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  • Misuzu in Air, in one of the most heart-wrenching anime scenes ever devised (the word "goal" will never hold the same meaning any more to anyone who has seen it). The fact that she might be reincarnated or freed from her curse does not diminish the fact that Misuzu herself is gone for good and leaves behind her immensely grieving adoptive mother, Haruko.
  • Black Cat Detective is almost schizophrenic about this. On the one hand, this show has no problem killing characters for real. The evil mice certainly die when they get killed. His second in command, well, if you watch this show, don't get to attached to him. But the elephant who gets shot in the middle of the head at point blank range is revived by an enormous syringe.
  • Cibo and Sana-Kan from Blame! cop it for real at the end of the series. This comes as quite a shock, as both characters had technically died several times before this. Admittedly, Sana-Kan's death is heavily lampshaded during a conversation with her apparent superior.
  • Bleach is infamous for never killing off a character outright, even if, with all the graphic injuries they take, they ought to. However, it does have its own share of permanent casualties.
    • As they are an example of Death by Origin Story, Masaki Kurosaki (Ichigo, Karin, and Yuzu’s mother) and Kanae Katagiri (Uryu’s mother) are both killed in The Purge, and they’re never resurrected, with their husbands never remarrying.
    • Most of the Espada killed off during the Invasion of Hueco Mundo and White Invasion arcs stay dead.
    • Kaname Tosen and Gin Ichimaru during the Invasion of Soul Society arc.
    • The Quincy Blood War arc has the highest body count among the arcs, as it serves as a Series Finale. These include most of the Wandenreich, Chojiro Sasakibe (the First Division's Lieutenant), Yamamoto, Unohana, the Soul King (!), and Ukitake.
  • Played straight and subverted in Code Geass. One of the elements contributing to its Broken Base status was the fact that sometimes a character would appear to be Killed Off for Real, explicitly or at least implicitly, when in fact it was a case of Only Mostly Dead (Jeremiah Gottwald, Mao, Gilbert G.P. Guilford, and Cornelia li Britannia) or Not Quite Dead / Never Found the Body (Nunnally vi Britannia and Suzaku Kururugi). The characters who do die for real include, among others, Clovis la Britannia, Mao (the second time), Euphemia li Britannia, Andreas Darlton, Shirley Fenette, Luciano Bradley, Rolo Lamperouge, Emperor Charles zi Britannia, Marianne vi Britannia, Bismarck Waldstein, Diethard Reid, and, finally, Lelouch vi Britannia himself.
  • Digimon:
    • Leomon from season one and three. It's become a joke in the Digimon community that anything even remotely resembling a Leomon WILL die before series end, guaranteed. Also Oikawa, Black Wargreymon (could not be reborn due to being artificial), Arukenimon, and Mummymon from season two, as well as some family members of various characters that died before the seasons' start, such as Izzy’s birth parents, Iori’s father, Juri’s biological mother, and Ken’s older brother Osamu.
    • We might not see him again, but Leomon (Season 1 only) was presumably reborn, as Whamon was. Digimon who are destroyed get reborn in Primary Village. Except the evil Digimon, because they never come back to cause trouble after they are destroyed, so this trope applies to most of the evil Digimon as soon as they disintegrate.
      • There are three exceptions to this at first: Etemon seemingly died at the end of his arc, but returns as MetalEtemon in the Dark Masters' arc; however, two episodes into his return he is definitely destroyed by SaberLeomon (though he is the one who inflicts the mortal blow on him as well). Also, Devimon and Myotismon, while definitely killed in Season 1, returned as ghosts in Season 2 (Myotismon was even revived for the second time), but both were permanently destroyed in spirit form.
    • Wizardmon's death was, in fact, permanent. Because he died in the 'real world', there was no way for his data to be reborn. He did return as a ghost in Season 2, and disappeared after helping the Digidestined out.
    • Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon also got Killed Off for Real. That "dungeon" crap was just Dub Text; they clearly got killed in the real world just like Wizardmon courtesy of Myotismon's Bad Boss tendencies. (To fit this into the dub, one could say Myotismon changed his mind at the last second and killed them, which was even stated by Matt in the next episode)
    • Digimon Tamers counts as a meta example; all deaths are final as opposed to every other series where everyone can be reborn. It just so happened that Leomon was the first time a main characters Digimon got killed off.
