History Main / LifeWillKillYou

*** "[[Recap/CSINYS01E17 The Fall]]" has someone who appeared to have been pushed off a balcony. Not only was he an AssholeVictim, it happened at a party so a lot of suspects were present. His actual cause of death was drinking so much he lost his balance when he tried to reach up for something hidden in a gargoyle's mouth on the balcony. In a similar scenario in ''Series/{{CSI}}'', a college girl found dead in a dumpster behind her residence hall turned out to have fallen into the dormitory garbage chute head-first while trying to retrieve a wastebasket she'd accidentally dropped into it. Even in the CSI franchise, it's not AlwaysMurder.

* Common in ''Series/DeadLikeMe''. Since the main characters work in the External Influence department, old-age deaths are still rare, but their clients' causes of death include auto accidents, diving-board mishaps, aggravation of an existing spinal injury, and falling space-station shrapnel (more interesting, but still sudden and pointless).
** The best example is when they're in a bank waiting on a death to occur. As the time gets closer, a bunch of armed bank robbers rush in, while at the same time, a wife catches her husband having an affair with a coworker. With all this tension going on, murder or an accidental shooting seems imminent... but no, the whole situation manages to resolve itself peacefully. So who dies? The guy who walks in ten seconds later to cash his paycheck, slips on the floor and breaks his neck in the revolving door.

*** "The Fall" had someone who appeared to have been pushed off a balcony. Not only was he an AssholeVictim, it happened at a party so a lot of suspects were present. His actual cause of death was drinking so much he lost his balance when he tried to reach up for something hidden in a gargoyle's mouth on the balcony. In a similar scenario in ''Series/{{CSI}}'', a college girl found dead in a dumpster behind her residence hall turned out to have fallen into the dormitory garbage chute head-first while trying to retrieve a wastebasket she'd accidentally dropped into it. Even in the CSI franchise, it's not AlwaysMurder.
*** "Right Next Door" had a woman whose high heel got caught in a sidewalk grate causing her to trip, fall through a store-front window, and bleed to death on the spot. Her case was solved during the ColdOpen.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has no end of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horrible ways to die]], and no shyness about deploying them. So how does Godo, the blacksmith who made Guts's Dragon Slayer, meet his end? [[spoiler:He dies peacefully in bed of old age. Considering the CrapsackWorld he once lived in, at least he's [[IDieFree freed]].]]

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Warning: This is a death trope, '''so expect spoilers'''.

* The premise of the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19466455/chapters/46335904 Crash and Burn]]'' is that BigBad Hawk Moth is unexpectedly and anticlimactically killed in a car crash.

* This was the reason behind Tasha Yar getting a RedShirt death instead of an "Our hero saves the universe and goes out with a final quip" sort of death when her actress left ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration.'' It was intended as a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome moment - the point ''was'' that it was pointless. However, fans don't like it ''that'' realistic when it comes to their character [[DroppedABridgeOnHim getting bridge'd]]. She returns in an AlternateUniverse episode, and gets a much better ending (though most likely still won't survive.)

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has no end of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horrible ways to die]], and no shyness about deploying them. So how does Godo, the blacksmith who made Guts's Dragon Slayer, meet his end? [[spoiler:He dies peacefully in bed of old age.]]

* ''Videogame/DwarfFortress'': There's a pretty damn big chance your legendary axedwarf won't die in an epic battle worthy of history, but rather will get caught in a cave-in, drown/burn in a badly engineered cistern/magma reservoir, get caught in an accident with a minecart or ill-placed machinery, or simply dodge off a ledge and fall head-first.

* In ''Fanfic/TheTeacherOfAllThings'' after Tai's adventures in ''V-Tamer'' his partner, Zeromaru dies in a rather mundane way. Zeromaru's V-Pet dies like any other toy. Many of Tai's V-Tamer friends like Lord HolyAngemon, Gabu died of old age due to [[YearInsideHourOutside the difference in the passage of time between the Digital World and the Real World.]] This causes him a lot of grief.

* In ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'', [[Creator/Hailee Steinfeld Charlie’s]] [[DisappearedDad father]] died before the movie’s events - not from Decepticon activity, but from a simple heart attack.

* At the very end of ''Manga/TigerMask'', [[spoiler:Tiger Mask is walking to his next match when a car swerves unexpectedly and hits him, killing him on the spot.]]
* The setting of ''{{Manga/Wish}}'' has angels and devils attacking each other and talks of war between heaven and hell. [[spoiler: One of the two main characters, Shuichiro, ends up collapsing and dying on the street while buying cigarettes]].

* One issue of ''Comicbook/QueenAndCountry'' opens with Ed Kittering lying dead in bed. Since Ed is a Minder, a British secret agent, foul play is immediately suspected since (as multiple characters point out) Film/JamesBond does not just die in his bed. The story ultimately reveals that he died of a brain aneurysm; there were no spies or foreign agents at work, and no plot was involved, it was just a normal death by natural causes.
* The original ComicBook/TheQuestion, Vic Sage, died from lung cancer due to his lifelong smoking.

** An early issue is devoted almost entirely to this trope. As something of a DayInTheLife episode for Death, "The Sound of Her Wings" features many, many minor characters who all meet mundane ends, like electrocution, car accidents, and even [[spoiler:Sudden Infant Death Syndrome]].

* Captain Metropolis, of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', dies, albeit gruesomely, in a car accident in 1974, long before the book's present day of 1985.

* Kei Midoriya, Hawks' father, dies from an illness that was caught too late in ''FanFic/CrimsonAndEmerald''. Not due to [[spoiler: his wife's]] vigilantism, not through a villain attack. Just a disease and plain bad luck.

* Inverted in ''FanFic/IAmSkantarios'': [[spoiler:Genessios]] is stated to have died of natural causes in-game, but everyone knows the Emperor had him assassinated (the game lacks a civil war mechanic).

* In ''FanFic/TheTeacherOfAllThings'' after Tai's adventures in ''V-Tamer'' his partner, Zeromaru dies in a rather mundane way. Zeromaru's V-Pet dies like any other toy. Many of Tai's V-Tamer friends like Lord HolyAngemon, Gabu died of old age due to [[YearInsideHourOutside the difference in the passage of time between the Digital World and the Real World.]] This causes him a lot of grief.

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* In a few strips of ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', Dogbert tried a stint as a fortuneteller. In an attempt to give an infallible prediction, he told Dilbert that he will eventually die.
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** When the party is taken captive by N at the end of Chapter 5, he decides to weaponise this by just keeping them captive for a month until Mio reaches the end of her tenth year, and forces the rest of them to watch her Homecoming. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, she'd pulled a FreakyFridaySwitch with M, who after centuries being [[WhoWantsToLiveForever forced to be an immortal Moebius]] was relieved at the chance.]]

* ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeFanfic'':