History DeathByIrony / LiveActionTV

* In Season 3 of Series/TwentyFour, an escaped criminal forces a prison guard to face Jack Bauer in a game of Russian Roulette. The prison guard is set to go first, but finds himself reluctant to play. The criminal mockingly demonstrates how it works by firing an empty chamber into his own head. The prison guard then takes the shot... and dies. If he had taken his turn, he would have lived and Jack would have died.

** One episode revolves around the death of a stage actor in a production of ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}''. He's the actor who plays Salieri and dies when he slits his throat open with a razor that's been switched out for the prop he was supposed to use. The irony is that Salieri survives after having his throat slit in the play.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}''

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': In the episode "Confessions and Lamentations," the Markab are threatened by an ancient plague that was said to only infect the sinful. However, it is due to the entire species' sin of pride that they do not acknowledge the plaque or seek outside help until it's too late.

* ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'': [[EldritchLocation The House]] attempts to do this with Luke. After years of injecting himself with "poison" aka his drugs, the house forced him to inject himself with actual rat poison.

* [[spoiler:Toro Calican, the young wannabe gunslinger]] in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' was desperate to make a name for themselves throughout the galaxy, mentioning a few times that money "means nothing", as becoming famous was their only goal. How does their story end? Robbed, stripped, and dumped in Beggar's Canyon, becoming nameless and anonymous in a mass grave on a planet that is the "furthest from the brightest spot in the galaxy."

** Count Vertigo is a drug dealer and creator. "Vertigo" was originally applied via two injections to the neck, like a vampire, hence the nickname. He threatened to kill Felicity to lure Ollie out. Guy themed around ''needles'', facing a vigilante who uses long, pointy, narrow devices designed to pierce people. You know where this is going. For bonus points, Vertigo falls out a window from a long way up.

* ''Series/{{ER}}'': Dr. Romano loses an arm when it catches in the tail rotor of a helicopter. After having it re-attached and struggling to deal with a barely functioning arm for a couple of years, he finally has it amputated in favor of a prosthetic. Then [[spoiler:he dies when the same helicopter falls on him]].

** Viserys Targaryen should have been more specific when he demanded his crown. Khal Drogo obliges Viserys and pours molten gold over his head.

** "Unleashed": A woman with a HumanPet fetish wishes to live as a CatGirl in a house, walking on all fours and [[IdiotPlot refusing to talk]] even when [[PoorCommunicationKills a Good Samaritan tries to "rescue" her]]. She jumps off a moving car, loses her speech in the impact, and crawls into the face of a real cougar, who promptly mauls her.

* In the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode "Playtest", [[spoiler:the protagonist Cooper dies when signal interference from his phone causes the experimental video game he is testing to frazzle his brain. He went on a global trip to get away from home because his father died of Alzheimer's the following year and turned down his mother's calls because he was afraid to talk to her. Her ill-timed phone call to see if he was alright ended up killing him, and worse, [[IWantMyMommy he died in horrible fear and pain, screaming out for his mother in his last moments.]]]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderZi-O''

* ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki''

* ''Series/ResshaSentaiTokkyuger'': The heroes' Rainbow Rush FinishingMove is able to conjure anything the heroes can imagine. Thus, nearly every MonsterOfTheWeek is defeated in a way that is either LaserGuidedKarma or in a way that reflects how they torment people to gather darkness. For example, Bag Shadow tried kidnapping children to feed off their fear and despair, and was crushed by a mountain of weeping ''jizo'' statues, while Bucket Shadow stole food from people and ate it himself, so he was SwallowedWhole by a giant fish.

** Stannis' bid for the throne was driven by his sense of duty as he was the legitimate heir. In the end, he's killed by Brienne in the name of her duty to Renly. Lampshaded by his FamousLastWords.

* ''Series/ResshaSentaiTokkyuger'': Every MonsterOfTheWeek so far has been defeated in a way that is either LaserGuidedKarma or in a way that reflects how they torment people to gather darkness.

** In "Supergirl", an anti-vigilante crowd almost got crushed by the anti-vigilante billboard. For added irony, they were saved by the titular character.
** In the GrandFinale, [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]] came very, very close to one. [[BrickJoke Over three years ago]], Zor-El tricked him into wearing a blue kryptonite ring that removes his powers temporarily. Chloe stops him from trying to saw it off and tells him to refrain from wearing any rings till his wedding day (which in itself is a reference to the times when he wore a red kryptonite ring, over three years ago). Oliver, possessed by Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}, presented him with a gold kryptonite ring at the altar which would ''permanently'' remove his powers. And it is Chloe, as a bridesmaid, who spotted the switch and stopped it from being worn JustInTime.

* ''Series/TheSopranos'' ends with an infamous AmbiguousEnding, but it's ''very'' strongly implied that Tony suffered this in the final scene of the series. In an earlier episode in the final season, AJ mentions that Tony's favorite movie scene of all time is the famous scene in ''Film/TheGodfather'' where Michael Corleone shoots someone to death in a diner after retrieving a hidden gun from the bathroom. In the final episode, it's very possible that [[spoiler:Tony is murdered in exactly the same way]]; [[spoiler:while having dinner with his family in a diner, he gets several suspicious glances from a mysterious fellow in a Members Only jacket, who is last seen walking into the bathroom]]. [[ItWasHisSled Of course]], [[spoiler:the screen abruptly cuts to black before we ''actually'' learn whether he lives or dies]].

-->'''Holland''': Angel...people are going to die.
-->'''Angel''': [[IronicEcho And yet somehow...I just can't seem to care]].

** Tezuka, a fortune teller who made correct predictions every time, predicted that Shinji would die next, but he lied and said to Shinji that he would be the next to die. He would sacrifice himself to save Shinji from Asakura's Final Vent, thus making his wrong prediction correct. [[GoOutWithASmile He didn't mind at all]].

** Takamizawa wanted to kill Shinji because he thought that Shinji is a hindrance in his master plan during the War. Going for Shinji is what would lead to his death after Ren killed him with Ren's Final Vent after attempting to kill Ren with his own Final Vent.

* [[spoiler:Toro Calican, the young wannabe gunslinger]] in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' was desperate to make a name for themselves throughout the galaxy, mentioning a few times that money "means nothing", as becoming famous was their only goal. How does their story end? Robbed, stripped and dumped in Beggar's Canyon, becoming nameless and anonymous in a mass grave on a planet that is the "furthest from the brightest spot in the galaxy."

* [[spoiler: The young wannabe gunslinger]] in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' was desperate to make a name for themselves throughout the galaxy, mentioning a few times that money "means nothing", as becoming famous was their only goal. How does their story end? Robbed, stripped and dumped in Beggar's Canyon, becoming nameless and anonymous in a mass grave on a planet that is the "furthest from the brightest spot in the galaxy."

** "Fur and Loathing": A member of the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom that likes to dress as a mapache is abandoned in the desert, at night, while wearing his mapache costume and having been forced to crawl like a real animal after being poisoned by another guy. A local farmer mistakes him for a coyote and shoots him.