History Main / DyingCandle

This is a DeathTrope, so spoilers are unmarked. Proceed at your own risk.

!!Examples

** ImpliedTrope in [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8o5pxg?playlist=/x7zezf the set of "Countdown to Season 1 Premiere" promos]] when Claudia, Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac blow out their individual candles. As vampires, they eat humans, so many people will be killed throughout the series because of their blood-drinking.

** ImpliedTrope in [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8o5pxg the set of "Countdown to Season 1 Premiere" promos]] when Claudia, Lestat and Louis blow out their individual candles. As vampires, they eat humans, so many people will be killed throughout the series because of their blood-drinking.

[[caption-width-right:330:''[[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more"]]'']]

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the climax of [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill the Season 1 finale]], the flames of all the candles in the candelabrum are snuffed out when Lestat leaps over the table to attack Tom Anderson, which signifies that all the humans inside the townhouse will soon die at the hands (or more [[VampireBitesSuck accurately]] [[FangsAreEvil the fangs]]) of Lestat, Louis and Claudia.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the climax of [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill the Season 1 finale]], the flames of all the candles in the candelabrum are snuffed out when Lestat leaps over the table to attack Tom Anderson, which signifies that all the humans inside the townhouse will soon die at the hands (or more accurately the [[VampireBitesSuck fangs]]) of Lestat, Louis and Claudia.

* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': "Plan and Execution" pulls a DoubleSubversion: When Jimmy and Kim get an unexpected visitor at their apartment, as the door opens there's a shot of the candle on the table flickering... but it's just Howard (and not, as the viewer would assume, Lalo). [[spoiler:A few minutes later, the candle flickers again, indicating someone else entering the apartment. This time it really is Lalo, and soon after Howard is killed.]]

Compare LightsOffSomebodyDies where someone turns off the lights to cover a murder. See also DeathsHourglass.

* ''Film/DeadtimeStoriesVolume2'': In "The Gorge", the the slowly diminishing candles from the emergency kits the trapped spelunkers are using for light mark how how their time is slowly running out.

* The aptly titled "Candle in the Wind" by Music/EltonJohn, written for Creator/MarilynMonroe (and later for Diana, Princess of Wales; both were 36 years old at the time) has a symbolic chorus for a song about "the idea of fame or youth or somebody being cut short in the prime of their life":

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the climax of the Season 1 finale, the flames of all the candles in the candelabrum are snuffed out when Lestat leaps over the table to attack Tom Anderson, which signifies that all the humans inside the townhouse will soon die at the hands (or more accurately the [[VampireBitesSuck fangs]]) of Lestat, Louis and Claudia.

* ''WesternAnimation/PushInBootsTheLastWish'': The Wolf's arrival is heralded first by a candle being blown out, which [[spoiler:foreshadows his real identity as TheGrimReaper.]]