Characters die all the time. They can be killed, sacrifice themselves for a greater cause, die of catastrophic injury, or simply die of natural causes. But no matter how these characters die, dying before The Reveal will almost always make it more tragic. This trope generally occurs when a character dies part-way through a story before any mysteries have been unravelled. After the climactic revelation of a fundamental truth the characters were not aware of before, both the characters and the audience may look back on the departed one and curse the fact they died without ever finding out the truth. If a sacrifice or other tragic end occurred, it will end up being