History Main / MarkedToDie

* [[Literature/{{Dragons}} The Last Dragon Chronicles]]: [[spoiler: Ms.Gee, literally, by Hannah. Hannah threw her dead ancestors hand at Ms.Gee, and she caught it, dooming her to a horrible death.]]

* ''LChangeTheWorld'': [[spoiler: After writing his name in the Death Note at the end of the live action Manga/DeathNote movie, L has 23 days left to live. Using that time to solve cases, L essentially invincible until his time runs out.]]

* ''Manga/DeathNote''. Anyone who's name is written into the Death Note is marked to die after a period of time.

See also: SecretStabWound, IncurableCoughOfDeath, and KissOfDeath. Compare YouAreAlreadyDead.

* ''DeathNote''. Anyone who's name is written into the Death Note is marked to die after a period of time.

* ''LChangeTheWorld'': [[spoiler: After writing his name in the Death Note at the end of the live action DeathNote movie, L has 23 days left to live. Using that time to solve cases, L essentially invincible until his time runs out.]]

* In King's DarkTower series when a [[TrueCompanions Ka-Tet]] is about to end, they feel Ka-Shume, a sense that the parting of ways is coming.

* ''LChangeTheWorld'':[[spoiler: After writing his name in the Death Note at the end of the live action DeathNote movie, L has 23 days left to live. Using that time to solve cases, L essentially invincible until his time runs out.]]

* ''DeathNote''. Anyone whose name is written into the Death Note is marked to die after a period of time.

* ''FinalDestination'' is pretty much built on this trope.

* Happens in a few Stephen King books. In ''Literature/{{Insomnia}}'', Ralph is able to tell when people are about to die when they are surrounded by a black "deathbag". In ''Literature/DoctorSleep'', Danny has visions of flies crawling across a person's face when they are about to die or have a serious illness.

* [[FlashForward2009 Agent Demetri Noh]].
* In the ''Astro City'' mini-series, The Dark Ages, a character is marked for death by the vigilante Blue Knight by the appearance of a crosshairs on the back of his neck.

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* In ''TreasureIsland'', Billy Bones receives "The BlackSpot," which means he's about to die.

* ''BladeRunner'', Roy Batty's hand starts to curl up and he pries it open, later it happens again [[spoiler:during the final fight with deckard, he puts a nail through it to keep it from involuntarily clenching]] this seems to indicate his time is running short.

* ''BladeRunner'', Roy Batty's hand starts to curl up and he pries it open, later it happens again [spoiler during the final fight with deckard, he puts a nail through it to keep it from involuntarily clenching]] this seems to indicate his time is running short.

Sometimes in works of fiction, a special form of {{foreshadowing}} is used that is overt in a way that even the characters can see: somthing happens to someone that makes him or her a [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality sure target]] for being [[KilledOffForReal killed off]] in the near future. Often comes in some recurring form such as [[SecretStabWound a wound]], [[IncurableCoughOfDeath an illness]], or some character having a [[FateAndProphecyTropes vision about him]].

SuperTrope of KissOfDeath and IncurableCoughOfDeath. See also YouAreAlreadyDead.

* In ''TreasureIsland'', Billy Bones receives "The BlackSpot," which means he's about to die.
* Of course, in [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean another movie about pirates]], a character was marked with a literal black spot on his hand in the second film.
* The creatures in the horror movie ''{{They}}'' mark their victims with a dime-sized sore that houses a long, thin bone.
* [[FlashForward2009 Agent Demetri Noh]].
* In the Astro City mini-series, The Dark Ages, a character is marked for death by the vigilante Blue Knight by the appearance of a crosshairs on the back of his neck.

Something happens to a character that makes him a [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality sure target]] for being [[KilledOffForReal killed off]] in the near future. Often comes in some recurring form such as [[SecretStabWound a wound]], [[IncurableCoughOfDeath an illness]], or some character having a [[FateAndProphecyTropes vision about him]].

* In ''DoctorWho'''s "The Curse of the Black Spot", anyone whose blood is drawn on the pirate ship has a black spot appear on their arm, and is promptly lured in and then disintegrated by a siren. [[spoiler:It's subverted in the end: the "siren" is an advanced medical hologram, and the disintegration actually teleports them into a spaceship's sickbay.]]

SuperTrope of KissOfDeath and IncurableCoughOfDeath.

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* In ''Muppet Treasure Island'', Billy Bones receives "The BlackSpot," which means he's about to die.
** Uh, [[SmallReferencePools pretty sure that was in]] [[TreasureIsland the book...]]
*** It was.
** Of course, in [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean another movie about pirates]], a character was marked with a literal black spot on his hand in the second film.
* Many {{Mafia}} works will feature a KissOfDeath.
* Although he doesn't specifically know it until later on, [[spoiler: Harry Potter and his scar]]. Need I say more?
** [[spoiler: [[IGotBetter He got better though...]]]]