History Main / DeathByIrony

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'':

This trope occurs when a character is killed in an [[{{Irony}} allegorical]] or lyrical manner; often this is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard due to their own actions]]. A favoured fate in {{traged|y}}ies, or to kill off The Villain of the Story. If they are killed by their own [[{{pride}} hubris]], then the hero doesn't have to get their hands dirty and instead has a chance to demonstrate their moral fibre by attempting to SaveTheVillain or say AlasPoorVillain. If the cause of death is too trite or unlikely, it will challenge the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, so be careful.

* ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'': Grian forbids Scar from going to the Deep Dark due to how dangerous the Warden is. Naturally, Grian loses his final life to a Warden on Day 6, which ends up killing Scar too due to the CantLiveWithoutYou aspect of the soulmate mechanism in the season.

* ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'': Grian forbid Scar from going to the Deep Dark due to how dangerous the Warden is. Naturally, Grian lost his final life to a Warden on Day 6, which ends up killing Scar too due to the CantLiveWithoutYou aspect of the soulmate mechanism in the season. Oops?

[[caption-width-right:350:[[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty See it and laugh.]] [[YouBastard Then feel terrible for doing so]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice And then laugh again]].]]

*** Kirumi Tojo: As someone with ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire, her execution is based on ''The Spider's Thread'', a story about Buddha attempting to rescue a sinner from Hell by lowering a spider's thread for him to climb, only for the thread to snap when he tried to stop the other sinners from climbing it, believing himself to be the only one worthy of being saved, and that selfishness only damned him to Hell all over again. Like the man in the story, Kirumi also believed she was the one most worthy of graduation at the cost of sacrificing everyone else, due to her responsibilities as de-facto Prime Minister of Japan. Monokuma, not being as benevolent as Buddha, instead provides Kirumi with a thorny vine to climb up a shaft filled with buzzsaws, which tear apart her clothes and body. When she reaches the top, she sees that the "outside" she had been trying to reach was actually a childish drawing taped to the ceiling. At that point, the vine snaps, and she plummets back down to her death. Plus one of the factors that led to Kirumi being exposed as the killer and subsequently executed was her accidentally leaving a piece of her glove on the rope: in other words, the Ultimate Maid failed to clean up after herself. Additionally, her victim, Ryoma, received Body Disposal by Irony in that his corpse was fed to piranhas. As someone who took down TheMafia, it is indeed quite ironic that he ended up "sleeping with the fishes".

*** Kirumi Tojo: As someone with ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire, her execution is based on ''The Spider's Thread'', a story about Buddha attempting to rescue a sinner from Hell by lowering a spider's thread for him to climb, only for the thread to snap when he tried to stop the other sinners from climbing it, believing himself to be the only one worthy of being saved, and that selfishness only damned him to Hell all over again. Like the man in the story, Kirumi also believed she was the one most worthy of graduation at the cost of sacrificing everyone else, due to her responsibilities as de-facto Prime Minister of Japan. Monokuma, not being as benevolent as Buddha, instead provides Kirumi with a thorny vine to climb up a shaft filled with buzzsaws, which tear apart her clothes and body. When she reaches the top, she sees that the "outside" she had been trying to reach was actually a childish drawing taped to the ceiling. At that point, the vine snaps, and she plummets back down to her death. Additionally, her victim, Ryoma, received Body Disposal by Irony in that his corpse was fed to piranhas. As someone who took down TheMafia, it is indeed quite ironic that he ended up "sleeping with the fishes".

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick: StartOfDarkness'', Right-Eye the [[RedOniBlueOni rash, impulsive brother of analytical and carefully planning Redcloak]] is killed when he finally thinks something through carefully and formulates a well-thought out scheme... Only to have it ruined during the execution stage when his brother does something rash and impulsive. Redcloak {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it.

** [[MakeMeWannaShout Kohrok-Kal's sonics]] cause it to create a frequency that literally shakes itself apart (making it one of the only instances in the franchise of a character being forcibly disassembled).

* ''[[LetsPlay/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'': Grian forbid Scar from going to the Deep Dark due to how dangerous the Warden is. Naturally, Grian lost his final life to a Warden on Day 6, which ends up killing Scar too due to the CantLiveWithoutYou nature of "soulmates". Oops?

* ''Fanfic/AFrozenFlower'' provides a subversion. Oscar, a person who is heavily implied to have murdered people before, tries to kill Orchid the same way she killed Edward Grimes -- by stabbing her to death. The attempt fails, as he ends up being nearly murdered by Orchid using the same knife he tried to kill her with. In both attempted murders, the same line is used to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the irony: "Isn't fate artistic?"

** Kai of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' spends the whole movie aiming at capturing the chi of the greatest kng fu masters, especially the Dragon Warrior, to make himself stronger. In the end [[spoiler:Po gives him exactly what he wanted... [[GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy except it's way too much energy and Kai explodes]].]]

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*** Tsumugi Shirogane: The mastermind of the killing game and die-hard (literally) ''Danganronpa'' fangirl sure would have liked to go out in a grand fashion like Junko did. Instead, she is anticlimactically crushed by a piece of rubble as collateral damage from Keebo destroying the school. Which, in spirit, is exactly how the mastermind who started it all went out: against her own plans for a grandiose death, and out of her control. For bonus points, Monokuma strips her Junko cosplay off her just before the rubble falls, forcing her to die as [[{{Catchphrase}} plain]] old Tsumugi.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Believing his sister's death was unnecessary, Hazel spends years pursuing a vendetta against [[BigGood Ozpin]], convinced Oz gets people pointlessly killed in his ForeverWar against an InvincibleVillain. In the end, he dies in the very manner he once objected to. [[spoiler:Once he discovers [[BigBad Salem's]] true [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum end-game]], he sacrifices his life to save the lives of Ozpin and his allies. When Salem asks him if he's given up avenging his sister, he tells her that he's doing exactly what she would have done.]]