/{{Amelie}} The Musical'', she remarks happily that she doesn't die for once.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* As you would have it, Creator/SeanBean's foray into video game roles has followed him here too:
** The reaction to Sean Bean being cast as the English dub voice of the father of the protagonist from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' in the prequel movie ''[[Anime/KingsglaiveFinalFantasyXV Kingsglaive]]'' was that Square Enix basically spoiled his fate in the game proper in advance. [[spoiler:Sure enough, he dies at the end of the film which occurs concurrently with the first chapter of the game.]]
** That's not the only video game in which Sean Bean dies. Back in 2006, Sean Bean voiced Emperor Martin Septim in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''. Septim performs a HeroicSacrifice at the end of the main quest.
** Played straight in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} VI'', of all things. He's the {{Narrator}}, but he also voices a character in the intro movie. Said character dies.
** He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5Bu02IwGk plays the first]] [[TemporaryOnlineContent Elusive Target]] in ''VideoGame/Hitman2'', so he may or may not die depending on the player's skills. Ironically enough, his character is a rogue spy infamous for constantly cheating death.
* He's eventually revealed to [[DisneyDeath still be alive]] in the secret ending of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', released five years later, but Creator/ChristopherLee ''does'' in fact voice Ansem the Wise (aka [=DiZ=]) during his first appearance in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', in which the character is destroyed by the Kingdom Hearts encoder— and, as we find out in ''BBS'', sent to the Realm of Darkness.
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[[folder:Other]]
* An odd case is Joe Buckley, a fan of Creator/BaenBooks, who is frequently [[{{Tuckerization}} featured as a cameo within the books]] only to be killed off in short order.
* Italian actor Giuseppe "Beppe" Fiorello, brother of far-more-known showman Rosario Fiorello, is ''infamous'' for this, so much that he dedicated - with his brother - a stand-up sketch to parody and lampshade this trope when Rosario's holding a dying Beppe in his arms. And they milk [[DeathIsDramatic death being overly dramatic]] for all it's worth.
-->'''Beppe:''' You... you know, [[LampshadeHanging the moment my share reaches its top is whenever I die]].
* Music/DavidBowie could qualify as this if you just considered his '''musical''' output. The protagonist in "We Are Hungry Men" is ''eaten'' by those men, [[ConceptAlbum Ziggy Stardust]] dies at the hands of his own fans, Major Tom is heavily implied to die of asphyxiation or thirst in space, his businessman in the "Jump They Say" video is DrivenToSuicide, and one of his roles in his RockOpera ''1. Outside'' is a murder victim. One of his first film roles was as a painting come to life -- not for long -- in the 1969 short ''The Image''. From there his character dies in all of the following films and TV productions: ''Just a Gigolo'', ''Baal'', ''Film/TheHunger'' (both the film and the TV anthology inspired by it, as two different characters!), ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'', ''Gunslinger's Revenge'', and ''Mr. Rice's Secret''. His one major stage role was the title character in the stage version of ''Film/TheElephantMan'' -- ''he'' perishes at the end. Amazingly, his two best-known film roles, Thomas in ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth'' and Jareth in ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', '''do''' survive, but then again, neither of them has anything to live for anymore.
* Jim Troken, who appears in the Website/ChannelAwesome MassiveMultiplayerCrossover films ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' and ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' has played characters that die pretty early on in [[LudicrousGibs gory fashion]].
* In early Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs and [=PVs=], Len Kagamine was often famous in the fandom for playing characters that died; to quote the Urban Dictionary, "[[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Len+Kagamine He has yellow hair and dies periodically]]." Although it may not be true that Len dies the most, many of the songs that he died in are some of his most well known songs, and he seems to get more violent deaths than other Vocaloids.
* In ''Fanfic/SeanBeanSavesWesteros'', the [[RealPersonFic "real life"]] Creator/SeanBean is transported into the land of Westeros of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Now living as Ned Stark, not just playing him on TV, Sean Bean lampshades this more than once! He goes out of his way to keep himself alive as the "resurrected" Lord Eddard Stark.
* Sean Bean again. This time in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', when Martin Septim summons the avatar of Akatosh to defeat Mehrunes Dagon.
** In this, he still outlasts his father Uriel Septim (Creator/PatrickStewart), who [[DeadStarWalking doesn't make it past the prologue]].
** Once more, with suspense: ''VideoGame/{{Kholat}}'' features Sean Bean as the narrator, [[spoiler: who is already dead.]]
* If Creator/RobinAtkinDownes is doing motion-capture for a Creator/NaughtyDog video game, you can expect him to be killed off. To date, only one character he's portrayed has made it to the end credits.
** In ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'', [[spoiler:his character, Hector Alcázar, was DeadAllAlong and may not have even been involved in the backstory at all]].
** Also ''enforced'' in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. After all, Robins' the voice actor for [[ShootTheMedicFirst the Medic]].
* Deconstructed with the optional ''Creator/SeanBean Quest'' hack for ''TabletopGame/GoblinQuest'', which portrays Sean Bean as some kind of mentally-linked interdimensional hive mind that leads many lives and keeps getting killed, longing for death on his own terms.
* The [[RussianLiterature Russian speculative literature]] as a whole has a Chronically Killed ''Publisher'': Yuri Semetsky, a prominent figure in the Russian science-fiction and fantasy fandom, whose namesakes and lookalikes keep popping up in various sci-fi authors' books as secondary characters, only to be killed before the story's end. Creator/SergeyLukyanenko is credited with starting the trend in his early books, and in the early '00s, there was even a joke award for "The Best Literary Murder of Yuri Semetsky" at the Interprescon conventions.
** Creator/VladimirVasilyev actually wrote in the preface of one novel that [[NoAnimalsWereHarmed not one Yuri Semetsky was harmed during the writing]].
* The ''[[WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals Dorkly]]'' article, “[[http://www.dorkly.com/post/60847/these-8-characters-are-definitely-going-to-die These Eight Characters are Definitely Going to Die]]”, includes in the list both Creator/MichelleRodriguez and Creator/SeanBean.
-->'''Why (for Michelle Rodriguez):''' Because [[StoryBreakerPower she gets so much shit done, there’s nothing left for the protagonist to do]].\\
'''Why (for Sean Bean):''' Because [[ShapedLikeItself Sean Bean]].
* The filk song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TA-QJ2d3kk Soldier A]]"[[note]]Creator/VicMignogna adlibbed a few lines while waiting to record for one such Soldier A; the rest of the staff loved this so much they secretly recorded him, and Mignogna eventually composed the entire song[[/note]] is about a voice actor who only plays mooks with few lines beyond death screams.
* Creator/PeterCullen probably qualifies by virtue of just ''how often'' he's voiced [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], who dies so often Website/TFWikiDotNet [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_many_deaths_of_Optimus_Prime has a special page for it]].
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