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  • Always Visible: This is precisely the fate that Delia’s mother undergoes, who dies, just like in the film, but not at the end, but in the middle of the story. A similar thing also happens to Pharqraut, Galbraith's friend, who is suddenly killed by strange people from a black car.
  • Becoming a True Invader: Minimoose dies early in the story when Gaz's Death Glare makes him randomly explode. Subverted, when it turns out he faked it, as he's really been the Employer all along.
  • In Beat the Drums of War, Min'tak'allan is killed instantly when shrapnel from a disabling hit to the RRW Vengeance leaves him Impaled with Extreme Prejudice.
  • Chasing Dragons:
    • Upon bumping into Jaime in the Summer Islands a while after Balon's failed rebellion, Urrigon Greyjoy challenges him to a duel in order to avenge Tywin's acts against the Iron Islands. Cut to Jaime some time later, ruminating on how quick the duel was.
    • Wendel Manderly contracts a tropical disease while visiting the Summer Islands and dies offscreen.
    • Gerion Lannister is assassinated offscreen by Stallen Naerolis during a rare moment of low personal security.
    • Owen Merryweather and Khal Drogo both die during the Battle of Haven, but neither death is shown in detail, simply being mentioned in passing by the narration.
    • Yohn Royce is killed during an offscreen ambush by the Mountain Clans as part of their uprising.
  • Code Geass: The Prepared Rebellion: The mind reader Mao is disposed of by the Shinjuku Resistance unintentionally when they ambush an enemy Knightmare. However this didn't entirely remove his importance from the story, as his body was recovered by Code-R personnel and they are planning on using his unusual brain tissue for their experiments.
  • Subverted in Dominoes (Star Wars: The Clone Wars). Tipper and Zeer are left missing and presumed dead following a rancor attack during a particularly hellish campaign, and Cutup even reflects on how pointless and stupid it is. However, the two are later revealed to have survived after being discovered hiding by Echo and Droidbait, thogh they're Put on a Bus to receive Arc Trooper training shortly after.
  • Done deliberately twice in the same chapter in Everything You Want:
    • Samuel Campbell attacks Ruby "with the coordination of a sloppy drunk" and she just pushes him off the catwalk. The text even describes it as "the most anti climactic fight sequence in the history of fight sequences."
    • Shortly later, Ruby disables Crowley with a single (albeit incredibly karmic) spell and stabs him in the stomach. The author admits the anti-climatic end in an author's note, and says it was because the real important thing in the chapter is her death moments later.
  • The For the Want of a Nail Series, a series of My Hero Academia fanfics, features examples from four different fics:
    • Mastermind: Strategist for Hire has Izuku invoke this whilst helping the League plan the USJ assault: knowing of All Might's time limit, he alters the plan so he is preoccupied with stopping crime for two hours before arriving. This leads to his time limit running out after defeating the Nomu, letting Izuku simply kill him with two stabs to his old injury. Ultimately downplayed, as the following chapter focuses on his funeral and the revelation One For All died with him, alongside
    • Deku? I think he's some pro... sees All For One, the fic's primary antagonist, suffer a particularly karmic example: after Izuku's bombshell reveal about Shigaraki having been born Quirkless and groomed by All For One, the League of Villains promptly turn on and fight him after Shigaraki disintegrates his life support, leading to his death from suffocation (offscreen, to boot).
    • Viridian: The Green Guide has Queen Bee, the fic's secondary antagonist and (whilst possessing Hagakure) the traitor at UA, unceremoniously disintegrated by Shigaraki at the Sports Festival after she outlives her usefulness.
    • Cheat Code: Support Strategist sees Stain suffer this fate shortly after injuring Tenya to the point of losing an arm - after Mineta, the traitor at UA, captures him for All For One, who takes Stain's Quirk, Mineta unceremoniously stabs him to death.
  • In Godzilla Neo, most of the kaiju cast are slaughtered with little fan fair during "Operation: Destroy All Monsters".
  • In the Supergirl fanfic Hellsister Trilogy, Brainiac is unceremoniously and unexpectedly blasted in half from behind by Darkseid, who after barging into the gathering of villains and doing away with the Coluan proclaims himself leader.
  • HZD Terraforming Base-001 Text Communications Network: Played for Drama. Due to being a chatfic, Varl's canon death seemingly comes out of nowhere, and the utterly impersonal nature of the network's automated message makes it worse.
    [BoyNextDoor] has been DISCONNECTED [device not found]
  • Invoked literally in both prologues to Left Beyond, in which the Archangel Michael is incapacitated by dropping the deployable portion of an AVLB-104 combat bridge on his head. This well enough that the rest of the plan to avert the Apocalypse partially succeeds.
  • Frosteye was last seen getting buried via a cave-in in the third "season" of My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic.
  • In Sean Bean Saves Westeros, the "real life" Sean Bean is transported into the land of Westeros of A Song of Ice and Fire. In the Battle of Green Fork, Tywin and Tyrion Lannister unexpectedly perish.
  • A Shadow of the Titans: Minor villain Captain Hollywood, a teacher at the HIVE, is gored to death offscreen by a unicorn he was trying to strangle. Everyone else is completely unaffected by his death, giving him a brief ceremony in a bored fashion, and then getting back to business as usual.
  • The Naruto/One Piece crossover Tales From The Blue Sea has an elderly Madara ripped off of life-support in chapter one, leaving his least competent minion as the only one alive to carry on his legacy. Also, the story can't truly start until the Third Hokage is killed by a sleeper agent.
  • Young Justice: Darkness Falls has the death of Vandal Savage. The original founder of the light, and basically the defacto leader of them, he gets an omega beam to the back just because he got greedy and killed Superman rather than beat him down. Then again, considering that he went against the will of Darkseid, there isn't much else one could expect for this action.
  • In the PAW Patrol fanfic Zuma's Fear, Greg and Marsha's deaths could be considered this even though they were murdered by Big Bad Damian Stone. Shelly could be considered this too, but Frisk is Implied to be her.

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