History Main / SpectatorCasualty

* ''Anime/ArmorHunterMellowlink''. At [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtdtCwTl5Zw one point]] during GladiatorGames with the title character, Silverfox blows up a large part of the audience.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': After Rita refuses to be bribed into loosing a race the fixer instead bribes the other drivers to run into her. This causes her to get stuck in an unavoidable accident that sends her car flying towards the stands. She narrowly avoids crashing into the crowd when Wonder Woman catches her car just in time.

* In the short film ''WesternAnimation/LeMans1955'', based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster Le Mans disaster]], Pierre Levegh loses control and crashes into a crowded spectator area, killing himself and eighty spectators. Eventually his team, Mercedes, withdraws from the race out of respect for those who died.

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* Used as a throwaway gag on an episode of ''Series/HouseMD'', where House tries to cheer up a despondent Wilson by saying he got extra-special VIP tickets for a Monster Truck rally -- the 'extra-special' comes from the seats being so close to the track that ticket holders ''must sign a waiver in case the trucks go out of control and kill them by accident''. Wilson, [[{{Wangst}} unfortunately, is too despondent]], and so House never gets to go ([[HoYay not without Wilson]]).

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* Downplayed and played for laughs in ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'': Sei and Reiji are manipulated into a pitcher's duel against Luang Dallara, who happens to also be a Professional-grade baseball player. On their first pitch, Dallara's Abigorbine blasts the tiny ball ''into the stands'', where it smacks a drink can out of Kirara's hand and into the wall, nearly hitting two spectators in the process. Belatedly, the announcer warns: "Please watch out for foul balls!".

* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Alucard and Tubalcan Alhambra's battle kills a lot of the surrounding police and reporters with stray bullets and cards.
* In the final match of ''Manga/DragonHalf'''s TournamentArc, Dug Fin throws huge energy blasts at his opponent Mink that barely singe her. Large chunks of the stadium and audience behind her are less durable.
* Motorball in ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' frequently has injuries and fatalities among the spectators: heavily armed cyborg competitors or the 40 kg ball can easily crash through the flimsy courseside fencing. Second League champion Caligula Armblessed has a pre-victory ritual where he cuts off a fan's arms and sticks them on his horns.

* ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. Blaster fetches a spear and charges at Max, who gets out of the way using the WireFu ropes, and a spectator hanging onto the outside of TheThunderdome gets impaled instead.
* In the first battle of ''Film/RobotJox'' Achilles' mech accidentally falls on an audience booth, crushing the occupants.
* PlayedForLaughs in a fight between Dark Helmet and Lone Starr in ''Film/SpaceBalls''. While dueling with their "light sabers", Dark Helmet makes a wild overhead swing and slices a [[BreakingTheFourthWall sound guy off of his recording equipment]].
* Early in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', a spectator of Topper's duel with another brawler gets decapitated by a stray roundhouse kick. This is PlayedForLaughs.
* Entrants in ''Film/DeathRace2000'' earn points by killing spectators ''en route''. That's right: they're ''aiming'' for these people as a racecourse requirement.

* The first time WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck gets the ball in ''Film/SpaceJam'', he sees the Monstars converge upon him, and panics. Daffy passes the ball to Granny, a cheerleader on the sidelines. The five Monstars nonetheless gang tackle Granny.

* In one episode of ''[[Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand Spartacus: Gods of the Arena]]'', a spectator gets some fingers cut off by a stray blow during a gladiator fight. This happened in the older arena where the spectators were ''much'' closer to the gladiators. The significantly larger arena was presumably built both to allow more spectators and to prevent accidents like this.

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' you can throw bystanders at your opponent to injure him (killing them in the process).
%%* Also one the main points of ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}''.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Videogame/MechWarrior MechWarrior Living Legends]]''' Solaris Arena, gladiatorial battles waged with 20+ ton HumongousMecha packing autocannons, missiles, railguns, pulsed lasers, and a nuclear fusion reactor, all inside a stadium with densely packed fans. Duncan Fisher, the arena's announcer, has several quips to the spectators and the combatants.
-->''In the event of a [[GoingCritical core breach]] in your section of the stands, we apologize.'\\
''Save a spectator day! Pick a mech without splash damage weapons!''\\
''It's hot enough to fry an egg out there! But with all that radiation, it's probably not wise to eat it.''

