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  • In the first part of the Animator vs. Animation series, Victim and his clones are quickly killed by the Animator when he closes the animating program without saving.
  • Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall frequently calls out Countdown to Final Crisis, Cry For Justice, and Ultimatum for this. He especially accuses the first of representing an attitude that killing characters is the best form of plot point.
  • In the Battle Royale based RP Survival of the Fittest, characters are often killed off in this manner, particularly inactive ones. A good example would be the death of Joe Cande, who passed out shortly before his handler became inactive; He was killed by a bullet that hit him in the neck when it ricocheted off of a weapon being held by someone else.
    • Subverted with the escape attempts in v3 and v4. Both examples made it look like a mass bridge-dropping at first, until further updates revealed that they weren't dead. In v3 it turned out that they had all removed their collars and were fighting to get off the island, and in v4 the escapees were revealed to have successfully left the island and were now in a hospital in Canada.
  • In Bunnykill, Snowball's partners have a tendency to get cheaply killed by the Big Bad. Then again, death doesn't seem to slow down the characters of this series much.
  • Aydin from Darwin's Soldiers is reported by a newspaper to have committed suicide in a Cornova, TX convenience store. The heroes find out about it from a local newspaper.
  • Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged Episode 2 kills off the entirety of the Ginyu Force as soon as they're introduced by having Goku's ship crash-land on them.
  • Sometimes, Dream dies abruptly and the audience doesn't see it coming.
    • One particularly notable instance is the ending of the third 3 Hunters video. Dream barely wins an intense fight against George and Sapnap in the End... except, y'know, the entire gimmick is that there's a third hunter. And the armorless, unarmed Bad, said third hunter, then proceeds to sneak up behind a celebrating Dream and punch him, killing him.
  • Economy Watch: David's pedophile neighbor, Ben Dover, was quietly killed off as he received the electric chair off-screen at some point after the 2022 Halloween special.
  • Sun Jian in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. The Mauve Shirts who take him out lampshade this.
  • The Homestuck Epilogues:
    • In Meat, Dave mentions that WV has died in the interim between the Epilogues and Homestuck. He and PM likely died of old age after setting up society on Earth C, which the surviving players skipped over through Dave's time travel.
  • The Lazer Collection - Quite literally, replace the bridge with a piano, which ends both the life and the three-second cameo of Dr. Octogonapus.
  • In the lonelygirl15 story "Prom: It's To Die For", Gina Hart was shot by Edward Salinas, so that he could be promoted to Elder. Then, a week later in "Hangman's Noose", Salinas was killed off.
  • The Museum sees several adventurers built up in terms of skill and characterisation, only to be unceremoniously killed off - usually by random circumstance.
    • Nine Shovelmurders provides a fascinating example of Heritage Disconnect due to the circumstances of her backstory and is heavily developed as a character, on top of gaining an extensive story. She's ambushed and unceremoniously hacked down by bandits in the middle of nowhere, dying a violent, pointless death.
    • Raki Umberclan was responsible for numerous deaths, creating a whole new generation of Weremammoths, and was set up as a rather dangerous Sealed Evil in a Can waiting to be revived as a powerful undead and resume his reign of terror. He actually does get revived in this manner, only to be abruptly knocked down a Glowing Pit in the Underworld, killing him with absolutely no build-up or chance of revival.
    • A very literal example in the case of poor Yufluggus Cavernslides, who was crushed by a drawbridge after he pulled the wrong lever, cutting his creator's plans for the turn short.
  • The Music Video Show has the second season host dead on the ground, out of nowhere at the third season finale. Until Episode 100.
  • Sgt. Frog Abridged has this has happen to Putata, via gory headshot for both Rule of Funny and for being The Scrappy in both the original show and the abridged series.
  • As of Episode 38 of Shadow of Israphel, Knight_Peculier has seemingly gone this way, having fallen into a pool of radioactive waste, much to Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane's horror. One reckons the writers did this deliberately, as opposed to the accidental death of Um_Bongo (who has had an Unexplained Recovery for the survival maps and mod spotlights).
  • Parodied in the Strong Bad Email about the origin of the stick where Mr. Bland and Señor are crushed by a falling Bubs' Concession Stand.
    • Jane's Dad is blown up offscreen in Candy. He may still be alive in Meat's timeline, but the story doesn't cover this.
  • In Red vs. Blue, as of the miniseries Relocated, this would seem to be Sister's fate. Lopez casually mentions that he killed her. Grif, having once seen her spend three hours in freezing water and come out not only alive but pregnant, doesn't believe it. He is ultimately proven right when she reappears as a cameo in the season 13 finale.
    • Played for Laughs by the stupid and accidental deaths of Surge (who falls into lava once Sarge takes off the arm holding him to salute) and Unit FH57 (the ship's AI mishears "shelf construction" as "self-destruction").
    • Combining this trope with Death as Comedy also shows up in the DEATH BATTLE! episode featuring the Reds vs. the Blues: four characters are killed when Caboose fires a bullet that keeps on ricocheting, and once Sarge is about to shoot Caboose, a grenade thrown into the teleporter at the start of the episode finally appears and blows him.
    • Sarge’s Blue counterpart Sergeant Miller and the rest of his unit are all killed offscreen by the Meta, and we only learn about their demise when Sarge discovers them all dead after he arrives at Rat’s Nest to pick up Grif and Simmons.
    • Two retroactive cases with York and North, both of whom die shortly after being introduced, before becoming important characters in later flashbacks
  • In We Are All Pokémon Trainers, upon finding a treasure room which turned out to be Larva and Metentis' summer house, Brudy was abruptly eaten by Larva the Cofagrigus after Metentis the Dusclops told her she couldn't have any servants.
  • WHAT COLOR ARE YOU?: Right when the player is about to reach the castle, the stone wall in front of it collapses, and the player is unceremoniously crushed to death by a chunk of stone.

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