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* Alex Mitchell found TheGoodies episode Kung Fu Kapers so funny he laughed non-stop for ''25 minutes straight''. The strain on his heart was such that it failed and he died. His widow ent TheGoodies a letter thanking them for making his last moments so happy.

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* Alex Mitchell found TheGoodies episode Kung Fu Kapers so funny he laughed non-stop for ''25 minutes straight''. The strain on his heart was such that it failed and he died.suffered a fatal heart attack. His widow ent TheGoodies a letter thanking them for making his last moments so happy.
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* Alex Mitchell found TheGoodies episode Kung Fu Kapers so funny he laughed non-stop for ''25 minutes straight''. The strain on his heart was such that it failed and he died. His widow ent TheGoodies a letter thanking them for making his last moments so happy.
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* In the ''SouthPark'' episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Kenny laughed himself to death after seeing Cartman's video. Like ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', Kenny's spirit came out of his body, still laughing (shown in later broadcasts).

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* In the ''SouthPark'' episode "Scott "''Scott Tenorman Must Die", Die''", Kenny laughed himself to death after seeing Cartman's video. Like ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', Kenny's spirit came out of his body, still laughing (shown in later broadcasts).
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* In the ''SouthPark'' episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Kenny laughed himself to death after seeing Cartman's video. Like ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', Kenny's spirit came out of his body, still laughing (shown in later broadcasts).
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* In BatmanArkhamAsylum the Joker's toxin causes this to happen.
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* "HarryPotter", Sirius Black gets offed mid-laugh. His cousin and murderer, Bellatrix Lestrange, cops it exactly the same way from Molly Weasley.

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[-'''Ellie''': They're just laughing. What's so bad about that?-]
[-'''Buck''': ''(pointing at dinosaur skeletons)'' They ''died'' laughing!-]

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[-'''Ellie''': --->'''Ellie''': They're just laughing. What's so bad about that?-]
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''(pointing at dinosaur skeletons)'' They ''died'' laughing!-]
laughing!
* Laughing gas was used as a weapon in ''RadiolandMurders''.







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* In the LooneyTunes compilation movie ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters'', Daffy Duck goes on a quest to become a dying millionaire's companion. He winds up the millionaire's jester, and the millionaire winds up laughing uproariously as he pelts Daffy with pies, right up to his death.
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* Father Grigori does this in [[HalfLife Half Life 2]] if you allow him to be killed.
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* Both averted and played straight in [[IceAge Ice Age: The Meltdown]]. This is the fate of any who breathes in the gas in the Chasm of Death, though the furry heroes are saved by Ellie before they actually, you know, [[NeverSayDie die]].
[-'''Ellie''': They're just laughing. What's so bad about that?-]

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* Both averted and played straight in [[IceAge Ice Age: The Meltdown]].Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]. This is the fate of any who breathes in the gas in the Chasm of Death, though the furry heroes are saved by Ellie before they actually, you know, [[NeverSayDie die]].
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* Both averted and played straight in [[IceAge Ice Age: The Meltdown]]. This is the fate of any who breathes in the gas in the Chasm of Death, though the furry heroes are saved by Ellie before they actually, you know, [[NeverSayDie die]].
[-'''Ellie''': They're just laughing. What's so bad about that?-]

[-'''Buck''': ''(pointing at dinosaur skeletons)'' They ''died'' laughing!-]
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*''RurouniKenshin'': When Shishio spontaneously combusts from his extreme body temperature, he dies, burning in flames, laughing to the end.
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* The very first {{Batman}} vs. the Joker story. It has simplistic art and bad dialogue, but people actually literally die laughing with huge unnatural smiles on their faces. And the Joker himself, in ''TheDarkKnightReturns'' after being crippled by Batman, SNAPS HIS OWN NECK BY TWISTING IT AROUND to frame his nemesis, and then literally dies laughing.