      • The only exception is Vajramon who comes back for no reason the first time but is destroyed for good the second time.
    • In Digimon Frontier, though most destroyed Digimon are reborn as Digieggs (and purified in the case of the evil ones), the Big Bad, Lucemon, is destroyed for good the second time when his larval form is slashed by the spirits of the ten Legendary Warriors. Also, Golemon, Mercurymon's minions, Oryxmon, Sorcerymon, and apparently Crusadermon and Dynasmon are not reborn as Digieggs on death.
    • Digimon Data Squad also works sort of like the first two seasons until Kurata figured out how to permanently kill off Digimon, which he did to Frigimon, Merukimon, Eldradimon, SaberLeomon, and countless others. Kurata himself dies as well.
    • Digimon Fusion works similar to Tamers, but every good Digimon, and most of the evil Digimon in Season 1 (at least the ones who were corrupted by Lord Bagra), are revived by the Code Crown. The Digimon who are evil on their own are permanently destroyed; most notably Tactimon, Laylamon, Blastmon, Apollomon Whispered, Dorbickmon, Gravimon, Zamielmon, Splashmon, NeoMyotismon, AxeKnightmon, and Lord Bagra.
    • Digimon Ghost Game: Because of the more pacifistic nature of the protagonists who are closer to ordinary children living their daily lives and most enemy Digimon are either Obliviously Evil or open for a bargain, it rarely happens for most of the time and whenever someone actually gets killed, it's taken very seriously.
  • Dragon Ball, the franchise that consistently proves that Death Is Cheap, has succeeded in killing off several minor characters. Not focusing on the swaths of people that were killed that couldn't possibly have been brought back by the Dragon Balls, you also have several of the Kais. They were absorbed by Majin Buu, but due to being within him for millions of years, there's no way to remove them from his body. So when Buu dies, they officially die as well.
    • In the original series, this is justified with Grandpa Gohan, since he prefers to stay dead.
    • Frieza, Cell, and Buu, the main antagonists of Dragon Ball Z, are notable for surviving several attacks that seemingly kill them. Frieza survives Goku's Spirit Bomb, and later survives an energy blast from Goku that he and King Kai think killed him, and then Namek's explosion afterward. He returns as a cyborg, but is destroyed for good by Trunks. Cell can regenerate lost limbs, most notable instances being when Goku destroys his top half and when he selfdestructs, but in the end Gohan destroys him. And no matter how often Buu is blown to bits, he always comes back together, but is finally destroyed by Goku with a Spirit Bomb.
    • The Namekian Grand Elder Guru is an interesting case of this. He shouldn't have been able to be revived due to passing from natural causes (I.e. his old age) making it impossible for Shenron to bring him back. However, the actions of Freeza and his men caused him to die from the stress and despair of his people being murdered as he sensed their deaths. Because of this his death was premature and influenced by an outside force, allowing him to be temporarily revived in a Batman Gambit; afterwards he dies again for real.
    • The Namekians Vegeta kills while on Namek are not revived by Shenron due to the Exact Words nature of Mr. Popo's wish acting as Loophole Abuse, something Vegeta gloats over. Because Vegeta had denounced Freeza? He didn't count as one of his henchmen, when the wish was specifically phrased to revive those killed by Freeza and his men.
    • Android 16's permanent death sticks out, but also creates a Plot Hole: the reason he can't be wished back is he's a machine and his essence is gone but later on Android 8 is wished back just fine. Depending on the canonity of Dragon Ball Fighter Z, even if you rebuild 16 and give him all his original memories, he actually gained an essence from his time on Earth which is now lost. The original 16 which sacrificed himself to give Earth a fighting chance against Cell is really gone for good.
    • In Dragon Ball GT, Piccolo insists on staying dead so that the Black Star Dragon Balls can never be used again. He continues to make several afterlife appearances, but it's stated explicitly that the Dragon Balls will never be used to bring him back to life again.
    • In Future Trunks's timeline, since Goku dies due to a heart virus, his death is permanent since the Dragon Balls are unable to revive those who die of natural causes (not to mention that he's already revived once before). And then with Piccolo killed by the Androids, Kami dies as well along with the Dragon Balls and since they are unable to locate New Namek, anyone who dies stays dead including all the Z-Fighters aside from Trunks.