* This is narrowly averted for the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} during the ''VideoGame/HeroesAndGenerals'' live-action special. Behind the scenes, Smith of LetsPlay/HatFilms is working on the explosives for the set and is standing in a supposed safe zone, so he detonates. Shortly after a landmine blows up, a quite large chunk of dirt hits his helmet, which protects him. Had it hit one of the others standing next to him, they wouldn't have been so lucky.

* In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', the space colonies determine the ruler through CombatByChampion, with each colony selecting a Gundam Fighter. Neo-France was having a duel between two fighters to determine their representative. One fighter, Jean-Pierre Mirabeau, was using the crowd as a HumanShield to prevent the best best attacks of his opponent, George de Sand. The King who was watching declared George the winner on the spot. In rage, Jean-Pierre tried to kill the king, but his missiles were deflected by George, accidentally killing hundreds of spectators. The incident is known as the "Marseilles Tragedy" in-universe, and George considers it as MyGreatestFailure. [[spoiler: Which poses a huge, HUGE problem when Jean-Pierre resurfaces in the Guyanas arc, having been empowered with DG Cells, right after George was going through one HELL of a trauma-induced slump caused by having been forcibly infused with the same Cells.]]

* ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. Blaster fetches a BladeOnAStick and charges at Max, who gets out of the way using the WireFu ropes, and a spectator hanging onto the outside of TheThunderdome gets impaled instead.

-->-- '''[[{{Music/Gwar}} GWAR]]''', ''Viking Death Machine''

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!!'''As a DeathTrope, there may be unmarked spoilers ahead. Beware.'''

* A Downplayed For Laughs in ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'': Sei and Reiji are manipulated into a pitcher's duel against Luang Dallara, who happens to also be a Professional-grade baseball player. On their first pitch, Dallara's Abigorbine blasts the tiny ball ''into the stands'', where it smacks a drink can out of Kirara's hand and into the wall, nearly hitting two spectators in the process. Belatedly, the announcer warns: "Please watch out for foul balls!".

* During a 2009 Monster Jam show in Tacoma, Washington, a piece of the driveshaft from one of the trucks and fly of the stands, killing six year old Sebastian Hizey. This incident led to the use of colored driveshafts becoming mandatory.

* [[https://youtu.be/pohM7qdSnqE This]] accident that happened during the track cycling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. English cyclist Matt Walls (he’s the blur of white and red at the top of the screen, for those who can’t quite make out what is happening due to the video quality) and his bike were flipped over the barrier and into the crowd after he tried to avoid a crash that happened just in front of him by riding up on the advertising boarding, and ended up clipping another bike’s wheel that was turned upwards as it slid down the banking. No one was killed, but Walls, along with two other cyclists were taken to hospital, and two spectators were treated for injuries at the scene, with one needing an operation later to fix the wound in his arm. [[/folder]]

** On the last lap of the 2015 Coke Zero 400, as the field raced to the checkered flag, Kevin Harvick tapped Denny Hamlin from behind, instigating a massive wreck involving at least 24 cars (every car in the lead pack except for race winner Dale Earnhardt, Jr., second place Jimmie Johnson, and fifth place Kurt Busch). In the resulting collisions, Austin Dillon struck Hamlin at such an angle that he flipped over and flew into the catch fence in nearly the same place as Kyle Larson had in the 2013 Xfinity crash, ripping out the engine. Dillon's car landed back on the track upside down, coming to a rest at the exit to pit road, and was then hit again by Brad Keselowski, who spun in oil while trying to avoid the crash. Five fans were injured by debris, with one taken to Halifax Medical Center and later released, while the other four were treated and released from the infield care center.

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': A DefiedTrope. Ditter, the setting's FictionalSport, is meant to train knights in warfare and had the welcome bonus of being entertaining. Speed ditter, which is the variant best fit for being played in an arena, bans magic items and various forms of AbnormalAmmo to prevent AreaOfEffect and SplashDamage from being a danger to the audience.