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* The very first {{Batman}} vs. the Joker story. It has simplistic art and bad dialogue, but people actually People in it literally die laughing with huge unnatural smiles on their faces. And the Joker himself, in ''TheDarkKnightReturns'' after being crippled by Batman, SNAPS HIS OWN NECK BY TWISTING IT AROUND to frame his nemesis, and then literally dies laughing.
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* ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': Rena dies laughing in the BigBad's face.

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* ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': Rena dies laughing in the BigBad's face.
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* ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': This is the fate of whoever reads or hears the [[BrownNote World's Deadliest Joke]], so lethal it was used as a weapon in WorldWarTwo.
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* ''SilentHill'': Jasper laughing hysterically as he burns alive, glad to have met "the Devil", followed by carving 17/21 into his own chest with a candlestick right before he dies.

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* The very first {{Batman}} vs. the Joker story. It has simplistic art and bad dialogue, but people actually literally die laughing with huge unnatural smiles on their faces.

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* The very first {{Batman}} vs. the Joker story. It has simplistic art and bad dialogue, but people actually literally die laughing with huge unnatural smiles on their faces.
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* ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': Rena dies laughing in the BigBad's face.
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* ''TheBatman'': The Joker's gas victims. They die with a smile on their faces. After laughing uncontrollably. In pain. To be precise, as in the comics version, it's the uncontrolled laughter that kills them.

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* The very first {{Batman}} vs. the Joker story. It has simplistic art and bad dialogue, but people actually literally die laughing with huge unnatural smiles on their faces.
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* ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Jougen and Barinbou have their CrowningMomentOfAwesome making a HeroicSacrifice to save Gimmy and Darry, then they die laughing maniacally... and take out an Anti-Spiral fleet with their death.
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* ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': All but one of the weasels die of laughing and become ghosts. Just like Doom warned them they would.
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* In ''{{Holes}}'', Kathleen Barlow ("Kissin' Kate Barlow") is taken in for arrest, to be tortured for information. Before they can do anything to her, however, a Yellow Spotted Lizard bites her on the ankle, which causes a slow, painful death; and Kate dies laughing, as "there was nothing more they could do to her now".
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Sometimes when a character, especially a SadClown or PluckyComicRelief type, is facing death, he finds the whole experience laugh-out-loud funny, or perhaps it's triumphant laughter. Or sometimes, the laughter itself is what kills them. Either way, that's where this trope comes in.

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Sometimes when a character, especially a SadClown or PluckyComicRelief type, is facing death, he finds the whole experience laugh-out-loud funny, or perhaps it's triumphant laughter. Or sometimes, the laughter itself is what kills them.him. Either way, that's where this trope comes in.



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* In the backstory of ''TheChinatownDeathCloudPeril'', the comedian Ah Hoon was found murdered, with a laugh frozen on his face. As we find out at the very end, this was due to the great difficulty the killer had in reaching Ah Hoon: The killer looked ridiculous at the moment of the murder.



* In the backstory of ''TheChinatownDeathCloudPeril'', the comedian Ah Hoon was found murdered, with a laugh frozen on his face. As we find out at the very end, this was due to the great difficulty the killer had in reaching Ah Hoon: The killer looked ridiculous at the moment of the murder.

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* In ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': Prak, near the backstory of ''TheChinatownDeathCloudPeril'', the comedian Ah Hoon was found murdered, with a laugh frozen on his face. As we find out at the very end, this was due to the great difficulty the killer had in reaching Ah Hoon: The killer looked ridiculous at the moment end of the murder.third novel, tells "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" about the entire universe, and drives everyone who hears it mad. Prak himself dies after several days of uncontrollable laughter upon meeting Arthur Dent: he apparently found the "truth" about Arthur fatally hilarious.

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Sometimes when a character, especially a SadClown or PluckyComicRelief type, is facing death, they find the whole experience laugh-out-loud funny, or perhaps it's triumphant laughter. Or sometimes, the laughter itself is what kills them. Either way, that's where this trope comes in.