    • Goku's Heroic Sacrifice to stop Cell from destroying the Earth ends up killing him, King Kai and his pet monkey Bubbles. While Goku is eventually revived, King Kai and Bubbles are not. Though considering King Kai already lives in the afterlife? This is more an annoyance to him more than anything else, especially in Dragon Ball Super which teases the idea of him being revived by Shenron, but it never happens.
  • Fate/stay night has the protagonist, Shirou (potentially) killed off in the finale of Heaven's Feel. The Tear Jerker ending sticks to and expands on this, showing the epilogue through the eyes of Sakura as she ages and watches everything change around her, remaining alone until the end... The most depressing part of the game, hands down.
  • The final deaths of all the homunculi except Pride in Fullmetal Alchemist.
  • The Getter Robo franchise has Musashi Tomoe, who in nearly every continuity dies in some form of awesome Heroic Sacrifice.
  • The entire Gundam franchise is absolutely notorious for this. With only a few exceptions, all of the series pull no punches when displaying the brutality of war. This is the series that gave rise to "Everybody Dies" Ending after all.
  • Inuyasha: There are several methods for returning the dead back to life and several characters that die end up bring brought back to life (a couple of characters even die twice and are restored to life twice). When Kikyou and Kagura end up dying in Redemption Equals Death storylines, the in-universe methods that exist can't save them as both of them end up being a case of No Body Left Behind. Subverted with Kohaku. He is set up to be this trope when it's confirmed the known methods for restoring the dead to life won't work on him. However, when it finally happens, a new one-off method turns up to restore his life, after all. After seven seasons of getting no closer to defeating him, in the final season (released many years later) Naraku is permanently destroyed.
  • The mangaka of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is not afraid to kill off his characters. Supporting protagonists usually have a good chance of dying; William Zeppeli from Part 1, Caesar Zeppeli from Part 2, and several of the primary protagonists' True Companions from Parts 3 and 5 (especially impressive for the former considering that it would often have many cases of either No One Should Survive That! with Dio's minions or giving them a more silly defeat). Dio also dies definitively in Part 3 after surviving his defeat in Part 1. Mostly averted in Part 4, which takes place in relatively tame circumstances compared to the other installments.
    • Even main characters can get this treatment when you least expect it. Jonathon Joestar sacrifices himself at the end of Part 1, Jolyne Kujo (along with everyone else on the good guys' side save for their Tagalong Kid) are killed just before the conclusion of Part 6, and Gyro Zeppeli (who shares main character status with Johnny Joestar) dies in Part 7.
  • Kekkaishi's Gen, much to the surprise of... everyone.
  • Kinnikuman: In a series where the heroes regularly come Back from the Dead via literal Training from Hell. There are a few examples of this.
    • Prince Kamehame is notable as one of the few permanent deaths in the series. Having been killed saving Terryman from Sunshine's Cursed Roller attack. This is justifiable given his advanced age and health problems. The injuries he sustained were just too much for his old body.
    • In Ultimate Muscle, The Ninja is killed via Hanzo cutting his face off.
    • Lord Minch is killed via getting impaled by Bone Cold's Hook Hand.
  • Everyone who was dear to, or trusted by, the protagonist of Le Chevalier d'Eon is dead by the end of the series — leaving him completely alone and utterly disconsolate.
  • Non-minor characters from Lyrical Nanoha that somehow managed to die instead of simply getting befriended: The first Reinforce, Zest. Non-minor characters from Lyrical Nanoha that seem to be dead: Precia. Reinforce, in particular, is shown to be doomed to die even in continuities where she survives past her original time of death, even though other characters related to the Book of Darkness, such as the Wolkenritter and the Materials, would prove to be especially resilient to death, surviving several Near Death Experiences and death itself, and Reinforce herself was the first character described as unkillable due to her Rejuvenation Program.
  • Macross:
    • In the Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Robotech episode, "Pineapple Salad/Goodbye Big Brother," it should have been obvious what was going to happen with Hikaru Ichijou/Rick Hunter's senpai/brother, Roy Focker/Fokker, but the usual standard bowdlerization of 1980s American television animation made Western viewers assume that the show would take the safe route. When the show actually followed through and killed him off, it showed this was no ordinary animated series on North American TV. Moral Guardians raised a fuss and complained that it was bad for children.