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Sometimes when a character, especially a SadClown or PluckyComicRelief type, is facing death, they find he finds the whole experience laugh-out-loud funny, or perhaps it's triumphant laughter. Or sometimes, the laughter itself is what kills them. Either way, that's where this trope comes in.
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* In SinCity, when Marv learns that the guy he's going up against is Cardinal Roark, he realizes that it's going to kill him, whether he takes down Roark or not. He decides to press on: "Hell, dying will be nothing. I'll die laughing if I know I've done this one thing right." [[spoiler:And so he does.]]

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* In SinCity, ''SinCity'', when Marv learns that the guy he's going up against his foe is Cardinal Roark, he realizes that it's going to kill him, whether he takes down Roark or not. He Marv decides to press on: "Hell, dying will be nothing. I'll die laughing if I know I've done this one thing right." [[spoiler:And so he does.]]



* In the backstory of ''TheChinatownDeathCloudPeril'', the comedian Ah Hoon was found murdered, with a laugh frozen on his face. As we find out at the very end, this was due to the great difficulty the killer had in reaching Ah Hoon: the killer looked ridiculous at the moment of the murder.

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* In the backstory of ''TheChinatownDeathCloudPeril'', the comedian Ah Hoon was found murdered, with a laugh frozen on his face. As we find out at the very end, this was due to the great difficulty the killer had in reaching Ah Hoon: the The killer looked ridiculous at the moment of the murder.murder.
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Sometimes when a character, especially a SadClown or PluckyComicRelief type, is facing death, they find the whole experience laugh-out-loud funny. Or sometimes, the laughter itself is what kills them. Either way, that's where this trope comes in.

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Sometimes when a character, especially a SadClown or PluckyComicRelief type, is facing death, they find the whole experience laugh-out-loud funny.funny, or perhaps it's triumphant laughter. Or sometimes, the laughter itself is what kills them. Either way, that's where this trope comes in.
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* In SinCity, when Marv learns that the guy he's going up against is Cardinal Roark, he realizes that it's going to kill him, whether he takes down Roark or not. He decides to press on: "Hell, dying will be nothing. I'll die laughing if I know I've done this one thing right." [[spoiler:And so he does.]]

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* TheDarkTower: Cuthbert and Roland, the last gunslingers of Gilead, are pulling a SelfDestructiveCharge to take out as many of the enemy as possible. Cuthbert loses first one eye, then the other, to enemy projectiles. And he '''still keeps laughing''', right up to the moment he falls.

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* TheDarkTower: ''TheDarkTower'': Cuthbert and Roland, the last gunslingers of Gilead, are pulling a SelfDestructiveCharge to take out as many of the enemy as possible. Cuthbert loses first one eye, then the other, to enemy projectiles. And he '''still keeps laughing''', right up to the moment he falls.falls.
* In the backstory of ''TheChinatownDeathCloudPeril'', the comedian Ah Hoon was found murdered, with a laugh frozen on his face. As we find out at the very end, this was due to the great difficulty the killer had in reaching Ah Hoon: the killer looked ridiculous at the moment of the murder.
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* TheDarkTower: Cuthbert and Roland, the last gunslingers of Gilead, are pulling a Self-DestructiveCharge to take out as many of the enemy as possible. Cuthbert loses first one eye, then the other, to enemy projectiles. And he '''still keeps laughing''', right up to the moment he falls.

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* TheDarkTower: Cuthbert and Roland, the last gunslingers of Gilead, are pulling a Self-DestructiveCharge SelfDestructiveCharge to take out as many of the enemy as possible. Cuthbert loses first one eye, then the other, to enemy projectiles. And he '''still keeps laughing''', right up to the moment he falls.

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Click Sometimes when a character, especially a SadClown or PluckyComicRelief type, is facing death, they find the edit button to start whole experience laugh-out-loud funny. Or sometimes, the laughter itself is what kills them. Either way, that's where this new page. trope comes in.

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* TheDarkTower: Cuthbert and Roland, the last gunslingers of Gilead, are pulling a Self-DestructiveCharge to take out as many of the enemy as possible. Cuthbert loses first one eye, then the other, to enemy projectiles. And he '''still keeps laughing''', right up to the moment he falls.

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