      • There was no such ambiguity in the original Japanese version. Three ragged holes in his back and everything. And the reactions of the rest of the main characters seals the fact that he wasn't coming back. In fact, just to give Akira Kamiya more stick time as Focker, they had to bring him back in a prequel.
    • Hayao Kakizaki left his favorite meal untouched before leaving for his final battle. If that's not foreshadowing, . . .
    • After pulling off a couple fakeout deaths and at least one deliberate death joke, Macross Frontier may have gone overboard in making sure viewers understood that Michael Blanc was dead. He gets stabbed in the chest with an alien claw that's almost as big as he is, and is then sucked out into hard vacuum through a self-sealing hull breach. No real way of coming back from that one. Not to forget the "coughs up blood, makes a final 'I love you' speech, does the Really Dead Montage and has a memorial shot at the end with his glasses." You know, because it's the only way to be sure.
  • Martian Successor Nadesico killed off Akito's friend and enthusiastic mecha pilot Guy Daigoji early on, and teased his return several times. The only time he ever appeared again was in a hallucination, and it wasn't Akito's. The character that did come back was a minor backgrounder. Another example of the show's recurring theme, "life is not like Super Robot anime".
  • In the Mazinger franchise some characters on both sides died permanently:
  • Monster Rancher: Typically when monsters die they become Lost Discs, and at the end the Phoenix turns the Lost Discs into Mystery Disks that can be revived. However, Moo's death in the series finale is final; Once defeated by the Phoenix, he explodes in a shower of rainbow particles with no lost disc or Mystery Disk left behind.
  • While Naruto has several Disney Deaths, it also has several examples of this trope. Generally, elders die and never come back, since the moral of the series is that the old generation has to make way for the new.
    • Haku and Zabuza Momochi during the Land of Waves arc. Their deaths serve as a reminder to Naruto that the ninja world is inherently harsh and people as young as 12 can and do die.
    • The Third Hokage during the Konoha Crush arc, though people who follow all the Foreshadowing should have anticipated it. Likewise, Chiyo in the Kazekage Rescue Mission, this time as Redemption Equals Death.
    • Asuma Sarutobi's death in the eighth arc came as a surprise because it happens to a member of the Konoha 12 and their teachers, who are thought to have Plot Armor.
    • Jiraiya and Itachi Uchiha, after serving in the mentor role for a long time, die within chapters of each other. The former is especially notable in that unlike other characters whose deaths were originally supposed to be final, he is never brought back using Kabuto's Edo Tensei as his body resides in the bottom of the ocean where the pressure is too great to reach.
    • Other than Itachi, the rest of the Akatsuki eventually experience this, particularly Konan and Kisame; both of whom are never revived with Edo Tensei due to dying after Kabuto has finished collecting the deceased warriors.
    • Similarly, Danzo was killed by Sasuke after the Kage Summit and was never revived with Kabuto's Edo Tensei, presumably due to Kabuto no longer needing anymore dead ninjas to revive.
    • The Fourth Ninja War arc has some memorable final deaths:
      • Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, Ao, and everyone within the HQ of the Allied Shinobi Forces when it was obliterated by the Ten-Tails. Ao is revealed to have survived the incident in Boruto, only to die for real at the end of his arc.
      • Just one chapter after the above, we have Neji Hyuga as well. To further prove the death, his curse mark disappears, which only happens when a Hyuga dies. So no subverting the Disney Death here.
    • Boruto kills off Onoki, which is shocking because he is a character from the original Naruto, and was supposed to live the rest of his life in peace.
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey makes it clear that Oogie Boogie is gone for good: he has a tomb in the graveyard, Lock, Shock, and Barrel mention he's "long gone," and the only other reference to him in the whole comic is when Shock paints his image on a wall while the trio are having fun with the Christmas Town elves.
  • There's a common rule in One Piece: If you die in a flashback, you're Killed Off for Real. If you don't die in a flashback, chances are, you might pull off a Disney Death. Prime examples of the former are Bellemere, Hiruluk, Tom, Kuina, Usopp's mother, Robin's friends and mother, and Brook's pirate crew. However, the latter rule saw itself subverted, with Portgas D. Ace having fallen straight into this, and Whitebeard following two chapters later.
    • Following these, the rule seems to have expired: In Punk Hazard, two of the antagonists, Monet and Vergo, were killed. Later joined by Pedro and Charlotte Opera during the end of Totland Arc.
    • Sabo is an exception to the flashback rule as while he appeared to have died in his flashback, Chapter 731 reveals that he did survive and is now a Revolutionary.
  • Where do we EVEN begin with PandoraHearts? First we have Break's entire family he served as a knight wiped out by chains, then the Flower Girl, Phillipe West's Dad, Human Alice, her soul is still alive, she just doesn't have a physical existence after Oz rejected her and sent her to the Abyss, Oswald (dismembered by Oz when he was B-rabbit,), Lacie, who was sacrificed to the Abyss and is Deader than Dead, Arthur Barma, Isla Yura and his cult, Elliot Nightray and his entire family save for Gil and Vincent, Cheshire Cat (although he's alive still),Rytas and her master and Gruner, Reim he lived. His chain can fake death, but it still leaves the user with a bunch of injuries., Jack, who was killed by Glen 100 years ago He's alive, his soul is just shattered into bits after being forced to live through a "Groundhog Day" Loop of his body de-aging over and over., Revis., Oz is thought this way to people who don't know he got out of Abyss. Shot by Gil, but he lived. Damn, why do so many characters die in this series?
  • Panzer World Galient: The Hero's surrogate grandfather Asbeth died when he fought the Big Bad. General Rhodan also got killed when he wanted to fight Jordy honorably. Also, the end credits in the final episode heavily imply this for Hy Shaltat and Marder, as well.
  • Pokémon: The Series,
    • The scientists who created Mewtwo in Pokémon: The First Movie, Latios in Pokémon Heroes, Lucario and Sir Aaron in Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and in Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl most likely, Hunter J in DP151 when her ship sinks into the bottom of Lake Valor and is sucked into a whirlpool and then starts breaking down and exploding; and finally Cyrus in DP152 when he walks into his own collapsing universe and said universe is later destroyed by Dialga and Palkia's attacks.
    • Pokémon the Series: XY: In XYZ43, Lysandre also ends up killed following the fight between the Megalith Zygarde and Squishy/Z2's combined 100% Forme. Probably.
    • Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon: In SM021, the Stoutland that was taking care of Litten dies offscreen when he leaves, after many all but stated confirmations that it isn't simply "weak" or down with a normal sickness. Unlike other examples, this is the entire focus of the episode and later on SM108 reveals that he did indeed die for good when his ghost appears to help teach Litten Fire Fang.
  • Pretty Cure
    • Probably some of the gut-punchiest moments in HeartCatch Pretty Cure! involves Yuri/Cure Moonlight as her partner Cologne and her father are both killed as well as her kinda-sorta sister the Dark Precure. Girl needs a hug. Or a break.
    • In Doki Doki! PreCure, Princess Marie-Ange ends up this way, mostly because she split into three different people in an attempt to stop herself from turning evil.
  • In Rainbow, Sakuragi dies about midway through the series. This is especially surprising since he was The Hero, Big Good and possibly the protagonist as well.
  • Sailor Moon: In both the manga and its closest adaptation, Sailor Moon Crystal (despite it being a 2010's anime), all the villains die except the Amazon Quartet, who do a Heel–Face Turn and survive. The Witches 5 are revived the first time but stay dead the second time. In the manga, it is suggested that Chaos, the Greater-Scope Villain, may eventually be reborn one day, but it is not definitively confirmed that it will.
    • Averted with Luna, Artemis, and Diana: In the last arc of the manga, they are killed by Sailor Lethe and are not seen with the resurrected Sailor Guardians and Mamoru in the final chapter, but Naoko Takeuchi makes a point in the manga to mention that they are likely revived with the others and that the Crystal Tokyo future will happen unchanged.
    • The original Sailor Moon anime killed off a good number of its villains as well (including Nephrite, Saphir, and Demande, who reformed), though they spared the Specter Sisters, the Amazon Trio, Queen Nehelenia, and Sailor Galaxia for redemption, in addition to the Quartet keeping their redemption and survival. One could say Jadeite and Mimete end up in a And I Must Scream, but they'd be destroyed along with the Dark Kingdom and Mugen Academy, respectively.
  • Simoun has the Heroic Sacrifice death of Mamina. And to add insult to injury, the Simile carrying her coffin is shot down. Other characters are much more ambiguous: We have Rimone and Dominura, who Time Travel, then take off to parts unknown; Amuria, for whom they Never Found the Body; Onasia, who, well, who knows; Yun, who now exists in the sort of limbo the previous did; and Neviril and Aer who Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. Angulas also manages to die as a suicide bomber, but still show up as a body in the cockpit of an enemy Simoun later. Great series, but very very strange.
  • Sonic X:
    • The character Cosmo is killed in the last episode. By a shot fired by Tails, using a cannon for which Sonic and Shadow were the ammo, no less.
    • Emerl is also killed by Cream after she fails to bring him back to normal at the end of the "Sonic Battle" arc, since Gemerl doesn't exist in Sonic X he ends up as this.
  • In Soul Eater manga there Mifune, Tezca, Arachne and, Joe.
    • Though one of these deaths was faked to get cover.
      • Not as of chapter 86...
      • Tezca is a bizarre case because he seems to be somehow immortal. After he dies, his soul is still alive, can still appear in mirrors, implies that he can just get a new body, and still counts himself as being one of the Death Scythes.
    • Shinigami in ch109. Kid doesn't realise this until he returns from the final battle with Asura, and Excalibur 'helpfully' explains why it's all Kid's fault.
    • In the anime, many characters are Spared by the Adaptation, but Arachne and Asura die.
  • Kamina's death in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. And Kittan, Nia, Balinbou... And the Rest. Though those were near the Grand Finale, so their deaths weren't quite as shocking as Kamina's, who died in the eighth episode and was featured as a really important character.
    • Lagann-Hen averted this by keeping the rest of Team Dai-Gurren (save for Kittan) alive until the final battle.
  • In Touch (1981), Kazuya Uesugi gets hit by a speeding car.
  • The Ultraman did a villain example of this, when the maniatical, sadistic tyrant known as King Jackal fares with the Ultra Brothers, unlike almost every other instance of a Big Bad in Ultraman, King Jackal has stayed permanently dead, and it's highly unlikely he ever comes back.
  • In a subversion of Never Say "Die", in the English dub of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Cecelia Pegasus is killed by an illness (prompting Pegasus to begin Duelist Kingdom so that he can get his hands on Yugi's Millennium Puzzle and resurrect her), Gozaburo and the Big Five are all destroyed along with the virtual world they are trapped in as it is destroyed (Noah isn't listed here because he is speculated to have saved his mind on a backup file, whether or not he did, and therefore invokes Never Say "Die"), and also Yami Marik, the Great Leviathan, Yami Bakura, and Zorc are all destroyed near the end of their arcs (although how far these four can be subverted to Never Say "Die" is debatable. Ahmet is also eaten by a monster in a flashback during Season 5.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters, if a Capsule Monster is destroyed, it's forever lost. This happens to many enemy monsters as well as to most of the heroes' monsters by the end of the game.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: In the original version, Edo Phoenix's adoptive father DD perished in his final confrontation with Edo (although the dub version had him make a threat which made his fate ambiguous).
    • The Seven Stars Assassins/Shadow Riders Camula and Abidos, after their respective defeats (Titan gets Dragged Off to Hell instead and Amnael/Daitokuji becomes a Spirit Advisor).
    • Season 3 has Professor Viper being killed off by Yubel after outliving his usefulness. Additionally, when everyone who died in the alternate dimension over the course of the season is brought back at the end, Echo and Amon Garam were not.
  • Divine appeared to be truly killed in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, devoured by Earthbound God Ccarayhua (and strangely, the dub did very little to sugarcoat this). Divine clearly did not deserve to be spared; as far as Asshole Victims went, he was one of the biggest. However, Word of God proved that he was actually in jail. His being "eaten" was akin to all the human souls that were absorbed by the Earthbound Gods/Immortals. Thus, they returned at the end of the arc. The real "killed off for real" characters in that arc are Rex and Rudger/Roman. After that, it's every person aside from Zone in the apocalyptic future.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V has most character "deaths" represented by the character being sealed into a card, making it ambiguous whether they're truly dead or stuck in a state of And I Must Scream. Sergey Volkov, however, did not get this treatment, instead being beaten to death off-screen by angry Commons.

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